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I was thinking there were some extra conditions laid on the TA(FY!) players; one, at least - they could disclose to individual HGs, but not "out" themselves to the House as a whole.
I don't remember the exact wording but it was something to the effect of "it is up to you to decide if telling someone about Team America is to your advantage or if you keep it secret." No, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to just announce it to the whole house, but bringing someone into it might, like I think Frankie did with Zach. And who knows, maybe he said as much in the DR but the show thinks it's more interesting if we just think Zach is a crazy loose cannon with a weird fixation on the gay guy.
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cannot believe they just welcomed the Jamaican girl on the ship without putting her in quarantine. She just left a boat of dead infected and their welcoming her like a distant relative have just been found. Isn’t there a possibility that the virus doesn’t make her sick, but that she’s a carrier and can thus pass it on to others?
That was just head-smackingly stupid. I could fan-wank that Dr. Scott told them that if someone is immune they're not a carrier either, but last week she said Danny didn't have the virus and they didn't believe her and locked down the whole ship until they were sure. So yeah, there's no way the Navy personnel would have touched that girl with a ten foot pole without head-to-toe hazmat suits on. Utter bullshit.
But the thing that really makes me cringe is Ruskov. Why do the Russians have to be the go-to villains? Is it because they figure the only other nation that would have a ship that could take on a US Navy vessel would be Russia? Or is it because if they were Chinese or Arab they'd be accused of racism? Either way, Ruskov is such a cartoon character I keep expecting him to start chasing after Moose and Squirrel.
I actually thought this episode was fairly watchable, but I don't know how in the hell they expect to stretch this story out. Watching this crew sail around on a ship trying to create a vaccine while evil Russians chase them around for two years is going to get really old.
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What was it that Freddie said he and Judy Dench had worked together on years ago? A commercial for Smarties? What are they? I'm assuming it's not the candy that goes by that name here in the States.
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I always appreciate the montages of cable news and morning news hosts making asses out of themselves, in this case exaggerating the potential of death over mundane things. It would be funny to see a list of all the things in that montage they were claiming can kill you.
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Perhaps I should point out that if you don't watch the show with Khaleesi, then there's nothing wrong with Lexi's appearance.
I beg to differ. Child Lexi was dark complected with dark hair, just like Tom and Anne. I get she's got Espheni DNA in her, and that she's aging rapidly, but how in holy hell do either of those two things equal blonde hair and blue eyes?!? It's not as if the Espheni are a Nordic, Aryan race. If anything, Lexi should be more reptilian looking. Her look makes no sense whatsoever, and the only conceivable explanation for it is that the character is modeled after some dumb trope regardless of whether it's consistent with the narrative.
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I thought that TA wasn't really secret unless the members wanted it to be. Didn't they tell Joey she could tell the other hgs if she wanted? Or am I remembering that wrong?
No you are not remembering wrong. They were told it was up to them whether or not to keep it a secret. Which is why I strongly suspect Frankie has told Zach about Team America - or at least his involvement in it - and which explains Zach's willing participation on the previous challenge where they were trying to get him to start an argument with Amber, because there was no other discernible reason for him to just get up and interject at the Veto meeting. He wasn't nominated and he wasn't HoH. It also goes a long way towards explaining his seeming "attraction" to Frankie - if he knows Frankie was chosen by "America" to be this secret player he probably figures he's latching onto someone popular with the audience.
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Does anyone know how they find these people for the show???
There is an entire industry in Hollywood devoted to casting reality shows now. They actively recruit people to make audition tapes and they get a finder's fee if one of their recruits lands a gig on a show. They may hold cattle call casting events at local shopping malls. They also send "casting agents" to local hots spots in L.A. like beaches and clubs looking for attractive people they think have a great look and ask them to come in and make a tape. They're asked a lot of generic question about their strengths and weaknesses, etc.
Anyone who is casting a reality show can send the word out to these agencies they are looking for a specific type: alpha male jock, blonde bimbo, country rube, soccer mom, old fart, you name it. The agencies will supply them with tapes they have of those types. Shows are always looking for specific roles to cast. If someone makes it all the way through the audition process they are told along the way what role they are expected to play.
Big network shows like Survivor, Big Brother, etc. do encourage fans to send in audition tapes so in rare cases you'll get someone in the cast who actually was a fan and applied directly, but the vast majority of these contestants are referrals from reality show casting agents. It's just easier to send out requests for "Type A, Type B, Type C" than go through hundreds of thousands of audition tapes.
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What was the rest of the joke Rodman was telling about playing with the baby on the plane? He said 'baker man baker man." And then the baby said/did what??? I didn't hear or maybe just didn't get it.
I didn't understand the punchline either. Sometimes Rod Man needs to watch his diction.
I hate to say it but I would have eliminated Lachlan over Rocky, and I generally like Lachlan better. But I didn't laugh at a single one of his jokes, whereas I did enjoy the whole bit Rocky did with who killed JFK. Then again if the judges are anything like me maybe they just gave Lachlan a pass because they know he's typically funnier than Rocky.
This was the first time I've thought Joe Machi was running out of steam, and also the first time I really though Nikki's material (rather than just her delivery) was funny. I would have placed her first just based on that set. "Jason?!"
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If they vote Zach out I'll probably be done with the season. He's about the only thing keeping me entertained. Not that I would want to know him in real life, but these other HGs are so so damn boring. Caleb is pretty to look at but has no discernible personality whatsoever. Hayden seems to exist only to chase after Nicole. Victoria and Jocasta are a waste of space. At least Zach shakes things up, and his odd showmance with Frankie keeps me chuckling. I think, without them, there's not much left to watch.
Ironically for Nicole, it's going to be harder to backdoor Frankie, I think, than just outright vote out Zach. There are eight people voting this week and four of them are going to be "detonators." It could be a tie with Zach on the block, but I think if Frankie is on the block he'll get Donny's vote too because of the Team America thing. If they're both on the block, Zach goes. I don't think Nicole is going to get her way.
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I'm glad Ash finally got to ask why Stuart keeps asking him if he remembers their friend Violet. The rant he went on was hysterical.
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Then there was Pope telling Sarah "stick with Tom Mason if you want to live". Ha. Ha. I guess the writers forgot that Pope found Sarah having survived on her own just fine for that past several years?
You know, this episode almost gave me whiplash. First, we have Popel playing the leader of the torch-wielding villagers who want to kill Lexi. Now, I realize it's a tough situation, but if I were someone who organized a kill squad for your kid, you'd probably not want to hang around with me, right? Yet, in the very next scene, there's Pope, scouting out locations and helping Tom, Weaver et. al. with their next Espheni attack mission. WTF? It's like they just forgot about that whole trying-to-kill-Lexi thing.
And worst of all is actually using Pope to prop Tom Mason. The writers want to have their cake and eat it too. They want Pope around as their main antagonist and they want him loyal to Tom Mason at the same time. That just doesn't work. By this point Pope should be jumping at the chance to run off somewhere and get out of this mess. Especially now with the whole Lexi thing. He pretty much drew a line in the sand that the writers just forgot about, one scene later.
The only good thing about this episode was Lourdes dying.
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I about died when Sam (?) opened the door and said "this N****** sucks some really good d***" - the things they can get away with on this channel. This shows beats Married all to hell.
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I hate to say it, but if Donny thinks the house is full of people that are so smart they'd suspect something if he went through with the challenge, then it doesn't speak well of Donny's own intellect. Who exactly does he think is smart enough to see through it? Nicole? Victoria? Caleb? You know, the brain trust that is Big Brother? The smartest people in the house would already be in on it.
Once the voice-over announcer actually referred to Caleb as "Beast Mode Cowboy," I realized, this isn't entirely Caleb's doing. No doubt, the show in encouraging him to call himself that. They might even have come up with the name themselves and convinced him America loves it.
Caleb is certainly the master of mixed metaphors. He "stuck his neck on the line" for Amber. Um, Caleb? You stick your neck out, you put your life on the line. By the same token, you aren't the sharpest crayon in the box, or the brightest bulb in the box, not the brightest crayon.
I'm also convinced that the show is telling Zach to act like Dr. Will from Season 2. He even looks a little bit like him. How can he sit there and tell everyone in the room he hates him only minutes after footage of him sleeping in Frankie's bed and telling him how much he loves him? I wish Julie had cut to footage.
How did they think this HoH thing was going to work if there were five people left and four of them got the wrong answer? How would they have chosen the 2nd HoH? And weren't they watching the clock? Why didn't they cut to a tie-breaker? I hate waiting until the next show. I know they have to do this for endurance comps, but a stupid Q&A? Really?
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Yes, the episode seemed to end rather abruptly, didn't it? I was kind of gobsmacked by the desperate attempt to put some kind of positive spin on a man so obviously odious.
JTF's husband is cute.
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Who else besides Caleb will vote for Amber to stay?
Christine might, she said so on last night's show. She might get Nicole to vote with her, and Nicole might get Hayden to vote likewise.
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I'm confused about this next challenge for Team America - does it apply to this week or next week? If it's this week, it doesn't give them much time to pull off either challenge. But I thought it was strange voting was only open for another few hours or whatever it was.
I thought it was interesting when Christine said she doesn't want Amber voted out. So, she's not altogether aligned with the other Detonators. What would be hilarious is if this Team America challenge - to vote against the majority - ended up backfiring because Frankie and Derrick think they have the votes to evict Amber and it turns out if they vote to evict Jocasta there are enough other votes out there to save Amber after all.
I did miscalculate their own calculations though - apparently it was smarter to backdoor Amber than Caleb, because I have to hand it to them. They actually made Caleb think it was his idea to nominate Amber and even be the one to suggest it. That's - kind of brilliant, I have to admit.
I don't know what to make of Zach WRT Frankie. I think there's some kind of weird turnaround, where guys are so secure in their own masculinity/sexuality they prove it by showing how cozy they are with gay men, versus the stereotype of bashing gay men to prove how manly they are.
But - I have a sneaking suspicion that Zach has been tipped off on Team America. Granted he'll jump at the chance to stir up shit and get attention, but when he ended his rant at Amber by asking her if she had anything to say, it was almost like he was baiting her to argue which is exactly what the challenge required. I kind of felt like he knew about it, and it wouldn't surprise me if Frankie managed to whisper in his ear the secret behind this whole thing.
That would also go a long way towards explaining the whole Zach/Frankie thing: if Zach knows about TA maybe he thinks America will love him more if he acts like he loves Frankie. After all, it wouldn't work with Derrick or Donny.
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I believe Isis made some comments to Freya about events that the Asgard-version of Freya would have known about, and she put two and two together when Freya reacted to her like she had no idea who Isis was, or what she was talking about.
I get that, but how does Isis know that Freya is reborn every time she dies? She wasn't cursed until after she left Asgard, so how does Isis know about the curse? I don't think it's an automatic assumption, that if someone doesn't remember something you're referring to in their past, to go "Oh, you must be a newer Freya." That's not a thing with all witches.
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Straight up killing Lexi was a kneejerk reaction and really OOC for everyone because they aren't flat out murderers. This plot was clumsily handled.
I think that's why Pope annoys me so much despite being such a "popular" character. He's so two-dimensional and constantly the go-to guy for conflict and rebellion. Some weird shit goes down and Pope is the first person to take up arms against the establishment. I'm so tired of it. The torch-wielding mob led by Pope descending on Lexie's sanctuary was out of character after everything Pope and the 2nd Mass has been through together. The writing just kind of stinks ever since they came up with this whole Lexie thing in the first place. It's just one tired trope after enough, and character development be damned.
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For the record, I haven't read the books or read spoilers. Like jcin617 I assumed Laurie was Patti's therapist based on that exchange.
It never occurred to me that Laurie had been a therapist. What I took away from the word "session" was that Laurie had some kind of "session" with Patti before she become a full-fledged member (?) of the GR. Like there was some kind of initiation process before you get your white outfit and stop talking.
Here again, the framework of the GR is so vague it's hard to interpret what's being referred to.
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I'll never understand the trend of the anthropomorphism of things we are supposed to eat, like living Pop-Tarts or bits of cereal. Why are we tricking living Pop-Tarts into killing themselves in toasters? How does that appeal to the consumer? Trick your food into committing suicide so you can eat it!
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The problem for me is that when the mob captured Gladys, tied her to the tree and stoned her to death, I was kind of on their side. And I don't think that's the show's intention. Not that I condone that sort of violence, mind you, but the GR just annoy the ever loving shit out of me so in the context of a fictional TV show, yeah - kill them all, please.
And there seemed to be some kind of poster up on their compound wall that said something to the effect of "we will never let them forget." This suggests their purpose is to make sure the populace never forgets the Event where people vanished, right? So why were they picketing/demonstrating at the annual memorial for the departed? Wouldn't that be exactly the kind of thing they'd support?
It just feels like the show is being deliberately obtuse about the GR to keep the audience hooked and it feels manipulative and cheap. Like Lost. And I watched the whole episode sober as a judge and never got the impression Gladys' death was an inside job despite Dog Shooter's accusations of such. So if that's what I was meant to take away from the incident, then FAIL.
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That's another problem with this show: lack of character personality variety.
They've done a good job defining the Captain, the XO, the female doctor, the Russian Spy/Saboteur, and the guy they picked up at Gitmo. Beyond that, yeah, there are too many generic supporting characters. I couldn't pick any one of them out of a lineup except maybe Danny. Even Foster, every time I see her I don't know who she is.
And, as mentioned above, where did they actually think they would go?
No kidding. Their best hope for survival is the scientist lady aboard the ship developing the vaccine. Wouldn't you want to stay close to that? Who do you think is going to be the first ones to get the vaccine? The people on this ship of course.
I just can't see this show going past one season. Season after season of these people being stuck on a ship trying to develop a vaccine? How long can you drag something like this out?
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Honestly? I found this episode completely boring. John seemed to get way-laid by the stupid gekko issue instead of continuing on w/the nuclear armaments problem we have.
I thought the nuclear weapons issue was a strange topic to cover, but since this show began, I've been inclined to think Oliver has trouble picking stories simply because he doesn't want to rehash what Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and other shows have already exhausted during the previous week. That's why some of Oliver's shows are sort of hit-or-miss for me, because I sometimes find myself not really caring about the subject he's covering (like the FIFA thing, for example). That said, he did a good job with the nuclear weapons. And I had to crack up in spite of myself over the whole "Go Get Those Geckos" thing.
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Eric Winter is ten kinds of hot.
But he's got the dead eyed stare of a serial killer, which makes him perfect if he's in fact supposed to be the Evil Brother (which I think he is, at this point).
I saw Rachel Nichols' name in the opening credits and looked for her (I watch Continuum), and totally didn't recognize her until her scene at the bar.
There's something off about the whole "Freya and Ingrid are reborn over and over again" thing. Isis seemed to understand that this was a New Freya, as opposed to the one she knew is Asgard. Well, weren't Ingrid and Freya only cursed after they left Asgard? How does Isis know about the whole being reborn thing?
I'm kind of pissed off they killed Victor, I really like Joel Gretch, and he seems to have such bad luck with TV shows.
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S08.E12: Finals: Top 5 To 4
in Last Comic Standing [V]
Yeah, I was pretty sure I'd heard it before. Still laughed at it though.