Featherhat

If they divided the pot based on number of kids, then they’d be likely to still need “extra” housekeeping or misc money for various things because they have separate houses, and Meri would still be able to spend more money on herself, it’s just going to inherently be the case since she only had one kid and the rest have 5/6, some of which are still young. I didn’t get the impression that her going back to college meant she was stopping one of the others from going, financially speaking. It’s healthier for her to spread her wings a bit now she doesn’t have a kid at home full time, rather than spend her time plotting another wet bar and more financially sensible than pouring the money into the MSWC business.

Maybe, but even if goes back to college she could still help out at their business, especially as its not very busy. Lets face it the business is failing anyway. Although she might use college as a reason she can't if/when she doesn't want to. Wasn't Meri studying part time when the show started?

"My Sister Wives Closet" isn't even well marketed to fans on the show or anyone who might be interested in buying polygamous (or even polyamorous) themed jewellery, it's on the 3rd page of my "Sister wives" google. They have no business plan and no publicity apart from endlessly whining about it on the show, why should Meri have to give up constructive college plans to promote ugly jewellery that it seems very few people want. Robyn could do that by herself. It seems like its just an attempt to "direct" the family more than anything.

I don’t actually mind Meri getting an equal slice of the pie regardless of the number of kids everyone has. Yeah it would be much fairer if it was divided by kids but Meri already feels terrible for having one kid when Janelle and Christine popped out 6 each without a problem. She’d feel and act much worse if she lived in a much smaller house or apartment whilst everyone else got McMansions. For the sake of her remaining sanity and everyone else’s I can see why they do it. There’s no way she wouldn’t see it as “punishment” for her lack of fertility and she already hates the fact that she wasn’t enough for Kody. Plus she’d still need non kid related “housekeeping” money for general use. If they actually were a unified family who lived in the same house it would be a different matter, but they aren’t, they’re 4 separate families. Not that that excuses her from demanding an even more expensive house than everyone else. I am glad she’s going back to school, she needs something to occupy herself and its way more constructive than the jewellery business and might lead to her getting a job and realising there are some benefits of not having Mariah/other kids around all the time any more.

Well theoretically at least Laurel was connected to key players in ways that could have been interesting, and pursuing justice in the courtroom as opposed to vigilante-ism is obviously a valid path both morally and as a career (whether or not it works is another thing). Obviously (hopefully) Iris won’t have the terrible sister/cheating/death/guilt backstory that Laurel and Laurel/Oliver is weighed down by and we can only hope the writing is better for Iris and Iris/Barry but based on the few seconds of clips in the trailer I’m not necessarily sure about that. Still I'll wait until we see everything in context and give the show at least 3 episodes to find its feet.

I still see a fair few articles calling her Kate Middleton and though she does seem to be being more "Duchess of Cambridge" these days. Haven't seen "Duchess Kate" much, it doesn't roll of the tongue as well as "Lady/Princess Di" though I expect she'll be "Princess Kate" when they finally move up a slot. Absolutely, but this show is too low rent to give a damn. IIRC there's also protocol where you do say "Your Highness" on first greeting but after that you call them Sir/Ma'am, I remember some royal correspondent talking about it once and I think its been shown in a couple of films about the royals but I don't know when or how that applies or if it would to Kingsley.

They've been calling her Princess Diana informally for 30 years. I'm not sure why it started (wasn't born then) probably when they wanted to be more formal than simply referring to her as "Diana" but less formal than "The Princess of Wales" or Princess Charles. For anything official it was always The POW or Diana, POW and still is. They do always refer to Princess Michael of Kent by her husband's name/title, in fact if you said her real name I don't think a lot of British people would know who you meant. I don't expect the girls to know, because if you can't recognise its not Harry and/or realise that he wouldn't be on a FOX dating show in a million years, then you aren't going to realise he's not POW. The producers and researchers for this show should have known the difference, even by wiki-ing him for 10 minutes. Then again this whole production is so cheap it makes The Bachelor look classy in comparison, so I guess no one cared.

Heh. One of the big things that got me when Genevieve pointed it out a couple of times is that Mary often seemed to be allergic to shoulders and several dresses had long sleeves with shoulders cut out or dresses with detachable sleeves. Like they occasionally decided to go with it and at least have Mary in long sleeves but couldn’t quite bare to cover her up fully.

Yeah I agree. I think the ads make it look better than I thought when I first heard about it (which was WTF??) but even then I think its a difficult sell. Then again I thought Reign wouldn't last past 13 this season. And this one has an even more cracked out love triangle it seems. The creator is the same one as Emily Owens, MD which was similarly sweet looking and almost as twee seeming (and had ok writing for the premise) but I don't see it lasting any longer than that one did. I will check out the first ep though. And on the plus side it is a show with a more diverse cast than is usual for the CW

Basically. She gave him what he wanted sex wise and manipulated him into making her a mistress.

I've only read the first book and I like it fine, I haven't got around to reading the others yet because of mixed reviews. The show definitely looks interesting enough though so I'll probably check it out whether or not I've read book 2 by that time, I guess I'll be a casual viewer. Since this show is going to get compared to it anyway despite being very different, I will say that before it came out a lot of book fans were wondering how GOT would translate for non book readers since they're so long and sprawling and that hasn't been a problem. I think Outlander has enough of a hook to get people interested with the right promos, it just depends whether the show can keep them afterwards.

I've got a to agree that in a show that features versions of all these" characters" "how can you minimise Diane De Poitiers to pretty much unimportance for Henri II? Yes Megan Fellows is very good, Catherine was also an example of an documented complex woman, why do we have to have Kenna's Janet Fleming Lite BS there instead of two powerful (in separate ways) , clever, historical women? Even Catherine demanding Chenonceau was devoid of meaning because Diane had fled the show after 1.08 apparently never to be seen again even when her son is married or was almost crowned Dauphin.

I always feel sorry for Elia in the story of Lyanna/Rhaegar, whether it was an abduction and rape or running off together ( I favour the latter) but never Robert for some reason, which is mostly that I can't stand him either as a person or a King, especially a usurper who ignored most of his duties in favour of hunting, drinking and whoring. That said given Dornish culture its not entirely impossible that Elia didn't mind Rhaegar theoretically having another woman, just not how it went down. Thought that doesn't seem to be the way the show will play it.

I love that blog. Yeah it kind of reminds me of that Heath Ledger movie "A Knight's Tale" some looked vaguely medieval-ish and some looked completely modern including modern hats, it was strange. On this show its the same thing. Some look vaguely ok and others look like a high school play hasn't even bothered and just bought everyone cheap prom dresses to suggest royalty because tulle is "fancy".

Yeah Henri was always a dog but he wasn't a choke the life out of you crazy misogynist. It seemed like he did love Diane and he let Kenna choose the time she lost her virginity. He wasn't exactly respectful but he wasn't murdering girls for fun or talking about putting women in their place (dead) either. So I guess we're meant to think he's got a disease, maybe porphyria? Or else "The Darkness" has got him like Olivia. I suspect he's not long for this world though, and this is the start of it. Yeah they are throwing very gothic and/or Game of Thrones trope at the wall to see what sticks.

Or Lost. I guess all survivor type shows reserve the right to have guest stars pop out of the ether for a brief time and then disappear back into the crowd or die. I've no doubt that description is actually less insane than what actually happens on the show.

And they seem to have replaced the real life Catholic/Protestant issues with .........pagans. WTF?

Hi I'm Featherhat and I seem to be a diehard SG-1. I was seriously comforted to see a forum here minutes after I learned of this places' existence I'll go with whatever recap. I've found a nostalgic place for 1997 Sam in all her awkward glory (that briefing scene is almost the only thing I notice that is different.)It's very cringy but one of the only good things about SGU was that it did sort of complete her personal journey. (Jack and Daniel mostly *devolved* but that's another thread. )

Yeah it is possible. It might even be a reference to holding hands or something equally not actually "humping" that happened on the up coming "Duggar Double Date". That said. I don't think we'll even be seeing the same degree of "handsex" on camera that Smuggar and Anna had after their engagement for this couple whatever her parents meant

A refugee from TWOP here. I'm really interested in why Brady and family left the church. There have been rumours of being asked to leave and a big backlash against them from the community, which is why they want to move. I certainly don't believe 6 adults just up and leave their religion all at once but still stick with the lifestyle if it came from internal soul searching. And yeah I don't think they have a snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere near adopting a baby.

I think this is the only title of a TV show where when I read it I said "liar liar pants on fire!" as a first reaction weeks before the episode even aired. That's pretty much still my reaction.

Hey guys, checking in from TWOP. I hope a lot of people make the jump and stick around. I seems to go in phases with the Duggars, I seem to be in an "interested" phase right now after someone linked me to Recovering Grace right before Gothard stepped down. I hope it's the beginning of the end for his group, especially since the number of their conferences has drastically decreased in the last few years. That being said I'm both dreading and interested in how Jessa Duggar's courtship will play out on TV. From the previews it looks like it could end up being a trainwreck, especially as I get the impression the show was a plus for Ben, but I don't want a 21 year old and an 18 year old stuck in an unhappy marriage for the sake of TV cameras and her father's ego. I guess this is the season of courting though with Erin Bates's wedding and possibly Jill also courting.