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JH Lipton

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  1. These are the kindest slave-owners EVER! "You need these people to work!" "We can whip them hard and still make them work. And we'll start with Eve -- she doesn't do any work anyway!" "Gee, I wonder who stole our food???" "I haven't got a clue!" Ah,yup. So, Lost 2.0 (which I see others have mentioned). First ones voted off the Island! For the first 2 or 3 seasons. Then it went off the rails into metaphysical garbage. (The "Tailies" were a complete waste!)
  2. I would think that the only time a live donor is in the ER would be for extremely time-critical transplants, which this was not. I hated the way that they wimped out by the miraculous motorcycle accident. As others have said, there are those who would stop SNAP (the food stamp program) because it's better for 1000's to starve than 1 to "game the system" (unless they're a CEO). See "welfare queen". It's a minor annoyance compared with the benefit for the blind or "hard of seeing", but I use a rolling walker from time to time and the "Braile Bumps" at sidewalk corner-ramps are bone-rattling.
  3. I did too, so was miffed when they got Kumail's episode wrong. People will use cursive and block letters interchangeably, but someone will not use serifs on their "I"s at time and not at others. The mouth-murder-note didn't have serifs, but the jock's "Learning is dumb" did. We don't know if Lisa is good at knots, but since the coder was ruled out due to his throwing, and the jock was ruled out dues his writing, she had to be the killer. @grandmabegum, if you know the showrunner, ask if anyone pointed this out. It weakened an otherwise good episode.
  4. Queens had a great cliff-hanger: The main characters are on stage and a special guest is announced. Is it Jill or is it Lauren? Tune in next season to find out!!! (Except we won't since it was cancelled -- we can fantasize whichever one we want.) No "Who will live and who will die????" nonsense like Our Kind of People.
  5. Her parents were told (forced?) to give their "blessing"both guys -- you could tell that they liked Mr Judge and disliked Danny B. Sorry, but she made all the wrong choices.
  6. Who replaces Christina Alonso? I've never liked the Street-Chris hookup. He worked a lot better with Molly Hicks, and she worked better with the poly couple until the network got cold feet about a non-standard relationship and blew it up with jealousy BS (I know a number of poly "pods" and they just don't work like that). So I'd be happy if we never see that couple again. The elusive Saint and his stash houses. I would have been so happy if just once the all-knowing Hondo had been wrong and Saint really was just a pillar of the community. But now that he's twirled his mustache at Hondo, there's no hope of that. The blowback from the LAPD on Hondo for going to the press at the end of S4. They seem to have dropped that plot and that's fine. LAPD seeming like a bunch of schoolkids while S.W.A.T. are these shining heroes is not a good look for the LAPD, and they don't need that tarnishing in Real Life.
  7. Not every show has to end on a cliff-hanger even if they know they're getting renewed. I'm a little tired of them, myself. I never thought that Lina Esco was all that great of an actress (and Chris was the only team-mate Hondo called by first name!), so I won't miss her much (and I certainly won't miss the ham-handed way they treated Erica). I'm certainly not going out of my way to see what she's in next. If she comes back for more cringey Striss cr*p, I'm fast-forwarding.
  8. She's not wrong. I'd rather not see either of them. Ever again. And those were the two that would never strategize in the others' absence. Or does he??? Sorry
  9. That hasn't worked in years. The "send a _thing_ to the network execs may have worked for one or two shows, but now it's over. OIf-topic a bit: apparently, the CW knew they were going to have to cancel a lot of shows due to losing studio space (they ended up canceling 8!) so the showrunners were warned to wrap up plot-lines and not have cliff-hangers. Of course, not all of them did.
  10. Far too many shows "on the bubble" add shocking cliffhangers, as if that's going to convince execs to renew the show Which made Wyatt's "maybe no college" funnier since he's going to make a boatload of money working for Tech Guy.
  11. Happy AAPI Heritage Month, y'all. too bad you're dead (probably -- no spoilers)
  12. I didn't think so. I took the montage as showing his wife filling him in on the important moments of their life.
  13. I don't think Mike respects anyone but himself, and Jonathan seems to think he's better than the women. My preference: Maryann / Lindsay -- I like them both and think they deserve the win Omar -- he's played a good game so far Romeo -- Just because Jonathan -- I don't care for his ego but he's decent otherwise Mike -- no gameplay, no awareness of social situations, just no
  14. Hopefully, he can stay on ST:P! So very much. Any time these days that a show or movie has a diverse cast (or, horrors, a POC playing a historically white person), we get the cries of how "woke" the producers are (as if being asleep to injustice is a good thing).
  15. That was fun, except for the ending. Of all the timelines that were created, she went back to the one where her dad murdered his assistant! I think that I would have preferred if they ended in the new and improved timeline. The creators are hoping for a Season 3, but I'm not sure that what timeline it will follow.
  16. So,,,. I'm thinking about strategy for the next Tribal Council. I think that Romeo and Mike are obvious goats -- there's no reason to vote them out now, Mike especially would be very bitter towards anyone who would dare vote the Master Strategist out. On, the other hand, Lindsey and Omar are in trouble, I think -- if either get to final with Jonathon, he's toast, but he's more of a threat than the others, so they might want him out. What would be fun is if Omar has read the instructions (or been told the instructions) for the Beware Advantage and realizes that it's worthless. So he gives it to someone but doesn't tell them that it's burned (if, in fact, it is). At TC, the stooge plays the idol and whooops, so sorry, but you're out.
  17. Standards and Practices do not apply to "reality" shows, which are allowed to change rules at production's whim. Ptroduction has definitely influenced who votes for whom, but I don't think they'd rig this game, although I think that they legally could. I can't find anything that says that the phrase must be said at the next challenge after being found, just that the advantage is not activated until all three phrases have been said. I found this on https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Beware_Advantage So I think that the idol is still active.
  18. She really is terrible, and her "aides" aren't much better. Mr Bochachio should have been gone after he interrupted dinner, and if I had been Nicole, I would have picked up Mr Nazaire's "cake" and thrown it on the floor rather than rewarding him (who pegged as Fake-ity McFake from the get-go) with a date. And Mr. Chapman needs to go too. "You broke my heart but, meh, no big deal!" Boooo!
  19. Competitive reality shows aren't subject to Standards and Practices (which monitors fir cheating VERY closely) and it showed like a neon light with Andrew. The second cash register was so obviously cake they might as well have had a giant arrow pointing at it. But what was truly infuriating was the elimination round. There was no way that the judges didn't see the crap job he did on the rims (at least one didn't even go all the way around) -- it was obvious from their podiums much less when they got close up. I knew then that the fix was in and knew that he was going to win. I didn't bother with the last 3 episodes and won't bother with this unfair show.
  20. There was a segment with Ray and Jake with them talking about Jake taking over the "most hated" spot from Ray, so at least he has a bit of a sense of humor about it. I noticed that Ray seems a LOT more light-hearted this season, taking losses with a sense of humor, congratulating other teams and saying that they beat him where he used to say that he beat himself. There really isn't much logistic difference between Hijinx and Tombstone, so I guess I can move past the simplistic design. My wife and I are both on team Witch Doctor. The Golightly are the best team captained by a woman (Malice and Valerie aren't bad but their record is spotty st best) and I'm glad to see more women on most of the teams. (The "frat bros" will never be a favorite of mine. Witch Doctor has gone toe-to-toe with top tier bots and won (they won their Bounty Hunter spit last year). Coolest things about the last episode were the bot (Malice?) ending up on its back and the bot taking out Icewave AND its drone in one shot.
  21. Levi is Air Force, so he's a bit more trained on finding a route with compass and terrain markings than you or I. From aerial views of Los Angeles, he would know to just keep the mountains to the right and you're good to go.
  22. Pilot Lady said she was by the "rock formation", so they drove to the general direction of the Pier and found it, then her. One of the lesser "Huh???"s on this show. Two of the 5 or so people killed were gay (mechanic's boyfriend) or lesbian (Pilot Lady). Not a good look in 2021. (As soon as Pilot Lady showed up, my wife said "She's dead." LOL
  23. I'm leaning toward the script, considering how badly they handled the "hippie chicks don't shave their underarms". I dated a few hippie chicks and none had a forest growing in their pits. I think an episode with him dealing with the "I just told you about safety!" and the girl's guilt could be fun, because this show can make stuff like that funny.
  24. One thing that Vi got partially wrong: the cops would talk to Karen first, because she called them. But they should have talked to Vi without a preconceived idea of who was wrong. The whole cast is great, but Toussand and Latifah are the GOATs. That would make more sense. My comment at the time was "the Internet doesn't work like that". A store like that would have closed-circuit cameras, so the store manager would definitely say something, or Vi could sue her.
  25. Substitute pretty much anything for "disabilities" and you have this show.
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