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I love Colleen. She tries to be normal, but she loves fighting and danger and hurting bad guys too much. Claire cracked me up this whole episode. And nice tease on Daredevil. I even hoped he would appear for a minute or so. This isn't as bad as critics said. Danny is assimilating too quickly into the business and real world IMO, but otherwise I'M enjoying it. Also, Ward's double bird was funny.

I liked that this episode had a lot of discussion around "What happens next?" That's been my hang up with the pirate POV for a long while now. The discussion around that in this ep didn't answer everything, but it did at least show that some thought has been given to it by the main characters. What I don't know, yet, is whether the show is trying to say that the pirates' struggle against "civilization" is admirable and doomed to fail because of the march of progress, or that the struggle is admirable and might have had a chance to succeed if only the flawed leaders (Flint. Silvers, Rackham, Billy, Madi) had just worked together and made different decisions. Or it isn't admirable at all, and we are watching doomed figures dance before their inevitable demise. BTW, at first I thought Max's refusal of Grandma Guthrie's plan was unusually short-sighted for Max. I can't buy the "I did it for love" explanation, either. I think Max realized that even if she controlled her suggested husband and ran things day-to-day on Nassau, she would still be a puppet of yet another, more powerful figure (Granny) who could change Max's circumstances at any time for any reason, and Max didn't want that yet again. I get that.

We noticed that as well. I wonder why? Don't recall this ever happening before. I mean, one was about $85k under that. Yep. They should get an award. And as Mrs. Ottis said, given they were both so likeable, "I don't know why (the buyer) doesn't have a girlfriend." What in the world was going on with the place with the 3/4 size wall that curved out into the living room? That's the place he bought, isn't it? It looked like the curved bedroom should spin, Austin Powers-style. I think you can have curved real walls, or squared off pretend walls, but not curved, pretend walls.

This episode was stupid. This show cannot afford stupid.

The Ward dude looks just like one of the recent SNL cast members, especially in a certain light, and from a low angle. I almost started laughing a couple of times because of it. It's the guy who was always in The Californians sketch, I can almost remember his name but not quite. Fred Armison? I actually liked that a lot. It was almost subconscious, as opposed to Daredevil's will.

I think these are early wesen, they haven't evolved to woge. I wonder if they are limited to the Black Forest of that time?

Grand View, Texas HH ... I think this was a new one? Those houses were an odd assortment. They seemed nice on the outside, and even specific aspects of the inside seemed nice (like a kitchen), and then the bathrooms would be not only "dated" (horrors!) but dirty or dinged up. In one house, the tile floor in the kitchen in the corner seemed to have deep scrapes or stains on it. And all of the houses were $300k to $400k ... I would not expect to find wear in houses priced like that. Maybe some dated aspects, given how the kitchen-bathroom industrial complex keeps changing up what we view as "in" and forcing everyone to spend money again, but not wear.

Actually, at this stage, I think Team Flash should just kill Iris themselves. That changes the timeline, and Barry has less angst.

I hope that's the show's conceit. Because I was floored when Saul showed to Carrie he didn't have any idea that Dar was behind some of what has happened. I figured he had at least a clue that Dar was up to something. And if he is this blind to the truth, how much of an asset is he any longer to US national security? He's been played by everyone around him.

So, Iris, the man you love and want to be with, and who clearly has loved you all along, proposes "early" because he hopes it will save your life... and you're mad at him? And THEN you have the audacity to tell your dad you aren't sure you made the right decision? F off, Iris. F off. Take your butthurt with you. Karma, baby. How many butts were hurting in this episode, anyway? Well, Iris of course. Jesse, because HR said she wasn't the real Flash. I'll excuse Speed Force Ronnie and Eobard, given they had, uh, died. Snart was refreshingly over the top amongst all the butthurt. Barry is so butthurt, he needs medical help. And ointment. The goofy Jay hat was finally good for something. And now it's back on display! Did the speed force give Wally a new hair style?

So that explains the Rodney King police officer verdicts Ice Cube rapped about. Finally, I get it. The odd thing about these two wasn't their choices or even the brat thing (he said it, and is, but whatever). It was their complete unawareness of how their desires and actions underscored their lack of exposure to anything beyond money and privilege. It was fascinating, in a perverse way. At the same time, they kept calling all the foyers "grand," when in fact they were simply stairs that went up to an open space or open hallway. They didn't seem very grand to me. Also? This show was yet another reminder of why I'm glad we no longer live in California. We were trying to guess what those homes would cost in our nearby western state, and figured it might be 50-60 percent of those inflated CA prices.

I didn't get this at all, and in fact I had empathy for him as it was clear his wife was going to get what she wanted, budget be damned. We never know the finances of HH shoppers, but I like to think they start at a number that makes sense and a stretch number is just that. and not that they go in low-balling the number vs. what they could actually afford. The husband was portrayed as more budget conscious (a good thing, IMO) on the house price while still appreciating nice features, and his view on a pool in *Boston* of all places seemed very logical. The "plastic fantastic" was annoying due to sheer repetition. BTW, did the wife remind anyone of Lori from The Walking Dead? OK, just me, maybe.

The bar to host SNL seems lower in the past 10 years, kind of like "Behind the Music" or "A Football Life." There are people who host it who have been around for 10 minutes, and repeat hosts that are highly questionable (Drew Barrymore - 6 times).Or maybe I'm just not as easy to impress as I was as a teen. Though Deion Sanders as host was never a good thing. Yes, and ... this skit by implication takes many shots at 45. Now, whether he is aware enough to realize that, who knows. I do wonder what Ivanka is thinking after seeing it. She has to see the truth ... right? Or at least think about her image?

Wow. They used the actual Denver Zoo shirt and logo for the Danny Bang skit. Yay for my hometown? Even the audience seemed to be in a good mood.

Wow, well done, show. How sad and also sweet. One of my favorite episodes, because it has a counterpart in the real world. Then there was Eve. Sigh. Can she stay in the mirrror?

Yeah, we can be. Hope you don't take it personally. This board is all about being nit picky. If we saw you at the grocery, we would ask you to have a drink before we would criticize you. Good luck to your son, hope the place is working out.

That was stupendously boring. I'm not sure why we are supposed to care about Carrie and Franny. Even if we accept that the outside viewpoint of Carrie is a set up, her life and past do pose a threat to Franny. Homeland is best when its events say something about the real world. Who dies and gets beat up, etc., is almost secondary to that. The issue for me this season is that, if the show is saying something about, say, how child services treats parents, I don't care to watch that on a TV show. Or how unfair the VA is for injured vets like Peter. Or naked ambition within the government (Dar). Those are all fine plot lines, but they don't interest me when I watch TV. I need this show to go back to being about something bigger. How the gov't treated Sekou came close, and I thought this season was going to end up being about how the US treats terrorism at home, and then they killed him.

What. The Fuck. Happened to this show. So much butt hurt... Joe because Barry didn't ask permission. Iris because Barry asked her to marry him to save her life instead of Twu Luv. Julian because Caitlin kept a piece of the stone. Wally because he feels his powers aren't good enough. Good god, people, focus. Get over yourselves. If The Avengers did this, Earth would have fallen years ago. This constant stupid angst has just about closed the door on this show for me. Only Savitar's sudden hilarious wit - "Have you decided to worship me?" - saved the day.

The celebrity version of this show has always held the appeal of a train wreck. Half the fun is seeing who will even be on it (Sharknado guy? Announcer dudes? Reality hosuewives?) and then enjoying their "roles." It was a better show when it was regular people and focused more on the tasks. Early on, it was almost educational in that way. This celebrity version has always been silly. Maybe it took this long for it to piss away the ratings it earned before it went to celebrities.

My view is that those historical points where a "revolution" changed civilization were all still within the confines of the concept of civilization. The pirate POV has a component of that (the general idea of being free from a power they view as being tyrannical), but it's mostly very different. Their perspective on tyranny tends to be that when the pirates do something illegal, things get all tyrannical, for instance. And that the poor and lower class struggle. Both are aspects of civilization. Imperfect and in need of periodic evolution, but civilization all the same. Civilization allows at least some people to invent, to create art, to think about the future and advance society. If it didn't work, we would all still be nomadic hunter-gatherers. I've posted over the seasons of Black Sails that I don't understand the pirate view of the future, even while the show tries to romanticize it and make it appealing (freedom, men living as they want, etc.). As you note, they cannot sustain themselves by raiding and stealing, logistically if not morally. So what is their point? They will get free of the British, and then ... what? I understand that many of the pirates are not the kind of people who think about the long term. But some of them, the leaders who we have met, do. Flint seems to be gambling that a slave revolt, combined with pirates, will be enough to make Nassau unattractive to the powers of the world. That seems naive, given history so far even in his world.

Interesting point. I have felt the opposite except for Ray and the daughter, whose name I forget, who are also at an age where those kinds of feelings happen to all kids that age. Maya is adamnant about their family being seen and treated like anyone else. Jimmy is aligned with that, and is almost resigned to their lack of money and resources in a way that says the sacrifice is worth it. JJ, partially as a result of his parents' consistent positions, is well adjusted and thriving in a mainstream school. I feel like they all know exactly who they are and how they *should* fit into society. Their struggle is making sure society views them the way they want to be viewed.

As in assless chaps? I don't know what that quote means. I think it's his voice and his eyebrows. And demeanor, in the sense of he seems mildly disinterested. When we cut from Tom to Solomon to Scottie ... and then to Dumont, the show seems to slow. YMMV.

This show just isn't right, yet. There isn't a real emotional connection between the characters or the mission of the week. It feels tedious. Alias was more fun. Original Blacklist is darker. Not sure what this is. And telling the family the guy is safe before he is out of the country? Dumb. Called the CIA connection for the journalist from the start, during the confession. Dumont irks me for some reason. Will give it a few more episodes.

I think that *was* the point... humans will use anything to get laid. It also felt like adding a woman at the end was a small dig at the whole cause, vs. blaming it on men, during a time when so much of the activity that is supposed to be about a higher purpose, isn't.

If the point was to show the hypocrisy of people who say they support women and then act differently in their own lives, I thought it was needed badly. Otherwise it's simply another "men suck" skit. Yes, but very, very short. I would have liked to have seen more than a line. Ah, that's why I hated his performance. I first looked closely at his face, to see if it was a gag and he was one of the cast members, a la Belushi and the Blues Brothers. But after about 30 seconds, I had had enough and FF'd, though I did see his "dancing" later and just shook my head. Hipsters, ugh.