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mythoughtis

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  1. Derick needs to stay at Walmart for now... health insurance, other benefits, and a good paycheck.  Nepal won't work if there's no Duggar money supporting them while they are gone.  They need to move (for more privacy) as far as they can get from Jim Bob  and Michelle  (for independence)  and have Derick able to commute to work.  They need a second car for Jill (so that she feels like an adult).  After that they need to breathe, put one foot in front of the other, and veg out for a while. 

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  2. I can't really fault Josh for trying to have an actual career rather than sitting around at the depressing car lot all day.  He 'didn't know what he didn't know'.  He had the cheerleader as his teacher, who mostly gave birth year after year, who taught him basically nothing.  His parents told him all was forgiven and he never even got charged... he thought it was all behind him.  It's only been in the last few years that every single person in the US has to wonder if every single transgression they have ever done will show up on the internet.  As sheltered as he was, he's got no way of knowing this. 

     

    However, Jim Bob  as a former state rep, should have been aware of scrutiny like this, and should never have agreed to a TV show.  No TV show, no reason for any of this to have come out.  If Jim Bob had changed his family's lifestyle from fundy to moderate and put his kids in school when this happened, all of those children would have been better off. 

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  3. I'm not seeing any benefit to anyone regarding this interview.  Jim Bob and Michelle can't explain this any better than it's already been explained.   We all know they didn't have a clue as to what to do, so they did whatever some other chuch elder with no college education or  background in psych told them to.   If they were intelligent people, none of the last 10 years would have happened the way it did, and they wouldn't have said and done the things they have.   There is nothing they can say right now that will swing the court of public opinion.   What they can do is to start sending their younger children to actual schools, colleges, churches, psychologists, encourage them to play sports and other team activities. In a year or so, start speaking out about the dangers of the lifestyle they lived, how it led to isolation that was harmful, etc.  Encourage their older children to go to college, join actual churches, let go of the legalese for their own family, offer to put the young adults in apartments, or dorms.  It's okay to encourage them to have roommates for safety.   But, refuse all interviews, refuse to consider any more reality shows .... for anyone in the family. 

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  4. I would like the show to be cancelled, and no specials for 5 years.  My reasoning is as follows:   Anyone connected to this family in any way or connected to anyone who is connected to this family, or just believed this family is having their own crisis of faith, family, etc.  Everyone needs to be able to work thru that without cameras or hypocrisy.  The Duggar girls/boys need to decide what they believe and who they want to be without scripts.  Same with Derick, Derick's family, Ben, Ben's family, the Ruarks, the crew,  friends/family, co-workers of all of these.  Do you realize how many people may not attend their own church tomorrow because of the Duggar scandal?  Do you realize how many people will cross the street rather than talk to the Ruarks in Ohio? Derick's office co-workers now have another reason to look at him funny, but also question their own beliefs. How many TV watchers have started homeschooling their kids, or changing their own dress code because they believed the Duggars... and now have to re-think all of that. 

     

    Please let all of these people go handle their mini-breakdowns in relative privacy without people wanting them to be shining examples of ....something they don't have the energy to be right now. 

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  5. Guys have been pulling away from girls after they have sex the first time since the beginning of time.   I kind of see it as the natural order of things being as they had no real relationship built up yet (a few days on a honeymoon does not count).  And, I mean that for both Ryans.  Truthfully, I would rather that they didn't have sex for the first month.  I mean, they may split up after six weeks, so why push sex before then. I think they should make that part of the experiment. 

     

    If Davinia wants sex, why doesn't she initiate it rather than just whine because Sean doesn't.  Maybe he'll say yes.   For all the gossip about him being a player, he seems more like a nerdy guy to me - just as Basement Ryan does.  Nothing wrong with that. But nerdy guys don't normally initiate sex beause they are too shy to do so.    

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  6. I actually liked this interventionist. No nonsense - take charge - but still low key. I like all of them, except for Seth. The relationship did border on creepy in addition to toxic. And the relationship between Leela and her taxi driver was strange. The grandparents were too old to deal with all that.

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  7. Andrew is addicted to alcohol and crack with an addicted Mother


    This Mother is unbelievable.  She can't for the life of her see what she did wrong.    I feel really sorry for this kid - yes, he's 22, but he's just a kid.  

     

    Adding as I go thru the episode, she's a real piece of work. She comes from somewhere for the intervention, and she smokes $700 worth of crack with him? Her biggest concern at the pre-intervention is that his father wants to have a letter read from him at the intervention. 

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  8. Poor Meredith: She's going to have to raise her own children, rather than have Alex do it.  She's going to have to quit thinking that 'her person' is not supposed to have a life of their own, as if they were a 18th century British servant.   Not only does she think that a childless dating couple WANTS to live with 3 children, she then wants to invite Amelia to live in the house also.   Who's  next, Maggie?   It's been a year (supposedly), you took your children away and managed to raise them while you were in the worst stages of grief, 9 months pregnant, so do it now.

     

    I don't know how Richard and Catherine would ever get by without the speech from Meredith.  And, look, just one speech, and they are off and running. They are surgeons, they are reminded how short life is every day.... but Meredith is their savior. Meanwhile, she is ripping Alex and Jo apart.  Guess they don't meet with her approval.  

     

    I happen to like THIS Bailey, the one from the first couple seasons.  So glad to have her back. 

     

    I am in agreement with those that think the time jump did no one well.  You just had to have Meredith pregnant, so you needed a year.  No, you didn't.  She didn't need to be pregnant at all. 

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  9. Illinois recently had an elected official die after the election where she was re-elected but before the start of her new term.  The outgoing governor appointed her replacement until the end of her current term.  The in-coming governor appointed her replacement for the beginning of her newly elected term. It was quite a discussion.

     

    So, most likely Lisa Madigan (the ILLINOIS states attorney) would appoint someone to begin Alicia's term, and then order a special election.

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  10. I would like to know what happened to this show.  Alicia Florrick has gone from a good person, whose husband was unfaithful to her, and who began rebuilding her life.... to a hate-filled conniving arrogant woman who sleeps  with every male that shows an interest in her (while still pretending to be married, and yelling at her husband for doing the same thing).  I don 't know what was going on in JMs' personal life this season, but she's  looked like she was recovering from a severe physical illness. 

     

    All the other co-stars appear to have filmed all their lines for the entire season in one week, while JM is in almost every scene.  I would guess each week a different one came in and filmed most of their scenes while the rest slept in.  This was a much better show when it seemed more of an ensemble cast.  I don't care about Alicia's 3rd try at starting a firm or who she starts it with. I've almost forgotten the other lawyers, paralegals, secretaries, etc.  I really miss Elizabeth, Robin and other of the fringe characters.  Hopefully I will remember to not watch this show next season. 

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  11. Absolution

    I am aware that the advertising pays for the air time of their commercials. My point is that they need to gear the commercials -and the shows they air on- towards the people with money to spend. Which isn't 18 to 49 year olds.

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  12. This was a really good show.  It should have been on in a different time slot.  Putting it on against Persons of Interest, and Chicago Fire did it no favors.  

     

    As to the Demographic... maybe it wasn't a favorite of those under 40. However, given the last several years, TPTB should rethink their target audience. Millenials and Generation X don't have the buying power they used to. It's the not yet retired Baby Boomers that have the money, and it's the baby boomers who are spending the money to take care of their boomerang children these days.   Targeting us with a few shows might be a good idea.  It's one that CBS has practiced for a while now. 

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  13. I may be confused, and I already deleted from the DVR, but wasn't there a scene where they did try to tell Amelia but she was in surgery, and someone said something about how its protocol that you can't interrupt them during surgery with news like that?

     

     

    They wanted to tell Amelia AFTER Meredith arrived at the Grey-Sloan hospital and told her friends, but they had to wait until she finished surgery.  However, we have no idea how long that was after Meredith had the machines turned off.   Meredith had hours to tell Amelia while Derek was still on life-support. 

     

    Thanks for the corrections on Zola's condition.  I was obviously wrong.

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  14. Meredith had better figure out what a family Is. She has 3 children, who have a right to know

    Their fathers' family. Otherwise, she is just repeating Ellis's mistakes. Amelia was not just living with them, she was providing child care some of the time. This was her brother, she was right there, and deserved to say goodbye. she and Derek's family deserved to know Meredith was pregnant, and to see the kids during this difficult year. The kids deserved to see their aunt. Also Zola deserved to be around her doctors -she is HIV positive?

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  15. That's a good point.  We don't really know what his brothers' involvement is with his mom and niece.  Do we know that they live close by?  I'm presuming he took it on himself being the youngest or the one single without other responsibilities to a family of his own.  But why should he not expect them to pitch in if he wants to finally have his own marriage and family himself?  That's just being a martyr.  I know families can be different, some siblings are not responsible enough to want to pitch in so that may be a factor too.

     

     

    I don't think it's that.  I think that he thinks of his niece as a daughter.  He doesn't want to pass her around like a toy to share.  He's not going to just toss her to the side so that he can replace her with his 'own' family.  He considers the girl his first child.  Jaclyn doesn't get the difference between a 'niece' and a niece (or even unrelated child) that you have raised.   As someone else said, its as if he is a widower with a child.  He doesn't want to be the non-custodial parent.  I think his Mom has legal custody, but she is over 70.  She depends on Ryan to do a lot of the parenting, the chauffeuring, etc.   The producers needed to match him with someone from the local area, where they could live within 15 minutes or so from both sets of families.  Because that is what Ryan obviously wants. 

     

    This conflict wouldn't be happening if Jaclyn was the one with the niece.  No one would be expecting her to move an hour away so she could start her 'own' family.

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  16. The producers should have never matched people who lived this far apart. Nor should they have expected Ryan to go from living on site with his orphaned Niece to a hour away. He considers that girl his child. In a choice between my child and a stranger - child wins every time.

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