mattie0808

IMO, I would be fine with Chuck if he *did* give up on Jimmy. It's the constant and often gleeful efforts to ensure Jimmy's failure, no matter what, that make me despise Chuck as far as his brother is concerned. He wants to wash his hands of Jimmy? Fine. He wants to secretly and not-so-secretly undermine and sabotage him in every way he can think of, while lying to Jimmy's face about it (and letting someone else play the bad guy)? He wants to completely dismiss Jimmy taking care of him and his mental illness? He wants to allow a lifetime of jealousies and resentments to rule his every interaction with his brother? Not fine. Chuck has never been interested in "giving up," he wants to personally cause and have a front seat for Jimmy's destruction, all the while complaining that he never thought his own brother would stab him in the back, as if that isn't what Chuck's done for YEARS. :/

Didn't he just mute it, not pause it? I assumed he faxed it to someone who worked for Johnny, someone nearby, but not actually *in* the courtroom when he received the fax, and he ran it in. As it seemed every single witness took FOREVER to get through, he probably had a little time to get it to Johnnie before he finished his cross of the cop.

So I learned two main things this ep... -- Always keep Marcia Clark drunk or hungover to make her an effective lawyer. When she's WAY into a tequila bottle, suddenly she's making the arguments, in the exact way she should, that were her best shot in the trial. Too bad that Marcia never showed up. And the next day? Well, she's probably hungover, but still clear-headed enough to not turnover the MAIN piece of evidence, that the cops and DAs were hugging each other over, to the defendant. Whether or not the gloves had been affected by the blood, being out in the elements, being tested, having months pass, by the latex gloves, etc., ON WHAT PLANET would a defendant happily show that the killer's gloves just totally fit him fine? -- Having said that, I can feel some sympathy and empathy for the person who made that insanely dumb decision. This is Darden's first real, honest-to-god mistake in the series (I think the silly N-word arguments were the first one in real life), but it's such a HUGE one. Darden wasn't wrong that the gloves would make an irresistable and unforgettable impression, it just went the exact opposite way on him. I did feel that he started off with the idea with sincerity, if not a lot of smarts, and I understood how Marcia's reactions, and the defense playing him...not even like a fiddle, I need a worse description...played into him making that mistake. And I do think he felt awful for it. So kudos, show. I've been unforgiving of that moment for more than 20 years because it was such an obvious mistake, I felt for Darden today for the first time, really. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Travolta as Shapiro is just awesome. -- That garment bag scene (and all the Bob Kardashian scenes) were played really well. Who knew Theo and Ross had it in them? ;) -- Dershowitz's cameo was quite entertaining. Ah, for the days that faxes did everything our phones do now. -- Is it true that Cochran's first wife and long-time mistress became friends?

Chuck should just write off Jimmy. That, I would understand. It's this constant...I don't know, nasty joy he gets not only from being (in his mind) proven right about Jimmy, but from actively going out of his way to be involved in making sure Jimmy doesn't find success or that every single person all the time knows he's messed up/done wrong. That is what makes me despise Chuck. It's not that he has no hope where Jimmy's concerned, it's that he's possessed with a need to make sure, however much is within his power, that Jimmy is the chimp with a machine gun he thinks his brother is. Oh, but if his brother wants to kindly wait on him hand foot and care for him while he suffers from his made-up disease/his actual mental illness, that's just fine. His distaste for his evil, lying, conniving, criminal brother doesn't extend to being taken care of! He'll even make fun of him for doing so if it means Chuck gets another gleefully nasty jab in about Jimmy's work. Whether Chuck's "right" about Jimmy or not, I really find him detestable for the way he chooses to relate to him. Let's just say I'm skeptical about the details of that story with the sinless father, and "I'm not an accountant, BUT...eeeeevvvviiiiillllll Jimmy!" Chuck. I guess we'll see. I really feel for Kim. Hamlin just exhausts me at this point. OMG, TIO! Hector! Yaaaaaay! Holy hell, that was great. :) And more fun along those lines promised by the promo.

Marcia Clark has been driving me crazy this whole series. She just refuses to listen. Period. I don't think that's a "good" or "tough" trait. If you bring Darden on board even in part because he's black, LISTEN TO HIM BECAUSE HE'S BLACK. I don't feel like Marcia's just on the side of the angels here and is just so not racist at all that she can't comprehend what she's been told almost since the very beginning of the case. I think she just wants to prove herself right. That there's no way SHE'S what anyone else says...she doesn't need to care who OJ is or why people won't shoot him or his tires out during the Bronco case, she doesn't need to be concerned with the complete non-reality of pursuing the death penalty, she can ignore the focus groups, Chris is the one whose judgement is compromised because of his personal circumstances...and she is just the paragon of everything, rising above it all, and can't (and shouldn't!) understand why everyone else isn't on her level. She so desperately needed to get over herself or have Garcetti rein her in. If one believes the jury was just 1,000% determined to acquit, none of this matters. But I don't believe that, and boy did the prosecution just thoroughly and repeatedly screw up their "slam dunk" case. I'm not putting everything in this series on the real life Marcia (the same goes for Darden, because I don't know if he was this clear with Marcia while not putting his foot down; I feel very sorry for the Darden on the show, but that's not some direct translation to real life). But for the show? Good grief.

I'm not a big fan of the Peter Pan one either, but the DEATH GLARE he gets from the two older people when he tells the woman she "doesn't look a day over 70" is always entertaining, lol.

Not only that, but playing two different characters pretending to be each other distinctively. I loved watching Adam pretend to be Stuart and Stuart pretend to be Adam, you could always tell, though not enough to make it silly that the characters they were interacting with couldn't immediately tell. THAT is SERIOUS talent. This news hit me hard yesterday... RIP David Canary.

And here I thought the first episode was crazy and packing the plot developments in -- showed us Rebecca's murderer, took on a new case, had the key witness in that case murdered, flashfoward to Annalise being shot -- but DAMN!!!!! What in the hell! That ending! Can't even process the rest. (But what's Nate on about? Poor Michaela (assuming that's Eggs). Asher is crazy to let himself be blackmailed like this. Boy did Bonnie's relationship with Annalise get wierd. And is Lila's case closed because the theory is Sam did it?)

How freakin' LAME are all we 21st-century human beings? We could only JUST BARELY beat the Espheni, with the help of TWO DIFFERENT alien species over the course of several years. Meanwhile, our Dark/Middle freakin' Ages homies totally took out an alien invasion, complete with killing the queen! And apparently did it so easily, it became but a mere blip in the historical record, more or less simply lost to human history. Damn, son. I can't believe they didn't show us ANYTHING OF A FINAL BATTLE. Hey, I get that can be expensive, at least let me see the 2nd Mass do something for a minute or two after being separated from Tom. Let me see all these militias converging on D.C. from all over the country. That skitter battle at the beginning was easily the most action of the entire episode. Boo! Why was Matt working by candlelight when they do have electricity (the mic of Tom's, at least)? Could they have dropped any more whispered exposition/random character moments into that tiptoe around and short firefight with the overlord eggs? "I'm pregnant!" "Marry me!" "I'm gonna make my mama proud!" Why couldn't the third alien race find a way to deliver that weapon to the queen themselves? She wasn't even defended! Tom walked out of a tunnel, and was just "Hey, what's up?" No guards, no nothing...and she never once noticed Tom holding a glowing cylinder, desperately reaching for a glowing cylinder, or infecting himself with the contents of a glowing cylinder. That third alien race should have been able to handle it. Hell, give one to a Volm years ago! Speaking of having no battles being anti-climactic...Pope's last scene was somehow moreso. Well, that's that. Yay, humanity? Wait, one more thing... I thought they were removing military/strategic considerations in the Espheni quest for Earth with the queen's explanation/flashback-- it was just one crazy person's revenge. But the queen did also say something about the fact that Earth is the only habitable planet in the galaxy meaning that it was incalcuably valuable (right?). If that's the case, why did it take them 1,500 freakin' years to come back? The Volm have never considered Earth strategically important, and apparently, neither did the third alien race. The skitters -- what and who they are, how they are created, what they can do, what they are used for -- has changed so many times in the last two seasons, it just kind of sucks. The inital mystery of why they were using children to become skitters and perform what looked like manual labor (moving the metal and helping build communications arrays or whatever) is long gone and never addressed. Same with the rebel skitters. And whether it's about personal revenge or broader strategy, why have Nazi-esque indoctrination schools for children who would have previously been skitterized? What was the point of Lexi being a hybrid (and what kind of hybrid will Anne's new baby be after aliens messed with her AGAIN during a pregnancy)? Sigh.

OMG. I HATE THAT GUY AND THAT AD. I mean, I hate all the stupid Liberty Mutal ads. But that guy's acting/talking is SO BAD that I literally can't listen to it. It makes me dive for the remote and mute or change the channel Every. Single. Time. He's worse than the Brad chick, and she's unbelievably grating. I rejoice these days, however, because the last 5-6 times that guy's ad has come on, it's on for maybe half a second when the cable company cuts to some local ad. Just enough for me to have a visceral reaction to seeing the ad start, and then internally cheer when it goes to some low-rate, local commercial (somehow, with BETTER ACTORS). Lolololol. But the other ones, I can't even believe..."You hydroplane into a ditch"? "You total your brand new car"? Damn, people. How can you be stupid enough not to know how insurance works and that bad a driver? Yikes!

Ugggggghhhhhh. How can they POSSIBLY be serious with this bull? I didn't finish last season, I feel pretty okay with that decision now.

I can't take it. I just caught up with the last two episodes, and while this is one of two shows I'm hate-watching because there are so few episodes left (though the other I also actually have a several-years-long interest in)...this just took the cake for me. I can't believe I'm still watching, while I'm determined to watch the last two. Help! Seriously though -- I could not care less who killed Caspere, unless it is also Birdman. I do want to know who that is and what their connection is to the rest of the story. The only other thing I honestly care about, is Ray's poor sad sack son. I can't get over the wife being willing to out the fact that his father was a serial rapist (or some random dude she hooked up with at the time), when she KNOWS that the kid has a father in Ray that is complicated and difficult enough to deal with...but who also truly loves the kid and has never wavered in considering him his son. Ray is $%#&-ed up, yes, but you're not "saving" your son from that at this point. Too late. Ray is his dad, deal with that, don't pretend like a DNA test is going to erase any of it, he will ALWAYS be that kid's dad, screwed up and all. And anwyay, the other option is...? All you're going to do is make things AWFUL in literally every way possible for both Chad and Ray. Why would you do that? Who would do that?! Give me the identity of Bridman, let VV have a few more on-point lines ("Don't you $%-ing shoot me!" "Mexican standoff!"), let Rachel M continue to work (I do think she and CF have been as good as possible with the material), and let me know that Chad is not going to be completely crushed and utterly destroyed as a human being. I'm crying uncle, this is all I ask. Something tells me Season 3 will be at least two years from now, and it will manage to constitute a MASSIVE rebound.

Lol. Just saw this now on GSN for the first time...besides learning about woodchucks and groundhogs, I got to see Steve actually lose it on the judges, complete with bleeped out cursing. You got to figure they could have just jumped in and corrected the original mistake, no? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsybC3SJAyM

I have waaaaaaay too many questions/issues with that ep, I didn't want to be a hater/killjoy. I don't even know where to start. I don't know whether to be happy that this is the final season, or annoyed that because it's the final season I feel compelled to watch.

I'm watching Brother's Keeper on Sundance, and I think the nurse in that episode, who, against all odds, is able to confidently tell apart identical twins, has to be one of the top three witnesses ever, lol. Other nominees -- the guy who risks federal charges for himself on a gambling ring (I think?) to testify against and put away a murderer, and the older black man who gives the speech about the voices in his life he remembers...including the voice of the man who shot him. Random, but that scene with the twins always amuses me. :)

I think Daya and Taystee are easily the two most sympathetic women in the show. They basically had no real chance to lead legal/legit lives (and Taystee did at least try as a teenager), and know next to nothing about what a "normal"/legit/legal life would possibly even look like for them. And they're both rather remarkably good-natured and have decent (though far from perfect) moral compasses that they seem to have developed more or less on their own. Taystee seems very smart, and Daya is talented. And yet, minimum security federal prision not only feels inevitable as a destination for them, it may be the best option they've ever been presented with. On this episode...it's insane and infuriating that what happened to Flacca actually ever happens in real life. What a freakin' mess.

Hmm...not well formed thoughts before I dive into the episode threads. -- FUCK. PIPER. -- Damn, Nicky. Damn. -- ROSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- I'm so very, very glad that Soso is still around. -- Taystee, you're definitely the mom. :) -- Damn, Alex. Damn. -- I feel bad for Daya (and her baby, obviously) all the way around. God her mother is just an evil, awful human being. -- Sophia...? :( -- I am happy to pray to Norma or whatever TV gods exist with extreme gratitude that Red refused to go there with Healy. PLEASE LET THAT STAY THE CASE. -- Chang and Norma kicked some serious backstory ass. -- Yay for Black Cindy coming to something real. -- Lolololololol forever at Suzanne's story taking over the prison. -- Don't miss you Bennet! Was surprised we saw Pornstache at all. -- Aussie chick...damn it sucks to be you. -- Dear GOD, poor Christopher. Holy crap is Morello completely insane. -- Yay for the Les Miz singing, REAL guards. -- I hope Boo and 'Tucky come up with something for that rapist driver. Damn, that sucks. -- FUCK. PIPER.

Wow, a Prey reference! Another watching-for-Howarth viewer here. Didn't it premiere after the prime-time OLTL ep with Todd holding everyone hostage at the cabin?

I'm surprised by just HOW ANGRY that trailer made me. They made it a teen rise-to-stardom story?! REALLY?!!! No freakin' Misfits? No Synergy? Secret identity? Home for orphaned teens? WHAT? Ugh. Just ugh. It's like they didn't even watch the show's opening with the theme song. How could you, and still somehow come up with THAT?! (And I can't believe that in 2015, we had to make a black character FROM THE 80s less black, with straighter hair. REALLY?!?!?!?!?!) I need to watch that cartoon opening continuously on loop to make myself feel better. Why couldn't we just have some awesome 80s (girly!) fun? Ridiculous.

Yay, ER forum! My favorite episode, hands down. I remember the episode before ending on a cliffhanger of the two of them being stabbed...I was on an unrelated forum that night, and it turned out there were a whole lot of ER watchers, lol, someone instantly started a thread titled, "Somebody page Benton!!!!" with no explanation, just scared and crying smilie faces, but mad people got in there immediately, freaking out. Man, I loved the way Benton dealt with Carter this whole storyline, through the addiction. That...was some seriously messed up stuff. There was a good long while there where I felt that ER truly had the ability to surprise (and sometimes straight up shock) me.Such a great show. I watched the finale after having not watched for ages. I figured the entire episode would be worth it as soon as I saw the special opening credits -- seeing Benton's karate chop alone was enough for me! ;) Love's Labour Lost was harrowing, to say the least. I was so just freaked out along with all the characters by the time someone crashed into one of the tables and Greene had to VERY DELIBERATELY calm himself and everyone down (while ordering someone to physically drag someone from OB downstairs). I was in high school, had less of a frame of reference for what was realistic -- always good to hear that things like that generally aren't! -- but man, for drama? Can't be beat. ("Are you asking me?!" "I'm asking God.")

Even with it spoiled in the previews... ...and with the unbearable tension of the scene... ...my mother and I totally BURST OUT LAUGHING at Boyd's "Goddamn, Raylan, YOUR TIMING SUCKS!" Man, what am I going to do without this show?

Fantastic. Damn, I'm gonna miss the hell out of this show.

Was that GH? I was trying really hard to figure that out, lol.

Well gotDAMN. I thought last week the show was treading water. No clear direction on Martha, or Zenaida, or anything. So...I guess this episode makes up for it. I nearly fell out of my chair with the Paige scene. And our Milky Way-lover is a spy. Who's alerted the Rezidentura and the Center that someone (Oleg) paid her a visit. And Stan has finally figured out his own subconsious suspicions about Martha. ...after all that, and they don't tell her to recruit her, but because her long-held suspicions forced the issue. Wow.

Chuck can go immediately, completely, and irrevocably TO HELL. I don't think I can even otherwise comment. GO TO HELL CHUCK.