Taryn74

I've been waffling on whether I want to watch the final two seasons or not. I'm really leaning toward not. I doubt I've seen all the episodes in them, but the bits and pieces I do remember just really do not make me want to watch them again. Like, ever.

The episode where Mary Jo had to go to the school to deal with Quinton cussing reminded me of when my youngest son was in first grade. He had dealt with a really difficult teacher all year (she pretty much hated my oldest son, so when she had my youngest four years later she treated him the same even though their personalities were polar opposites) and I guess one day he had finally had it. Hubby and I were out grocery shopping and the school called. Teacher had gotten onto my son for something and he threw his schoolpapers down and said "F--k this!" THANK GOD they called hubby's phone and not mine because I was bent over double laughing so hard I was crying. 🤣 🤣🤣 (I honestly don't have any idea where he even heard that word, btw. LOL. On the schoolbus I guess.)

Of all the SO's, I really think Reese is my favorite. He's IMO the perfect mate - smart, funny, affectionate, confident but not arrogant, and not afraid to call out the BS when needed. I adore him. 😂 The episode where he takes the young law intern to the charity gala, and Julia retaliates by hiring an escort for the evening, is also golden. "I'll just have them bring over a highchair for your date." 🤣

Reservations for Eight tonight. Reese, upon being told that the fleet of small suitcases he was having to bring in were Suzanne's cosmetic cases: "My word, nobody's that ugly!" 😂 😂 😂

LOL. I don't mind her singing. It's not really my style but it doesn't bother me. Maybe because it's what I grew up with, idk.

I had to laugh watching How Great Thou Art last night, they kept talking up this huge interfaith meeting with all these churches represented and a big closing ceremony that was probably going to be on the news........and then they showed scenes of the tiny little church with maybe 75 people there. LOL.

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Weren't the portals being corrupted by the guy that ended up betraying the mages? (I can't be bothered to keep up with their impossible names...LOL) I seem to remember Yen opening a portal that put her in some dark place instead of where she intended to go and they made a big deal out of it.

Is that the same episode where Suzanne accidentally puts Charlene's pumped breast milk into her coffee? I laugh until I cry every time I watch that scene. 🤣

Oh now that really pisses me off! I hadn't made it there yet (Charlene just started going out with Bill) but I was already looking forward to it. Just today I thought about the scene where Dolly Parton leads Minnie down the hall to heaven. Such a great couple of episodes!

Did I just sit here alone in my house and sing that out loud? Yes, yes I did.

Well, that happened.

Binge watching the episodes a few each night, it amuses me to see how they just don't seem to have any real concern about continuity on these older shows. One episode the business is in such financial straits that Julia can't make payroll and her savings is completely wiped, two or three episodes later and she's tossing money around like it's water on a hot summer day. Heh. Finished up S1 last night and it's truly mind boggling how casually they treated sexual harassment most of the time. Julia especially should have been MUCH harsher toward the jerkwad men they came across sometimes. I mean, she told off Ray Don in one of the early episodes just for sitting down uninvited to chat with them at a restaurant (which was rude of him but he wasn't sexually harassing them) and then a couple of episodes later their colleague repeatedly refers to them as "the eight finest breasts in Atlanta" and nobody says anything about it. And worst of all, in the episode where the guy literally tries to rape Mary Jo, not only did the guy pat both Mary Jo and Julia herself on the rear end, he also ripped Mary Jo's skirt open "trying to find the stick shift" and Julia STILL allowed Mary Jo to go over alone to work on his house. And then when he locked Mary Jo in the room and threw her on the bed, they acted like telling him off was the worst they were going to do. Unbelievable.

Right? Julia and Suzanne bickering over the taste of the men who tried to pick Julia up, and Suzanne's "Finally! A man with some taste!" as she sashayed past the one who wanted her for the night. Gah! I laughed until it hurt.

Watched 'Monette' tonight. It remains one of the most hilarious episodes of the entire series. 😂

Right? She was even like, it's a masquerade ball, I'll be wearing a mask. Then she shows up holding a mask approximately three feet out in front of her face. 🙄

Just realized tonight that Designing Women is on amazon prime! Been laughing my head off re-watching the first few episodes.

Agree with everything! Especially about Dean. For someone who was supposed to be such a supportive parent, Lorelai really bent over backwards to ignore all the red flags with regards to his relationship with Rory.

To be fair, they have at least as much romantic chemistry as a couple of sock puppets making out. IMO Geralt has the most chemistry with Ciri. And yes, I realize that's somewhat disturbing. LOL. At least it doesn't seem like the show is trying to portray that. I think it's just natural chemistry between the actors.

WTF, show? I'm not going to remember who any of these people are in three weeks. I barely remember who they are watching from one night to the next. 😑

Hubby and I watched the first three eps of S3 last night, so I went from 'Oh, hi, Robbie Amell!' 'Oh....bye, Robbie Amell' quickly enough to give me whiplash. Heh.

Absolutely. It moves at a much slower pace than the original trilogy, so some people found it "boring" because of that, but it provides so much background to the how the Games, the Capitol, and even the Districts developed into what we know by THG it's definitely an important part of the overarching story. And I know that no matter how good the movie is, it will never do all of the book justice, LOL, so I definitely recommend getting to know all the characters in the book before you see the movie.

It's pretty clear IMO that the D1 and D2 Tributes are ALWAYS 18 yo Careers who volunteered, after being trained for years. It would be interesting to see what the selection process is once they have the group of volunteers, since of course there's going to be more than one 18 year old at a time who is ready and steps up, but with it not being spelled out even in the movies we're probably never going to get an official answer. In the books D4 is also a Career District, but since none of the D4 Tributes we come to know - not even the nameless ones in the 74th Games - behave like Careers I chalk that up to Unreliable Narrator. With the books being exclusively from Katniss' viewpoint there's going to be assumptions that she's made that just aren't true, and assuming that D4 is a Career District is probably one of those things. I fanwank that she came to that conclusion because Finnick is so popular and received such expensive gifts while in the Arena. She saw him being treated like a Capitol darling and assumed that meant Career. The D1 and D2 citizens and especially Victors were always treated better than the other Districts, because they provide the military force (D2) and luxury goods (D1) that the Capitol depends on. That's why they weren't trusted with any of the Rebel plans going into the 75th Games. So it stands to reason that Snow didn't do them dirty after winning the way he did the other Districts. There's a deleted scene from Catching Fire that makes it obvious that Plutarch is the one who changed the terms of the Quell. He takes out the envelope and burns it and replaces it with the one that Snow drew, after their "it's what we Gamemakers like to call 'a wrinkle' " conversation. So he was lying when he told Katniss that he had no idea she would be going into the Arena again.

Ha! Okay, fair point. 😅

Finally watched this on Prime with hubby and our oldest son the other night. I don't think I had even watched a trailer for it, although from the reviews I knew I would eventually get around to watching the movie, LOL. Loved the original as a teen. We ended up making a double feature night out of it, son enjoyed it enough that we rolled directly from this into the original. Solid movie, though you could really see how today's movies have lost the charm of giving supporting characters a more fleshed out personality, especially watching these two back-to-back. It was obvious that Hangman was supposed to be this movie's Iceman, but we never got even a glimpse into his personality other than Alpha Male Prick Who's An Asshole For No Reason. At least with Iceman we knew that he didn't like Maverick because he thought Maverick was too much of a loose cannon and that would eventually catch up with him and potentially put ALL of them into danger. He wasn't just an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. Hangman, not so much. I felt like they shoehorned a close friendship with Iceman into this for nostalgia's sake, because he and Maverick really do have clashing personalities, but because of Val Kilmer's real life health struggles I was okay with it. It was nice to see him again. (Son called me a liar when I told him that was the same guy who played Doc Holliday though, ha!) Saw some comments upthread that it would have been nice to at least get an update on Charlie. I disagree, I couldn't stand her in the original movie (she seriously had about as much charisma and charm as wet sand) and even in the original it was obvious she and Maverick just had a short-term fling that wasn't going to go anywhere. It would have felt REALLY forced to even bring her up in this one. I never would have made a connection between Penny and the briefly mentioned "Admiral's daughter" from the original, so nice catch to whomever pointed that out. Their relationship was handled nicely, I thought. No OTT fireworks, no 'OMG you're the one I should have been with all along, how could I have been so blind!', nothing overdramatic like that. Just two people with a believable on-again, off-again relationship. Miles Teller was 100% believable as Goose's son, but I just never could get into him, which made me sad as I LOVED Goose. I did LOL at his "You told me not to think!" when Maverick was chewing him out for coming to rescue him. Heh. A- overall. Good flick, great one by today's standards tbh.