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Haha. Thanks for the laugh. Now I need to find a way to use that in conversation.

I thought the MM reveal about why he doesn't use his powers would be along the lines of, when he does, some sort of arch-villain can find him and would threaten Earth. The actual reason was more personal and more mundane. Or how about flying in through the window? Super speed or not, that will eventually be noticed. Also? I thought the Toyman seemed strangely contemporary and normal. is it me?

Where have you been all my life, lol... So the couple who wanted a second home in France ... was it just me, or was their budget ($160k) in no way sufficient to achieve their goal (a second home for them and their four kids)? They needed to add about $40k and find a home with at least 3 BRs and 2 BA. That never came up, however. The real estate guy didn't even do the "this is above your budget but I think you will see why when we go in" trick. Also, did this episode have wayyyyy more padding after each commercial, where they repeated far more detail than needed about the prior home(s)?

We were trying to figure out if they somehow had an amazing income, won the lottery or, in California, there are 50-year mortgages and they were used to high debt, because they looked about 28. California is expensive, but you don't *have* to live in a million dollar home. They seemed reasonably grounded, though.

I thought he was overly intense in just about every skit. It's either his delivery or he was nervous. It was like he was channeling the Kylo Ren tantrum off and on. Props for singing, though. Agree that Che either mumbles or doesn't enunciate enough. I had to play several of his lines back because I couldn't quite make out a word. Maybe it was just me, but Kate was super hot as a brunette French woman with glasses. The Undercover Boss skit was a great idea but suffered from pacing. They should have had "Matt" use the force to retrieve his wrench after the passing guy kicked it, not later to choke the blase dude. It was weird that "Matt" would bring the light saber in, wave it threateningly in the blase dude and the blase dude would still say it looked like a kid made it. Also, the guy who got promoted should have given the audience a sign that he knew Matt was Kylo Ren immediately when he was talking about how Kylo was doing something no one in the universe has done. The skit had the pieces, it was just off. The Golden Globes sketch was very dark.

Good luck to you, Saylii. Stay patient ... sometimes it does get better! Hope it does for you and your daughter.

There seemed to be bit of a breastfeeding nazi agenda going on there. We both saw this segment and said if breast milk runs out and baby is still hungry, make a bottle. But nary a word was said about that during the show. Agree with the post above about entitlement. And I was disappointed that no one raised the ethical issue of contesting tickets in the hope of getting off on a technicality - if you actually did the crime.

Re: "The Feeding Industry," it does exist tho I don't know if the one I am familiar with is the one Crazy Placemat Lady was referring to. Some kids have issues with food textures (primarily), consistency, color, and yes, sometimes taste and it affects their nutrition. There are feeding schools that help parents and kids try to overcome that, or in some cases, simply cope with it. I know because (cue sad Shark Tank music, and tears in my eyes) my now mostly normal teen went to one when he was 2. He was in a group of 6 kids, all around the same age, with feeding issues. Four of the six had some form of autism. We were fortunate in that we didn't. One poor kid had to be fed through a tube in is side, and could only "eat" liquids. The whole thing was run through Children's Hospital.They would try to get the 6 kids around a shared table and then bring out foods, starting with the least threatening like dry crackers. And some of the kids would literally climb up and out of their chairs and away from the foods in terror because they didn't want to have to eat them. It was one of the most frightening and gut wrenching experiences in my life. Our kid basically got better and in some ways grew out of it, and today eats mostly normally. He still doesn't eat much and prefers very dry foods. So I can see Crazy Placemat lady positioning the tray as a way to limit distraction at the table for kids who will do almost anything to not have to sit and eat because of feeding issues. Or she simply meant, you know, any time kids eat. That seems more likely in her case.

I wouldn't let Jo near our house. That "French country style" thing is one of my least favorite styles, and when I would see that on Trading Spaces or any other home show it was like seeing another American Idol contestant singing country. Ugh. All that distressed and repurposed stuff would have me constantly thinking things needed to be replaced. And I don't like modern, either. I don't get the location of the B&B, either. I mean, it looks like there are commercial buildings next to it. I wonder how it is doing?

But if I remember correctly, that wasn't what that house had. It featured bedrooms where, literally in the what have been a closet, sinks were installed. There wasn't an adjacent space with a toilet or shower or anything. It was as if someone has taken off the closet doors and put in a sink. That's why i wondered if it had been a halfway house.

I don't understand the villainy here. If the Earth will be destroyed by a natural event, and Erica wants to save at least some people by moving them to the future, isn't that a good thing? I mean, if she didn't, then no one would survive. I guess you could quibble with the way she is doing it, all secret-like and picking the survivors herself. But really, if she threw it open to the UN or something, it would be Krypton all over again, with the fighting and debating until ... boom. Phoebe is evil on a small scale, in that she is using her powers to ensure Erica succeeds. But that's it. I suppose the alternative view is that a few "Heroes" may have the ability to stop the coming extinction event, and the fact Erica opposes them is villainous. But very few people seem to know that stopping it is possible, and no one knows if it will actually work. So Erica should keep on going, I suppose. Yeah, I forgot most of the show as well during the break. I watched about 20 minutes, then went to this site to read the recap and boards, because I unfortunately can't stop time and don't want to spend what time I have watching the show.

To be fair, it seemed pretty clear that Aram was the only one actively opposing The Director's team. As far as anyone else knew, it was legit, or at best confusing. That's what i thought was going to happen when we saw Aram on his bike, but he met Red, instead. In any case, given Aram waved a gun around at The Director, he should be in jail regardless of the conspiracy. The insiders knew what happened, but there were a lot of witnesses who didn't. It wasn't like they hauled The Director and others off to jail. Most of this ep worked because Lizzie was once again not driving anything. She was a plot device that had to be moved from place to place while others did the work. That's when Blacklist is at its best.

I imagine all that's left for a viewing audience is people whose views range from very left to far left. Tuned in again to see if the show has returned to at least a semblance of balance. Nope. I watched TDS for more than 10 years, and loved the way it would pick on both left and right when it found BS and hypocrisy. But in Jon's last few years, and now continuing into Trevor's time, it's like watching a show produced by Bernie Saunders. I'm an independent, and i agree that Fox is BS Mountain. But the left has issues as well, including the fact that it can't seem to see that any view other than it's own might have at least some value.But when TSD criticizes and mocks Republicans for years for picking at Obama's birth place, and then when the right attacks its own you make a joke that you think it wasn't possible and then join in, you've given up any high ground. This show has no interest in exploring any legitimate or consistent counter view. It goes after the most ridiculous opposing perspectives and mocks them, while ignoring the same for the left. Checking out again. Sounds like I'm not the only one.

This show does a nice job of handling the emotional impact of being a superhero and a terrible job of maintaining logic and consistent characterization. When did Lords go from being a vague ally to a complete asshole and all around evil villain? That was sudden. And it is betrayal for Supergirl to take a chance by trading Astra for MM (who should have escaped on his own, BTW) because she thinks that's "right", but when the general's own soldiers refuse to stop her because she saved the Sgt Major's life, that's OK? And Jimmy and what=-his-name go on a half-assed spy mission vs. evil Lords and think they have a chance of accomplishing anything? I hope this doesn't become like Agent Carter, where the men are all idiots and the women are righteous and infallible.

Kevin and Mark are my favorites, because they speak bluntly and clearly. I'd rather hear someone tell me what they really think than have them give me a bland answer because they are trying to be nice.Kevin clearly has triggers that send him into the "you are a bug to me" mode, and you have to be smart enough not to go there. I'm also pretty sure that some of it is his TV character and he isn't that way to people he knows or even most of the time. If the panel were all Lori and Barbara and Robert I'd learn less and quit watching. Not to mention that looking like the abs guy is 80 percent or more genetics, and then the rest is diet and exercise. Protein pancakes will no more make you look like that than eating an apple every day. It was a pointless product to begin with, and if it tasted bad, it had no redeeming qualities at all. Kevin called them out.

I'm glad this article is here, because I tried watching Girls in season 2 and after 5-6 episodes gave up because the characters kept making bad, and sometimes just stupid, choices. I checked in now and then since, and always saw the same poor judgment that really seemed below the otherwise intelligent characters. It was too frustrating for me to watch. And I've always wondered if it were just me who thought that. Guess not. Hope it ends well.

I was wondering if that home was used as a halfway house of some kind. They had clearly installed sinks into spaces that had been built as closets. Who would do that unless you aren't staying for long?

I don't see him as overpowered. In fact, I see the fact that he is so powerful as a plus, because it ties directly to the central point of his character: He doesn't *want* power. He believes in ideas, and visions, and in some ways still longs for what Arthur brought into being but would not try to recreate it himself. Which makes Flynn as Arthur laughable. Because no way Flynn ever created anything that noble. I came to this show by accident, with no background or understanding of this universe. So to me, Flynn popped up out of nowhere. And his increasing presence has definitely made this a lesser show. The ensemble is much better.

The worst thing that can happen for your hometown is for super heroes to be based there. The Avengers, Spider-man, Supergirl ... you do NOT want those people nearby, because it only leads to downtown destruction.

Surprisingly boring and unfunny. Meet Your Second Wife was good. Somebody's Mom was good, partly because they broke. Everything else, meh. That's kind of been the story of this season, though.

Best part of the episode. While I understand the sensitivity around showing more of Sheldon having sex, I cannot imagine how that actually went down. Sheldon would have been freaked out by any number of things, and having no experience, it wouldn't have taken long. It was more anticlimactic (for the viewers, at least) than I expected.

I think Mike was hell bent on moving up, and wasn't about to allow some over-the-hill replacement to stop that. His ambush was planned, so while he may have felt threatened, his decision was made before The Undertaker arrived and so it wasn't a physical threat. If he did whack The Undertaker because he wasn't accepting a replacement "pitcher," it makes his "reward" that much more devastating.

As someone who has lived in the south, midwest, far west and mountain west, I can attest that to most people outside of NY, "New York personality" =asshole. If it helps any, usually the assumption is NYC, not all of NY.

I thought of that, but we actually had multiple other people on NZT - the entire SWAT team. And none of them did anything different than the other because of it. Yes, they took different *actions* - but those actions were all of the same kind, i.e. "I can do anything so now I am going to chase my dream." NZT didn't fundamentally change them in any way, and having it didn't cause them to act differently aside than actually pursuing a dream they had pre-NZT. That's why, to me, this episode didn't actually mean anything. It could have, executed differently, but didn't.

What was the point of this episode? We're introduced to a SWAT team who doesn't matter and who just as quickly goes away. Rebecca breaks up with a guy she is dating who, to be honest, I didn't even remember. And we nudge ever so slightly Brian's interpersonal relationships with Mike and Ike, which we seem to do about every other episode. Oh - and Boyle has to care for a parent and finds a stray NZT pill. So ... why? I thought at first that this was going to be the Limitless version of the Six Million Dollar Man vs. the Seven Million Dollar Man, where Brian goes up against someone on NZT who also is trained to adapt as part of his real life. But the episode never went that way. Casey wasn't better than Brian at anything. Seemed like a waste of 45 minutes. AND BTW, why would anyone date that sour puss Casey? Does he ever smile?