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They need to drop the "Have Nots" thing because they're not even covering it on the show anymore. The last couple of weeks they didn't even tell us who the Have-Nots were, or how they were chosen, and even after Julie named the Have-Nots last Thursday, they showed nothing of its consequences, what their reaction to making that list was, etc. I really don't see the point of it anymore.
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So only one episode left? Sad. I've so fallen in love with this show. Watching Ash and his girlfriend go from being mushy and too lovey-dovey into bickering bickersons like Freddie and Stuart was hysterical. I think this may have been my favorite episode so far, although I did kind of miss Penelope. I love the running gag of Stuart being on the phone with his mother at the start of every episode, and the way he keeps saying "You remember our friend Violet" to Ash, as though Ash is too stupid to remember Violet from one day to the next. It's little touches like that that make Britcoms so great. Too bad they don't make more episodes, but I guess I'll take quality over quantity.
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Well, the good news is the gang is back together. The bad news is that the plot they're all involved in is this fucking Lexi one. TPTB have so got in their head that Lexi is awesome and I should be invested in her, but I ain't biting. If anything, it's making me lose a lot of goodwill for this show. It never was "great", but I thought it was competent enough. Now, I"m looking at it the same way I looked at shows like Revolution and Terra Nova. That is not a good thing.
That about sums it up for me, too. The whole alien hybrid child thing was a bad idea to begin with, and the show is doubling down on that bad idea every week, culminating in episodes that revolve entirely around Lexi. Even when she's in a cocoon for the majority of the episode she's still eating the whole show. Why the hell did this show become All About Lexi? I don't give a shit about Lexi. What's more, when the torch-wielding villagers showed up determined to destroy her, I was right there with them, yelling "Kill her! Kill her!"
I much preferred the idea someone else proposed (Weaver?) that they go onto the next ghetto camp, cut the tether and liberate the prisoners to strengthen their numbers. That's the show I want to see. Not some alien star child in a cocoon. Sheesh.
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I think they are making a miscalculation in targeting Amber for a backdoor eviction. Caleb might be on board with putting her up on the block but won't he go nuts if she's actually evicted, against his wishes? He could turn into a pretty dangerous player if he turns on what he thinks is his alliance, and this is going to tip their hand. On the other hand (or other token, as Caleb would say), I'm sure Amber would gladly vote to evict Caleb and would remain loyal to what she thinks is the Bomb Squad. They're going after the wrong HG IMO.
Zach is just out of control. He seems to want to be this "big, bad, villain" who makes bold moves, but he is just all over the place instead of being smart and methodical about it.
I'm convinced that when this show cast Zach they told him what kind of "character" they wanted him to play - the crazy guy who stirs up shit, and he's doing his best to fulfill that roll. It's much the same with Cody and Derrick sitting around thinking up a name for their two-person alliance. Obviously they've been told these dumb alliances have to have names. A lot of the producer manipulation this season is even more blatant that usual, and that's saying something.
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Caleb is really a lot like Jessie. Both have serious delusions of grandeur. The main difference is that unlike Jessie, Caleb does not have a posse of minions falling at his feet and buying his crap. The question is, when he gets out of the house, will Caleb be in on the joke? Like, will he come back next season as a Pandora's Box punsihment, forcing someone to listen to him natter on about Amber for an hour while they're trapped in a room with him? Because, much like Jessie, that's about as "famous" as he's ever going to get out of this show.
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Jon would hate me. I eat pizza all the time with a fork.
Same here, and I'm a little tired of this obsession. Seems to be a very New York conceit. There are some kinds of pizza you have to use a fork with, otherwise all the stuff would slide off it if you tried to pick it up with your hands. Some pizzas are just too greasy to pick up with your hand.
Fareed was a delight.
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Yes, Roaseanne especially seemed to personally just not like Karlous. Her criticism seemed personal.
I disagree, I thought her criticism was to the point. It's OK to joke around about being high when you're in a nightclub but when you're auditioning for a big TV contract it's probably not a good idea. I also agreed about her comment that some of his material was "made in China." Generic stuff and cheap shots. I honestly don't know how he made it this far.
I thought all of them were sort of hit or miss at the roast, although of what we saw Nikki did have the best joke. But even though Nikki has great delivery, her jokes are sort of hit or miss. Plus she has a tendency to laugh at her own jokes. Compared to some of the others she's a bit amateurish to me.
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BB needs to shake this game up. Another week, another Frankie/Derrick/Cody/Caleb/Zach HoH. Zzz...
If they want to shake the game up, they need to drop the duel HoH twist, but clearly their objective is the opposite. This twist favors the alliance of physically strong males. It gives them two opportunities to take themselves off the block. I guess either a.) the producers like big, strong guys to go far or b.) they think the audience is tired of watching weak players make it all the way to the end. Or both.
And as Brittany pointed out, they've got some really weak female players this year. There are only 12 people left and seven of them are in a loose alliance. That only leaves Nicole, Jocasta or Victoria as someone who could potentially "shake things up" and none of them are very good at competitions.
Say Donny won HoH and nominated Caleb and Derrick. The likelihood is that the other HoH is someone from the alliance who would nominate Victoria, Jocasta or Nicole, and who do you think is going to win BotB in that scenario? It's sort of a fool-proof twist to insure the big strong guys stay.
I felt no sympathy for Cody. He didn't need to nominate Donny as the replacement, he is a big boy and can make his own decisions, but didn't. I hate when they nominate someone they don't want to and then cry about it.
This was also a pretty telling edit because clearly the producers know Donny is a fan favorite, but just as clear is that the producers really love Cody. They wanted to be sure we knew how badly Cody felt, having to nominate Donny. See, poor Cody! Crying! Throwing his hat! He didn't want to do it!
"Hayden is weird because he's always trying to make sex with Nicole".
As the music grinds to a halt. God that cracked me up.
Speaking of the Lord Above, Donny kind of lost me a little bit with his speech. Please do not thank God for letting you be on Big Brother. In the first place, if you're on Big Brother, I think it's more likely the Other Guy you have to thank for it. In the second place, I simply do not feel that God and Big Brother belong in the same sentence.
I did think the other houseguests comforting Frankie was pretty touching, but the cynic in me can't help but feel he was milking it a bit, especially once it came down to the voting and the HoH. I'd have also been the one person in the house who secretly wondered if this was some sort of Johnny Fairplay fake-out tactic.
Brittany's kids? Do not look like they came from the same father.
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Maybe Megan Fox could show up to host a comp and get Cody, Hayden and Zach all hot and bothered.
Seems more like they'd need Zac Ephron to do that.
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This is the kind of episode I really enjoy. I'm not especially interested in seeing Civil War battles rehashed and stuff, I'm much more engaged by the ones where there's some kind of underlying mystery to solve.
Not for nothing, but we have only the word of Nixon's ancestor that she murdered her husband in self defense! She could have gone all Lizzie Borden on his ass for all we know and the show tried to paint her as a victim. It's really only her own version of the story, as told in the newspaper article, that suggests she acted in self defense.
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I missed why Christina Applegate's grandmother's picture was published in the paper (she was about 10-13?). Can anyone tell me?
It was some sort of society page, and it said she and her sister had just returned from the East Coast, where they had taken an "automobile tour" of the area. It showed that her grandmother had been born into some money, and was well off as a child, but at some point her family must have lost their money.
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I actually can see it being possible. Mostly because he lives in NY and is "famous", and also because he is a very good looking guy
Really?
and a "type" that a lot of gay men are really into.
Really?
I mean, Frankie isn't nearly as repulsive looking as Andy, or Regan, not yet anyway. But I would never classify him as attractive in any way and can't imagine a lot of guys would be into him, unless they know who his sister is, and their interest in him is based primarily on that.
I really don't dislike Frankie, but I'm sick of the way this show always wants to cast over-the-top queens in the gay houseguest role.
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To be fair, Cody was pretty much between a rock and a hard place. If he nominates Caleb he goes against his alliance and risks them turning against him, and if he nominates Donny he risks Caleb coming after him. Kind of a lose-lose situation.
So what do we think Cody's brother is calling him, a bitch or a pussy?
Zach has the same problem Dan Gheesling had - he doesn't know how to use his inside voice in the Diary Room.
Even though there was a lot of luck involved in this Veto competition, Victoria did at least make it all the way to 2nd place, so she didn't totally blow it.
Caleb and Houseguests like him are why we need reunion shows. I desperately want to know what his reaction will be when he gets home and realizes he looks like a crazy stalker and not some lovestruck hero. Does he take it in stride and go along with the joke, maybe becoming the next Jessie? Or do they lock him away in a rubber room?
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So, i didn't get while the one daughter was "sent across the river", why she couldn't just hang out on the river bank (or near enough to it and away from the infected people) and then be reunited with her family after the navy guys got rid of El Toro and his goons?
Not only that, if this disease is air born, a river isn't going to keep El Toro's people safe from it. Nor is a bamboo fence. Eventually the air born germs are going to make their way into camp.
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It's almost like TPTBs are being deliberately obtuse because they don't know what story they are telling.
Or they're being obtuse just for the sake of being obtuse. There's not a lot of logic behind the Guilty Remnant. So they're kind of weird and creepy just for the sake of being weird and creepy. It's more about atmosphere than plot. That's what I meant by the pretentiousness of the show. It's masquerading as high-concept but it's actually short on substance.
What I'm talking about are people like the example upthread shapeshifter posted about the evil boss at the ACME Widget company. Is there not one person who is like "my dad was taken, thank dog cause he was a mean old SOB, now I can get on with my life and travel around the world!", or "my brother had crippling MS, hopefully he's out of pain now."?
Or "Nope, I don't know anyone who vanished. Not a single one of them."
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Well, it doesn't really bother me if they have to bleep the odd "shit" but the really ridiculous part is bleeping a word that's just been uttered unbleeped. Ash says "I get paid by the head" (no bleep), Freddie turns to Stuart and asks "He gets paid to give (bleep?)" I mean, we KNOW what he said, and Ash just said it. That's just dumb. If they think "give head" is too dirty maybe they should just cut the whole line. On the other hand, I guess I'd prefer they not cut anything since they know we know what's being said. It does make them look silly though. (I did love after Stuart explained what "by the head" meant, Freddie said "Not as interesting.")
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I think the idea is that Dash retreated to that dark, spooky attic--which has its own fireplace?!?
If the house is old enough the servants' quarters may have been up in the attic at one time, which would explain the fireplace. It doesn't explain why the hell Dash is sleeping up there though. The first time we saw him up there it seemed like he was trying to practice using his powers, so I could buy he wanted to go somewhere where nobody would see him (like maybe the servants). I don't get why the hell he'd bring some one-night stand up there though or why the hell the blackmailer went up there, called him on his phone and asked him to meet him up there.
I can't remember, were we ever told what Victor's curse was?
No. If I had to guess, it's the same as Joanna's - just plain ordinary immortality. I don't understand why Joanna got immortality and Wendy got a limited number of lives though. Clearly the writers just thought these two things were kind of cool concepts but there's no logic behind why one is cursed one way and the other another way.
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I wish I'd caught some of the earlier seasons because what I've seen of the show I've mostly enjoyed. I really enjoyed seeing Christina Applegate and Chelsea Handler during the marathon on 7/20. Applegate's story in particular was both heartbreaking and compelling because of the mystery that surrounded her grandmother. I'd already seen the Kelly Clarkson one before, and a handful of Season 3, but that's it. Hopefully they'll do another marathon I can record.
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So we get Cynthia Nixon first, followed by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rachel McAdams, Kelsey Grammer, Valerie Bertinelli, and Lauren Graham. Shorter season than that first four.
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And yes, agreed that it's a good thing that there are bleeps so as not to offend the legions of impressionable tiny tots watching PBS at 10:30 on Sunday nights.
Well it's 9:30 central time, but still. Know what your kid's watching if you're that worried about them hearing naughty words.
I know it's a bit silly, but I'm worried for their dog!
I do too. I lost my 18 year old last summer so there's nothing particularly funny to me about the poor dog who is so obviously on its last legs.
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Well, here in Florida we have these things call wet lands. However because some of them are just sort of wet most of the time. Developers have them declared not wet lands. They build a couple of retention ponds, then develop the hell out of the area. Everything is find until there is a hurricane. Then the sort of wet lands become very wet lands. The streets are under 3 ft. of water and your house has about 1ft of water in it.
I'm guessing you don't live in an area with monsoons and flash flood zones.
That's the thing, though - by definition, if you live anywhere in Florida, you live near the water. For that matter, if you live anywhere that's vulnerable to hurricanes, you live near enough the water that you should consider flood insurance.
But, yes, I realize you can have flash floods or backed up storm drains in areas that are nowhere near any great body of water.
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I don't get where Tom and Christine were supposed to be when the pantless guy attacked them. Some sort of hangout place for the barefoot people with targets on their foreheads? Where it's pants-optional? Why didn't anyone yell "Hey buddy, put some pants on?"
Also, I get the conceit of not wanting to look at what makes you uncomfortable, but I don't think painting a bullseye on your head and taking your shoes off is literally going to make you invisible when you've already been chased out of the hospital by security and they should be, by all rights, on high alert for you to return if they think you beat this pregnant woman.
Especially if this is the same town that's small enough that everyone will be at the same holiday dance. Shouldn't somebody at the dance have been like, "You didn't find that doll, I saw you in aisle 5 yesterday" ?
Yeah, that was stupid too, although I can at least buy that Kevin didn't really give a shit whether anyone knew he bought a replacement doll or not.
I did at least appreciate the revelation that Tom is not Kevin's biological child, since they look as much alike as Javier Bardem and Jonah Hill. What I didn't get is when Kevin unfolded the picture on the bulletin board, it seemed to be a picture of a pregnant Laurie and . . . maybe Tom's biological father? And if the picture is on (what I presumed to be) Tom's bulletin board, did that mean he knew Tom wasn't his real father?
It's not the general gloomy atmosphere of this show that's kind of turning me off, it's more of the overt pretentiousness of it all.
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The resident pedophile druglord is a one-dimensional cartoon character like there was on the island from Last Resort. That I could deal with.
I couldn't. This is exactly the kind of episode that's going to kill the show for me, the same way it did for Last Resort. If they're going to slip into these tired action movie cliches this quickly, I'm out. What really struck me was the gratuitous violence and their nonchalant attitude. Sure, they had to take out the evil pedophile dictator, but the way they slashed, stabbed, shot and neck-twisted their way through his guards really caught me off guard. It was a great episode for letting our heroes look all bad-ass but they're supposed to be Navy officers, not trained assassins. Just because these men were posted as guards for this little enclave didn't make them sub-human, disposable villains. I don't think they did enough to establish that anyone there holding a gun was worthy of killing.
How did this get renewed if it's this stupid ?
Was it renewed? That's disappointing. I was hoping for a one-off miniseries. I'll probably stick with it for the rest of this season (hell I stuck with Helix to the bitter end), but I won't be back next summer. The premise just doesn't lend itself to a regular series.
It's disappointing that the writing is so sub par because I think the directing and acting range form solid to good.
Agreed. They have some pretty strong leads in Eric Dane and Adam Baldwin. They pretty much make the show watchable for me, but not much else.
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What I don't get is why Dash is (apparently) sleeping in the attic. That is the attic, right? Where he was in bed with some random townie? Where he got up out of bed to talk to imaginary Killian? And where the blackmailer was waiting for him? Which . . . again . . . why would the blackmailer be waiting for him up in the attic? That house is a mansion, what the hell is everyone doing up in the attic?
The costumes they were wearing in the flashbacks were just so hilarious I'm going to pretend I didn't see that. But, that spot in the forest where they all came through the portal - is that where the Gardiner mansion was eventually built? Because the portal is in their basement now, and at the time they came through it, the portal was above ground, not under it.
I didn't like the part where Wendy was able to bring the dead guy back to life - this ain't Pushing Daisies.
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S04.E06: Door Number Three
in Falling Skies [V]
I don't really mind that the show centers around the Mason family. I mean yeah, their heroics are sometimes over the top, but the show does have to focus on certain main characters, so why not this family. It's been that way since Season 1 so I'm used to that.
There's just something really off about this season, and having learned there are different show-runners, it really shows. Someone has come along with an agenda to put their own stamp on the show and make it about something different. Everyone seems off their game, the direction of the show has shifted, and now it's revolving around what was very bad idea to begin with (Lexi).