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I'm pretty sure it's been wrapped for a few months. It was a fifteen episode season, and there is no reason to delay shooting. They may have suspected cancellation or not - I don't follow this show that closely. Epguides has had the titles of episodes 311 through 314 for months, but not 315, which might be a bit of a spoiler, who can say?

Thanks auntlada, I knew it was two of the big bad bankrupt companies.

If I remember correctly, Uchenna & Joyce were very nice, she was a good sport about the shaving the head fast forward (which still only put them seconds ahead of the other teams), and weren't they the couple where one had worked for MCI and the other for Worldcom, and both got clobbered in that debacle. For that alone I was rooting for them to win. Glad they are still friends, although with how I remember them, I don't think they could be anyone's enemy.

Ah, the Weavers. I am currently "forum-watching" the Duggars (will not give TLC the ratings points online or via my cable box), and I wonder how the two groups would mingle. While they did have a genuine awful tragedy 18 months or so in their past (papa Weaver worked at a NASCAR track, and was killed by an out-of-control car or something on that scale of dear-god-that-is-truly-horrible), the daughters were privileged and untested princesses (there was money for horses and they were reasonably competent equestrians on a cowboy roadblock), the son struck me as someone who was expected to step up as man of the house, and yet he was only around thirteen and often undermined (especially in Toronto, when mama and sisters checked out of the route info task), and Mama was apparently at the time of the race engaged. All of which is ok, but the poor fatherless children angle would be played up, the superiority of home-schooling would be played up, the constant questioning of the religion of people who helped them would be played up and exploited so they could get things free (which failed very nicely when Southern Evangelical Christian asked for money from Western Mormon Christian after they lost their money in the previous NEL). They were also very nasty about the Paolo family and their garbage business, and apparently on the bus trip across the south they acted out like deranged two-year-olds. I think they were too crazy for pageant! Hated that they came last on the NEL in Utah, hated they came third overall. Loved the edit they got, which is one of the few highlights of TAR8.

The trope I hate is existing shows, or spin-offs of good shows, being re-imagined to the style of some other wildly popular series that everyone suddenly wants to have created. For your consideration: Stargate Universe. Stargate Universe was created and screwed up by people who wanted to be the people who created BSG. Which, ok, it's good to have a career goal, but the outright contempt expressed to the old fans has pretty much never been forgiven, and ain't gonna be forgotten. SG Atlantis could and should have had a sixth season, but the SGU boys preferred the commitment to two seasons of SGU... hell, fans know this story, I'm not repeating it. While the more recent "light" shows are ones I didn't watch (Franklin and Bash remind me of too many former co-workers, and I wanted to love Psych for Dule Hill, but the lead character just annoys the hell out of me), knowing that there will probably be no new shows for me to watch on basic cable for at least a year gives me that much more time to catch up on other programs. Thankfully Major Crimes appears to span the light/dark divide well enough to remain tamper-free and is already renewed for a fourth season.

Just watched this, and it's ok for what it was, bridging the early storylines of the season to what comes next, and also filling in before #100 (which I haven't watched yet, but am looking forward to for many reasons, the least worthy of which is seeing Scott Caan in what looks like a buttoned-down aloha shirt). I'm impressed that there was no direct commentary on Jerry surveilling a bookshop from the same parking place in a bright green van day after day for weeks - of course he was noticed! I like that his basement was cleared out - sad for him, but continuing this forced re-birth that his mother began by putting the house up for sale. I like that they pointed out the need for off-site backups without making it an anvil - offsite backups and the speed of recovery of same used to be my daily bread and butter, and while it makes sense that Jerry wouldn't trust the cloud, backups of backups are flipping useless when they are kept in the same place. I like that Jerry slightly fumbled the setup of the tablet on the computer table - new equipment not yet mastered. I like that the blood was explained away as fake, and in the end it really was faked. I loved Grover's take on horror movies, which is in lockstep with mine. And I love knowing that for the fifth year in a row, there has been a full moon over Hawaii on October 31.

I suspect that they are honeymooning somewhere cold - which this week and next is anywhere in the U.S. east of the Mississippi and south of Canada. And methinks Jessa has discovered the joy - and comfort - of a push-up bra in that Cracker Barrel pic - she also seems to be standing up straight which makes this a Duggar picture that does not cause my back to spasm in sympathy. What gets me is those posed pictures. Mechelle is hiding behind Jessa's dress, and Derick&Jill look like the same picture has been photoshopped into both of the couples pictures posted here, with the bouquet removed or added in one of them... These people can't look genuine to me.

Season 1 for sure, and Season 5 (my ox is broken). I strongly encourage you to read the TWOP recaps of each episode after each viewing. If nothing else, Miss Alli's take on the entire "My Ox Is Broken" incident, enumerated (in Roman Numerals!) point by point for something like XXIX or XXX points is gut-busting funny and NSFW.

If I recall correctly, that team booked a flight to Hawaii from Northern Australia? or that general area, through Sydney. The other two teams went a different route, and the Sydney team spent an extra day in the Sydney airport. The Guidos were a day late partly because even though they had that leg's fast forward, they ran out of money and took a very long bus ride from Bangkok to Phuket (I think it was Phuket). But Nancy & Emily (??) couldn't find the marked car and wound up taking a taxi, which got them a 24 hour penalty and eliminated them. The next leg was the one that really blew it - the first two teams completed the leg and checked in to the pit stop before the Guidos left the previous one. And the frat boys got halfway through the leg before hours of operation paused them. They bunched up with the Guidos in Beijing, but lost the race to the pit stop in the Forbidden City because the Guidos got dropped off at a gate that was closer to the mat. The Race learned a lot from that first outing, including the vital importance of bunching, the vagaries of weather in Morocco (had to relocate the pit stop due to a dust storm), the absolute necessity of putting the fast forward in the same country as the pit stop (whosis went straight to the Taj Mahal while the rest of the teams had to do roadblocks, detours, and flights routed through Amsterdam), and the bureaucratic joy of dealing with Indian immigration & emigration.

Yes, that's it - P. D. James writes a P&P fanfic. It's not a very good PDJ, and it's not terribly good fanfic. There is a lot of exposition lifted nearly intact from P&P, which when it happens in "amateur" fanfic is a good indicator of lazy, if not inferior, writing. There is a massive personality change in Col Fitzwilliam, although as a fan-fiction reader of some forty years standing I can easily fanwank the Colonel's sudden elevation to heir and urgent need to marry and begat sons lest the title die with him being at war with a desire to stay in the army for the duration, i.e. until Napoleon is finished. Since it's only 1803, that will take awhile, but since it's the British army during the Napoleonic wars, the idea that the heir would not sell out his commission and return home is not plausible - see any number of books by Georgette Heyer. In my own experience, having unanticipated family obligations land squarely on your neck can and usually does change your demeanor. But that's a lot of work I had to do while reading the book. There is the slightly too scientific detecting going on. I don't easily accept that proto-Sherlockian detection methodology existed pre-Doyle, and I seem to remember that Sir Robert Peel's bobbies were urban, and didn't exist for at least another thirty years. Again I'm taken out of the story. While I haven't watched it, I did view previews, and Trevor Eve is always Waking the Dead, which made his casting less inspired and more distracting. I consider it stunt casting, although if I had been able to watch the series I might have had an easier time. Since I started reading the book just before part 1 aired, I was stuck with envisioning the cast as the characters. I could write (and did, and deleted) inarticulate screeds about this, but I'm reducing it to PDJ wrote a fanfic, probably a decade too late in her life - not knocking her, but she set a much higher standard with the entirety of her earlier works. And then PBS/Masterpiece et al took the few gritty PD James elements in the book and apparently changed them - Lizzie stopping the hanging at the gallows? The baby kept by its mother, on the estate? I'm going by what I read here, but these people were tough 18th century Georgians, not treacly 19th century Victorians, and certainly not "Gothic" (old meaning, before black lipstick & nail polish) or sickly sentimental. I'm just annoyed. The book should have been better. And it seems the production should have been better too.

I doubt KC drank the kool-aid - he's always been a hard-core intolerant ass. If you ever get the chance watch the E! True Hollywood Story on Growing Pains; the interviews from the rest of the cast are pretty eye-popping, especially the actress who was playing his girlfriend in the middle of the run - when it came out that she had posed topless (or nude?) for pictures, he got her fired. And did you know that KC discovered and mentored Leonardo DiCaprio? *snerk* gotta wonder how that relationship played out.

I just finished the book, which was disappointing enough. It sounds like the "improvements" are even worse. So I'm passing. Too bad, this had a great cast and those lovely British production values. But the book is pretty thin for P.D. James. I'm going to rebook the three hours of my life I'd intended for this to something else - a rewatch of Lewis, probably.

Cultural expectations vary. Sometimes the show the parents of the bride (and sometimes the groom) make puts the parents' and family's status and wealth on display. This is especially true where status is tied to the size and generosity of the party you throw. Sometimes it's a way for the parents to brag. Sometimes a spoiled "princess" is expecting her day/week/year to be expensively indulgent. For the Duggars, the childrens' weddings are a way to make money: directly, through the show, and indirectly, through the acquired "cred" (what is the fundy equivalent of street cred?). Most people are willing to invest money to make money. Boob & Mechelle, not so much.

An accurate guess! Lewis was still a Detective Sergeant when Morse died, although I think he was qualified for promotion, or nearly so. He refers to this case as his first major case or investigation or something as a Detective Inspector.

I sometimes think it's hard to remember that Martha got to do lots of development off camera. She was the Doctor's guardian in a way in Human Nature/Family of Blood; she was stuck in 1969 with him in Blink; and of course there was the Year That Never Happened, which only a tiny handful of people can even remember, let alone be changed by. She got to remember a year roaming a butchered world, and while the story she told was of the Doctor, the person who saved it was Martha Jones. And apart from the Doctor, Captain Jack, her family, and the small number of survivors on the Valiant(??? the ship). no one ever knew. The Martha Jones who went to work for UNIT, who consulted with Torchwood, who was always saluted by Jack Harkness, who married Mickey Smith - that's the person I really enjoyed. Her arc was done at the end of Season 3, but who she was in the guest shots was consistent with that growth.

Damn this show deserves to live! I watched every episode of Trophy Wife last year, and of The New Normal & Go On the year before, because they had talented casts and concepts that weren't awful. But none of them quite hit the mark, and I often found myself speculating on just how much each of those 5-15 second visual gags cost to produce. Selfie has the same kind of visual gags, but I'm not being distracted into wondering about the logistics. I haven't even had a "Hey It's That Guy" moment, which McMoney should have inspired. If you aren't geo-locked and have a cable provider on ABC's list (must verify to watch - ugh), the first four episodes are available at ABC's Selfie page.

Glad I could help ChiCricket! I like the bonus clips this season, because the teams this season seem to be a much saner than usual group. While I cherish the hope of Jim having a "My Ox Is Broken" moment, I think that would have happened in Denmark. They had a crappy day, starting with a poor decision to buy an expensive guide book. I've had that day, where something goes stupidly wrong early on, and there is just no way the day will improve. I think the saddest thing about the mother/daughter clips is that the daughter is really no worse in those clips then she was in Oxford, freaking out about being a superfan who was going out on the second leg. But mom Has Had Enough And Is Determined To Teach Her Daughter A Very Public Lesson. This leads me to believe that mom is not a big fan of the show, or she would realize that she was daring a negative edit. I think Shelley is passive aggressively trying to get Nici to quit, instead of having the guts to quit herself. I'm seeing entrenched patterns of behavior from both of them. And I'm sorry, but while children should respect the parent, the parent should damn well respect the child right back. If the parent don't like how the kid turned out, the parent should look in the mirror.

I just tried a bonus clip on cbs.com, and it played. HOWEVER, I can only watch cbs.com videos on Internet Explorer (pfui); the framing doesn't work on Chrome. I also checked my cable provider's online content (Xfinity - pfui pfui) and they have the bonus clips, listed interchangeably with the regular clips. Between the weirdness of the cbs video player and the cute tricks of the newer ads, cbs.com is something I can only watch on IE. And I only do that because Xfinity won't expand the CBS video images to full screen. Maybe cbs.com is detecting your iPad and deciding you are app'ing. Do you have access to a desktop?

I think the book they bought was something like "Poor Man's Guide to Denmark" - it was mentioned in one of the bonus clips, but I'm not going to re-watch. Apparently it cost around US$50, which sounds a bit right for pricing of a) an American-published book (which the title suggested to me) and b) a book sold at an airport bookstore. Back in the days when I used my passport, any trip over a week and I would have to buy an English-language book, usually at an airport, usually American-published (and thus imported), and never less than twice the price on the ISBN. Once it was thrice! I don't think it was a good investment. Asking for help in a country like Denmark (where English is taught in elementary school) is a much better idea. Kudos to them for finding someone in Sweden to buy it! I recommend the bonus clips on the cbs site, if you can access them. This season pretty much everyone has had good bonus edits, except the mother/daughter flight attendants. I don't think a good edit was possible for them this week.

Jeanne was a doctor. And also a spoiled rich kid. Wendy (if this is the character Perry Reeves played) was one of Tony's high school teachers. Really. She later switched to journalism.

I'd loved to see In Death in video, but the casting would have to be perfect. A few years back Lifetime did four of NR's books, and in my opinion none of them were at all well cast, and none of them were that watchable (it doesn't help that I only liked one of those books to start with - Montana Sky - and to make it fit 90 minutes they pretty much whacked out an entire subplot). There haven't been many adaptations of books by my favorite authors, and I can't remember any that were worth a re-watch. I remember a Jayne Ann Krentz book where all they kept was the name of one or two of the characters, otherwise the movie had nothing in common with the book that shared the title (saving grace: Chris Potter). And I remember how completely the movie "based" on LaVyrle Spencer's The Fulfillment, butchered the story. So, I dread the In Death books being filmed - there are just too many ways to blow it.

I'm really liking this series. It's getting little details right, and this episode got one big one bang on: Henry is a scientist. He evaluates available data and fits a theory to that data. When the theory is tested or destroyed by new data, he re-evaluates and re-theorizes, and this continues until all available data is accounted for. That's the scientific method, rarely seen in entertainment. He's also a good boss. Lucas screwed up, and came to confess with his resignation written and signed. Henry took the blame instead, and managed to acknowledge responsibility without actually saying he, personally, leaked the information. In my career I have had precisely three bosses like that, out of a total of around twenty. I'm really liking Henry.

I spent too much time thinking about the hair, trying to puzzle out if they shot episodes out of order, and guessing when Samson would lose his locks. Then I remembered they filmed DT part 2 last season. So are the curls here to stay? He certainly looks healthier. edited because homophones (our instead of are) make me crazy

NCIS agents are civilian, so Brody isn't in the Navy. She also isn't a probie, she's an experienced agent with at least one case three or four years previously that apparently went sideways (in the backdoor pilot this is referenced but not described). That is also how she knew Gibbs. She's new to this office, but that makes her a newbie. I suspect we wouldn't be thinking perky if she had a different haircut. I also liked (and envied) Coates's hair, especially all the things she could do with it. But this haircut is incredibly appropriate for the climate in NO (as I type on October 8 I am on the coast of the Florida panhandle, the high today will be in the mid 80's, the humidity is ridiculous, and short hair is smart hair), and appropriate for her work.

I think we're forgetting something rather crucial to Anna's development. More than possibly any other outsider (and I don't include TLC as outsiders, they are making money from this slow-motion tragedy), Anna has seen the Duggars, ESPECIALLY Mechelle, when the cameras have left the building. She saw how supportive her her mother-in-law was at the births of each of her kids, who just happen to be Mechelle's first, second, third, and to date only, grandchildren. She's seen how Mechelle interacts with these long-yearned-for blessings (one of the spots I saw when I was sampling this show four years ago was an interview where Mechelle was talking about how much she looked forward to grand-blessings, and each of her kids getting married, and so on). Words don't match actions. Add in the incredibly inconsiderate behavior of the Duggars in bus mode (late, early, no warning, no apologies), the housing favoritism, and especially Josh being old enough to have witnessed the evolution of this dog-and-pony, and I don't see Josh returning to the mindless flock, dragging Anna behind him. I don't see Anna wanting him to do so. In their own culture, the men rule their families. Josh doesn't have to go back or go along, although his job won't let him be the party "at fault" in that family divorce. But if things do go sideways back at the kidfarm, Josh and Anna are well-positioned to survive.