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Boo Boo

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  1. I was married for 22 years when my husband died at 52 of cancer; my daughter was 14 at the time.

    So when she uses the Richard died excuse, I want to throttle her.  She uses death as a weapon, as an excuse for being a haggard old drunk.  I know people that actually have lost children and don't act like that.  So really, fuck her.

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  2. Dorinda doesn't look like she's actually done aerobics in the last 20 years much.

    And wow, Brandi without any makeup on looks so horrible.  Her skin looks so bad and to me, she looks the oldest out of all of them -- including Vicki.  And Vicki and Tamra without foundation on also look odd.  I'm convinced that if you have fillers in your face, you only look good with makeup on.

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  3. I know people seem to love Alexia, but she's an awful person IMO.

    I just got done watching the scene with Todd, Peter, Frankie.  She could not name ONE fucking thing she has done for Frankie.  She couched just letting this kid do nothing all day with her being "protective."   Um, I don't think a protective mother would allow for a kid with his issues to be alone with a violent jerk of a son Peter.  I'm a stoner, and I love weed to help me relax, sleep and get the giggles.  I would never get a kid with the problems he has stoned.  Sure, weed probablly would help him to some extend, provided it is carefully administered and the right kind (you can get high CBD strains, or just plain old CBD flower).  Alexia makes excuses after excuses so she can continue to dump Frankie on Peter so she can go out and party.

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  4. It's hard for me to get worked up over any of this since all the drama seems to be producer-driven shit. Same thing each season:  the culturally mismatched couples; the non-American who is expected to be a nanny to the American's child/children; the couples that move into the American's parents' home and drama ensues with the parents; one partner cheated; the friends that ask intrusive questions; the people that can't pay for anything but want the fanciest of rings, wedding venues; the unrealistic career quests; the wannabe musicians trying to promote their bands.  

    This show went from feeling like a documentary to producer-driven formulaic conflicts.   

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  5. It's interesting to me -- the people that loved Crystal first season and though Sutton was out of touch with the "I don't see color" seem to be thinking Crystal's "dark" comment are dangerous.  I do agree -- the way Crystal went about this is wrong, and to essentially suggest on national TV that Suttton is a racist and having to drag out what was said is wrong.

    I wonder if Sutton has more support though now because she (and Garcelle) are the only ones who take Erika on. 

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  6. On 5/25/2022 at 5:05 PM, Crashcourse said:

    Was what she said supposed to be funny?  I thought it was cruel. 

    Same!  But I've never bought into the worship of Beth as a character.  She often brings some comic relief, but I also got tired of her all knowingness too.  

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  7. 5 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

    This is what he said.

    “In my mind, I know what happens to Randall and his family, but it’s meant to not be answered and to just leave a hint of promise,” Fogelman said. “I think it’s up to the audience to decide what they think happens next with Randall. Did we watch an origin story without realizing we were watching one of a future leader of the free world?”

    I think he is testing the waters. Seeing if there is an interest in continuing Randall's story.

    I didn't see the whole interview so I don't know if he even has any thoughts or even cares about Kevin and Kate's future.

    I'm surprised that there ever was date certain/episode certain end of a popular show like this which made me think there would be sequels.

  8. 36 minutes ago, CdrJanny said:

    Well, that's one show I'll never watch.  I couldn't stand the heavy focus on Randall throughout the series.  And I think the way Kevin was almost totally ignored in this episode is a crime.

    But, did you know Randall was a foundling abandoned at a fire station?  S'truth!

    And luckily for Randall, Kevin and Kate's triplet died at birth, so Randall got to go home with parents who doted on him to the detriment of their biological children.

    What's funny is how much I loved Sterling's portrayal of him and then even he started to irritate me with his ultra suaveness.

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  9. I really despise the character of Jack, the fallacy of this perfect love story, how Randall's only daughter that seems to matter is Deja.  I ended up not liking Sterling Brown and his uber cool portrayal of Randall.  I even started despising Beth's all knowingness and Rebecca's doe-eyed looks.  Nicky of course is now Mr. Well Adjusted Humorous man after a faked death and PTSD.  And no man can get over Kate for some reason despite seeming so joyless in every episode.

    This episode of TIU really stunk, in my view.  But I'll miss TIU nevertheless!

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  10. On 5/20/2022 at 9:42 PM, lexiexx said:

    I want them to wrap up the last episode Fast Times at Ridgemont High style where we get a biography for all of them so we can see how ridiculous they all are. 

    Of course, it's TIU, so half of that time will just be stories that go years and years into the lunch lady at the big 3's elementary school, the Ophthalmologist who gave Randall his first pair of glasses, the guy who worked at the local pet shop, even though they didn't actually even go there for a pet or anything...

    Ha ha, exactly.

    And it will be that the Ophthalmologist was so moved by a Jack Pearson speech, complete with the lemonade mantra, that he goes onto cure childhood blindness owing all of his success to Jack Pearson.

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  11. 57 minutes ago, Elizzikra said:

    Her social skill development is really stuck at late elementary school level, and I apologize to elementary school students for that comparison. 

    Yeah - but a lot of people are cashing out right now because housing prices are so high. He might have just decided to seize on the opportunity to make a really tidy profit. 

    Good point about the housing prices.  Although he gave the reason that there were too many "memories" or something like that -- the inference was him bedding a shit ton of women there, so that's what made me think there's something else at play.

    Plus O strikes me as someone who would've bragged about making a killing off selling the house if that was the reason they are living in her apartment.

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  12. So O sells his house to live an apartment?  After basically berating Katina for not being where he is at in life?  

    Nothing about that makes sense and makes me wonder if he was behind on house payments and it foreclosed.

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  13. On 5/18/2022 at 5:32 PM, Notabug said:

    I think the 'going on a journey' metaphor is real, too.  I was with an elderly friend when she died and she kept talking about people who were there and what they were wearing, etc. I was with my sister and brother in law and we tried to get her to elaborate, but she was never clear; we also hadn't known her as a young woman and had never known the rest of her family, so that might've been part of it.  At one point she said, 'he wants me to come with him but I don't know if I should.' Another reference to the journey.

    She was particularly close to my sister; she loved us all, but my sister was really special to her and vice versa.  At one point, she motioned to my sister and whispered in her ear.  She wanted me and my brother in law to leave the room and just my sister with her.  We stepped out and she closed her eyes and died not 2 minutes later.  Some people are given the chance to pick their moment;  I have no doubt that Rebecca waited for her last child to get there before finishing her journey just as I know our friend wanted just her closest friend on earth with her at that moment as she crossed.

    My late husband was talking to his his mother who died six months before him.  He also told people that we were going on a vacation and our daughter was 8 (she was 14 at the time).  

    I'm not a spiritual person; but I think the dying brain does a life in review when it's a slow death.

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  14. By big groan in this episode beyond Kate being an international teacher superstar was that the kid who lived while Jack dies had his whole family mantra be the words of the irreplaceable evidently Jack Pearson AND then goes on to cure Alzheimer's, the same disease Rebecca dies from.

    It's too Seinfeld circle-ish.  

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  15. I'm torn between finding this episode wonderfully written and horribly cliche.  

    The writers seem obsessed with the love of a lifetime trope.  

     

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  16. 1 hour ago, Shermie said:

    Again, the memory of Jack being saintly is because he died young and suddenly and tragically.

    My son died suddenly last year, leaving behind 3 school-aged children. I hope they remember their father as being awesome and perfect, even if he did yell at them sometimes and get mad and exasperated, like any father. Why wouldn’t the Big Three remember their dead father as being great? He can’t undo any mistakes or apologize or fix things now. Just let them have their memories as they want them.

    My mother is in Rebecca’s stage of life, but much older and not especially easy-going. I have conflicted feelings being her caregiver because it’s all just annoyance to me at this point, and I don’t have many great childhood memories to fall back on. My parents put all their stock into working hard and saving money and being well-behaved. Life was fine, but it wasn’t magical in any way, not even through a childlike memory lens. I wish I thought of my father as a saint who died too young and my mother as loving and magical, but that’s not what I got. The Big Three did, and they’re luckier for it.

    I'm so sorry about your son and my heart goes out to you and his young children.

    I know grief as well, and so does my daughter as my husband died when she was 14.  She does not remember her father as a perfect, saintly person and I'm happy for that.    It's important for her to remember he was human, just like she is.   He was a wonderful guy, a great dad, and she remembers him for that.  But she does not hold him up to be the most incredible, perfect human that ever lived and she doesn't hold her friends, her boyfriend up to an impossible standard that no one could possibly meet.

    And again, I'm so sorry about your son. I can't even begin to image how painful that is. Hope you have a great support system around you, as well as his family.  

     

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