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SnarkyTart

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  1. What I can't predict is how Mesa Verde/Kevin will react when they suddenly learn that the plans have been altered, and with no delay or bureaucratic process involved. What did Kim think Mesa Verde would do?
  2. I suspect we may get a callback to BCS, where Jesse was held as a slave/prisoner and forced to cook. Gus needs Werner to finish the lab, and so it must be.
  3. That was an outstanding performance, one of the best I've seen on the show. I was excited to search out her videos on youtube, which go back many years. Unfortunately, from listening to many of them, she's not a great singer...mediocre at best in my opinion. It was disappointing. It'll be interesting to see how far she can get on the show with exceptional performing skills without the exceptional vocal skills to back it up.
  4. Wow. Maybe a lot of the voters sensed something a little "off" in Kettering's presentation. I thought it was pretty clear during the finale results that he was not the saint Simon was so desperate to sell. He went from a smug expression when the camera panned the faces of the final 5 to such a shocked expression when he was eliminated in 5th place. It looked like it had never even occurred to him that he might not win this thing. I'm hoping someone will make a gif meme of that 15 seconds or so, because it was a classic.
  5. Noooo! They're going to bring back Michael, Courtney, and Vicki, aren't they? I just know it, and I'm overcome with dread.
  6. And singers in the finale who aren't good enough to make it through American Idol or The Voice audition rounds. The only thing that would've made this finale better for me would be if Kettering didn't make the Top 5. But seeing his utterly shocked face was almost worth it. Top 4 consisting of a magician, a dance group, a violinist and a comedian could bode well for the future of the AGT show that began its life as a variety show, and not as a bad singing and competing sob stories show. Congratulations, Shin Lim, you are a pleasure to watch. Thank you, America, for doing such a great job with your finale votes and for sparing me from the expected nightmare top 2 of Kettering and Hadwin. Bravo.
  7. I agree with almost all of your very well-written analysis. Personally, I would swap your #4 (Comroe) and your #5 (Duo Transcend), but that's a minor disagreement. By all rights, Shin Lim should easily win this thing. But I've learned never to underestimate the, um, peculiarities of the voting demographic, (or the underhanded producer manipulations), for any of these TV talent competitions. With that caveat, Simon may actually get his mediocre children's choir winner.
  8. Maybe he puts it in Anita's bank out of some lingering love, loyalty or affection for Anita, which we're just now learning more about. Rather than sloppiness or a simple error, both of which are uncharacteristic of Mike, it could have been an error of the heart...a characteristic that is consistent with Mike.
  9. For me, this episode was so bad it was just bad. Given one unlikable character you wish was dead (Charlie) and twice the monologuing (long scenes of Alicia talking talking talking to the door), and it was almost exactly like the mothership show with all its flaws. I had it even worse than the lot of you who were able to identify that the object in the fireplace was a dead animal, or maybe even a bird. My viewing partner had no idea what it was. Honestly, I thought it was Charlie's coat, as it occurred immediately after Alicia kept yelling at Charlie to give her her coat. I wish it had been. At least that would have made Alicia a little more interesting, knowing she would take the little brother-murdering psychopath's coat away from her and burn it. Needless to say, thinking the object was Charlie's coat, I had no idea it had anything to do with Alicia's fiddling with the fireplace, or that the former occupants had died of asphyixiation, or that it was any kind of callback to Madison's story of her children saving a bird. I was so distracted by the failed plot logic that a walker falling from a tree would cause a freaking chain to break on the cellar door, I could barely muster a pissed off feeling when Charlie said, "He saved us!" So disappointing! I wanted the Dorie and Drunk Strand roadtrip with double the flying zombies.
  10. From Fear The Spoiling Dead Fans facebook page, detailed spoilers for episode S4 E10 "Close Your Eyes" Oh, great (not). A whole episode of nobody but Charlie, whom I wish would look at the flowers, and Alicia, my least favorite of the cast. Not excited.
  11. Agree with all of this ^^^^ The judges claim to be looking for something new and fresh, then eliminate Morning of Owl, right after saying they had original self-created and never-before-seen moves? Plus, the group performed a ridiculously amazing routine and did it flawlessly. That may have been one of my favorite routines on the show to this point. I'm actually angry about being deprived of seeing more performances from Morning of Owl, and I usually don't get that invested in these shows. I also thought Brotherhood kicked Embodiment's asses.
  12. Grimm, Sleepy Hollow, and Person of Interest all got cancelled for the same reasons. I'm sure there are others, but maybe not ones I watched. It makes me wonder if all these showrunners regularly attend the same tweaker parties.
  13. From The Spoiling Dead Fans Army facebook page: Aaron loses an arm, Jesus dies, Henry is Carl 2.0 (thus becoming a major cast character), and Negan is out on walkabout. Meet the new showrunner, same as the old showrunner. What a pantload!
  14. Stepping as a genre was just wrong, so wrong, and Doriana Disco has needed to be retired for many seasons now. That said, Hannaleigh kicked Cole's ass in stepping, and I was relieved that Doriana didn't choreograph her usual injury-inducing, potentially career-ending, disco routine. At least Hannaleigh and Cole both survived the Doriana Disco Dance of Death. But which of this pairing are the producers trying to bury? Both of them? I thought Jay Jay kicked Jensen's butt in the Afro-Jazz routine. Other than the missed lift, I couldn't take my eyes off him and had to watch it a second time to notice how lackluster Jensen was in this routine. But she's a producer favorite and destined for final 4. I like Slavik, but was so distracted by his major shoulder slump problem in the jive that I was entirely distracted from evaluating anything else about that routine. I adored Darius and Magda's smooth jazz routine. The choreo was wonderful and they both danced it so well. But, Darius, OMG! At this point, I've settled on Darius as my choice to win.
  15. We may never learn if something triggers Jimmy into running a scam on Neff copiers, or if he actually set out to do something nefarious from the outset. If he was triggered, it would seem to be related to the Hummel figurines, and not coincidental that the one thing he's interested in taking from Neff is the Hummel figurine. I'm thinking this is a call back to Season 1 episode 5, "Alpine Shepherd Boy", which was the name of one of the Hummel figurines belonging to Mrs Strauss. In that episode, Jimmy has tried a few avenues to find his footing in the legal world. It's when he visits elderly Mrs Strauss to assist her in estate planning that Jimmy learns he has an affinity for elder law. Mrs Strauss collects Hummel figurines and her estate consists of bequeathing her Hummels to various friends and family members. She's the first client that hires Jimmy. Later in this episode, Jimmy tells Chuck about all these events and Chuck seems very pleased with Jimmy and encourages him in the pursuit of elder law. So, maybe the Hummel figurines at Ness evoked some subconscious memory for Jimmy of when Chuck was supportive of him. As well, it could evoke memories of a happier time when Jimmy felt like he'd found his calling in elder law and could do good things for his clients. In any case, judging from the previews, it seems like the only thing Jimmy wants to steal from Neff is the Hummel.
  16. Thanks so much! As I watched it, it was surprising how many plot points my memory had confused with what was from BB and what was from BCS. This was not only funny, but very useful.
  17. I didn't mind the show spent its time setting the table for the back half of season 4. Especially after watching Talking Dead with Hardwick. Danay (Luciana) was asked to sum up the rest of season 4 in three words. Her answer: "Storm. Walkers. Comedy". If the show intends to devote several episodes to the ZombieNado and introduce a welcome (to me) element of humor, I'm in for that. Bring on the flying zombies! Drunken Strand in a black velvet smoking jacket and his line, "I used to be a millionaire", were the best things ever. I loved Strand's sassy, worldly character in season 1, and despaired that it was entirely sacrificed in service to the show's misguided Madison worship. Welcome back, Strand! Strand and Dorie riding out the ZombieNado together is a fantastic pairing. I hope the show keeps the two of them together for a while. Charlie...look at the flowers soon please.
  18. I agree, he's mediocre. But, like most (all?) of these contestants he's only being put through because of his disability and sad story. They really should change the name of this show. I would suggest "America's Got Sob Stories", but that wouldn't include the Japanese sumo boys stomach act. Whatever anyone wants to title the show, it clearly has nothing to do with Talent. Yeah, let's bring back the water spitting frat guys for our Wild Card act, but let's cut Sergey and Sasha in the quarterfinals. Lindsey Stirling's already been mention as a talented violinst the show discarded. I'll add "Nuttin But Stringz" from Season 3, and holy cow, NO sob story! This show used to so much more watchable. I'm out.
  19. Amen. I didn't watch the athletes' season, and I have absolutely zero interest in a kiddies' season, which I sure as heck won't be watching. I hope @crowceilidh is right about Sept 24th premiere of the "real" DWTS, because I may still be interested if they don't stretch its premiere out any later than that.
  20. Hi, @cleo. I just watched this episode last weekend too. I'm still thinking about a couple things from the episode that I haven't been able to find satisfying answers to online. First, the apparition man that Peggy was interacting with from the basement stairs that was giving her all the woo woo advice about being and not thinking. Most people assume the apparition was a hallucination or delusion of Peggy's, based on her new age-y interests. That would make sense to me except for one thing. The apparition's vocabulary, grammatical construction, and somewhat complex thoughts were all beyond anything we've seen in terms of Peggy's intellectual ability to express or imagine. That lead me to speculate whether the apparition was truly something outside of her self, such as alien. Next, the whole Hanzee's haircut scene. As you noted, Hanzee has been shown as a smart man. He's seen the evidence of how cray-cray Peggy is, and the violence/murder she's easily capable of. So, when he says he's "tired of this world" and asks Peggy to give him a haircut, what's really going on there? By "tired of this world" does he mean it in the sense of "it's time for me to die"? And that he's chosen for Peggy to be the one to kill him? Or, as seems unlikely, does he fully expect crazy Peggy to simply give him a literal haircut? As a follow-up, had Hank and Lou not arrived so suddenly and unexpectedly, would Peggy have killed Hanzee, or no? I can see it as possible (however remotely) that Peggy would have simply have cut Hanzee's hair without plunging the scissors into his neck, (even if Hanzee had actually wished her to kill him), but the sudden arrival of the Law triggered her survival instincts. She quickly saw that she might be able to talk the officers into believing that the kidnap/torture/murder of Dodd had been all Hanzee's doing, made easier for her by a freshly dead Hanzee not around to contradict her story. Understand, I'm not asking you to answer these questions; rather, I'm just conveying what's still on my mind five days after seeing this episode, which is easily in my top 3 of best hours ever seen on television.
  21. The (2 more) better be Sacred Riana and Troy James (creepy contortionist) or Imma be hella pissed.
  22. I fully expect Jeffrey Dean Morgan to be the lead actor following Andrew's departure from the show. Lauren's leaving, Danai is surely not sticking around after season 9, the show doesn't give a crap about Melissa McBride, Norman Reedus can't act, and Carl 2.0 (Henry) is still too young even after the time jump. Just sayin' it fits with the show's pathological obsession with Negan.
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