Driad
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The grapes reminded me of packaged cookies in my childhood. We knew the package was there but we wouldn't dare to open it. When someone opened it, somehow everyone knew, and all the cookies would vanish quickly.
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In "our" universe, IIRC, Castle wrote his first novel in college and became successful/rich at an early age. For alternate universe purposes, what if he hadn't become an author, or at least a successful one? What career might he have chosen? Maybe teaching?
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Yes. But the closed captions were gibberish.
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A study saying that the percentage of people who say that "belief in God essential to morality" is much higher in the USA than in other countries tested. http://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/the_destructive_myth_about_religion_that_americans_disproportionately_believe_partner/?utm
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My major moment of surprise -- that Castle does not already have a 3D printer.
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About swimming -- here's a New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/opinion/water-damage-more-blacks-lack-swimming-skills.html?_r=0
Excerpt: "A 2010 study by the USA Swimming Foundation and the University of Memphis reported that nearly 70 percent of African-American children do not know how to swim. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African-American children between the ages of 5 and 14 are almost three times more likely to drown than white children."
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When this has happened in my area, the episode has aired on an "affiliated station" or later that night. So check your listings. Does the ABC web site usually have the episode the next day?
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Is a floor plan or map of their headquarters on line somewhere?
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Is it more likely that Mrs. Doyle is a widow, or that they are using the tradition of addressing an older housekeeper as Mrs. even if she has never married?
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I'm hoping that the story line will be clear and the characters fairly easy to tell apart. (One of my pet peeves in these dramas is characters who look too much alike.) Years ago, Mystery did a P. D. James novel in four parts, and after all four hours I had no earthly idea what it was about. As a test I got a different PDJ novel from the library, read it in three hours, and understood it. So it wasn't PDJ's fault, and I hope this dramatization will be better.
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Would it be accurate to guess that this case was not in the old Morse series?
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After the mistrial was declared. was there not even discussion of a retrial? In news reports I have heard, there is often a retrial after a mistrial. But here DOW was just sent to do community service or something. Possibly I missed a line or two but it seems like an important point.
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Is Bear always played by the same dog? AIUI, animal actors often have an "understudy" in case the main animal is sick or whatever.
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Enjoying this show, but I hope to see more of the adults interacting with each other and their colleagues and friends. Not that the children are bad actors, I just have a limited tolerance for watching kids on TV. Has anyone heard whether we will see the adults more?
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CeCe Moore's article on DNA testing in last week's episode includes a 7-minute clip (not included in the broadcast show) about Ben Jealous's mitochondrial DNA, i.e. his maternal line.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/blog/telling-stories-mitochondrial-dna/
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Penny does at least have the ability to memorize lines (such as Sheldon's description of Leonard's experiment). She may do OK with doctors who don't ask questions. We're still hoping to see Dule Hill as her trainer, because he played a pharm rep on Psych.
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What bothered me most about Elspeth's hallucinations is that we had not been shown this before. We knew she was flaky, but the sudden appearance of the penguins, clowns, etc. gave the impression that something had changed. That is why I wondered if she had been poisoned.
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Castle didn't tell the kids that he was looking for the witness in the ice cream truck, did he? If not, how did the boy know that his drawing of the ice cream truck would interest Castle?
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Somewhere I read a story (fiction or nonfiction?) that detectives were tracking a criminal in the early 1890s. They didn't know who the criminal was, but they knew that he had lived in Johnstown, PA, at the time of the great flood of 1889, that he was now living in "other town," and that he had children. So they arranged with the schools of "other town" that on a particular day, every child in the school system would be asked to write about the Johnstown flood. Most of the pupils had only heard about the flood, but a few had clearly been there. From that evidence the detectives were able to narrow the search and arrest the suspect. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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BBT comes from the same smelly factory as 2.5 Men, so I watch BBT with "one foot out the door." I'm pleasantly surprised that they have not shown Penny wearing a chain mail bikini to a sci-fi convention. (Character consistency, what's that?)
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What was Tascioni's problem? Have they shown her hallucinating before? I was wondering if she had been poisoned.
Advantage of a couple in bed being the same sex -- we don't have to look at the stupid TV "L-shaped sheet" that covers a woman up to the armpits but a man only up to the waist.
Always enjoying Diane, but when she had to contact someone at her old firm, why not someone who didn't hate her? Some authors like to think of the worst thing they could do to a character, and that is what Diane's subplot felt like.-
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CeCe Moore's article about DNA testing of Anna Deavere Smith, Anderson Cooper and Ken Burns.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/blog/telling-stories-autosomal-dna/
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In the airport scene, did anyone else wonder if the snow globe was a bomb? I wondered about carrying so much liquid through security so I looked it up. TSA allows a small snow globe, about the size of a tennis ball, but that one was considerably larger. At least they are consistent about being unrealistic.
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Hasn't Alicia heard the advice that if you are going to get into politics, you should decide by age 12, and you and your family live un-attackable lives from then on?
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S03.E07: Civil Defense
in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [V]
I haven't seen any of DS9 since the first broadcast. From the beginning of the series I was expecting Cardassian booby traps on the station, so my main reaction to this episode was "Finally!"