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2 hours ago, Katy M said:
But, let's just take a moment to acknowledge that Trevor really did die in the most stupid way possible.
I don't know about that. For me, standing in the line of fire when you should know better, in front of people who don't know what they are doing with a bow and arrow, is stupider.
I loved how the ghosts were right there and Isaac launched into his "we are ghosts" speech as soon as Trevor dropped dead. I guess it was always like a show for them whenever there were any goings-on at the mansion. But there was no reason for the ghosts to expect that someone would join their ranks during the proceedings - and still Isaac was ready! Same speech he tried using to welcome Sam's great aunt some twenty years later, too. He probably honed it for centuries.
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11 hours ago, Mediocre Gatsby said:
Man, it isn't enough that I had to FF through Old Sheldon for the last few years of TBBT, now I have to do it for an even longer time on YS?
It really felt gratuitous, didn't it? Way too long (it felt like a good two minutes from what, the 18 minutes of the actual running time?), way too whimsical with those old-timey title cards. And I don't think they used the word "jealous" correctly. Yes, it can mean "protective of your domain," but when you deliver it as a one-word question with a triumphant smirk the way they did, it pretty much always means "I am rubbing it in that I have something or can do something you don't." Which is not at all what we had here.
Kid Sheldon's sense of entitlement was super annoying too, from refusing to help Mary because she was not helping him (while she was making sure he has something to eat) to his insistence that everybody at Radio Shack drop everything and listen to the great ideas of the holder of three shares. "I am busy too, but I made time to call you." It always pisses me off when people use reasoning like that. You chose to do something, that really does not impose any obligation to do the same on anybody else.
I kinda liked the breakup though, there was some strange dignity in it. "I love you, you know that. But we are done." And that's it. No drama, just final.
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2 hours ago, redpencil said:
To me, he wasn't actually speaking English in the flashback. It was just a representation of the scene using English for the audience (and in his retelling of it for Sam) in place of subtitles for the whole scene. And the initial conversation being in their native tongue was just to set the scene. It doesn't make sense that they would actually be speaking English like that, especially randomly switching between them. Obviously I don't know the show's intentions, but breaking the 4th wall and being solely for the audience's sake is what I'm going with in my head, since it's what makes the most sense to me.
I believe they also indicated at the bottom of the screen that the scene was set in 1513 (or was it 1530-something?). Pretty sure the English speakers did not have a presence in North America yet, so the Lenape wouldn’t have any need to learn and use English.
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6 minutes ago, possibilities said:
They do need to be careful not to develop a reputation for being a place where a lot of guests die. Haunted is a niche market. Cursed is a business killer.
There is a hotel in Belfast that was bombed by the IRA something like 30 times. I have always wondered how on Earth it stayed in business. You’d think that after, I don’t know, the first dozen bombings potential guests would have caught on.
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2 hours ago, HurricaneVal said:
I want to see the website! I want to know about the tree!
I gotta say, if I were looking for a BnB and came across a website trying to convince me to pick them by talking to me from a tree’s perspective? I would scroll right on, more likely than not. It would probably just weird me out, not my cup of tea at all. And calling the tree Woody? Cringey. But best of luck to Sam and Jay, I hope it works for them.
Sass is so incredibly sharp and perceptive, isn’t he? While the other ghosts sometimes don’t get the implications of what is happening (like Isaac with some things he says, Pete seeing his wife bring a “friend”, Thor with, well, most everything, etc.), Sass just sees right away what is happening and why.
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37 minutes ago, mojoween said:
I don’t know why, but this ep was very underwhelming to me. Two needle in a haystack challenges? No thank you.
Yes, spending literally half of the episode watching people turn rocks over was a bit much. And the show didn’t do any service to Thessaloniki. What interesting things did we learn about the place? They got rocks, cafes, old walls with towers and a waterfront. Just like literally any other Mediterranean city then? Yawn. Socrates and Diogenes have nothing to do with Thessaloniki either. I did like Socrates’ weird intensity though.
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57 minutes ago, Zonk said:
If you'd asked me to spell souvlaki, I would have done it just like this. But then I think that's a bit closer to how a german would write it than a native english speaker. Of course with the vendors accent I'm not quite sure if I had recognised the word.
I wish they had to spell it in Greek to make it at all challenging. Even then, you could find someone with a smartphone and google it, apparently. The same about the accent - the vendor did pronounce it more like "shoe-vlaki" and it could trip someone who had never heard of souvlaki before, but Google helpfully suggests "souvlaki" if you type "shuvlaki" or even "shoevlaki."
Maybe "I've never eaten onion in my life" meant "I never eat onion" (did she actually say "have" there?), kind of like "I've never eaten it if I had a choice, and I usually have had a choice," rather than "I've never tried it."
The funny thing about Kim and Penn is that they are billed as "internet personalities," and that usually turns me off a bit because I prefer real-life personalities. There is just usually not enough in an "internet personality" to make them interesting to me. I suppose, most of those other "internet personalities" are so young that they simply have not had time or reason to try other things and become anything more. But these two are legit.
1 hour ago, Zonk said:I was wondering for a while now if they still had separate sound guys. That always seemed super unwieldy and mics really have gotten good enough that camera mounted ones should suffice. This episode we saw quite a few camera men but no sound guys and I think I saw mics mouted on the cameras, so I'm leaning towards no seperate sound guy anymore.
There was a shot of someone leaning forward and you could see a mic sticking out from under their shirt on the back, too.
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Reading about the cheese on Wikipedia, isn't this a colorful description :)?
"Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed,[4][11] diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping. Some who eat the cheese prefer not to ingest the maggots. Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. [Much like when "The worm jump inside," as the greeter so cheerfully put it, and for the same reason, no doubt.] When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.[12][8]"
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6 hours ago, Lantern7 said:
How did maggots get involved with cheese?
Some (possibly drunk) cheesemaker looked around, saw that everybody was doing mold and decided to kick it up a notch. Apparently, the maggots digest the cheese and that adds something to the texture as well as the flavor. I still don’t understand why anyone would choose to eat live maggots though. Aside from being icky, they may carry some parasites that can make you sick. For that reason, selling and buying casu marzu is actually banned in the EU (and in the US, for that matter), I am not sure how exactly TAR legally procured that particular wheel of cheese.
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1 hour ago, Tom Holmberg said:
Then again he's hanging out with 20 year olds who act more like 12 year olds.
Yes, exactly. Sheldon is self-overprotective. He won’t do many things that are actually safe. So if he feels comfortable hanging out with those guys, then it’s probably safe with room to spare.
And George did not blow off his parenting duties because he was frustrated after a bad day at work. If you watch the scene again, he is telling Mary that Sheldon thinks it’s safe, the campus is safe, Sheldon will be with his friends, and all that. He gave it a thought and made a parenting decision that at some point you have to start trusting that your kid may be on his own and this is not a bad situation for that. We may agree or disagree whether it was a bad parenting decision, but he did exactly what Mary asked him to do - take one thing off her plate and be a parent.
Of course, what Mary wanted was not to let George do parenting, but to just go and pick up Sheldon because she wanted the parenting to be done her way.
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3 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
Well, a compass would help them know that they were going in the exact opposite direction at least once, had they used it correctly.
Yeah, ‘correctly’ implies that they would have to know where they are, where they are going and which compass direction they need to be facing at any given time. That last part might be too much even for people who are not navigationally challenged. You don’t need a compass to drive on a road. A road has only two directions - towards your destination and away from it, and they don’t change when the road makes a turn. Trying to navigate on a road with a compass will just mess you up.
Maybe it’s precisely the compass that confused Natalia so much? “I thought we should be going east now, why are we going north? Maybe we are not where I thought we were? Where are we? Wait, why are we going southeast now? Which direction should we be going?” And that’s it, she is lost.
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8 hours ago, mertensia said:
Why was Natalia using a compass?
I couldn't understand that either. If you are on a freeway with exits, or on any street with intersections with other named streets, all you need to know is that you have to get to exit X and you should see exits M, N and O on your way there. That's how you know that you are going in the right direction. It makes absolutely no difference whether you are heading south or southwest, you follow the road whichever way it happens to be going. Of course, you need to have taken a look at a map and know where you are and what your destination is, but a compass can't help you with those things anyway.
As for Arun's "we are better than this," no, I don't think there is any evidence of that. If you keep being this, then this is what you are.
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12 hours ago, kwnyc said:
Sam and Jay have an awesome property to turn into a B&B: they've just solved a century old mystery, found a valuable antique, have a room where a famous jazz singer died, and which contains the site if a Revolutionary War encampment.
8 hours ago, Bruinsfan said:Don't forget the pre-Columbian Viking bones dug up in the driveway.
And a cholera pit for epidemiology buffs, with a rotating exhibit about water heaters. This month - deliming!
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15 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
So many great lines, its hard to pick my favorite, but "He's literally twirling his mustache" is the one that made me laugh the hardest. Thorfinn suggesting that Sam and Jay kill themselves so that they can all stay friends was weirdly sweet, in a Viking kind of way. But Thorfinn is willing to change and looks to become a better person!
Wasn’t he already willing to change and become a better person when he tried learning to say that he is sorry? Of course, he might be a little more motivated now that Hetty may have demonstrated a certain power.
”The wedding will become an orgy.” - “So just a normal wedding?” I wouldn’t be surprised if Trevor had another “dude, Viking life sounds awesome” reaction to this line in the background. These actors are truly amazing.
”Baptism? A ravenous thrustfest.”
Poor Hetty, thinking (hoping?) that her horrible husband (and least favorite cousin) could have used their anniversary date for the vault combination. I am surprised she knew the maid’s birthday though, that seems a little out of character for her. I wouldn’t expect her to care about the help to such an extent.
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My favorite in this episode was Peg. I loved how the kids were checking if she is asleep so they’d be free do whatever they are not supposed to do, Billy says “she looks dead,” and she opens her eyes and barks “I’m not dead!” And then goes ahead and closes her eyes again because of course she doesn’t care if they behave or not. She is just there to confiscate stuff for her own benefit. “But they are allowed to have a Walkman” - “Well, it’s mine now.”
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13 hours ago, Blakeston said:
As much as I enjoy this show, the concept is pure nightmare fuel.
The thought of being stuck forever in the place you died, with no way to communicate with anyone unless they also happened to die there, is utterly horrifying. The caveman character on the British show spent many, many thousands of years by himself, with no company besides the sun and moon. ::shudders::
Sam and Jay should be devoting every moment of their lives to ensuring that a) they have no unfinished business, and b) they never set foot anywhere they don't want to spend eternity.
This also brings up the question of where they go when they ascend. The show has steered clear of any religious aspects of this, understandably, at least so far. But the whole idea of the afterlife has to do with religion. Do they ascend somewhere according to their respective religions? Sam and Jay could potentially be of different faiths, or one of them could be an atheist, in which case they would have to split up after death and might actually prefer the chance to be stuck together as ghosts for some time. Or, if the choice is between Christian heaven and hell, for example, then non-Christians (Thorfinn? Sassapis?) could be better off as ghosts as well.
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42 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
Oops. With all the shenanigans over the improbabilities of the dorm room scheme, we seem to have overlooked how the Teddy Bear scheme would have brilliantly protected The House from ever having to pay out very much.
If they capped the payouts by what could be plausibly paid for a teddy bear, it would cut off a big part of her clientele. Some people would not keep coming and spending their money for a chance to win only, what, $50? I mean, I guess there is still a cap of some kind there, since Meemaw mentioned that the machines were set to limit the winning and only got reset when the were unplugged and rebooted. But I am sure the limit is not advertized by Meemaw. And in any case, it's an illegal business, it's hard to imagine the clients feeling bound by legal considerations too much. Meemaw doesn't really have much leverage there, unless she goes full-on mafia and gets some enforcers.
Sheldon was really clueless about people using his dorm room. I loved how Missy got clued in right away and volonteered to tell him. And George being down with that.
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7 hours ago, AnimeMania said:
The major cholera epidemics in the US were around 1830 to 1860. To let you know how long ago that was, this is when the setters were fighting the Native Americans for their land. Nancy was played as a modern woman with modern morals, not a woman from the same era as Hetty.
Maybe they died in a minor local outbreak that happened more recently. Either way, I love how the cholera ghosta are all docile and resigned to just standing in the dark forever talking about the water heater, and then Nancy is like, enough of this, I am taking matters into my own hands! Nancy is awesome, isn't she? Such a powerful presence, so much energy, just fun to watch. I loved her improv skills too, the bit about grabbing the arrow and steering Pete came absolutely out of the blue.
Do we know exactly how Hetty is related to Sam? Just wondering if she is related to Sam's mom too.
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17 hours ago, Frost said:
I thought he was a crap teacher. Why would a starter engineering course not teach engineering. I could see a graduate level student having to figure out problems on their own before approaching the professor, but an intro course? It's not like the prof covered it in class and Sheldon forgot to apply it to his bridge design. I think the Sheldon-professor interactions needed a little more context for the prof's actions to be amusing in light of Sheldon's struggles.
I think the idea was that the students were given the assignment at the beginning of the course so they could start thinking about it, but it had to be turned in later, after they had been taught things about bridge design. And Sheldon, of course, thought he could figure everything out by himself and did not need to wait for instruction, so he kept turning his design in early. Sheldon tried several times, it must have been several days, Boucher must have taught them something during that time, right? But I agree, the professor’s job is to teach engineering, and what we saw him do to Sheldon was not that.
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13 hours ago, Crs97 said:
And I really hated the professor and President’s moment of glee over sticking it to a kid. We know he grew up to be pretty insufferable, and now we know why. Few adults in his life were ever willing to tell him no; they just like complaining about him behind his back.
I don’t know about that. It might be the other way around - at some point, probably early enough in his life, Sheldon was already so insufferable that the adults found it easier and more productive not to tell him no. It’s only his parents’ responsibility, and maybe his schoolteachers’, to raise him. Other people have their own things to do and often it’s easier to just nod to get a Sheldon out of the way so you could focus on those. So yes, his parents might have made him insufferable the way you suggest, but I wouldn’t blame his college professors and administrators. Especially since Boucher did tell him no, and I think Linkletter did too. It didn’t seem to help.
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1 hour ago, Netfoot said:
Which exists right up to when Phil says "...you have been eliminated from The race."
That’s hope. Unless it’s a NEL, the chance to win is gone when the second-to-last team checks in. And for practical purposes, it’s gone even at some earlier point in time.
1 hour ago, iMonrey said:I actually liked Gary and DeAngelo from the beginning, but DeAngelo's reaction on the finish mat was poor sportsmanship, and it was extremely disappointing and disheartening to hear him say he's sorry he did the race. Think of how many people would have loved to have this opportunity, let alone making it all the way to the penultimate episode. I don't care how butt hurt DeAngelo felt about the betrayal of the other teams or whatever hard feelings he had. By his own admission he has the money to pay for a trip like this himself and he took a spot in this race that so many would love to have.
He only took someone else’s spot as much I as did when I was hired for my job. They all were cast by TAR to attract viewers and advertising dollars. Yes, I am grateful to my employer, I suppose, but they hired me because they needed me, not because they decided to be kind and generous. So I don’t see why I should be eternally grateful and never speak up if I don’t like something. I can disagree with the form DeAngelo expressed his frustration in, but to paint him as ungrateful and entitled is a bit much, imo.
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16 minutes ago, blackwing said:
I've never worn heels and I imagine that none of the other men (except for apparently Chee) have either.
Yes, by the way, what was that about? I am not judging, it's all the same to me, but I am curious. Is this something he and Hung do to spice things up? And then, a couple of episodes ago, they were talking about how their whole family has a whole fetish for the Travelosity roaming gnomes... They seem like an interesting family, I almost wish the season was longer so I could learn more...
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42 minutes ago, redfish said:
So close but so stupid. G/D were so close. So many times they were 3/4 correct in the last challenge. If only they read the clue. Every time they didn't pay attention to the clue they fell behind. I was screaming at the screen. Read! The! Clues!
It's weird, they kept putting Trinidad first as if they actually read the clue and knew the flags had to be in the order of countries visited, not songs played. I think they kept getting Colombia's position right, too. If they also got Paraguay (which I am not positive they knew for a fact and not just guessed), then they could have easily simply tried out the rest of the countries in the fourth position. Not sure why they decided they couldn't do it. It is hard to do this kind of challenge without feedback on how close or far off you are.
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8 hours ago, Hera said:
I also can't respect the decision to give up on the task and take the penalty after the other teams left. To me, that's far more of a sore loser move than what DeAngelo said at the mat (although that was pretty ungracious). Jerry/Frank, Michelle/Victoria, Kaylynn/Haley, and Eswar/Aparna all knew they were dead last in their elimination episodes. None of them opted to pout for two hours instead of completing the tasks on the leg. And Jerry's case, that meant enduring a lot of physical discomfort (a bad knee and two hips that had been replaced) in order to finish the U-Turn.
It was a loser mover, of course, because they gave up knowing they had lost. But it's simply surrender, there isn't anything sore about it, I don't think. It's simply rational - you fight as long as there is a chance to win, and when there isn't, well, fighting further is pointless. You could, of course, keep doing the quixotic thing and (figuratively) die with honor, I have admiration (and pity) for those who choose to do that. But I am not going to fault those who just do what's rational either.
I guess what a team does in this situation also depends on what their objective is. For some, the goal is simply to win, so, if they can't, they just move on. I can totally see how professional athletes would be in that group. For others, though, it's more important to avoid looking like quitters. There is also the matter of actually believing that you can complete the challenge. All the teams you named that didn't quit could, in fact, complete theirs. I would too, just for the experience, even knowing that I have no chance of winning. But if I were convinced that I simply cannot do it, I would do the rational thing and stop.
6 hours ago, mbluecpa said:For the first time in a long time, I don’t have a team I want to see win, though I surely have one I’d like to see in third with an accompanying meltdown.
Thank you for giving me a reason to watch the finale! I would like to see a meltdown!
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S05.E19: A God-Fearin' Baptist and a Hot Trophy Husband
in Young Sheldon
I think her parents are originally from Oklahoma, but now they are living in Texas and Mandy grew up in Sheldon’s town. She said when she met Georgie that she moved back from San Antonio and is living with her parents again, and is trying not to bump into anybody she went to high school with. So they are local, there is nowhere to go back home to.
It was a little off hearing everybody treat Mandy as if she is a teenager, especially the part about her being scared to tell her parents and how her father was going to shoot Georgie. The woman is 29 years old, this is not a teenage pregnancy!