nemesis

I finished the 6 episodes. I don't like Bloom at all. She irritated me so much, so often. She is dangerously impulsive and aggressive. I couldn't see why her friends were her friends. Proximity? Did she help and support them with anything? All I saw was her talking about herself, except with her love interest, who strikes me as way too good for her. I get that people lied to her, don't see why that would excuse the crazy that followed. She got people seroiously injured or killed, could have gotten every child in that school killed, and I didn't see all that much guilt or anything. I mean, I guess she reflected since her attitude changed. Perhaps people who saw the original have more reason to find her sympathetic. I find it annoying when the plot is being moved forward almost entirely by poor decision making. I also don't see when the princess became a friend to any of them either. They kept telling me they were friends but it was, what, that one conversation after she was invisible that did it? She certainly wasn't hanging out with any of them any other time.

I also didn't expect Portia to last. This way, he breaks up with his girlfriend without him coming across as a jerk or needing to spend appropriate time grieving if they'd killed her off instead. It's a shame though, I really liked them together and would much prefer if the two leads not get back together (I'm perfectly fine with Vignette being with that fairy friend of hers). Vignette and Philo are a sadly inescapable future, though. I loved this. They're really very entertaining together. They're becoming the best part of the show.

It bothered me so much! A short discussion with the parents and then the kid's therapist overrules them? About a surgery?? First, I didn't think the parents could be overruled on this. I've seen so many shows where just to get a lifesaving surgery that the parents disagree with takes some kind of court order. My brother says maybe in California a therapist can do so. The parents were supportive and have known their own child his whole life, how is the opinion of someone who knows him from fifty minute long sessions over a measly six month period in a place to disregard their wishes and side with a clearly immature teenager? He's so very immature that even at the end there I didn't have the impression that he truly understood and regretted what he'd done to Iggy. He should have at least apologized and promised to set things straight with his Twitter followers (as much as he could, now it's apparently the first thing out there when his name is Googled so that's never really going to go away).

I'm really annoyed with them also! Everything you mentioned was so irritating. Unless he has a disability, there was no reason for the boy to act like that. He's plenty old enough to pick up on the seriousness of the situation, even if he doesn't know exactly what is happening. What kind of upbringing do these kids have that they argue about and ignore every direction from their parents? From the first scene, the girl dragged her feet and whinned about her project when her clearly distraght father picked her up from school. If someone had picked me up from school in that state saying we need to go, I wouldn't be worrying about a project, I'd think someone was in the hospital dying and go immediately. I can't see my teenage daughter arguing in that situation either. After that I was annoyed by the kids the whole time and somewhat annoyed by the parents as well. They don't need to explain everything to their kids but something a little more detailed then they went with might have helped (If their kids aren't the complete idiots they appear to be). I stopped watching after that stupid girl broadcast their names, parent's names, and location after being told to protect her brother and that they are safely hidden from whoever is looking. It was painful. I hate when the whole plot moves along based on stupid decision after stupid decision.

I also get where Margaret is coming from by not taking Emily in. As pitiful as she looked at that time, she'd already shown a complete lack of loyalty by running off to Margaret's enemy. Margaret hasn't really had problems finding women for her house since Emily left (two that should be good at earning money) so she doesn't really have an incentive to take Emily back except for pity. The french girl was surprised there were no locks, but I can see why there don't need to be. The women are probably in one of the better situations they can find themselves in, given their occupation, except for maybe finding a "keeper" who isn't a completely awful person, but, there don't seem to be any of those around. At least poor Lucy has a sense of self-preservation and knows a predator when she sees one. Sadly, her fear is part of the attraction for him and Margaret apparently doesn't see it (he hides it well, I guess). As romantic as this whole proposal to whisk Charlotte away sounds... the reality is more like leaving her family and country behind to run off with someone who is pretty close to being a stranger. That sounds incredibly dangerous. Even if he really is a decent guy they'd still be going penniless to America with no real prospects. Does she actually have any skills other then being a harlot? Would he be able to support the two of them with the kind of jobs he gets? Then, if he really isn't a decent guy, or if they just don't work out, she'd be stranded on another continent with no support. I can see why she'd try for the route of packing her bags and heading back to her mother's house instead. At least she's not letting that idiot get away with raping her and she stands up for herself. I'm afraid for her when she gets back to the house, though.

What I like the most about the show is that there's less scheming then in other shows, so that's not my favorite characteristic of Elaine's. Though, I'm not sure what she was so surprised about, just last episode she was complaining that they were picking people based on friendship and not strategy. The disgusting food challenges are always hard to watch. I'm sure I'd rather go to the elimination round that even try to eat that gross, still moving, larva-thing. Despite the very vocal complaining from the women, it looked to me like the guys were more likely to throw up when actually eating.

Yes, his little trailer is a dump, but I don't think he cares about that at all. People who don't want to live often don't take care of themselves in basic ways (food, hygiene) and they certainly don't bother to plan long term.

Same here. I didn't realize how interesting and likable Kevin could be until that interview. His baby analogy was amusing. Some of Dave's reactions and comments during the interviews were amusing as well. Still, I would have preferred a real episode. I probably wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't read your comment before watching it... and you're right. Kelly was pretty hilarious with her comparing Dave's eyebrows to bat wings and Nunez's to a disappointed father. Those were some of Dave's best expressions too.

I'm not bothered by Riggs' behavior at all. He's entertaining. I've watched a lot of police dramas and taking away his craziness just makes the show more generic. Plus, a lot of the funnier lines said by other people ("send EVERYONE") are because Riggs has those suicidal tendencies and everyone knows it. I have to say I was rather bothered by the jump into the pool though. I'm fairly certain they wouldn't survive a jump from that height into a pool. Never mind how deep it is, the impact on the water could be enough to kill them. Still I keep reminding myself that I'm watching this for fun, it's not a documentary, so I need to let it go.

I also felt bed for Riggs when Murtaugh punched him, said he didn't love anyone, and told him to stay away from the family. That was awful. I think Riggs did the right thing in rescuing the kid and getting him to come clean about it himself. It was an important lesson for the kid (who needs to learn to take responsibility for his own actions, especially since it's not like there is always going to be someone around to tell his parents what he has been up to). It irritates me that Murtaugh never found out that Riggs got the son to own up. In the end he believes that Riggs was basically just helping his son cover up the incident and he eventually forgave him for that. However, it makes perfect sense that he doesn't know the truth since neither the kid nor Riggs brought it up.

I don't mind the alliance, but I'm liking some of the people in it less and less. I don't think that they're actually on teams. Sure, they're calling it a team, but there aren't team challenges. These "teams" don't help each other in any way. In fact, the "team" is nothing but the competition. In a show like Survivor, sure they vote off people from their own tribe, but before that happens they do actually win or lose together, as a group. Which means there's at least some debate about if they want to keep strong players in at the beginning... why would you keep a strong player in Ink Master? It makes sense for them to aim at their own "team." Maybe when it gets to top 10 the format will change so that these teams matter more. Right now, when it comes down to it, it looks like the only difference between this season and the other seasons is that they're taking turns on which group is competing each week and one of the judges is going to go around bragging that they had the winner on their "team." Just to be clear... I'd rather they just had a straight forward competition. I'm not enjoying the whining or ridiculous comments along the lines of "how could you give that canvas to someone on your own team."

It might have been... but I've been teaching that age group over 10 years and I've seen similar behavior fairly often. Actually, they tend to crowd around like that when anyone gets hurt or cries. They're somewhat difficult to shoo away so the situation (whatever it is) can be handled. Granted, in a classroom the kids would know each other a lot better. Still, if you're thinking that kids just aren't all that altruistic... they crowd for other reasons as well, like curiosity and wanting to be part of the group (the bigger the group gets the bigger the draw) There definitely wasn't enough dancing in this episode. Of course, with 100 kids to show, I'm not surprised all we got was quick flashes of things. I thought that "You let me down and you let yourself down" was way too harsh.

I think it's definitely worth giving a shot. I don't mind case of the week type shows, but I'm not sure how well that structure really fits with a show about a guy who infiltrates groups over a span of months or years. So, I hope they stick with a single group over a long period of time rather then a weekly format. I am interested in the main arc. Since this is based on books, I'm rather tempted to go read one, but that would completely kill the TV show for me. Also, I was feeling like his estranged wife and missing his son situation was really cliche (although, I do understand that it's a likely outcome in his situation) and this "you don't realize you're living a Legend" thing gives me some hope that it wont be the exact same thing I've seen about 1,000 times already.

I spent much of the episode confused and frustrated by the doctor getting fired and the plan to replace most of the team there. That makes absolutely no sense at all. You don't fire the only people getting any results. The vague and lame explanations that she'd ask questions and be hard to control were just painful. Clearly she was hard to control after being fired but before that she seems to have been happily working away at her job. Also, why would a person who is being chased by some shady government people return to their apartment? Really?? It's not like that one guy she left on the train is working alone. Obviously they would be watching her home and close friends and family. I really expected them to kidnap the woman who donated the egg. It would make a lot of sense to try to figure out if there was something different about her (with medical tests and like the doctor was trying to do with her questions). It would also make the most sense for her to carry the baby, even if the baby wasn't left with her. So, her death was a surprise. Not a good one. It just gave me something else to be bothered by. I liked the father and son. I don't think that kid could be living a normal life, at all, even without the government's sudden attempt to take him. He'd be in constant danger of kidnapping from all sorts of people looking for a child. That house they're living in would need some major security. I agree with the above comment that the father and son would likely be celebrities and would have a platform to create a PR nightmare for the government. The government could try to paint him as an unfit father, but the media would have been all over that family from the kid's birth onwards.

Carter really didn't bother me that much. She wasn't really likable, no, but most kids just don't adjust that quickly. I take in foster children and although this family Carter has been placed with is her bio family, I think there are a lot of similarities to being dropped of into foster care. From her standpoint she was taken from her parent and set up to live with strangers. It would make things harder, I think, that those strangers have emotional connections with her that she doesn't share with them. In my experience, often times even if the parent a child is removed from is a homeless drug addict (and Carter's kidnapper-mom, although irresponsible, didn't seem particularly abusive) there can still be very strong loyalty to the parent. Teenagers actually do try to run away from their placements and return to their parent/s and can be extremely difficult in their time in a foster or group home. I've also seen foster children blame everyone but the parent for the situation they're in (the police officer who removed them, the case manager that works with them, the foster parent who takes them in). Of course, not every child reacts that way, some actually throw themselves into their school work or other means of distracting themselves that aren't destructive or cope in other ways, but I don't find Carter's behavior implausible and I'm not holding it against her this early in the situation. However, I really dislike the the things thrown in there just for the sake of drama. The love triangle, the cheating, having the bio-mom as a police officer tracking down the kidnapper... I don't know if I can keep watching for long if they keep ramping up that kind of thing.