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You've created a circular explanation. They switch after 25 years, because that's how long they can stay. But WHY? Why 25? Why not 10? or 35? Is it because 25 years signifies a generation, so that good or evil dominates every 25 years? is it because Laura Palmer sacrificed herself to limit a permanent change to "only" 25 years? There is no explanation of the mythology. It's like playing a board game and you only learn the rules each time you make a move. It's possible, and maybe you delight in the surprise. But there is no further understanding of what you are trying to achieve, nor why. That's how TPs feels this time around.

Maybe more than episodes, there were a lot of lines or routines I always enjoyed: Maj. Hochstetter: 'Who IS this man?" No matter how many times he had run into Hogan in the past. Any time Hogan played to Klink's vanity to get Klink to do what Hogan needed him to do. Which was a lot. Schultz when he would respond to Hogan as a commanding officer, and when Schultz would see any of the prisoners around town or out where they shouldn't be. "There is mon-key business going on here!" And as I posted earlier, Carter playing Hitler. He was scary good.

Ha! Based on my experiences with theatre majors, I was thinking she was toned down - for a drama teacher!

Liked the Greenville, SC, couple a lot. Two teachers, looking for something reasonable with more space. The husband loves his city and gives historical tours of it. They had four kids, and seemed to be very good parents. I didn't have a preference on which house they chose, because it was so nice to listen to rational adults with realistic expectations, not entitled 25yos spending beyond their means. I just enjoyed the show.

Bolton was a weird add, and he was very stiff, but I really enjoyed the line about "destroying Kenny Rogers."

I actually wondered if Jimmy had paid random people $20 each to spend 15 minutes in the store, creating the illusion of more business after the commercial aired.

Kim's fate was always sealed, and I've often thought she will end up being the saddest part of this show. I might be jaded, but it still feels like Chuck's miraculous progress and glowing story is all tied to somehow coming back and screwing Jimmy. Maybe Chuck is the instrument of Kim's final demise. if not, I don't know why we are watching Chuck. He served his purpose. I'm done with the character. Which is a theme for this production team. Walter White was like that. Mike is like that. I suppose Chuck is like that. These are all people with tons of potential who just can't let certain things go, and who then break bad. People around them are often collateral damage. Poor Kim.

I loved the original show, and all its quirkiness. I especially liked the red room and the dwarf and how weird that all was. And while I'm not a Lynch fanboy, I have enjoyed a bunch of his work, especially Blue Velvet. However, this new series is not duplicating the fun and accessibility of what went before, for the sheer fact that the original show had a plot that pulled you in: Who killed Laura Palmer, and by the way, what's up with this weird town? This new series hasn't done much of anything but play with Lynchisms. It doesn't even address key questions like, why 25 years? What was supposed to happen during that time? Why do they now change? What is the context for what we are seeing? And what we do see is happening at a glacial pace. I really want it appeal to me, but so far I am hanging on more for potential than anything that has been shown. And not because I don't like weird, don't appreciate it or don't understand it. There just isn't much there there. Mostly what I have gotten from this series is that everything we saw in 1990 is happening again, just with a new generation. Drugs, sex and murder. Now we just need someone to care about. Dougie doesn't work for me so far, since people in his own life apparently didn't know him well enough to tell when he has been replaced. And Cooper is in there somewhere I guess, but we don't know for sure how much is there or whether we will ever see him.

It's amazing how people can come away with such different takes on this show. I have a friend who is enthralled, while I am mostly bored. It's almost like this show is performed in a different language to me. I cannot get past how people (within the show, who knew him) accept such a low-functioning, weight-loss Dougie.

Catching up here ... these episodes about young, single home buyers are almost always about location, i.e. "being close to restaurants and bars." The house can have all sorts of issues, but if they can walk to bars, that's the choice. There is very little suspense about which house they choose when they are 25, single, no kids. The buyer here seemed to recognize that the home in the suburbs was for a later stage in his life.

Which made the battle between Rhea and Supergirl pointless, especially to the viewers. If both sides had alternate plans, that pretty much is the definition of pointless for the battle. It didn't mean anything to the combatants, or to the viewers. The real action was happening elsewhere. We could have skipped the battle and let everything else play out as it did.

Wow, they made a big deal of Kara beating Superman at full strength. They know their viewing audience. Once the fight started I fast forwarded through it, because irrelevant. Wouldn't Daxanites have the technology to terraform? i just realized that I don't know what Jon Jones does that makes a difference. He never beats anyone handily. They need him to be like Hulk, where the angrier he gets, the more powerful he is, to counter his strategic focus. Like Kara is powered by optimism and goodness. That was a ridiculous place for Supergirl and Rhea to battle. How about an open field? Because Rhea cheated and attacked the city, their battle was pointless as well. Mon El defeating Daxam, one soldier at a time. Maybe we should go after the ships? Loved the White Martians. The air borne leads affect was silly.

But really, did it? Ray died accidentally. What else happened? Aside from some conversations, nothing. I'm not complaining, I'm enjoying the season. I just didn't see this episode as any different than earlier episodes. Varga has an almost unearthly "none of this really matters" sense to him. As if what he is doing is just to pass time, and there are no actual consequences. He confronts the cops in a way that is practically a slap in the face. He lays on a floor and listens to music. When he isn't telling someone what to do, he stands around and picks his teeth and thinks of ... what, exactly? If he is part of a syndicate, he doesn't seem to report to anyone, or have anyone telling him what to do next. he's just ... following a plan he always follows? Because he has nothing else to do? That didn't bother me. The whole time I was just wondering what he was thinking, or if he was thinking? He was like a robot turned off in self-cleaning mode.

For me, it's because I love Spader and I like much of the foundation of this show. I've never liked Lizzie, nor how the actress portrays her, and have often posted the show would be fine without her character. That's especially true now, after whatever that was about Red being her dad. It's never mattered, and still doesn't, and only served as a plot device to bring Reddington in to work with the FBI. He can do that without Lizzie. Hell, kill her off and do it in her memory. The show suffers from not having a larger arc that means anything. Save the cheerleader, save the world? Got it. Who's my real dad? Whatever. Plus it's TV. I don't mind the bodies in the ice. I'm more bothered by innocent security guards and others who are collateral damage.

Mike seems to react to situations that are similar to what he has experienced. Someone threatens his family, he draws the line. Someone who is innocent is hurt, he draws the line. He has a sense of justice, but it is linked to what he knows. I doubt he would have, for instance, any sense of justice over a white collar stock trading scheme. So now he meets Anita, whose husband wore a uniform (not police, but still symbolic) and who went mysteriously missing while supposedly innocently hiking/camping in an area that almost surely is involved in drug trafficking. So now Mike is curious. Was Anita's husband innocent? Did he stand up to bad guys, like Mike's son, Matt, did (and was killed for it)? Or maybe he wasn't innocent, and Anita doesn't know it. I can see Mike's sense of justice perking up at that. Plus, I'm not entirely sure he's done with Hector. Mike cannot let go. So Mike is back in the game.

All true, but Mike can't help himself. He stubbornly chooses his causes, based on his internal code. Logic isn't a part of it. He got back at Hector and could have walked away. he didn't. And it is this aspect of his personality that makes him compelling and leads to his fate.

Basically we are watching Jimmy "break bad." Just like Walter White. Elements of this behavior were always there, but for years he struggled against them. Not perfectly, and often failing. But he tried, and a lot of that effort was tied to his feelings for Chuck and the fact he cared for him and respected his opinion even as Chuck was an increasingly more bitter dick (and, I suspect, at some level Jimmy knew Chuck had a point). But the trial, and the struggles he faces due to it, are the final straw pushing Jimmy to become Saul. And he will pay a price, no doubt, and that will almost certainly include Kim.

Ridiculous. Ressler accidentally kills Hitchens? What would make her think she had any more leverage over Ressler? Kaplan jumps off a bridge, after all that? And Red is Lizzie's dad? She finally asked a good question.. "what was the point" of coming back to her life, giving up what he had and lying to her? And then she hugs him because he is family? At least we have the suitcase. And Tom!

I *think* where this is going is she will do just well enough to succeed through events unrelated to her actions. Or will end up in jail. I love having the team together again. And we need more angry and indignant Jonah.

This is the episode where Arrow probably jumped the shark. Ollie's big plan was to fight Malcolm on behalf of Nyssa, because he can beat Malcolm in 10 seconds and cut off his hand? I was sure he and Malcolm came up with something clever. Nope.

What's really dense on her part is that she was asking Jimmy to put himself in the EXACT same position he was in that led to the bar hearing. You cannot ask him to go back to Chuck's house and possibly need to break in to see if Chuck is OK. Even if you play the brother card, that's too much. So is BCS near the end of its run? because we seem to be lining up pretty closely with where we meet Walter White and all the rest of the shared characters.

Well, fun seeing how mini Barry fell in love with his erstwhile sister. That kid looked about 7, I thought he was 12 when he moved in? So now I am back to thinking that Barry plus Iris is creepy. I can't believe this doesn't bother Joe. i can only watch this show when I fast forward through any scene with two characters talking to each other. That seems to skip most of the butt hurt.

Was something wrong with the sound mixing, especially for Melissa? It was often hard to hear her, and it seemed as if the audience couldn't hear her mostly in the first half of the show. We just bought an Echo for my MIL and I'm going over to set it up in a couple of weeks. Amazon Silver may be prophetic. Trump's tweets are hilarious. What was on Che's forehead during WU? it seemed like Melissa was supposed to improvise with Joan. That didn't work out well. The joke about women and India and the US was nonsensical, given how many raoes and attacks and forced marriages there are in India. Che really enjoys Kathy Ann. After WU the show was pretty bad. Some truth in the "choose your animal" thing. Always good to see Steve Martin.

I'm the only person who didn't like Peter and the Wolf. It felt contrived to me. This episode didn't get interesting until Varga showed up.

This comment was made earlier in this thread, and I responded to it twice. You might take a look at those exchanges.