Rodney

Sophia lied and schemed to get with Tate. In a way, she's not much better than Holly.

It's been explained more than once that she mainly goes back to keep the memory of that day fresh so she can hopefully remember something she hadn't considered before that can help with finding her son.

I think that because for all of his bluster about how good that he thinks he is at this game, he's pretty much neutered without Sierra around. He probably doesn't seem as threatening without her.

The number of identified castaways is now up to fifteen.

We have a bootlist at last. Apparently, Rome, of all people, spilled the boot order from the merge and on while on a podcast. He kind of did a rap that revealed the order from F12 to the end: 12th: Tiyana 11th: Sierra 10th: Sol ---------------- 9th: Caroline 8th: Gabe 7th: Kyle 6th: Andy 5th: Genevieve 4th: Teeny 3rd/2nd: Sue 2nd/3rd: Sam 1st: Rachel Rachel's edit in the recent episodes definitely seems to point to a win by her, so I can believe it.

Good Lord. Now Sir has people trying to discredit Gabi?! At least Gabi tried to set the record straight. But damn. To be her when Sir put up his own video? That infuriated me, and I'm not even his victim! Damn. Gabi couldn't celebrate the second anniversary of her mom's death because of Sir? That's awful. Even more awful is that her father ruined their third anniversary celebration because he'd rather have gotten drunk. Yet another example of how Sir wrecked her life. Poor Gabi. I felt so terrible for her younger self in the flashback scenes. So this is the first nonbinary victim. I get why those who identify as such choose to use the gender-neutral pronouns of "they," "them," "their," and "theirs" to identify themselves and each other, but I've never gotten how that makes them sexual minorities. Zeke really should've consulted Gabi first before deleting Sir's message. I thought that Bennie took Rash until he explained his side of the story. I started figuring that it was the Congressman or someone working for him. Was surprised that it was just a scared witness. At least Wayne intended to tell the cops where Rash was. And the Congressman being a sexual predator of gay men? Didn't see that coming. So Christian is going to help with the search for Sir, after all. Margaret can't go to the bus station, but Zeke at least makes sure that the bus station can come to her. At least until Trent came in and ruined it. Kelli Williams played her meltdown at the end perfectly. Damn. Fall finale is next week!

Yet when they talked about it sometime back, Steve, Kayla, and Roman did show some understanding, because they knew what Clyde was capable of doing. Some, granted, but better than nothing. So yeah. Chad and J.J., both of whom have also seen and experienced that of which Clyde is capable, could spare some. Key word being "some." They do have a right to their anger, as well, but at least some acknowledgement would be nice.

I watched season ten some time ago, and my take on Stuckey was that while he could be a bit much -- okay, a lot -- at least he was glad to be there and eager to do his job. And I did feel for him in season ten's finale, because the whole squad, practically, treated him like he made a real crime against humanity. Like none of them had ever made mistakes? Only Olivia seemed to remember that he was a person and treated him as such by reassuring him that it wasn't the end of the world because he made a mistake. That was why he didn't want her harmed in the end. Also, I was among the ones who was a least a little bit pleased to see him torture Elliot, because someone was finally giving back to him what he'd dished out to others, if only for a moment. And while I did like O'Halloran, I can't really feel too bad for him since he was the other main reason that Stuckey snapped. You chastise someone enough that they snap, you can't get much sympathy when they retaliate. He kind of created his own monster there. There's another such judge like that -- Judge Tate or Taft in season five's "Poison." Let off a mother who was clearly poisoning her children to death just because she came from a good home and family, while letting another mother rot in prison for ten years for a poisoning that she didn't commit because she came from nothing. It's a good Casey-centric episode if you liked her. Diane Neal was excellent in it. But yeah, I've hoped for years that that case would be picked back up, even ten seasons later. If there's anything that should get a good sense of closure, "Pornstar's Requiem" is it.

Seems the mods combined the "Worst Children," "Perps You Sympathized With," "Victims You Had No Sympathy For," and other threads together. So in light of that, I have a perp with whom I sympathized . . . a little. I've been bingeing the series on Peacock over the last few weeks, starting with season four, and am currently on season twelve. (Time really flies!) Anyway, I just finished watching "Flight," and I felt at least somewhat sorry for Dahlia Jessup, the "on-and-off girlfriend" of the perp, Jordan Hayes. It was clear that she was brainwashed into bringing more and more victims into his massage room after initially being one of his victims herself. That said, it's probably because of how she acted toward Elliot and Olivia, but my sympathy only stopped at her background and circumstances. I don't know whether or not we were supposed to feel for her basically being abandoned by Jordan at the end of the episode, what with the implication that she was facing at least eighty years for all of the girls that she helped him rape while it sounded like he was essentially going to a federal minimum security prison. I felt like I should've felt sympathy for her when the realization of what Olivia was trying to tell her finally hit her, but for some reason, I felt less than I should have. I don't know. I know that this thread hasn't been picked up for a long time, but I thought that I might as well bite and see who remembers any of the older episodes.

Certainly. Still, the show wouldn't be having her still going to that bus station if she isn't going to get Jamie back at one point. Sir's already dangled the possibility in front of her, after all, so maybe in the future . . .

Knew that the killer would be a woman. But I didn't see it coming that it'd be the doctor, a past sorority sister, who'd done it. I was expecting one of the current sisters to be the culprit. I was just surprised that the doctor didn't say a word when she was arrested. Was this the first time that Marisa found the key detail that cracked the case? It's usually Alec who does. So Myers figured out, obviously, that Phoebe turned her in. And she apparently got her blacklisted from other departments as a final "fuck you." What a horrible person. But Phoebe's back with Alec, who's allowing three interns/assistants to work with him now. If nothing else, I'm somewhat interested in seeing what dynamic she has with Simon. Speaking of whom, I'm finding Simon more interesting than Phoebe or Rizwan combined since at least he comes with a backstory. The story of his brother made me tear up a bit. They need to play Kylie opposite Phoebe more often. She really livens her up in their scenes together.

About the most disappointing part of tonight wasn't losing Sol, but seeing Genevieve and Sue lose the lead they'd worked hard to gain in the Immunity Challenge. I don't get how Genevieve biffed it so badly for them both at the end. I really wanted Andy or Sam to lose their vote at the journey challenge. Disappointed that Caroline did instead. They're continuing to give Andy a positive edit, and I'm not for it. He continues to act like he's doing something that means something in the game when he can't see that he's still basically irrelevant. Genevieve had a good plan, but Rachel almost blew it up by telling Sam when even she knew that she shouldn't. Still, Rachel seems to be recovering her game. I hope that she can get back to a good spot. Interesting episode.

Surprised that Aaron just full-on told Holly everything about Cat and Mark. And apparently, he's already told Felicity offscreen. At least Holly believes the story. So J.J.'s just as judgmental as Chad even knowing Cat and Mark's situation. Good to konw. Not. Like, he couldn't put himself in Cat's shoes for a moment? If Jennifer were in trouble, wouldn't he do anything possible to bring her home? . . . No, of course he wouldn't be able to put himself in another person's shoes. I get that he's really loyal to his family (as he should be), but his family's not the only one who's been hurt by Clyde. I'd feel better about the tirades against Cat if there were at least one character to shut those saying the tirades up and urge them to give the Greenes at the very least one modicum of empathy for, if not their actual actions, at least their motives behind their actions. At this rate, Aaron might be the only character who can do that, but I can't think of anyone who'll listen to him. Speaking of whom, Aaron's actor needs to slow down when he speaks, because he often stumbles over his syllables when he talks as quickly as he does. Did Tate seriously bed Sophia in their townhouse again even after Brady explicitly told him not to? Also, he called her by Holly's name in bed. Uh-oh. That is a clear sign that he should end this with her right now and just do what's in his actual heart: take Holly back. So Jada is secretly thrilled to be the commissioner permanently. And Rafe's quitting the force to sue the city. This should go well.

My guess is because that would mean humanizing him by referring to him by his real name. If I were a worker at M&A, I would agree that Sir does not deserve to be considered human.

It's not just about hoping that her son will show up. It's about trying to remember details about the bus station in case something comes back to her and might help her find out what happened to him.