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Well, women on TV *do* have sex with their bras on, so.....

In further weird news: Of note: Britney is 5'4''. Victor is 7'5''. Even if she grabbed him like he says she did, his security person shouldn't have struck her when shrugging her off was a much more valid option.

In memory of Alan Arkin. Sniff.

I guess after someone bit Norman Reedus at a convention, all bets were off? I dunno.

I think what @merylinkid was referring to is what happens after the child support ends/runs out, though. Because the court filings indicate that Costner put up money for his wife to start a couple of businesses, and they both failed. If she's just bad at marketing or something, that's one thing and it can certainly be remedied, but custom handbags can run anywhere from three hundred dollars to a couple of thousand depending on materials, design, size, etc. It sounds like things were happening behind the scenes that we don't know about, because they've been married for almost twenty years, and he was going to file for divorce first but she beat him to it. Now she wants nearly two hundred and fifty grand a month in support, maybe in addition to the house since she hasn't moved out yet, and he says that's in violation of the prenup. As per usual, I just feel sorry for the kids here for being caught up in this mess.

From a story perspective, that actually makes sense. Presumably the Skrulls were just living their lives and not bothering anyone when the Kree decided to target them for extermination, so they've already been persecuted and slaughtered for no other reason than they exist. Even with Carol's assurances that she would help them, trust in outsiders wouldn't scan with what's already happened, and if Danvers has abandoned her self-proclaimed responsibilities because of whatever, who else would they look to?

Especially since Monica seemed annoyed at the mention of her during WandaVision, and given how close they were when Monica was a kid there has to be some reason for that. If Carol wasn't helping the Skrulls look for a place to relocate and she also wasn't with her family in Louisiana, where was she? That 'hi' in the trailer for The Marvels was very much, "Oh, hello, person I haven't seen for a while." Awkward.

Well, fuck me Goddamn running. That's the last thing I expected. I'm gonna have to write something to get this nasty taste out of my mouth if that turns out to be permanent. I was thinking that too, that Clarke and her eyebrows will serve as the Karli Morgenthau of this piece, which also bodes ill given how that turned out. It's even the same set-up; young woman wants to make things better for her people without much concern for how it affects anyone who gets in her way. I'm just....in shock, and I shouldn't be.

Sitcoms are particularly guilty of this. It's not enough that no one ever locks the front door, so they have people wandering into their living room at all hours, they show up just to tell someone something that could have been handled with a phone call.

In the premiere episode of The Rockford Files, which is from the same era as Barney Miller and that's why I remembered it, Jim's friend Dennis is going through some case files because his captain wanted him to dump or put aside the ones that were proving to be difficult. One of them turns out to be the murder of the week, and obviously Rockford gets to the bottom of it, but the premise of that show was that he only got involved with cases that had gone cold. Mostly so he wouldn't have issue with law enforcement since he had a record, but that's beside the point. Could a show like that work now, a detective who just deals with things the police have put aside? Hard to say, since so much relies on casting and writing. I know that the Mothership of Law & Order had police consultants to give advice on how real cops would behave, which reflects in the unwillingness to use guns in every instance. There's a reason the original version still mostly holds up.

Only when they're hot, although that might be a separate conversation. You could argue that both Tony Soprano and Walter White were forced into committing crimes, Tony by his upbringing and Walter by the disease that was going to kill him. But at least there was some self-awareness, the knowledge that they were the villains of the piece and not misunderstood men who wandered into the lives they ended up leading by accident. Where many shows fail is in stressing the 'I didn't have a choice' defense, where it might have started out as an accident or a mistake, but it eventually snowballed into something a lot worse.

The original Law & Order was pretty good about not having the cops use their guns in every case, although they did often have the ubiquitous foot chases where a suspect would try to get away (because it was also ubiquitous to identify themselves as police from ten feet away, giving the person the bright idea to run.) At some point it was decided that even on shows like Criminal Minds, which started out being about profilers who wouldn't particularly need to be armed, should be out in the field participating in apprehending the bad guys. Not everybody has to be SWAT-qualified, TV people.

So clearly this makes way for her Pete Davidson era, yes? Or would that cause the world to end?

I saw that on Twitter, and it's kind of Something that they felt obligated to say how old the 'other woman' is. WTF does that have to do with anything?

From the article: 2023 is nearly half over. Are they suing just now? That doesn't sound right.

Kind of? Two kids means he either bought her lies or he's in on it with her to some extent, since that's how she meant to avoid prison. I know he's got money, since his family owns some hotels or something, but I feel the sorriest for the kids since they'll have to grow up with that shadow hanging over them.

"A man and his two children tried to kill me."

I would argue that in that sense, it's good that Britney's sons have decided to break this particular cycle. Don't jump on me, because I'm not saying she was abusive the way her parents were, but the boys must have decided that she's never going to be the mother they want or need. It can't all be Jamie or Lynne, since either Britney doesn't think she has problems or she's fully aware that she does but refuses to seek help for them, and she's driven her kids away as a result. The whole thing's just tragic.

I put at least half of it at his feet. No, he didn't write the script, but I've seen his other work, including Army of Darkness. The Darkhold is the Necronomicon, for all intents and purposes, and either that was part of what drew him to the project or....what? At best, he didn't watch all of WandaVision, so he didn't know this was going to be a whole-ass retread of something that had already happened, something Wanda had come out on the other side of*. The rewrites certainly didn't help, because I know that Elizabeth Olsen said she quit reading those at one point because she knew there'd just be more changes later, but I do think Raimi has a particular esthetic as a director. *"But, but, but, she brainwashed people and got away with it, so of course she'd go on doing bad things!" And I would have believed in the outrage if that loop hadn't turned into a mixtape of "Zemo's a great dancer, so it's not that bad that Bucky helped him escape from prison." Raimi can direct Thunderbolts** when it comes back into production for those who really want him here, since between unstable murderer John Walker, child trafficker Alexei Shostakov, and terrorist enabler Bucky Barnes he'd have plenty of fertile ground for a heel turn. They can be a trio of suck for the others to band together against, then dispatch. **I'm kidding, I wouldn't want him anywhere near Yelena's next project either. He'd skip over those idiots entirely and do something stupid with her instead.

There's some argument to be made that Mike was only quieter in his sexism and his expectations as far as a woman's role in marriage went, that for as often as he criticized Archie for his wrong-headed beliefs he was willing to live in the man's house rent free and eat his food without paying for much of anything while he focused on his education. Mike too was a product of his era, the 'enlightened' man who could be just as bullish as his father in law, it was simply more subtle.

Since All In The Family had several spinoffs - The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times - it was both satire and a commentary on the changing times. The closest version I can think of right now would be Jay Pritchett from Modern Family, and even that isn't an exact match.

Excuse me while I swallow my own fist, because dear God, not again.....

Show of hands for those who heard that in Peter Dinklage's voice.

As per the article, any deviation from the script could be considered strike-breaking under the rules of the Guild. Reynolds is a writer on the third movie, was given a writer's credit during Deadpool's last outing based on how much dialogue he improvised, but due to the strike he won't be allowed to alter the dialogue on the fly at least until this situation is resolved. It's confusing.

Say what you will about or against Mick Jagger, he and the Stones helped Tina rebuild her career. She was the opening act for their tour in 1981 when she needed the money and exposure, and that's why rock stations started playing her cover of Let's Stay Together, which kicked off her resurgence. Nice to see him giving her credit for helping him when he helped her as well.