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I'd never heard of crate training until joining a pet forum a few years back. I'm still iffy on it in general, but I've come to understand how incredibly beneficial it is in some situations. And through a friend forwarding me pics/videos from Tia's Facebook page, I've seen oodles of pics of her dogs out and about in the house, so I think Tia is doing it the way it's designed to be done. Which I'd probably still never do ... unless I had that many dogs, maybe. Like lordonia, I cast no aspersions on those who utilize crates in some fashion; I don't have dogs, so it will never be an issue, and I still don't know enough about it - but I've definitely been educated out of my knee-jerk "that's awful!" reaction in all situations.

I had to stop watching Jackson Galaxy’s show because it was too formulaic and staged, but the man knows – and loves – cats (and his Spirit Essences have worked fantastically for several cats in my life), so it was nice to see him in a different context. Big kudos to that woman taking care of them for two years. I’m a huge proponent of TNR programs for community cats, so I know several people who care for a colony in their neighborhood. I think it’s great that they showed the proper way to handle a situation like this, the evaluation, the gradually increasing physical contact over the course of a week or more, the creation of positive association with the traps, etc. Do it wrong, and you may wind up getting one or two total and scaring off the rest of them for a long time. I love those cat cabins. The situation with the mama dog Milky Way reminded me of Artemis, with Tia wandering around with her to see if she’ll lead her to puppies. Like with Artemis, I figured by Milky Way’s behavior that the puppies were gone, and momma had just been turned out when they were done using her. Yay for Bullet! All that time without even an application. And the home check takes me back, yet again, to how much I respect their lack of rigid, one-size-fits-all rules. So many rescues would never adopt a dog to someone without a fence. VRC insists on hard-core fences in most situations. But here, with a dedicated couch potato, and a responsible owner who will have him leashed during his brief forays outside, they understand it’s a good fit. I love his owner. “You’ve been waiting for your momma.”

Aw, proper credit goes to baileythedog; s/he came up with it first.

Yes, I thought of Jen immediately when Jeremy made that comment.

Works for me, as do many of the suggestions here, but whatever the thread title is, I think it should be formatted "Season 10: [Funny Title]" to match the other nine season threads.

Having the washer & dryer in the garage is pretty common in the Los Angeles area, so it’s probably the same in OC with houses of the same eras. But in flipping through my mental Rolodex of people I know with a garage w/d, they all have attached garages. I remember when house hunting with my best friend, we saw one house with the w/d in a detached garage, and that definitely went on the “con” list. (Whereas with an attached garage, it was a neutral factor.)

That's (actor) Eugene Levy, resembling (director) Martin Scorsese, so maybe that's who you are thinking of?

Padma looked pretty sad to be calling Karen’s name last week, too; I think once they offed Philip, they reached the point in the competition where no matter how badly a cheftestant stumbled in any given challenge, they’d have an emotional tug at letting them go because they’re all pretty damn good.

Damn, Marjorie; those poor lobsters. I continue to like her (and continue to marvel that she sounds exactly like my friend who grew up and still lives a town over from where Marjorie grew up) and would have given her the win for making pasta a successful fast casual concept; that I haven’t seen, while Carl’s food - which looked just as good – I can go get at three local fast casual places. Frozen waffles?! This episode made me mad all over again that Karen went home instead of Jeremy, but frozen waffles? Bye, Kwame. As an aside, I love Umami Burger. And, yeah, Padma said, "... are abound."

"Season 10: I've Been Waiting 23 Years to Say That" is my favorite thus far. It takes something directly from an episode, like the others, but also sums up the season -- however one feels about how it transpired, S10 was a long time in the making, so it works without taking a yay or nay stand.

Yeah, I've been around since season two (and watched season one during the summer hiatus between two and three to catch up), and I've long since been in it for the characters, with a story that makes sense or entertains being a bonus (which happened many times along the way, to be clear). So I was generally happy with the revival, as modern-day Mulder and Scully felt very natural to me. Kudos to the actors, because little of it was on the page. When this revival was announced, the quick turnaround between pick-up, filming, and airing made me very nervous, and in hindsight I think I was right to feel that way. These were good, but not great, episodes (except the Were-Monster; that was brilliant) and the overall trajectory had issues; this season was enjoyable in the context of the series as a whole, but not up to snuff with what you should come back with after all this time off the air (and after a lackluster second film). I'd have rather a fall '16 airing to give the scripts more time to develop. It was nowhere near "film a first draft" level of mediocrity like IWTB, but it wasn't all it could or should have been. There Were-Monster episode was an instant top ten for me. I saw it immediately following My Struggle at a screening a few days before My Struggle premiered on TV, and said then that no matter what happened, I would be thankful for this revival in order to have that Were-Monster episode in my life ... but I was still afraid episode six was going to suck. And, yeah, that's how things played out for me. Babylon had some serious issues, too, but on the whole I liked a whole lot more about this season than I disliked. I come away happy, with some pretty specific - and sometimes severe - gripes. Big dark cloud, though: I have no shits to give about William, so I don't care if the cliffhanger is ever resolved. And I might rather it not. (We need a witty title for S10 to match the other season threads, but I think if you asked most people right now the suggestions would be profane.)

Ha! Yes! I heard plenty of, “You want me to spend how much for clothes that look like rags?” as an ‘80s teen. And, oh my stars, when I took scissors and razors to my jeans or cut the necks out of my sweatshirts (Flashdance, baby, but I still do this -- it's just more comfortable) … My peeve with “distressing” things is hardwood floors – dragging chains and bricks across them to make them look “weathered” and “rustic” makes me cringe.

This was my first episode in some time, and I enjoyed it. Jill played a great game and had fun doing it, so I was happy to see her win. She seemed to have a pretty good range of knowledge, so we’ll see how she does going forward. The decades of dance category was easy, but kind of fun. The male contestant not knowing hydroponics surprised me. I got FJ, but as a total guess.

So now that it's over, and the spoiler/no spoiler threads are redundant, shouldn't we have a S10 thread to go along with all the other season threads and talk about the season as a whole? Until then ... I don't care about the lack of a kiss, since the relationship felt pretty much pitch perfect to me the entire time. CC remains a total putz, but DD and GA nailed the modern version of M&S, so I'm happy (even though the finale sucked and I still hate the very idea of William).

And Katharine Hepburn found herself quite surprised by how much she respected him and enjoyed working with him. I always keep that in mind about John Wayne the person, because I am very much not a fan of John Wayne the persona.

In the history of television, has there ever been anyone who tried on someone else’s ring and didn’t get it stuck? That body looked – and smelled, judging by their lack of reaction – pretty good for five days. Silly as it was, Jane’s “How do you propose … we engage this guy … I’m not married to the idea” made me smile. There’s still something a bit sketchy to me about the Korsak/Kiki relationship, but since we’ve seen so little of it and all the characters who are in the know are happy for him, whatever. “I heard that – Were there spiders?” Hee. I wanted to see more of the fear chamber, because what they did show was pretty lame. More like Roseanne’s Halloween pranks than something you’d pay $100 for (and pee your pants over). The actor playing the guy who runs it did a good job, especially his face when Frankie pulled out his badge. I don’t understand 3D printers; it’s something I keep meaning to look into so that I can understand it, but haven’t yet. Maura knows any number of esoteric facts, but has to look up PTSD? The cat opted to interrupt me for the five minutes or so that included when they got the bad guy – the guy with the restraining order, right? So no real overall thoughts on the case as I don’t know how it was resolved.

I’m still so disappointed in this episode in the light of day. There was a lot of Scully, which is great, and as Scully and Einstein continued to work together – and Einstein stopped being such a pill – I really enjoyed that. The science was ridiculous, but I was willing to go along with it for a while. But then it turned into something that is just not XF (or, more accurately, not the XF of the six and change seasons I watched). I know it’s sci-fi, but, as someone said up-thread, it was (again, until the last season or so, which I’ve only read about) generally grounded in stories that could conceivably be happening in real life without us knowing. So this televised global pandemic is just too far for me. So that's one of my fundamental issues. There's also keeping M&S apart for 59 minutes. CC loves to separate them for season finales, which is annoying enough when that finale is one of 22 episodes. When it’s one of SIX? And then there's the cliffhanger. That there was a cliffhanger was known going in, but I don’t want to just skip over that – it’s easy to sit here now, with weeks’ worth of stellar ratings and knowing FOX will green light another season if the actors can come to terms, and say, “Well, sure, a season-ending cliffhanger. That’s XF.” But at the time CC wrote this, he was damn lucky to be getting these six and had no reason to believe he’d get anymore. Yet instead of writing a self-contained story – which doesn’t preclude the possibility of telling any of the gazillion other stories out there should the show be renewed – he writes a cliffhanger in which the world possibly ends. And, finally, the specifics of the cliffhanger. Now for the show to come back, it has to revolve around the search for William. And I’m rather aggravated by that, which has been my issue all throughout this revival (which I enjoyed other than the constant William, William, William). You don’t build a show around Cousin Oliver, you mitigate your last-gasp mistake in creating him by getting rid of the damn character. Which we did FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. Now he’s back as the Key to Everything? We had a nice – yet muddled and rushed (and not particularly logical) - thing going in this episode where Scully was the key. Works for me, after all these years of her playing second fiddle. But, no. She’s just the incubator for the real Key to Everything. So, yeah; as someone else said up-thread (and which I have already stolen in each of the three email conversations I have going this morning about how disappointing this episode was): Go suck a cactus, CC.

I like the episode with the girl and her bike, precisely because she is so abrasive, instead of it being yet another story where a person with a disability is some saintly sweet and self-sacrificing caricature of a person. And, yes, I love Albert Grand as an ongoing foil for Christine. They could have even gone back to that well a third time and I'd have been fine with it.

And apparently the choreographer from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Are you fucking kidding me? Despite all my apprehension, and despite all I'd heard, I was with this episode for 59 minutes (not unequivocally - because, hello, science - but going along with a TV show). And then? Piss on this show.

Oh, I won't be in the thread once it starts airing on the East Coast until after I've watched it on the West Coast, because I don't want to know any specifics ... unless it sucks, in which case I want to know exactly why so I can prepare myself. And since she and I virtually always have the same likes and dislikes when it comes to XF, she's the one to ask.

I'm pretty sure I'd eat those books before I would read them, but at least it won't be like AU fanfic where they go to high school together and find twu luv.

It depends on what she’s serving, which we don’t see, because there are two endives, one of which is pronounced as she says it, while the other is pronounced “en-dive”. But given the context, she's pretty much guaranteed to be talking about the one pronounced “on-deeve” and is thus correct. But since the commercial positions her as delusional/pretentious, I’m not entirely sure the copy writers know that. Either way, though, it cracks me up.

I'll pop in a DVD of an old favorite and watch several episodes in a row, but I watch new programming in real time - normally. I'm cat-sitting at my parents' house, and they have Netflix, so I decided to try Grace and Frankie. I watched the 13 episodes over the course of three days, I think. I really enjoyed the show, but if I had Netflix at home, I'd opt to leave a lot more time in between episodes. One of the things I don't like about the show is I feel it covered too much time over the span of those 13 episodes, and binge watching it made that even more pronounced. And, fundamentally, I don't feel like I properly absorbed each episode by immediately going on to another one. With the X-Files revival - the first new show I've watched in a long time (I pretty much watch sports, The Daily Show, and old shows in syndication) - I have a few random thoughts about each episode throughout the week as my mind apparently processes it in the background. With G&F, things muddled together and that didn't happen.

It’s cute they named a character Oscar Griffiths (Gillian’s son). Otherwise, yeah – as the seasons went on, I liked the finales less and less. I truly put nothing past CC, so I’m definitely nervous for this one. And what I've seen does not look like my cup of tea. But I'm hoping for the best, as I’ve generally enjoyed this revival despite elements/story lines I'd have preferred to skip. I've told a friend who sees it three hours before I do not to spoil me on specifics if she thinks it's good or decent (our tastes align pretty tightly with this show), but if she thinks it's a big ball of awful she must tell me why so I can prepare myself. So, fingers crossed for a "You can relax" email this evening.