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2 hours ago, After7Only said:
The guy might have some great ideas in his book. But just like so many cherry pick MLK's, I have a dream speech without context, the right may be cherry picking this guy's writing to promote the narrative that Black people are not owed anything. I think that's where Whoopi and Sunny were trying to go with him.
They really should have let him explain his ideas without interrupting him and trying to "correct" him. That was rude. If you want to give more than lip service to the concept of free speech, you should allow people to speak, even if you think they are wrong. Maybe Sunny was completely conversant with the text of his book since she read it twice, but it is unlikely that the majority of the audience knew anything about it, and that was the point of having him come on the show.
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On 3/27/2024 at 10:20 AM, margol29 said:
Could they make Mike any more unsufferable? I really can't stand him anymore. I'm glad that prison stuff is done with.
Haha! We are just watching now to snark at it. So much of each plot is predictable and everyone starts every conversation at level 10, with every issue one of life and death. Every time someone (usually a client) tells Mike off now, I'm rooting for them, because he really does have a god complex - he always knows what's best for someone.
We just watched an episode where Mike promised (aka "gave his word") that he wouldn't work on the prison class action suit, and my husband thought that was it, but I told him that Mike was sure to show up in court in the morning anyway, and guess what? He did. Too bad I didn't bet money on that. 💵
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Well - Colman Hughes interview - you'd think that <fill in the blank with whatever person Sunny really dislikes> was sitting in that seat. She kept going on tangents to the point where she was interpreting what other authors meant in their books in order to contradict the author's points. Clearly, Sunny disagrees with his POV, but that doesn't mean no one else gets to hear them and decide for themselves. I also thought that the panel's (was it Whoopi or someone else?) suggestion that his age disqualifies his ideas was silly as they often generously praise other young people's ideas. The difference is that they tend to agree with those other people. The age of the author shouldn't really matter. Agree or disagree, he's as entitled to his opinion as anyone else.
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I thought Nolan was out of line to suggest that the witness should have recognized that the man was having an asthma attack. Why would you expect that everyone would know what was going on? How many people have actually seen someone having an asthma attack other than on television? Additionally, attacks vary in appearance. I haven't had an attack in years thanks to medical management, but for me, I would have found it hard to walk any distance or speak, since my whole concentration was on breathing. Even so, people would have to ask if something was wrong, not understand immediately what was happening.
Anyway, both lawyers seemed ok assuming that witnesses knew things that they realistically had no way of knowing and assuming things that were subjective. I particularly thought that the witness stating that the defendant said something in a "racist tone" was odd. What is that? Is it something everyone would recognize? There are any number of "tones" that could be confused by different people depending on who was talking - "angry", "obnoxious", "aggressive", "sneering" for example.
I don't know if it is possible, but I wondered if the prosecution could have offered a plea for manslaughter, as Nolan originally wanted; at least that would have gotten the defendant into jail instead of being acquitted. At least that way there would be some kind of "win" without exposing the undercover operation.
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57 minutes ago, Smokeyblow said:
Out of interest how would you have handled it in her position?
As a private person, I kept my diagnosis quiet; only a few people knew it at the time, though since then, others have been told, mainly to share helpful information with them. As a public person, like Kate, I think that partway into her announced / planned recuperation time (until Easter, which doesn't come for another week), it might have been better to share some info rather than allow speculation to get out of control.
Kate isn't known for sharing a lot of personal information, let alone health details, so sharing this would have more impact than it might for people who share a lot more.
I do think that speculation on the View got a bit out there, and if the panel had taken a little time to consider how they would like it. Someone somewhere pointed out that Sunny might not care for people to be throwing out ideas about why she's wearing a wrist brace, for example.
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3 hours ago, ljr said:
I learned something from the show. I never heard of the peter syndrome
The Peter Principle was a book in the 1960s (or around then), which became well known at the time. The idea is that people in business (or really anything) continue to get promoted until they get to a position where they are no longer as competent and so they stop progressing. It sounds like a pop-culture idea, but I have to say, I've seen examples of it for years. Where it hurts is that it applies to everyone, including yourself, so you might keep wondering when you've hit your Peter Principle plateau. :-)
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15 minutes ago, Auntie Velvet said:
Sort of weird that Nina, Alexis and even Gregory all seem poised to leave the Invader.
Doesn't anyone have a contract? The lawyers in Port Charles must be constantly busy with breach of contract suits.
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How does Willow not know that hospital meds are inventoried and checked? Did she think this was the 1950s?
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9 hours ago, sacrebleu said:
Especially since Jason experienced Sonny's 'death' during NF, and the fact that he didn't get word to ANYONE for two years is just cruel.
Hmm. I wonder if he'll get the "Nina" treatment at some point for failing to report that he was alive.
Sonny: "You can't act on information you don't have". Really? Does Sonny get all the information before he overreacts?
So, it took Dex confessing to attempted murder on Sonny's orders for Anna to see Sonny in a new light? Now what is she going to do?
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Kristina's story about Dante made it sound as if he was around as a teen, getting into scrapes, but I thought that Sonny didn't even know about Dante until he was an adult. That sounded strange to me.
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Sonny and Nina - If anything should convince Nina that the love affair with Sonny was pure fantasy, it would be how Sonny reacted to the SEC whistleblowing. If he blows up his new(!) marriage over Nina telling the SEC that Carly and Drew engaged in insider trading, then he was never really that into it to begin with. It isn't as if she betrayed him, or killed his puppy, or cheated on him with his best friend, which would all be reasons to end a relationship. She should take it as a lesson learned and move on to a more reasonable person - although where she'd find one in Port Charles is a mystery.
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13 hours ago, Bronzedog said:
What is the deal with Theresa Caputo’s hair? Just asking.
I wondered about that, too. I've seen pictures of her before, and her hair was always pouffed up, but the hair on the show was exceptionally high, and IMO not really attractive.
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17 minutes ago, ciarra said:
They want to show that racism was the cause of the misdiagnosis. He was arrested during a protest and sent to a mental health facility.
I'm fuzzy on Marshall's history, so thanks for the background. Are they thinking this was some type of retaliation, or was his behavior post arrest so erratic? Protesting alone doesn't seem to be significant to that kind of diagnosis.
It does seem odd that someone could continue to get medication for decades without any other doctor's sign-off. I can imagine that in a mental facility there might be a tendency for doctors to see what they expect to see and go along with the original diagnosis, but once he got out at some point, wouldn't he get some re-evaluation? Lately, it is hard to get a prescription renewed constantly without seeing a doctor periodically.
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17 hours ago, Grinaldi said:
He's a doctor, of course he's upper middle class. They don't take a vow of poverty. As if Portia didn't buy a beach house from a billionaire.
Why does everyone assume this long-ago doctor had some malevolent purpose with his diagnosis? Maybe medical science wasn't that precise 40+ years ago and the diagnosis was just wrong, based on flawed results. RL example: I have two conditions that were diagnosed many years ago (at least as long ago as Marshall's); relatively recently, two of my current doctors told me that they wanted to verify those conditions since the conditions had been frequently misdiagnosed years ago because doctors didn't know then what they know now. As it turns out, both conditions were correctly diagnosed in my case, which is kind of a good news / bad news thing.
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16 hours ago, Sake614 said:
Yeah but then he said she was the best editor the magazine ever had so she said she’d stay
The "best" for one issue! It is unclear who is actually working at Crimson for the next issue, because the very, very involved and astute businessman Drew hasn't gotten a replacement for Carly yet as far as we know. We haven't seen Carly showing up at the office and making those fabulous deals since she "quit", so who's driving the bus? (Wouldn't it be ironic if that next issue turned out to be even better than anything Carly or Nina produced?)
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The story about Whoopi reading to her great(?) granddaughter's class and talking about dyslexia was fine, but then she had to link it to Donald Trump, and I think that cheapened the nice story about the kids and overcoming reading difficulties by making it look like a set-up instead of a story by itself.
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For a great actor, Al didn't put much effort into that announcement. Even if he was just going to say who won, he could have been clearer about that. (I wonder if he colluded with whoever organized the In Memorium segment).
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On 2/27/2024 at 3:27 AM, Puffaroo said:
Okay, I remember the original Shogun, also read the book.
I don't remember either being this dark and dismal.
My recollection is that the situation when the sailors were captured was pretty brutal, although being on TV in the 80s, it wasn't as graphic. Blackthorne was humiliated by having someone pee on him, which made him look bad to everyone, the crew and the Japanese. They did boil someone alive, and also threatened the rest with death, while they were kept captive in that pit. Only Blackthorne was taken out and cleaned up, and if I recall correctly, that made a bit of tension between him and rest of the crew. Throughout the book and the previous miniseries, there were plenty of deaths.
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On 2/27/2024 at 7:17 PM, DoctorAtomic said:
Hard to steer wrong with a show that has Nestor Carbonell on an island could be good.
I thought that was him! Those eyelashes are his trademark, although the whiskers made me wonder.
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On 3/5/2024 at 5:53 AM, Chyromaniac said:
How do you make time for that in this episode? The easiest solution is to just have Shaw confront the guy on the bridge after the shooting instead of before. Then he goes to the precinct, hears about the shooting, and he and Riley investigate the crime. Eventually they come across the shooter at that apartment, because Shaw told him to go be with his kid. I think that would shave at least 10 minutes off the investigation side- you could even keep the scene about the hospital video.
I think that would have been more time economical, for sure. However, it would eliminate the conflict Shaw felt about saving a person who later went on to kill someone - if he had known what the guy was going to do, would he still have tried to stop him from killing himself? I didn't think they gave that conundrum enough consideration in the script, although to me it seems central to the policeman's competing imperatives - can (or should) you save more lives by letting one life go, especially since you aren't the one ending it?
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4 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:
How does Shaw meet him partway? Riley would never be mistaken for a perp by other cops simply because of the color of his skin. Riley should have simply said he was sorry that happened to Shaw and left it at that.
Some experiences are never going to be understood by outsiders.
My experience is that in situations like that, saying something like, "Maybe it's hard for you to understand because you haven't been there, but haven't you ever had experiences that just wear you down." Just about everyone has felt disregarded at some point for some unfair reason and they can relate to that. It isn't saying that everything is equivalent, but especially when dealing with someone you have to work with and depend on building understanding is important.
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2 minutes ago, Xeliou66 said:
I would take Maroun over Serena or Borgia (that might be an unpopular opinion, but she doesn’t infuriate me the way those two could) but Maroun isn’t nearly as good as the other 5 second chair ADAs - Paul, Claire, Jamie, Abbie and Connie.
I didn't mind Borgia (and her end was the worst, to me) but I think Paul was always my favorite and I also liked Connie, because she seemed to be able to be pragmatic and idealistic when needed and was also very competent without being flawless.
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On 3/2/2024 at 2:50 PM, dubbel zout said:
This, though, would be more useful, I think. A black detective isn't immune from racial prejudice from his own department. (Sidebar to that: I liked how Shaw put Riley in his place when Riley tried to be sympathetic to Shaw.)
I thought the Shaw / Riley conversation was good until Shaw did that. If someone is trying to understand your perspective, telling them that they don't know what they're talking about is kind of jerky IMO. Maybe it is an understandable impulse, but being a little less strident might help the person understand you better than basically telling them to buzz off; they might not try very hard to understand you if you don't meet them partway.
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On 3/2/2024 at 1:03 PM, blackwing said:
i wish they got rid of her altogether. I was surprised that she didn't side with the defendant, typically she is thrust into the role of feeling sorry for the defendant and being judgemental of Nolan for wanting to convict him.
Maroun makes Serena look like a hard ass.
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Suits - General Discussion
in Suits
I was watching an episode of Law and Order where the defendant did something unexpected in the middle of the trial that could have unknown consequences for the case, and guess what the prosecutors did - they talked with the DA and speculated on what might happen and then said (paraphrasing) "Well, we will find out what the judge does in the morning". No one yelled, cursed, or suggested that they try to "get something on" the defense attorney, the judge, or anyone else, and most importantly, they didn't rush out in the middle of the night on some half-baked quest to change things.
Back in Suits-world, Rachel finally told Mike that if he kept giving his word to people and going back on it, his word wouldn't be worth anything, which is what most people would think.
Most recently in the last episode I watched, Louis behaved more or less like a grownup, which is a nice change of pace, and I hope it lasts.