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I ended this feeling so much meh. So much meh. The acting for Kate was very wooden at times. The pacing was off, some of the storylines were just so convoluted. If they just did the family scenes and interactions and got rid of the nonsensical romantic storyline or at least have it resemble the books in some manner, and the discovery of Lady Whistledown and that whole Featherington plot line, it would feel less contrived. I think it doesn't help that I have read the books, and while I am not a purist by any means, this just strayed so far from that. Like Pluto far.
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Eloise is so annoying. Someone needs to come fix her wig. She goes on about women's rights, but thinks nothing of how priviliged she is. It's been ratcheted up to 11 this season. Also, Kate is hella annoying. She wants her sister to marry for love, but also for money. Hmmmmmm.
Also, don't step to Lady D like that.
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Ah, Ripert! I once walked by him on the streets of NYC, his eyes are dreamy. 😂
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I also think Volt East is a bit traditional. The judges tend to want different and exciting and that's more Volt West.
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I have taken out 12k before to pay my contractor. He wanted to be paid in cash 🤷🏾♀️.
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I feel like the producer asks questions and asks the cheftestants to play up the rivalry a bit or to trash talk. Through every battle they talk about taking the other chef out/revenge/they are the best etc. It's annoying, but I think the show itself hypes it up.
Also, what was Giada's hands in her pocket? I mean, she would take a taste and then put her hands in her pocket when giving commentary.
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3 hours ago, TotalDrama said:
Couldn't edit this in my last comment, so it's a separate one.
Okay? And I'm sure many of the crimes happen on the same street corner, maybe even feet apart so on all of the shows we should be seeing the same spots and yet we do not. The shows clearly aren't neighborhood shows but you're setting them so close to each other they ought to be. You can't set something so close for the most part and yet keep them so far apart when it comes to how you display them. Why even set them all in Manhattan??? As I stated in an earlier post, they should be put on different boroughs then. I can at least suspend the idea of them not interacting or carrying over the same places and people as much.
That's not how it works. They are not even operating out of the same precinct with the different iterations of L&O! There are over 20 precincts in Manhattan alone. There is not one police office. Last thing I'm going to say is that as someone who lived in nearly all five boroughs and who then lived in Manhattan alone for close to 15 years before moving out, the depiction of the city was realistic. I loved the use of a city as a character. Someone above mentioned SATC. I think this show did a better job at showing all aspects of the city than that show could ever dream of.
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2 hours ago, Ailianna said:
Manhattan is 14,600 acres with approximately 1.5 million people. There are almost 75,000 (yes, thousand) people per square mile. I lived in the same place two years in the Village and other than a few people I knew from my building, I basically never saw the same people on the street. I don't mean to judge, but its clear you don't get just how many people live in Manhattan. And yes, plenty of restaurants, small businesses, corner stores, so on, only last months. Especially restaurants.
They also go where the crime is, so it's not as though you are going to the same street corner. Also, walk half a block and you are in a different world completely. It's not a neighborhood show.
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7 hours ago, TotalDrama said:
Really? So NYC is just constantly revamping its places after every few months? I don't believe that. Even the smaller owned businesses? I mean, the schools for sure we should be seeing and I don't care if they use real ones or fictional ones, but other than Hudson University, I've seen like maybe 30 different schools in Manhattan alone over the course of L&O, SVU, and CI and I don't believe for a second all these schools exist in this one little borough. My issue is they don't bother re-using many of the same places and characters we see. Like that random puerto rican lady who's a nosy neighbor over on 10th Street? I should be seeing her pop up dozens of times across all the shows. The Asian dude who runs the store on Spruce Street? I should be seeing him a lot. That charter school over on the east side? Why can't this be the same one we see across the shows? It's a one and done. Pitiful. All the extras we see and we don't see them anymore. The guest characters who we see a part of one case should be popping up at random many times. I'm just saying, for a franchise mostly set in the same area, it's pretty odd it just doesn't look that way.
SVU never had to dwell on the courtroom scenes because it was meant to focus more on the police investigations and the personal lives of the characters. But it focuses on it a lot more than what you're willing to admit here. You make it seem like it's on CI's lack of display which is far from it. A good 40% of the show is on the courtroom stuff so don't be acting like it plays a small role here. L&O can work the format 50/50 because that's strictly what it is: LAW and ORDER. The spinoffs bare the title by association mainly not to say they're also 50/50 with the police and court like the parent show, as their basic angle is what the subtitle is proposing. And it's refreshing for them to do this because we don't need all the spinoffs mimicking the original. So one spinoff can have more police investigations with minimum court stuff, one can have strictly only police investigations and no court stuff, and one can have strictly more court stuff and no police investigation. It's the variety that matters.
On that note, I do agree with you on Carisi being involved in the cases on OC because he's suppose to be just an SVU appointed ADA, so why he's also trying terroristic and high-profile cases from the organized crime unit is rather odd. That show should have its own ADA for that.
They used all the boroughs, I feel, although based in Manhattan. Unless you are on the same corner consistently, you are not going to see the same people. Manhattan is small geographically but is massive in terms of people, getting around, etc. So many of X. Schools, bodegas, people, you name it. I've seen episodes shot across the street from my apartment and also close to where I worked. About 2 miles apart but so different in every aspect. I liked that the show captured that about New York. You could tell if they were uptown or downtown just based on what was going on in the background.
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14 hours ago, Captain Carrot said:
Rebecca is rich enough that she could have frozen her eggs and could have someone be a surrogate for her and someone else. (Maybe Sam, someone she knows, or an anonymous donor). I wouldn't mind this being a story line in S3.
Hopefully. I've had friends who wanted kids but didn't because of their partner/ lack of partner. I also have one who had the foresight to freeze her eggs. I've also known people who got divorce because one partner changed their minds.
A lot of information there to mine.
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On 10/4/2021 at 3:28 PM, Kostgard said:
I’m more uncomfortable with the Sam/Rebecca power dynamic over how it will make other people feel than Rebecca leveraging her power over Sam to manipulate him. I don’t think she would do that (what she did at the end of the episode any woman could have done, not just his boss). Realistically, it would make things awkward because people would always suspect Sam is getting special treatment because of who he’s dating, and people would be afraid to say anything negative about Sam’s performance (even if warranted/needed) lest Rebecca come down on them. This is a huge reason why companies have policies against this sort of thing - it makes it weird for everyone. Except this show takes place in bizarro land where everyone thinks it is great, so…okay.
But the main thing is that they are really at different phases in their lives. As someone said up-thread, Sam is only 21 and just on the cusp of launching his adult life. Rebecca is well past that point. Does Sam want to have kids? I don’t think Rebecca does. She very much strikes me as someone who loves her goddaughter, but has no desire to raise one of her own. If they were treating this like an affair they know isn’t built to last and to grow into a relationship but they are enjoying it while it lasts, I’d feel better about it. But they are treating like they are soulmates.
I don’t think Ted did anything wrong really leaving the field. He had a medical situation that prevented him from staying - doesn’t matter if he had a panic attack or was about to shit his pants from bad fish pie, as everyone speculated. And it would have been worse if he had stayed - be it having a crippling panic attack in front of everyone and freaking his players out - just like shitting his pants in front of a stadium full of people would have been worse/more distracting than leaving.
Trent Crimm, The Independent did ask Ted for a comment a couple episodes ago, and I don’t think Ted was obligated to reveal his health status. His health prevented him from being there. People could believe he was about to shit his pants because the bottom line is the same, and he chose not to reveal private health info, which is his right.
Oh, I think Rebecca definitely wanted to have kids. The pain was palpable when Rupert twisted the knife with the he never found the right person to have kids with until new Rebecca. This was a conversation they had had before where he said he was too old. She gave up this want to be with him and he fucked her over.
I have no issues with Sam and Rebecca. It's a tv show, and they have great chemistry. Is it end game? I dunno, but it may be just what both of them need at this point in time.
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From since Mary left Paul is pretty much the star of the show. I think being in the opening sketches and all of that is going to his show. About this episode, we can't taste the bakes. Maybe Jurgen's didnt taste as well as the others. If it didnt merit one, Jurgen doesnt need a participation trophy.
Everyone still gets along and are supportive. The viewers take it way more personal than the contestants.
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I wonder why we never hear comments about male bakers trading on their looks...🧐
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4 minutes ago, xfuse said:
I don't remember any shitty conduct from the earlier seasons and I just rewatched season 1-5. The only time there was problem was in season 5 when Ian when off because another contestant accidently left his baked Alaska out of the freezer. Even season 4 when someone used another Howard's custard there wasn't really anything to it. They have always helped each other when they can.
Yeah, I watched all the seasons repeatedly, even the two early ones, I can't recall any mean-spiritedness during the technicals.
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On 9/4/2021 at 8:56 PM, AuntieMame said:
Thanks @shapeshifter!! It really does call a lot of the show into question doesn’t it?
I think someone needed to check their math both literally and culturally. People in academia don’t work into their seventies unless they’re absolute superstars and even then. This would be more scientific superstars that add patents to the university coffers or still publishing crossover academic bestsellers ala Elaine Pagels. Except that Pagels was in her forties when the Gnostic Gospels were published. She might still have an office at Princeton and the very occasional seminar but she’s still receiving medals in the humanities and the late career lionization and I very much doubt that she’s keeping Princeton from hiring younger professors.
So the old profs would be people my age and a bit older. People in the second half of their fifties and early sixties who are often retired early unless they’re the real superstars. In any field, not just academia. I remember people in their fifties getting bought out when I was a whippersnapper of thirty in the corporate world. So the old guard fighting the holding action would be five to fifteen years older than Ji Yoon. Colleagues, friends and mentors. People you would fight some for. But fighting for people that played like they had one foot in the grave? And needed diapers and a nursing home? When the Dean told you to retire them? When they were all at least a decade beyond retirement age? And most likely wouldn’t suffer? And you needed the salary budget to save the department and the college in culturally shifting times? I didn’t understand why the three oldsters weren’t at the local senior center filling out their social security paperwork.
It’s true that there aren’t enough jobs in academia for the Ph.Ds that are trained. It’s also true that Boomers born in the late fifties and very early sixties might be out staying their professional welcome in some fields but this was so badly done that it threw everything off for me.
Our young people need a way to direct their energies. That’s clear. Because even though it’s supposed to be justice and righteous, cancel culture and the culture of offense just baffles me. By the measure of the Nazi salute brou haha? We will no longer be able to watch Charlie Chaplin sending up Hitler in The Great Dictator or Modern Times. The professor (however annoying the rest of the time) wasn’t doing anything worse than Chaplin bouncing the world on his butt dressed as Hitler.
I’m hoping for a better second season because this show could have been sharp and clever about a lot of things but instead of exploring it built straw men while ignoring the flesh and blood issues.
My FIL is a professor in his 70s. He's in Sociology. I've had professors during undergrad (in English) who were in their 70s. I work at an R1 uni. They are always trying to get folks to retire.
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40 minutes ago, BlackberryJam said:
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Matt Devlin*s*Alesha Phillips/works
I don't read or ship them, AO3 is just really easy to search. Enjoy!
Thanks. I found these earlier. I remember the fanfiction that PP mentioned, there was also an epic one after her assault. I can't find them on AO3 or on fanfiction.net though. It might have been on Tumblr or livejournal, But my initial searches are fruitless.
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On 7/20/2020 at 11:13 PM, Dr.OO7 said:
Even though they never got together, Matt and Alesha from Law & Order UK. It really says something for their chemistry and how much Matt could convey with a look (Jamie Bamber is incredible at non-verbal acting) that fanfic writers could pick up on it--there'a a series that's been running for a DECADE that has them as the blissfully married parents of two.
I'm sure I'm going to get blasted for this, but I don't care--ER's Doug and Carol.
And an unusual choice, but Danny and Linda of Blue Bloods. How unbelievably refreshing to have a TV drama with a genuinely happily married couple. And on a cop show, no less, where dysfunctional marriages and/or divorce are the norm.
Can you point me to the Aleesha:Matt stories? I tried to find it but to no availI tried to find it but to no avail
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5 minutes ago, peachmangosteen said:
I thought that was Sienna lol.
It was.
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4 hours ago, Cherpumple said:
I think I heard that too. Personally, I think my opinion falls somewhere in the middle. It's good to make the effort to be generally correct, but it can often sound awkward, or even pompous, to insert authentic foreign pronunciations into everyday speech (especially if it requires phonics not normally used in English, like a rolled "r"). For instance, it's a long-standing joke that Alex Trebek pronounced "genre" the French way, to the point that people have made compilation videos of it and they even did a whole category on Jeopardy once that allowed him to say the word in every clue. Also, people have mocked Giada de Laurentiis for years for using the authentic Italian pronunciation of ingredients and dishes while giving cooking instructions in English. It's all good natured teasing, but that kind of thing can really stand out.
That being said, what is the correct way to say "genoise"? Is it like "zhen-WA"? Do you pronounce the "s"?
You would pronounce the s since there is a an e after the s. like a whas.
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14 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:
I hadn't made a list of the holiday episodes on Netflix yet so thanks for the motivation:
Great Christmas/Festive Bake Off
2016 - Ali (S4), Cathryn (S3), Mary-Ann (S2), Norman (S5) & Chetna (S5), James (S3), Janet (S2), Howard (S4)
2017 - Beca (S4), Paul (S6), Selasi (S7), Val (S7) & Benjamina (S7), Rav (S7), Rob (S2), Sandy (S6)
2018 - Andrew (S7), Flo (S8), Jane (S7), Liam (S8) & Candice (S7), Kate (S5), Steven (S8), Tamal (S6)
2019 - Briony (S9), Terry (S9), Tom (S8), Yan (S8) & Derry GirlsGBBO holidays
Netflix S1 (2017) - Beca (S4), Paul (S6), Selasi (S7), Val (S7) & Benjamina (S7), Rav (S7), Rob (S2), Sandy (S6)
Netflix S2 (2018) - Andrew (S7), Flo (S8), Jane (S7), Liam (S8) & Candice (S7), Kate (S5), Steven (S8), Tamal (S6)Are the top ones on Netflix?
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I just watched the episode and I think it's his dad's dog that called Swayze.
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I grew to not like Mary Berry by watching this. The frequent comments of 'spices' aimed at the non white folks who cook their traditional food and the telling folks to clean up while cooking along with some other things just have me giving her the side eye.
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I watched with my husband and his biggest comments had to do with the cheaper production value. Something to do with color saturation and maybe shooting with cheaper lenses. The color was just way off. I hope they fix it.
The only thing I didnt like was that I couldn't binge it.
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I think also when it gets later in the evening, people tend to get very handsy and kissy, sometimes regardless of who they are with. I think with Deva she probably met Maria earlier on and then was reluctant to be kissed by others. I don't blame her. I know the object of the show is dating around, but I have never been able to do so.
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Book vs. Series: On The Shelf
in Bridgerton
I am not a fan of this season. The storyline was so bloody ridiculous. They could've just kept it as it was with an "enemies" to lovers story. Kate was not likeable, the acting was wooden. The whole thing was a whole stinking pile of meh. I did like the family interactions. Meh.