Infie

You can sometimes see a dimple or a bulge where there is a lump, yes. That being said, most of the time the answer is no.

Sure, but they had also clearly discussed that Hen would ask for the shift off so that she could go with them. When Hen asked, Bobby had said that one of Hen or Chim could take off, and without talking to either of their spouses Chim and Hen decided that they would both work because otherwise 'it would be unfair'. This is saying to Karen that Chimney's feelings are more important to Hen than Karen's or her kids' are. To make it more offensive, Chim and Maddy had already both decided to skip Hallowe'en with their daughter to give her time with the other kids. Chim clearly wouldn't be broken up about it, and Karen knew that it was an excuse; Hen was looking for a way to skip it whether Hen knew that's what she was doing or not. Karen's statement about missing the big events was about making Hen aware that Karen knew that Hen had made a choice to not be a part of their family event for a spurious reason. As the spouse of a first responder myself, this is actually quite true to life. When your primary interaction with other people is in the most dramatic moment of their lives, the less dramatic moments in your own life become unimportant to you. Why not miss father's day soccer, or grade 8 graduation or first halloween with your foster kid? It's not like there won't be other mother's days or birthdays or Christmases, and after all, you have to work. But the fact is, just because it's not the most dramatic moment in the first responder's life doesn't mean it's not an important dramatic moment in their family member's life, and ignoring that just means that the first responder considers their family member less important than their job unless their family member is also in utter crisis. It's infuriating, and it's a choice, and you never get those events back, and Karen was right to say so.

I haven't yet finished the episode, which I had been enjoying, until Hen was all 'he's my son! I must be allowed to be the primary treatment for him!' and tripped my OMG second most hated trope button. I absolutely loathe the TV and movie scenes where everyone completely throws away their professional ethics and code of conduct because it's 'one of their own' and *everyone is all right with it*. Instant rage spike. The Buck parts were fun, loved the haunted house set up at the station, hated the kids pranking their vice principal, hated the resolution to the Karen / Hen fight. So - mix of emotions for me in this ep for sure.

I agree with the folks who thought this episode was a mess. I always love seeing Jensen in anything, and so it was still bearable. That being said, the story itself made very little sense. I only saw two Supernatural references, so I don't think that there were 'a lot'; certainly not enought to be distracting. Unfortunately I think that worked against the episode cause frankly a little distracting from how nonsensical it was would have helped. *sigh*

I'm glad to see Carlos and TK still working on their relationship, and not letting things slide for too long. I like that pair a lot. On the "lol whut" side - they're in TEXAS and the only guy who's qualified to throw the lasso is the New Yorker? Stretching that disbelief to the absolute maximum, aren't they?

I admit, I fast-forwarded through Hen's impassioned speech at the foster care hearing. I think I am just all impassioned-speeched-out. I liked how everything resolved for the episode, though if I were the young cheerleader's father I would have thrown Eddie out a lot earlier.

I also thought that the sex was about comfort / forgetting for a while and not really about attraction per se. The vibe in the scene to me is long time friends who have gone through terrible things together, and those terrible things are still ongoing.

Not the best episode. I'm glad that Paul got his head out of his butt. The rest of it was meh for me.

I really enjoyed that the background music in the vault during the lasers was reminscent of the music from Ocean's 12's Toulour laser dance.

We did see Echo get wiped out. It was the main driver behind season... 3 I think? The one with the afghanistan deployment and the whole mineral thing.

I finally got around to watching the final ep, and it did not disappoint. I loved this show! It didn't always hang together and it didn't always make any sense, but it had a fuckton of fun putting it together and it was ultimately very entertaining. It reminded me a little of the Losers that way. I'm not sure how a season 2 would shake out without re-doing the stuff they've already done and losing character development along the way. Maybe they could do a send-up of Taken with Glen's daughter's boyfriend getting grabbed. In any case, I had a great time and consider the hours well spent.

I really liked this episode! Russell was a great addition and I liked how both of them sort of decided to let things lie long enough to just work together, and that ended up easing so much of their tension. I never thought that Russell actually pushed his father - I thought it more likely that the father jumped - but I did find the mom shady from the start. As Dory said, she was in it all just as far and as fervently as their father was. On a purely humourous note - I think it hilarious how Jensen is a tall guy and yet ended up again beside someone who makes him look short.

I'm pretty sure it was more like 40 years ago than 30. Was there a chyron?

I actually went back and watched the whole battle. The ONLY comment that he made that even peripherally referenced race was in interview - not in front of Maneet or anyone else - where he said that "[winning] would mean so much to me and to [people] who look like me." Statements like this aren't game playing, they're just fact. There wasn't any 'playing of the race card' at any point by Tobias that I could see. I'm sad that you think there was. From my perspective, Tobias seems to be a lovely person and an excellent chef who is gracious in both victory and defeat. Now, it is possible I missed something. If so, please feel free to be specific.

Both sets of dishes looked amazing. I wanted Antonia to win SO much - I remember how lovely she was with Shota last year and similarly this year with Kevin. That being said, I could see how Maneet deserved her win. She's saavy and clever and plays to the natural weaknesses in the game. Taste and presentation tend to be more subjective and therefore less of a lever for a chef to pull to control their scores beyond cooking well, but use of the randomizer is like having an explicit rubric to the score, and she's very good at pulling every point possible out of that section. Of course, it wouldn't matter if she wasn't also an excellent chef with technique, taste, and the ability to construct a beautiful dish, but at this level really everyone can do those last three things. Congratulations, Maneet.