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Airdate: March 30, 2023

If ever there was any doubt about how much of a badass Sharon is, that scene of her sewing up her own head wound should erase those doubts. So much for Brice and Ava. A Brice/Sharon pairing might be in the cards instead. I’m sorry, Kelly doesn’t look like she has the strength to open a jar of olives, let alone break the neck of a physically fit man twice her size, even taking him by surprise. People keep saying how much of a genius Trust is, but he couldn’t figure out the FTL drive, some other lady did, and he didn’t do the shield correctly either, which Alicia could tell after looking at the specs for two seconds.

Airdate: March 29, 2023

Lack of interest facilitates the decision to discontinue individual episode topics for this final season. So have at it here for season 7, if anybody cares...

Airdate: March 28, 2023

There’s also the caveat of them going to where the pond sends them. So while we know that Kat is in 1814 to rescue Jacob, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the pond originally sent him there. Could be that it sent him to 1794 and he’s 20 years older — which would make him harder to rescue, as he'll have mostly forgotten his origin, chalked it up to childhood imagination and may not want to be rescued.

I get Elliott feeling like his life has been on hold for 20 years waiting to catch up to Alice and Kat but his conclusion logic doesn’t compute because he didn’t know if he would end up with Kat. Now he can but he’s taking a pass? He better hope she’ll wait around for him to finish his existential crisis. The logic of Kat and Alice concluding that Colton would’ve died if they’d been there or not works for me, as it’s a common thread in which time travel abhors a paradox. Like The Time Machine movie where the protagonist builds a time machine, saves his fiancée from being murdered in a robbery but then she dies ten minutes later from a carriage crashing into her (and then can’t figure out why, when it’s like, if you’re smart enough to invent a time machine, why can’t you understand why you can’t save her?)

Elliott did try it in 1999 and nothing happened, he came to the conclusion that it only worked for Alice. But then it worked for Kat, which surprised him. They didn’t say if he ever tried it again but the pond didn’t always work for Alice and Kat either, they all started thinking of it as an entity that sends someone where they need to go.

Ditto. Maybe there should’ve been a time traveling mechanical bull…

Whoa! Kat is the 1814 woman! That’s where Jacob ended up? The dog was time traveling. That’s hilarious. And Alice sent the letter. That was a nice little thing to find out.

Yeah, a disgruntled Lane wandering around the ship, likely trying to undermine command, is not the scenario Sharon would want but that’s what she’s created. I think the better solution would’ve been to let him keep his rank but remove him from his #2 position and any command decisions.

Ride With Me by Nelly was playing in the episode that played earlier today where Rachel and Ross are driving the Porsche around. And by the way, I love that Ross got a ticket for going too slow. 37 MPH on the freeway? Is he actually trying to kill people?

I fell behind a couple episodes and just caught up so I don’t remember which one this happened in but I snorted when young Kat bemoaned that Alice wasn’t on ICQ for her to chat with. I totally forgot about ICQ, I used to hang out on that all the time. I’ve liked these little turn of the century touches they’ve added, though young Kat’s beeper is more mid 90s. Cell phones were more prevalent than beepers in 2000. I got my first cell phone in 98.

Kelly is just as slimy as Lane. I don’t believe for one second that she’s told the truth nor is genuinely interested in Angus. Except I can’t figure out what benefit she gets out of kissing up to him. Speaking of Lane, I cheered when Sharon demoted him. Long time coming.

Airdate: March 23, 2023

Cold Case was held up for years over music rights but that eventually got worked out apparently, because it streams on HBO Max now. There was still demand for that show, people watch it. Ed, not so much. I’m pretty sure if there were enough of a demand for it, it would be available. Music rights aren’t holding it up anymore, it’s lack of demand. There’s no point to paying for music rights if only 12 people watch it. Shows pay for the music rights if there’s demand, Friends and Cold Case are a prime example of it.

Or it could just be that people haven’t bothered to unfollow it. It WAS really popular once upon a time. Follows aren’t as important as actual traffic. And that’s obvious by looking at how the pages of posts per episode topic have dwindled over the seasons.

Not Friends, Led Zeppelin allowed the indie film The Friend to use their music. As far as I can recall, I’ve never heard a LZ song in Friends.

Friends powers that be were willing to pay for keeping the music intact. And it was money well spent, the show has been a gold mine in syndication and streaming.

Airdate: March 22, 2023

Although I would find it internally hilarious if it did, as this show does have Andie MacDowell in it.

It was the Colonel Bogey March, which wouldn’t be a music rights issue, it’s public domain.

Celebration played by Ross on the bagpipes. Phoebe thought a picture of Chuck Mangione was her father but Phoebe Sr. explained that she sold a house to him.

They used it for the promos for the season premiere when Rachel was pregnant. It was the same season they used it for Chandler’s bath. I don’t remember them using it for Joey and Rachel.

It was Chandler taking a bath.