Bastet

David and Donna works for me - although I'm quite relieved they dated other people in between high school and getting married - but I'd want everyone else to wind up with someone outside the old gang. And not get serious so damn young.

Squeeze Eve

I tend not to like films that are aiming to be tearjerkers, but Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias and Beaches are much-watched exceptions to the rule. I cry very ugly tears at Philadelphia and the lesser-known It's My Party. My Girl, Stepmom, Million Dollar Baby, Brian's Song, Stella Dallas. I vowed never to read or watch Marley and Me, lost my damn mind one evening when it was on TV, and proceeded to spend the rest of the night crying and hugging my cats. I also once embarassed the hell out of myself on an airplane crying copious happy tears at Homeward Bound (The Incredible Journey). I won't even watch Bambi or Dumbo. I'll skip the documentaries, or I'd be listing films all night.

I just don't know why she had to create an app rather than simply enforcing whatever her phone rules were -- if the kid doesn't follow them, take the damn phone away. Yes, it's nice that kids can have cell phones for emergency situations, but those of us who grew up before they existed didn't die by the thousands for lack of one. The odds that something terrible is going to happen during the period the kid no longer has a personal cell phone glued to their ear are pretty low, whereas I'd think the odds of having a "high-value treat" being taken away prompting them to adjust their behavior would be decent. Mind you, I use my cell phone about 10 times in an average year, so all this phone hoopla is not something to which I can relate, period. But, fundamentally, she is the parent (not to mention the one paying for the phone), right? So, if a kid abuses a privilege, they lose that privilege. You don't need an app for that.

Pilot Tooms

"Like" drives me batty, so I appreciated an episode of Modern Family (which I've recently picked up via syndication) in which Claire corrected Hailey every time she used it inappropriately. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I've never said something along the lines of, "And I'm like [or "all"] 'Really?'" but it's rare - and even then usually done for effect, such as it is - and I cringe when I hear myself. Characters whose language is peppered with variations on it nearly send me into spasm.

I'm having lamb chops tonight, too. I love lamb, and chops are probably my favorite. I'm just going to season them with garlic and rosemary and broil them to medium rare. I have a Portobello mushroom that needs to be cooked ASAP, so I'll probably just sauté that with butter and thyme and wilt in some spinach. Plus a mixed green salad -- I have a side salad with pretty much every meal. The nice thing is it's all quick and easy, because right now I'm unwinding with a martini (using two of the delicious garlic-stuffed olives I picked up at a local cheese shop). Tomorrow night is salmon, but I haven't decided on a preparation yet. I don't like salmon as much as I want to, so I tend to rely on sauces.

Yep, it's still made (my best friend drinks it). I believe it was discontinued for a time, but brought back several years ago. Maybe only in certain markets? I like Coke (or Pepsi) with vanilla-infused vodka, but one drink is about all I can handle with something that sweet tasting.

I find myself rather disturbed that I apparently have the Statutory Rape Playlist on my iPod -- not only do I have Young Girl and Into the Night, I have Billy Idol's Cradle of Love. Speaking of songs I can't help but love despite their lyrics: Charlie Rich, Behind Closed Doors. It's the virgin/whore complex set to music, but between the piano and his voice, I still find myself sucked in.

Pilot Deep Throat

There is a "Tearjerker" thread in Movies.

That's one of the many problems with having kids act like adults in commercials - not only do they annoy me, but I'm distracted by the fact they are apparently allowed to wander all over town unsupervised, and have unrestricted phone/internet access.

If they harbor 9 to 5-style fantasies of doing in the boss, that's who I'll root for. Otherwise, there may be some guilt by association going on.

I came in on the last few minutes of the first airing -- so I saw Maura pouring product placement beer in a champagne flute for Jane, and the two of them nearly snuggling on the couch to wait up for Angela -- and then plum forgot to watch the later airing. But, when I first saw the preview for this episode, my mind, like Maura's, went to early '60s flight attendant rather than librarian upon seeing Jane's getup. I'll see how things play out when I catch the repeat next week, but in general the "secretly sexy librarian" trope can die in my book.

What I miss about the season one dynamic is Laura having a "safe space" in the office -- everyone there knows she's the boss and treats her as such. She can shut the door after a day of enduring people fawning over Steele, him gleefully taking credit for her work, getting a metaphorical pat on the head (or ass), etc. and have her words respected. When Mildred comes along, she has no escape from the charade. With that said, there just wasn't room for Murphy and Miss Wolf (heh) as Steele became more than a figurehead; combining the third investigator and receptionist role into one made sense after a season. Gleason knew James Read was entirely justified in his frustration, and also knew the solution was to let him move on as beefing up the role wasn't a realistic option at that point.

"An answer." "No." "Why?" "Now you want an argument!" I also love the exchange about whether the girdle is a size smaller or Margo is a size larger. And those are just the Birdie quotes. The movie is filled with terrific lines.

Aw, bye Lazarus. <sniff> Fire (wonderful Scully snark, but something has to go, and you're just sort of there) EBE

G is for gerkonkernaken (yeah, I don't know), which, literally translated, is the precise moment dog doo turns white, but generally stands for someone you wouldn't share your hadenkoggles (again, I don't know) with. It's what Rose thinks of Blanche.

If you're in a season thread for seasons one, two or three or in an episode thread for an episode prior to Herrenvolk.

I make (or order) that a fair bit, too, only with mushrooms as well. Or sometimes broccoli instead of - or in place of - the spinach. And sometimes with sun-dried tomatoes. Basically, I love pizza with alfredo sauce and chicken.

Unless I'm missing something, commencing a re-watch isn't going to add any spoiler requirement that doesn't already exist -- unless you're in an "All Episodes Talk" or otherwise all-encompassing thread, there need to be spoiler tags used when discussing something beyond the episode or season at hand. So if you're in a season one thread and want to draw a comparison to something in season two, you have to spoiler tag that portion of your post, and if you're in an episode topic and want to draw a comparison to something in a later episode, you have to spoiler tag that. So it's the same principle either way, but at least in a season thread you can talk about anything within that season without needing to spoiler tag (as compared to an episode thread where you have to spoiler tag other episodes from the same season).

Thank you for moving this into its own topic! I'm not an organized re-watch person -- it's sort of like for Honors or AP English, where you had to read certain books over the summer; I'd spend much of my summer reading, anyway, but once you told me I had to read Book A by X date, I wanted no part of that book -- so I'll just be joining in the discussion from memory when something being discussed strikes my fancy. With that said, I find a string of episode topics with half a dozen posts in them more annoying than season topics, even when the latter meander. So while I'm certainly fine with either, I do prefer keeping discussion in the season threads rather than creating episode topics -- especially if only certain episodes are going to have topics. And while I take the point regarding long topics being cumbersome to later readers, given the relatively low level of participation in this forum, I wouldn't bet on that being an issue. (And, not that PTV is TWoP, but there's significant overlap in posters and the TWoP re-watch went nowhere.) I do think a general Mytharc thread is a good idea, though, if we don't already have one. Just on general principle, and as a good place for the kind of "do you think this is foreshadowing X, or does X just coincidentally not contradict this?" talk that would involve a bunch of spoiler tags elsewhere.

My 1938 house is obviously lighter on outlets than modern homes, but I've only needed to add three over the years (and will add two more when I renovate the kitchen). When I built my game room out from the studs (it was a shell of a room built on to the detached garage), I put in a fair number of outlets since it's so easy when starting from scratch, but I only use half of them. I never thought to be bothered by the "clutter" of those excess, unused outlets and, quite frankly, I'm going to have a laugh at the HHs' expense when I go in there tonight. They come up with the craziest storylines on this show. I always wonder if the HHs who hate ceiling fans watched too much Trading Spaces. Now, a cheap, ugly, wobbly, noisy fan - I hate. But it's easily replaced with a quality fan. And those who just don't like the look of fans, period, can substitute a light fixture. It's just nice to already have the overhead wiring in place, whatever one wants to do with it (even if the answer is nothing). Such a silly complaint. Immutable characteristics discussed as deal-breakers is one thing, but when HHs go on about things that should merely be noted as considerations - if we buy House A, we'll want to strip all that wallpaper, whereas with House B we'll just be painting the walls but we'll have to scrape off the popcorn ceilings, etc. - as if they are these huge stumbling blocks to purchase is aggravating.

There is. There is a thread for talk of HGTV as a whole in Misc. TV Talk, or for show-specific talk you can request a forum for any show that doesn't already have one.

I'm bummed about the impending doom of Lazarus. Shadows would have received my vote earlier than last round if not for the perfectly-delivered "Howard Graves is very dead." Fire EBE