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It was revenge because it was not in the royal dress code.
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The current series is set in 1939. Next episode is September, which i when war was declared over there after Hitler invaded Poland.
Helen's father was away and due back in the next day or two.
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Every now and then in the fandom of an historical show I find myself compelled to type "historical context" (even though I know it is generally useless).
The Thursdays when we first met them were the British version of an American baby boomer family - war was over, they survived, they had kiddies, Fred's move to Oxford made his career somewhat safer, and they had a house and a good retirement program in the works.
Then, tragedy -- the Sixties.
Joan had a starter job at a bank: nice boss, nice boyfriend, and suddenly the bank is robbed, the boss is killed, and the boyfriend had been pumping her for inside information so his gang could rob the place. She felt used, stupid, and guilty, and not having grown up in an era of true crime novels, tv, and podcasts, she was as easily duped as the next person. In fact, it was customary in such case to blame her as a fool, or an accomplice playing the poor pitiful me card. So, having followed all the rules that society said were the milestones of a good llife, she ran away and broke more rules.
Sam finished school and joined the army, a young man's milestsone. All right and well enough, but post-war British Army meant Northern Ireland. If you are old enough to remember, the British in NI were as welcome as the US in Vietnam. Fred worrying about Sam and Win living for the weekly letter takes me back to the year my uncle was deployed in Vietnam. He was Air Force, he was an HQ REMF, he worked and lived in the middle of a huge base, and my grandfather spent every waking moment glued to the news and waiting for a knock at the door (Uncle came home just fine, and went on to be Career).
Fred believed his brother's latest grift, even though it was stupid. And it was still apparently a guy thing that The Man made all the money decisions all by himself (that one I've never understood, as it's the smartest one in our family who does that, including my mother and both grandmothers). He put their old age to absurd risk and he's lucky she didn't make sandwiches with rancid food.
And as for Win, she followed all the rules and the societal guarantees didn't happen. Win is an example of someone who can be good and kind and even long-suffering, but doesn't have the internal fortitude to Keep Buggering On - that was all supposed to end with the war, or at least with rationing.
Sam will make it or not, be scarred or not, we will probably get no more of a hint then they can squeeze into the final season. Joan has worked her way into her future; her experience as a useful idiot to an unscupulous man and as chattel to a rich jackass have prepared her to help women and families in crisis - if nothing else it has given her an unsentimental attitude toward drunks - and I really loved her with Strange. Strange is actively living his life and life choices, and will indeed by CS someday. Fred and Win will probably survive into retirement, but it wo't be the happy dancing they were planning.
And that's the Thursdays. I never expected Endeavour to have a happy ending, as Morse pretty much established that.
Bright is my favorite though. With the unending sad life events, which he persistently responds to with Grace, and his unfailing decency, I so 💖 him. He was a hardass at the beginning, but his response to Morse's father's dying put him firmly on the list of people I wish were my boss. His response to the collapsed building was immediate and perfect. And now he's living out the rest of his career with serenity, running interference with upstairs, checking the pulse of his cops, including Morse and Thursday - dammit, why was he never my boss?
Sorry/not sorry for the length, but I guess this is my farewell ode to the series (even though I WILL be watching series 9).
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22 hours ago, deirdra said:
I'm thankful they stopped doing 3 in each episode - those were way too brief.
Rebecca's father is probably descended from one of the usual Brit ancestors - William the Conqueror or Robert the Bruce
I think the only time they did just one was LL Cool J, and his family story - his father shooting his mother, his mother being adopted, and his mother being a great-niece of the Hall Of Fame boxer John Henry Lewis.
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It's scheduled on BBC America for Nov 26. My uninformed guess is that this fall GN has scheduled two off weeks instead of the usual one, so BBCA did one off week and bumped Eddie to what would have been the usual off week of this week (which it is, because they didn't do a new episode on Nov 19). I repeat, uninformed guess.
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Damm, Harriet's passed. She was The online fan liaison for NCIS & JAG back in the early 00s. If she was 94 when she passed, then she was in her late sixties / early seventies back then. Lovely woman.
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On 10/19/2021 at 8:28 PM, secnarf said:
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I am a *huge* Simon and Garfunkel fan, and one of my big regrets is not going to their last reunion tour. When Parker said he had tickets to a reunion concert my reaction was basically, "what is this alternate universe and how can I be a part of it?!?!" and I kept wanting him to blow off the case to go to the concert. So I did laugh at the end, when Parker admitted the bluff. Kind of surprised none of the characters questioned it, though.
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The S&G reunion tour was about 20 years ago (I saw it in DC). I hand-waved that the agents were all too young to know or care about S&G (millennials have such a stunted 😇 cultural life).
As for missing network shows, most primetime in the U.S. is available for a few weeks free after broadcast. NBC.com, ABC.com, CBS.com, PBS.org, the CW, and if memory serves, FOX.
I thought it was a well-written reset.
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That series finale, BTW, was broadcast on Christmas Day. It was so unexpectedly... British.
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There's a line in the film Ice Station Zebra where the British agent (Patrick McGoohan) says to the American nuclear submarine captain (Rock Hudson): "The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists."
It was then put in a polar orbit and took pictures of every bit of the Earth's surface, so the Soviets would have details of the West, but if the West recovered it first, they'd have the same details of the Not-West.
The film wasn't bad, the book was better, and this line slays me on every viewing.
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I'm catching up, so just watched this. I guess it's a symptom of why the show was canceled, because the story (in two! replies) isn't being mentioned, but:
1) that aerial shot of Mobile was indeed Mobile - I used to drive that stretch of I-10 yearly, and while I have never seen the skyline, I remember those interstate-speed curves soooo well that I still have nightmares, and
2) it's been19 years, but that was a re-telling of the DC Sniper(s), right down to it being blue car.
The story wasn't bad nor badly done, but I knew it was a DC Sniper(s) reboot from the Petty Officer's killing - there was no way the guy could have been identifiable in camo and blue cloth.
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Isn't he hosting something next Sunday? I think it's the Grammys.
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7 hours ago, peacheslatour said:
I watch it on Wednesday afternoons and practically all day on Thursdays on Ovation.
I watch it for free on IMDB.
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10 hours ago, BlackberryJam said:
Oh that’s right. And Jimmy Smits was on LA Law. He and John Spencer had ...I think two seasons together? Victor and Tommy, that’s your presidential ticket!
As I recall (and just verified on IMDB), JS's first television credit was on the pilot for Miami Vice. And in that role, a very young and skinny Jimmy Smits also played the first person to be killed on Miami Vice.
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It would have been in Panama City Beach, not Panama City. 300K is not a bad price for beachfront with a view here. And that layout is not for a family of six to live in. It is for six people to vacation in. Its primary usage and way to pay for itself is as a short-term rental.
Also, these shows usually lies about the price as well as everything else.
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On 8/27/2020 at 8:38 AM, AZChristian said:
Not sure if I've seen the reference mentioned here. Diana was Barbara Cartland's step-granddaughter.
Yes, and when she was a teenager Diana read those books by the bushel.
To be fair, so did I. But that was mostly because she published at least 3 every month, and you could always find a Cartland.
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She turned 20 four weeks before the wedding, so most of the wedding planning was done by a 19-year-old. The fashion of the time was still heavily influenced by the late 70s (ick ick ick). The fabric for the dress was too easily wrinkled. The train was designed for the main aisle at St. Paul's, arguably the only successful part of the design.
As I recall, though, the dress was "too big" because she kept losing weight, to the point that it became impossible to take it in any more.
She looked like what she was: a teenager dressed up as a fairy-tale princess. I always thought it was fair to blame Barbara Cartland's "romances".
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Today (Aug 1, 2020) CBS All Access has added five channels to its service: BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Smithsonian Channel.
I already had access to the others, but Smithsonian is a premium channel on my Xfinity, so this is good news for me!
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I always recommend Blue Murder. I'm sure it's on Britbox or Acorn; right now it seems to be on Prime, courtesy of IMDB, which means it should be on IMDB freedive.
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Or it's pre-recorded. JP is clearly not working at the studio; the background is too simple.
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I was concerned enough to look him up. Apparently it was sort of a mutual decision - contract was mutually not renewed.
According to this article, the Brenna A did opies last season, the new ship, the Elinore J was tendering cod under the command of (yes, that) Zack Larson, and the Dwyers' original boat, the Jennifer A, was being TLC'd in Seattle.
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If you can watch on the Discovery website, the first hour is usually available within 5 minutes of the beginning of the broadcast. And the third hour is usually available within 5 minutes of the beginning of that broadcast. You don't have to give any ratings points to the middle at all.
This is how I've been watching DC for several years now.
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13 hours ago, theschnauzers said:
It was December 7, 1941. Congress declared war the next day, and against Germany the day after that.
FDR gave an absolute stem-winder of a speech to a joint session of Congress on December 8, declaring that the state of war with (only) Japan had existed since the attack began (Congress agreed that afternoon).
The Nazi alliance with Japan meant they would automatically be at war if Japan were attacked; what to do if Japan attacked first was not covered, and Hitler was not obligated by treaty to declare war on the U.S.
His own nature did obligate him: he thought the U.S. was corrupt, weak militarily, and trying to provoke him anyway, so on December 11, against the limited advice he allowed to be given to him, he declared war on the U.S. That is what brought us in.
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On 3/13/2020 at 8:49 PM, SG11 said:
I agree on Kasie, but for me the biggest development was that lunatic on crack act she was putting on in her first couple episodes... I stopped watching the show because of her. Came back recently and noticed she had completely knocked it off, like she was on meds or something. I couldn’t stand her on screen before; now she does her job and isn’t any sort of problem.
Im also thinking that Abbey was supposed to be a bit of a legend in her day, but like most legends, the field and the kids in it “catch up” and a lot of those who replace you do things a bit easier. It’s normal evolution, whether it’s a job, an athlete or whatever. Thing aren’t quite so revolutionary as they were in Abbeys day.
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I really loved Kasie when she was so completely unimpressed by the return of Ziva.
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On 2/13/2020 at 11:12 AM, JessDVD said:
1) This is literally the first time I can think of, in 10+ years of watching crime procedurals, when a recovering-from-major-injury-or-illness agent, actually STEPPED BACK from a case, due to pain/recovery.
2) I've probably said it here before, but I can't stand it when suspects who have all the evidence pointing toward them, act all insulted when someone they love is suspicious of them. News flash, this is how people get away with heinous acts for years and years, when everyone around them ignores the obvious evidence because they just can't believe the person would do that.
3) Also, no way does a JAG lawyer agree to be interrogated without a lawyer present. Also also, making mental note to never, ever agree to attempt to obtain evidence for the investigating team, by trying to sneak something out of the suspect's house. But I did enjoy them discussing how they could obtain it legally, like that's ever mattered before.
4) Was it Vance who the team found on that match.com app? (Tinder? What do people call those things these days? I'm so glad that I'm old enough that I found my spouse the old fashioned way, meeting in college and relationship developing the way God intended, over AOL instant messenger) I thought they were talking about Gibbs but that didn't make sense with the end and I don't care enough to go back and watch it again.
Very late to this party, but in reference to people being pissy about a) being a suspect, especially with all the evidence, and b) people who know the "obvious" suspect and have at least a moment of doubt, I submit the original 2-part NCIS backdoor pilot: Meltdown & Ice Queen.
Everyone who knew Rabb also knew Singer, and knew how easy it was to dislike her, plus there were witnessed encounters that did not look good. Meltdown especially was written from a POV outside the JAG office. But what I found much more entertaining were the JAG fans. How dare Gibbs suspect Rabb! He was too perfect!
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All Creatures Great And Small (2021) - General Discussion
in All Creatures Great And Small (2021)
At least it wasn't the Hood. May 24, 1941, Hood was sunk in three minutes with 3 survivors out of a crew of 1418. One of those three was Ted Briggs, whom I remember from many stories about the Hood, and also the Bismarck... Anyway, thank you Show for not putting him on the Hood.