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As I've always understood it, for officers there is a maximum time in grade, at the end of which you need to be promoted or retired. What sticks in my memory is that if you miss on two chances for promotion, you are out. And at the higher ranks, which include Navy Captain (Rabb) and Marine Colonel (MacKenzie, who I really wanted to win that coin toss), the next promotion is to flag rank, which is more a matter of being selected for an existing position, as opposed to being promoted because "it's your turn". Maybe the wars change all that, with all the stop-loss. However, I'm reasonably sure the one thing the military is never short on for aviation positions, is pilots. Rabb really did lose to many years in aviation. And while Chegwidden went from SEAL to Surface Warfare to JAG, aviation to JAG to Surface Warfare doesn't seem natural. Bud Roberts as a JAG Captain was perfectly done and well-timed, and with four (five?) children and a career that is going to probably be mostly shore duty and no more deployments to a combat area, staying in gives him a solid career, good prospects after retirement, and military medical care for all those kids. Plus, the man's a silver fox.

I'm expecting renewed, because they seem to be shooting two episodes for next season before they break. I don't know why I think that, but they have done it before.

I keep pushing the PBS website and PBS Passport - most shows are on the website for at least two weeks, and all of Unforgotten Season 3 went up when the show started Sunday, and can be viewed behind the Passport paywall (along with the first two seasons). I will be binging next week after the Xfinity Watchathon finishes.

Since they are apparently out of print you could maybe make some good coin selling them.

I think there are six. I think I have them all. Somewhere. I've moved four times since I got them. I seem to recall that three of the books were based on the movie, and the other three on the series.

I believe this is only the second time in the history of this show where they have acknowledged that Virginia Beach is three hours away from Washington (without adding in rush hour traffic). If Torres was late for work, how is it that he wakes up around 9:40 (according to his phone) and Gibbs et al have found the boat before he staggers outside? Nope. Show has been doing this magic transportation thing forever, Pax River, West Virginia, the Shenandoah, Norfolk/Virginia Beach, all of it closer together then London & Hogwarts.

I greatly enjoyed season 8 - the production was so well established by then that they could write far enough ahead to film 2 or 3 or even 4 episodes in parallel. And since Citizen Joe guest starred Dan Castellaneta, who voices Homer Simpson and therefore has an enormous fanbase among the cast and crew of SG1, and who himself seems to be a big fan of Stargate as he showed up in Vancouver a few months early and hung out, well, I liked it - and I don't like the Simpsons. Starting for sure with season 5 (possibly season 4), every season was written like it was the last. Season 8 as a last season worked really well.

'Cause they are on roids?

Can't rectify without exposure, and the kids would have been stigmatized while their mothers would have been bigamists (if the law held both parties guilty then, which in the culture and mores of the times seems likely). Parts 1 & 2 are up on the PBS website for two weeks; part 3 is available now on PBS Passport, and it does "finish" the story, in as much as the British secret services let you finish any story.

Andrew Sullivan calling anybody smug? Please.

Already available on the discovery website: The captains return to Dutch Harbor days before the opening of king crab season. As they prepare their boats and their crews to battle the Bering Sea, they must also face each other to settle unfinished business from the past season. Not bad.

Tatort has been running about 30 feature-length episodes per year since 1970.

Off topic but I loved it when it happened: When AbFab flashed back to Saffy's birth in 1975, they made up Patsy to look like Lumley's Purdey in The New Avengers.

The msnbc coverage last night (All In right through the 11th Hour) was not difficult to watch. Rachel's 15 questions (which LW & I think 11th admired), lots of Chuck Rosenberg, Jill Wine-Banks, and yes, it is the Barr Report (or even the Barr Letter, to be technical). If it's so freaking cut and dried, then there is no reason not to release the Mueller Report in total (minus grand jury). It's all available at msnbc.com if you have an internet provider on their list. But then, political hacks never care about actual appearances or equality (McConnell is the gold standard here). Barr seems to be both a subtle Roy Cohn and a more efficient Devin Nunes. He'll probably get a Supremes nom out of it.

To my surprise I am finding this to be easily watchable. I had thought that I would bail after two, but I think I'm in.

Filmed in and around Pittsburg, broadcast first in Australia, then France, the UK, and I think Germany and possibly elsewhere. About a year after all of those it finally gets picked up by a US channel - WGN.

I thought her mother died in the first or second season?

I believe the tango they were dancing to at the party was the same tango Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis were dancing to at the end of True Lies, which I find to be a nice shout-out.

This inquiring mind wants to know why the damn app isn't on Android? And for the podcasts, if one is really late it is Lawrence, sometimes as much as a day.

Wasn't JR a guest in a Night Court, where Dan was forced to be part of a sting, and it turned out the target of the sting was another task force that was stinging the first task force? Lead agents (of which JR was one) were named Bert and Ernie.

But they didn't break a pipe, they broke a water main. Much larger flow.

I've said before (in the old forum, I think) that the first half of the original series was pretty bad, but it got better. I think this one is improving too.

Ash Wednesday?

The first (and only) Duke of Monmouth was the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II. On his father's death he attempted to rebel and take the crown from his uncle, James II. He failed, his title was removed by attainder, and he was executed. Not exactly a Victorian thing.

I suspicion an upcoming trope: the reason Hannah can't kill Magnum will be explained when the reboot version of Lily Catherine is introduced. So much trope.