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beeble

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  1. Naruba? Seriously? That's the name of a Jedi Banker. And I'm a little tired of these fake African countries in turmoil. Can we just make up the name of a US state that is having some sort of secession issue instead? Like Wiscshiretexia? Or Florisota? I'm on Team Hookstraten. She's the only one who can take the reins from these amateurs. How did Tom even get his cabinet position? Idealism is awesome on a college campus but brings only ulcers and pink slips in DC. Or so I've heard.
  2. I'm a musical theatre geek and I find this show just so goofily adorable. I can't stop the beat. No, I can't. That's what I want in my life TV musicals. Grease had the formula down: figure out how to get an audience, build a massive set, plan for crappy weather, hire total pros who can do this under any circumstance (Vanessa Hudgens, I'm looking at you), get an amazing director and go for it. And do it live. Sorry Rocky Horror - it's a fun show but I like my musicals live. Kristin Chenoweth, Martin Short, and Harvey Fierstein were the backbones of this show. Derek Hough's dancing was good for me and he likes Oreos (although he took just a nibble. C'mon Man! I can scarf 10 of those down in the time it took for that product placement!) The best musical for this genre? "Jerry Spring - the Opera" which was on the West End back in 2004. Best. Musical. Ever. And it lends itself to TV. Except for its extreme profanity. And a more than a few Fundamentalists would take issue with how it portrays Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, not to mention Adam & Eve (look it up). But damn, maybe HBO could do a live version.
  3. More questions 1)Did Ford engineer everything? How did he know MiB would stab her so that Teddy could take her away and give that speech from West Side Story? 2) Was the maze planted by Arnold or Ford? I know Arnold came up with the idea but Ford never removed it. He liked the idea of the hosts almost gaining consciousness. 3) Was the whole dang thing orchestrated by Ford? Can he play people like a fiddle as well? Charlotte wanted Abernathy out with the info in him - did Ford know this too? 4) How did the cold storage robots move so quickly to the outskirts of the party? They were in cold storage when security was there, then left before Sizemore got there. That's a lot of naked robots. 5) Has Dolores now gained autonomy upon discovering it was her own voice she was listening to? I don't think so, particularly since she's back in that blue dress.
  4. Maeve returns for love. Is she defying her programming or conforming to it? Whatever happened to Logan after his naked ride to the rainbow? No Minotaurs. I'm really bummed. Anthony Hopkins makes this show work. He's really unpredictable under those layers of RSC acting technique. I don't know that the show can work without him. Samurai World looks awesome.
  5. Felix + Sylvester + Maeve = Weird Science Maeve now has to drive these two dorks around in a convertible as part of their madcap adventure.
  6. They've programmed the bots not to see anything out of the ordinary for fear that they might process and learn, thereby making themselves more cognizant of their situation and learning. This seems to be common knowledge among all humans, but oddly it doesn't seem like major security breaches have occurred. I'd think that would be the most glaring security lapse: don't pay any attention to that person over there, just keep doing your bot job. Sort of like a security guard at a school where I worked. His job in his mind was to drink coffee, so he never saw kid after kid walking out of the building. This totally explains everything.
  7. That's what I'd said in the previous episode's thread: that if Woz became a bot but wasn't called Woz, people would notice. I'm thinking Arnold had to be pretty spectacular to do what he did and was known before he hooked up with Ford. Even if it was winning the school science fair or graduating from MIT at age 17. So Ford killed off a nerd whom other nerds knew and renamed him...ok, but that seems a little risky. But what do I know? I watch the show with the same look on my face that Dolores has on hers
  8. Here's a theory: Arnold never existed. Ford wanted a partner but was too much of a madman for anyone to trust him. So Arnold was a figment of his imagination until he created him, and then when Dolores killed him, Ford rewrote the program. Go Maeve go!
  9. I rewatched the episode last night. Some things were a little clearer upon second viewing but I had to laugh when Dolores had her breakdown and said, "When are we? Is it now? I can't tell anymore!" I thought, Yup, right there with you sister. Teddy is this show's version of South Park's Kenny.
  10. Regarding the lady in the welcome video, if she had been the welcome lady 30 years ago, there would be subtle and not-so-subtle changes in hair styles and clothing as well as technology that the guests would spot immediately. Even though everybody is in our future (and disappointingly enough, nobody is wearing silver spandex) they will see the differences. Plus, it makes them look like cheapskates once the damsel in distress is seen. It would like Goofy having to show you where to park AND do his entertainment thing inside the Disney park. The jig is up and some of the magic is lost. Edited for embarrassingly bad spelling
  11. I think I have face blindness because I did not recognize the blond whom the MIB assumed had been retired. Most pretty blonds on TV all become blurry to me but seriously - I cannot keep bit players in my head. But if it is the same person, and she is has been repurposed from welcome lady to damsel in distress, why is she still in the video that Maeve saw? Is Maeve in an earlier timeline? My confusion matches the human condition described by Ford to Bernard. Just a whole lot of "What? Why? Who's that?" Game of Thrones is easier to follow. And speaking of our favorite bot, I vote that Bernard is not "Arnold Repurposed" for the reasons others have stated: surely somebody knew what Arnold looked like. His name hasn't been scratched from the record so somebody would have recognized him, even if his contributions were not as big as Ford's. If Steve Jobs had killed Steve Wozniak and built a robot to look like him and called him something other than "Woz," people would start to ask questions.
  12. I'm another newbie to this show, and I loved it! Nobody's equipment failed, nobody was out of their element ("I'm a vegan sandwich-maker/I'm a Paleo barista"), and nobody is evil. What a concept. I got a sugar buzz from merely watching this. How do Mary and Paul not pass out from eating this rich food? I'll bet they carried around the bottle of gin to balance out the sweetness.
  13. I'm pretty sure that everyone thinks Arya is dead, even though Brienne saw her and most likely yammered on and on about fighting the Hound. Her chances didn't look great, and admittedly, she did renounce her Starkness to become "Nobody" for a period of time. I guess Bran has to make a declaration from the Tree of Knowledge that he officially cedes power to Sansa. Whoa - what if there were a woman running each kingdom in Westeros? Bananas. Just bananas.
  14. I thought the same thing! Or at least Jon could have pointed for him to run to the left. However, this was the best. Episode. Ever. I only wish I could have watched it in a theatre full of GoT fans. I clapped at the Stark banner replacing the Bolton banner. I clapped at the very end as Sansa walked away with an evil smile. My dogs got the zoomies as a result. And Yara and Dany will rule the seven kingdoms laughing at guys who brag about their dicks. Or at least I have dreams of that happening. I loved that there were two women who respected each other and didn't use beauty or sex for power. One has dragons, the other has ships. Littlefinger has partially redeemed himself. Partially.
  15. I think you're right. I lose track of the timelines on these shows. But if it's only been a few months, she might not have healed fully. That was quite a lot of bullets that got her.
  16. I figured a Sarah-Rachel partnership would have to be chaperoned. I just wish Felix had been the one to do it. Speaking of Felix, he was looking particularly fierce this episode. The hair and the eye make up were lovely. Oh man, I wanted to see the "little triplet" take out Adele. Delphine had better have an awfully good excuse for not contacting Cosima for a year. And that excuse had better not include amnesia, the soap-opera all-purpose ailment that seems to affect only women after getting shot, seeing something scary, having a baby, or driving a car. This show has the good sense not to go there.
  17. It's clear to anyone loyal to the Starks that Sansa's marriages were forced upon her because 1) as awesome as we all know Tyrion to be, nobody could seriously marry him and have any power. She thought she was to marry Joffrey and become the queen, and that didn't happen. OK. Sham marriage. 2) Anyone with an ear to the ground would have known that her "marriage" to Ramsay was bondage and her purpose was to get knocked up. Northerners would know that Sansa had no reason to be loyal to either house since both treated her abysmally and neither was a situation she wanted. But I guess a ten-year-old has to be sure.
  18. Wow - for a while I thought Ian McShane was bringing some nuanced perspective to the Westeros fight club. Nope Pacifists just get in the way. Diana Rigg is too damn cool for words. I hope she'll only pretend to sneak out of King's Landing. Or maybe she can move up north to help Tyrion. Sansa is turning into a badass. I did not miss Dany this week.
  19. Alison as Judas in an all female Jesus Christ Superstar. Of course. Will she be playing Aaron Burr in a local version of Hamilton? I like the idea of Rachel and Cosima working together since they have not had too much to do together, and I like that pairing: the two best science educated clones. And Cosima has such a great sense of humor about being whisked away via helicopter to the creepy island. And while we had no word of Delphine, Rachel might discover a few clues that flicker around the swan in her hacked eye. "Don't you get me wrong. Don't you get me wrong!!" That song won't leave my brain.
  20. Once Sam's family realized that Gilly was from "way up north" and was a wilding, nobody returned to her original point, which was that Sam killed a white walker. That seems sort of a big deal. Like most snobby families in Westeros, they won't realize it until it's too late. Drogon's screech freaked out my dog. I still prefer Direwolves. Margery is so playing the long con. She knows what a twit her husband is. The Freys are still relevant? Sure. Who else is in the dungeon? Lots of chitchat at dinner. I'm not sure I buy Arya's exit from the assassin club. She sailed there, went hungry, abandoned her possessions, begged to be let in, cleaned corpses, went blind, suffered, got beaten, resisted temptation, and then decided with her first assignment that it just wasn't for her. I thought she had more sticktoitiveness.
  21. Tonight's show was one of the funniest episodes I think I've ever seen, measured by how often I laughed out loud, and how much I'm laughing thinking back to the show. I love Dan and Jonah together. Best campaign ever. I predict Jonah will be a national phenomenon. Margery is going to move into Selina's mother's house, now Katherine's house. And Selina will keep reminding her that she's from Delaware. Don't get me a book. I already have a book.
  22. Oh fudge. The time sync seemed a little off. While Sarah was having her bar bender, Alison was planning and then hosting a slumber party. Knowing Alison doesn't keep rock star hours, it just seemed off. Maybe Sarah's bender started around 6 pm but I doubt that a band would be playing around the time that a slumber party would still have the other moms and dads. And it seemed as though another one of the time intercuts - either Mrs. S's home or still at Alison's place where there was natural light shining through. And you may ask yourself, what does it matter? To which I answer, "probably not much." "Stop stalking me." "You're in my place."
  23. Wonder what a scene with just Paige and Stan would be like? Paige: "I'm not supposed to say this, but my parents are spies! For the Russians!" Stan: "You don't say!?! Well I'm not supposed to say this, but I slept with a Russian agent I turned but who turned back and now I'm BFFs with her ex Soviet lover AND she was killed in Siberia, AND my boss' ex secretary was married to a KGB agent." Paige: "Wow, Mr. Beeman! That sounds really adult. Back to my problems, my mom said that they never hurt anyone, but I saw her kill a guy with a knife and scare away his friend! And she was unarmed!" Stan: "That's kind of crazy, Paige. You have any beer in the fridge?" Paige: "Sure, help yourself. I'm going across the street to make out with/convert your creepy son I can't stay away from."
  24. Diana Rigg needs a sword so she can put those Emma Peel skills to use. Maybe a few summersaults and karate chops as well could be thrown in there. I just had a thought: any chance that Nymeria could have had a litter of Dire Pups? If so, our Starks could start Warging again! I wonder if, when Jonathan Pryce gets his weekly script, he says to himself, "How the hell is the Sparrow still alive? I have other jobs to get to! I wasn't planning on this guy living this long!" More dragons, please!
  25. Dany for Queen. She's had my vote since the get-go. I'd like to see her loan out Drogon to Sansa so she can personally see the roasting of Ramsay. Tyron could arrange that. And speaking of Sansa, I loved her "man-up" attitude with Mr Mopey Jon Snow. No more deaths of Dire Wolves! I'm seriously getting pissed off.
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