Taryn74

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Absolutely!

I just suddenly had a vision of a Mrs. Kim vs. Trix showdown. That would have been epic.

That scene is the greatest.

I don't hate Lorelai or anything, but I was definitely on Emily's side with that one. It's not like Rory needed life-saving surgery or anything that would have made Emily truly heartless in that moment. There's nothing wrong with putting a relatively small condition on loaning your daughter tens of thousands of dollars to send your granddaughter to a posh private school. I do wish they had written that initial storyline slightly differently, though, to make Lorelai look less like she was so unprepared as to never think of how she was going to cover Rory's tuition for Chilton. I think I've argued this scenario before, but it would have made perfect sense for Lorelai to assume Rory would get a scholarship for Chilton (one of the Chilton parents makes a snarky remark about scholarship students early on in the show, so that was definitely a thing) and then have the school inform her that no, the scholarships are reserved for students who actually need the financial help to attend there, and the Gilmores could certainly afford to send Rory without any assistance. That would put Lorelai in the position of having to deal with the fact that yes, she IS still a Gilmore even though she hasn't been a part of that world for sixteen years, and carrying the Gilmore name comes with certain assumptions and responsibilities whether she likes it or not.

To be fair, Chris and Sherry were basically broken up by that point, and would have been for good if Sherry hadn't found out she was pregnant and they decided to stay together. And that wasn't just Chris making excuses, Sherry herself confirmed it to Lorelai at the baby shower.

IMO Rory only ever aspired to be Christiane Amanpour because she had dreams of traveling and doing something exciting, not because she wanted to actually be any kind of journalist. Even Jess in Teach Me Tonight was like, you want to do what now? when Rory was going on about it. LOL. If things didn't move in a plot-driven way, Jess' reaction would have started sowing the seeds of doubt in her regarding her plans for her life. Rory really only ever seemed like she was doing something that actually set her soul on fire when she was working on The Franklin at Chilton, and when she was planning stuff for the DAR in S6. And honestly, if the show was going to insist that this was truly Rory's dream, she should have been going ga-ga over Rachel in S2. Rachel actually did travel the world as a photojournalist and did all the things Rory supposedly wanted to do, but Rory basically ignored Rachel altogether other than to commiserate with Lorelai about how perfect she was.

Hubby and I both burst out laughing when AM was about to go into some deep monologue about what it takes for a person to pull the trigger on another, and all four of them just opened up on him. Turns out it's not that hard. Heh.

I hate to sound shallow and/or mean, but damn Robert Patrick is not aging well. Why is he so puffy? He actually looks uncomfortable speaking.

Well, hubby and I started the new season tonight. They seem to be doing a better job (in some scenes, anyway) of making Reacher seem like he's supposed to be this giant compared to other people. He was towering over some of the dudes who looked like they were pretty big guys themselves. On the downside, the dialogue is a SNOOZE. I don't remember it being this boring last season. Hopefully it will pick up. I live roughly an hour away from Mufreesboro and there is literally no way someone would get carjacked in the middle of the day in small town Arkansas. It just would not happen. One of the bigger cities, maybe, but not somewhere like Murfreesboro. There would have been half a dozen people who would have recognized the woman and/or her car and stepped in and kicked that guy's ass before Reacher ever got out of the thrift store.

Yes. We see it expanding and becoming one of the four rifts when the town is being destroyed.

This. She even commented in an earlier episode (the one where Dustin was eating up all the Wheeler's food, LOL) that she thought it was sweet that they were all sticking together and looking out for each other with everything that was going on.

I never even heard of this movie until my later teens, and it was a few years later before I actually watched it. Personally, I love it. I mean, really and truly LOVE. IT. For me, it perfectly captures the magic of what being a kid is all about, and maybe more importantly what looking back on your childhood is all about. So much of what is going on in the world around you when you're a kid flies over your head, but the things that do stand out are so very important they end up shaping your entire life in one way or another, even if it's something as seemingly minor as fantasizing about getting an A+++ on an essay in the third grade, LOL. So many of my formative memories about my childhood are the simplest of things -- playing chase with my friends after church in the parking lot while the adults stood around and talked, going to the local dairy bar for ice cream occasionally, using grass clippings and fallen pine needles to outline houses with all sorts of rooms and furniture "drawn" in, doing flips off the swings on the playground, the time my older cousin told one of my classmates to leave me alone when she had stolen my headband and wouldn't give it back, stuff like that.

It's taken me how many viewings of this show to pick up on El can't "see" someone in the black space unless she's seen at least a picture of them first? When she's spying on Billy the first time she doesn't see Heather, she just sees him bending over talking to blankness. That was the scene where it finally dawned on me. Which begs the question -- how did she already know who Will was in the first season? She had to have actually physically seen him in the Upside Down before she ever ran across Benny or Mike or anyone else, right?

Does anyone "get" the brief scene where Joyce takes a drag on Hop's cigarette and kind of sputters and says "Hop!" in this chiding tone, and he just shrugs apologetically? We've seen Joyce smoking many times already, so it's not like she's not used to it. Was he supposed to be smoking a gross brand or something? It was obviously an actual cigarette and not a joint. I don't get it and it's driving me crazy. It's the little things that bother me the most when I can't figure them out.