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I think that Josh's presence on the Cornelia Maria was a Disco requirement; the CM being on DC means the captains get paid, and IIRC thanks to Sig and the H brothers the crews get something too. Therefore no matter how the season goes, some people will get some money.... And, sadly, Josh Harris still has a lot of fans, of the sort who think that young pretty bad boys with charming smiles (what the rest of us are more like to call a shit-eating grin) should always get the extra break. Josh seems to be a decent enough fisherman to find crab; he's just really lousy at being responsible - I still remember him sitting on his ass while repairs were being made in the engine room, and him doing something at the wrong time that either nearly injured someone (Casey?) or undid the new repair - you can't easily get a "bad edit" without providing material for the bad edit. I'm pretty sure the screens we see tracking the boats are satellite displays, which means the scale is probably tens or perhaps hundreds of miles. They can see the boats headed towards them from over the horizon, just as those boats can see where they are. The Northwestern and the Wizard are boats that others (not just Jake) are going to follow.

Hulu is carrying most ABC shows (it has all of Black-ish & Fresh Off The Boat, right through to the most recent episodes of each), IF you don't mind adding one more streaming service. I find that Hulu (ABC, NBC, & FOX) and Netflix (CW) and CBS All-Access and PBS.org give me as much U.S. broadcast as I need, and I rarely watch network tv live any more.

Or you can watch it for at least five weeks on cwtv.com .

This show is bonkers. It is ZOMG, g. d. BONKERS. From Rip's magnificent exit to the retreat to (for) Salvation to DD finally having a noble(-ish) exit of his own to the return of the Blue God right through to a "presidential" allusion that visually explained itself, and all the madness in between ... bonkers!

It was two episodes but the overall length was one hour & 23 minutes, so if you got opening titles and end credits you got all of it. This is an ITV series, which means it airs with commercials, so (like us) about 44 minutes of story per hour.

I'm pretty sure there were no crown princes available for Margaret - at least no Protestant ones. What she wanted was Peter Townsend; once that was spiked there really weren't many candidates left - most of the British aristocrats of her group were married by then; the only Protestant royals left were (if I recall correctly) Denmark, Norway, & Sweden. Greece's future sovereign married a daughter of the Danish King; the Spanish and the Dutch are Catholic; the Germans, Austrians, and Italians were definitively out of power; the Russians were exiles.... I always thought the great tragedy of her life was that she was a talented and intelligent human being condemned by birth to a life that neither gave her a stimulating education nor allowed her to explore being anything but a King's daughter & Queen's sister.

However, most websites now are requiring you log in through your service provider (I have Comcast, which occasionally fails to be recognized by other GE/NBC owned channels). So if you cut the cord you may want to get Roku or Sling or one of those (Sling looks pretty reasonable). Cutting the cord is one thing; maintaining internet is another....

Not an unreasonable expectation, as in the first season Mick was the second Legend to "depart" (after Hawkman). We got him back several episodes later, but I for one wasn't expecting him.

The other seemingly-shallow-but-really-not-so-shallow thing about Mosley is that one of her first acts was to remodel her office and install walls, not a feature of this particular organization. Setting aside the expense, and that unnecessary office remodels/upgrades seems to be a mandatory action item for senior people in this administration, I have never had a new boss whose first priority was her/his office remodel who wound up being any damn good at the job. In this franchise the new boss-level figures are either antagonists who must be opposed until they are redeemed because Show loves the actor and wants to keep them (Granger, Vance), or given the opportunity for redemption through suicidal saving of the regulars (what's his name who tried but failed to disarm the car bomb in the director's car in the Navy Yard outside Our Guys' building (the arc where Richard Schiff was the uber-villain and made the Most-Wanted wall right next to OBL)), or turn out to be a former love interest who somehow political'd her way to director and was endlessly inappropriate to her former boss but senior underling (Shepard).

Production number is order of filming; this episode was meant to be the one after the pilot even if it wasn't the next one filmed because it's only been two weeks since the detective was shot. Fortunately, she "cures" quickly.

Yup. There were a lot of John Jacob Astors. This "Jack Astor" is the one that dies sixteen years later on the Titanic.

never mind

She gets a credit in all episodes. If they get unlazy, they will list her as credit only. The most extreme example of this that I have is an original series Dallas season, where the character of Bobby Ewing's wife (not Pamela), was killed fairly early in the season, and the actress and her triptych credit/screen in the title sequence persisted through to the end of that season. It was kind of creepy.

The twin study was about much more than DNA. The "space gene" might even have been completely unexpected. Identical twins are ideal candidates for certain kinds of physical "lab" testing - if, as in this case, the human subjects consent to being tested. They are scientists and this is a very cool experiment that included space flight.

I remember reading in the 1964 biography of The Queen (don't remember title or author, but I do remember that when it came to royal biographies my library only had that book and Crawfie's Little Princesses) that during that Canadian tour this shindig was a late addition to the schedule. Since Western/Square Dancing clothing was not packed for either of them, Bobo MacDonald & the Duke's valet made a very fast department store run, and bought these outfits. I seem to remember the book stating that they had a blast at that party.

I think we can assume that they are Not Going There. Apparently season 11 of The X-Files dealt with the (apparent?) government office requirement of a picture of the current POTUS being displayed (at Skinner's level it would be there and was in seasons gone by) by not setting any scene in Skinner's office. NCIS: Los Angeles has the bonus advantage of having open and/or glass-walled offices, as well as apparently being a Sooper Secret location which ideally shouldn't get any political appointees trawling through. Anyway it doesn't surprise me that this show and others are simply avoiding the subject. Also it makes these shows mini Safe Havens (for me and mine).

If I remember correctly (and I'm not going back to look), the previous SecNav got blown up with many other people, and the replacement was a woman (a fairly familiar actress who nevertheless I will not be looking up). Oh wtf, I looked it up. The SecNav gets blown up in the first episode of season 11 (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot) and the new female SecNav (a career politician) was introduced in the next episode, Past, Present, and Future. According to Wikipedia, she's still the show's SecNav. These episodes aired in 2013, long long long before the 2016 election.

Somewhere on the net is an image of the board super-imposed on about two-thirds of the exterior of 30 Rock. I keep waiting for TRMS to reference that.

It's a sad sick historical trend that when New Smart Highly Paid People are appointed to run a network, they tend to ax the old (and often still money making) shows to put on their own brilliant creations. Which, as an example, is why the very hyped Will was green-lit while Major Crimes and The Librarians were diddled with. That Will came and went so fast is not important; the new people have made their mark. I find The Alienist to be fairly well done (it probably helps that I haven't read the book in twenty years), but to adapt that property was always going to be expensive. The other stuff that's been added I can barely name (Animal Behavior, Claws? I've reached the point where shows that are potential actor tour-de-forces about characters whose stories are hugely uninteresting to me are shows I'm not going to watch.) (Hey, I've learned to curate my viewing experience!) So, at the end of March my Turner viewing experience will be reduced to the erratic scheduling of Full Frontal. Yay? ETA: I forgot to say that I was astonished Librarians got a fourth season; the vibes a year ago led me to think it would be canceled to clear the way for one of the Great New Shows; when it was renewed, I figured they didn't have enough Great New Shows ready to go....

I always thought that bloody was a contraction of By Our Lady (i.e. Mary), and was therefore a major blasphemy.

I believe there is something like a Ghillies' Ball at Balmoral; I'm sure there are similar events at the other places.

We have a week off. I do not know why. The FutonCritic (which lists the BBCAmerica broadcast dates) says at least three more, including the Will Smith that was filmed last December and mysteriously skipped in the BBCAmerica rotation, but does not yet include the end of season clip show, which aired in Britain on Feb 23.

When I went to school I'm not sure where our history books ended because every year we were lucky to make it to 1900. One year we made it to the end of WWI, but that was because a) it was an AP class and b) my history teacher deliberately skipped the Civil War because i) we were in the South and every kid in that class knew their family's "correct" version, ii) typically history classes would spend at least a month re-living every battle, and iii) she had tenure and could re-construct the syllabus. I knew WWII from television - Rat Patrol, Combat, Twelve O'Clock High, and many many movies (Enemy Below, The Wackiest Ship In The Army, etc). These kids today, they know whatever is at the top of the search results and don't seem to give a damn that the top of the list is inevitably some sort of ad (and therefore someone's propaganda). With all of that, people will often choose ignorance. It's easier. I like it when that choice is obvious, because then I can re-direct the investment of my own time. I iz an old krank.

Aunt Clara, played by James MacArthur's real-life adopted mother(*) the Legendary Helen Hayes, was visiting her nephew in Hawaii when a nice elderly gentleman she met on the plane wound up missing without a reasonable trace (Retire in Sunny Hawaii... Forever). She brought this to her nephew & Five-O, and then as part of the undercover investigation she and her "nurse" (an HPD undercover cop) were admitted to the nursing home that the gentleman had disappeared from. She definitely elevated the standard Five-O materiel, and I found it very amusing that most of her scenes wound up being with Jack Lord instead of her son (snark snark snark). I found it even more amusing that in her autobiography she does reference JM's time on the show, but never once mentions her episode or Jack Lord. The character of Clara was updated in the reboot to Danny's mother, played by Melanie Griffith. (*): According to her third autobiography, James was adopted as an infant, and she spent several days alone with him, bonding with this new baby. It was a very moving account, and I have to admire her and hope it's not a dramatic creation, especially since there are rumors (from other sources, not from her), that JM was Charles MacArthur's biological son. Of course, there are also other rumors regarding his parentage. Of course, we will never know. Still, the Helen Hayes guest shot on the original Five-O is worth watching at least once. It is available on CBS All Access.

When I visited my Danish cousins we did toast, but only once per meal, and not necessarily alcoholic (I don't remember drinking anything stronger than coffee and coca-cola for the whole trip). They did teach us the proper way to toast (in Denmark): look each person straight in the eye (if the group was four or more, the two opposite were enough), with a slight nod of the head but not breaking eye contact, raise your glass no higher than eye level, and say Skål. Then ideally toss back the drink in one gulp (these glasses were small). It was nice. It was a custom, not a rigid ritual.