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  1. I was hoping Cordell would win, point out how flimsy Denise's evidence was and offer to give back the Davidson's land minus the 20 acres in exchange for dropping the charges.  Why is it nobody including Liam the smart attorney; explored how adverse possession could be applied (it likely could, in Texas, under the right circumstances, the Walker's could claim that land after ten years).   

    16 hours ago, wlk68 said:

    Denise had absolutely no right to try and question Augie (a minor) without a guardian being present. Yes, Augie was willing and Cordell wasn't picking up his phone but that's no excuse. As a District Attorney, she would know that anything he said might end up getting thrown out as inadmissible as a result.    

    Agreed, and Augie was stupid for going along with it.  That or he's honest to a fault (that kid should NEVER play Poker!).  

    The whole feud story line is just not interesting.  It could be in limited doses, as a side story but this is sliding into soap opera territory.  They don't need these heavy plots and twists to carry the show.  It's a crazy idea but Walker is a Texas Ranger, maybe he could actually go out and catch bad guys from time to time?   I could like the show, I do like the show a lot of the time but these Walker family drama plots are dragging it down by overshadowing a lot of the other characters and making things unbalanced.

     

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  2. On 3/10/2022 at 11:33 AM, Cotypubby said:

    That made me wonder. Are players not allowed to be on any kind of medication during Survivor? Do they get any kind of basic medical/hygiene supplies?

    It's allowed if they pass the medical tests so they can safely compete with whatever underlying condition they have and if it's something they can be given at the location.    Thyroid medication would be a good example.    And Tina Wesson took medication for Rheumatoid Arthritis the whole time she was on the show, she said medical would bring each dose and she was allowed just enough of a sip of water to swallow it (so she wouldn't even get an unfair advantage of more hydration than the rest). 

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  3. 6 hours ago, bunnyface said:

    I didn't come anywhere near 50 triangles before my brain tapped out. 

    I love doing escape the room app games but count the triangles (squares whatever) is one puzzle I hint right past.  I just can't do them and they take me so long I get too impatient. That and slide puzzles, I even hated those as a kid when you got those cheap plastic versions in grab bags and such.

     

    I liked Jackson, he was definitely an early favorite.  Very much hoping they bring him back on another season.  To be clear on the Lithium thing - he didn't disclose it earlier because he thought it wouldn't matter, he thought he'd be completely weaned and cleared from it by the time shooting started.  He told them about it late because he didn't get weaned off in time after all and that changed things.  Should he have said up front "this what I'm on, this is the plan to get off it" though?  Probably yes.

    I thought there'd be no vote at all because I thought Daniel was going to be out.  He was hanging his arm at the immunity challenge and I thought his shoulder was out again but they never said a word about it.  This is the first season in awhile that I see people I want to root for right from the start.  I did like Zach a bit but he wasn't at the top of the list and I don't know how he'd be long term.  I was on board when they briefly talked about getting Rocksroy out though - if I were in camp with him I don't know how long I could bite my tongue and play the social game.  His attitude when they were building shelter was one thing, there's always that player who comes on strong and takes a team lead role early on.  But he crossed a line and lost me when he told; not asked, told, (more like demanded) Swati  "wash those things you call shoes"    He and Lydia rub me the wrong way but for different reasons. 

     

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  4. I liked the Jimmy Buffet plot; I think Danny bought the dinner for bragging rights "I once bought Jimmy Buffet dinner when I saw him at this bar".  Fun story/memory for later.  But what I liked more was the guy running circles around Danny - the Detective that plows over everyone try's to arrest the guy and instead gets let me show you this paper, loophole, loophole, loophole then he walks away smiling and Danny just stands there.  It may have been a throw away time waste story but it still had me laughing so much.  Although to be fair the concert discussion at dinner had me laughing more, that was pretty good too.

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  5. On 6/11/2021 at 3:52 AM, ukgirl71 said:

     Matt Barr’s probably committed to Season 2 of Blood and Treasure, whenever that happens. 

    Filming is already done but the network keeps pushing airings back, it was supposed to be summer 2020 then fall 2020 then this summer now it's "probably late 2021 or early 2022".  I really want to see it but at this point it's been so long I have no hope for it to go further than airing season 2 or ever getting a season 3 at all.

    Matt Barr really deserves more attention than the gets, it's a shame he was used as the convenient red shirt family friend to give Walker more survivor angst.  Couldn't Geri have dropped by the ranch and gotten caught in the middle of the gunfight instead?

    Pretty good episode for what would have been the first season finale if the network hadn't ordered additional episodes based on ratings.  I still think they threw too many plots and people into the show too fast.  And I definitely think they need to give both kids especially Stella some extra brains in the trusting people/think before taking action department.  Still it's early in the shows life and it's a fun watch, at least for now.

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  6. Delilah wants to move to France because there she's not the sad widow/cheater that everyone knows.  I hate to break it to her but she could accomplish the same thing moving to Lenox with Darcy.  How well known does she think she and John were? Outside of her friend group in Boston she's a nobody.

    That said I have to admit I loved the scene with her and Gary - it was very well acted and also good in a way to see both of them blow their tops and have an actual fight not a polite, slightly irritated discussion.

    I've been thinking for awhile they should have just given Eddie visitation and partial custody as long as he took and passed regular drug tests.  I can't believe it took them this long to come up with that; at least they both seem to be coming down from trying to take the "fight dirty" road.

    As far as Peter goes - I was wondering if Gary's little revenge attack was going to end up backfiring on Sophie.  She of course doesn't know what he was planning and he didn't know about the podcast.  But she named Peter to any and all listeners and if he ends up severely beaten he could say, especially with lack of police charges, that she defamed him and that her statement set vigilantes on him.  If Gary is going to beat the guy up I hope he brought gloves - having a great alibi doesn't get you far if you leave fingerprints along with having some bruised and bloody knuckles.

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  7. 11 minutes ago, Dr.OO7 said:

    This article, which offers up some pretty disturbing details about the images in Josh's possession:

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/josh-duggar-child-pornography-case-trial-bail-home-confinement-000211966.html

    That's the one I just read that lead me here to see what people were saying.  Honestly it was so disgusting I couldn't even bring myself to quote any part of it to comment; even the investigators said it was in the top five worst types a person could access.   But outside what he looked at which I don't even want to think about I need to say I'm disgusted at the judge for allowing visits with his kids in his release as long as Anna Is There.  That should not be, that girl is so far in the cult she can not be fully trusted - not that I think she would allow or encourage Josh to do anything just that she does not have a spine of her own and I don't trust what he might sneak by her and her inability to say "No" to her headship.   It should have been no contact or contact only with an outside party like a social worker present at all times.

    Also about where the stuff was on his computer - he is both sneaky and stupid at the same time.  He split his hard drive to hide the files from the porn monitor that was installed and he password protected it.  Sneaky.   Then he used a password that he's used on other accounts like his banking and that includes his birth date.  Stupid.

    I truly hope law enforcement didn't and doesn't mess up here and has a clear line of evidence to present.   

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  8. I liked it but didn't love it.........yet.   I think pilot episodes always need the benefit of the doubt, characters to introduce, background, main plot. Some do it better than others but it's usually them throwing a huge amount of info at us.   Will definitely keep watching and see where it goes and how they build it up from here.

    But I do have to complain about one thing - the sound.  Some of the characters seemed harder to hear than others but I also heard static and some breaks in the sound so I don't know if it was them or technical issues on that part.  But they can control the music; did it really need to be over just about every single scene?  It seemed constant to the point of distraction.  And who thought it was a good idea to have an actual song with a singer while Walker was confronting his daughter at the gazebo?  Music adding drama is fine but trying to hear the two actual actors talking while hearing a third voice from the singer was really distracting and seemed like a poor choice.

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  9. The writers need to decide if they want consistency in their characters or if they want each member of the family to have their own plot/story in each episode.  It really bothered me how out of character Frank was - there is no way that with an officer shot, in surgery and possibly not going to make it that he would be hanging out in the gym with the disabled detective.  In any other episode Abby or Garret bursts in, tells Frank the news, grabs his coat for him and Frank is straight off to the hospital.  For pity's sake he's walked out on the Mayor and Governor to "be with my men" as he puts it.  There had to be a way to handle having Frank manage his story of the week and acknowledge that one of his officers was gravely wounded but to not mention it at all even a "I just came from the hospital" throw away line was a huge mistake.

  10. Just watched the Jinger gives birth episode (airing tonight 12/23 but available on TLC Go in advance).  I really hate their decisions here, much more than usual.  I'm assuming everyone had Covid tests, probably multiples but I question why did both sets of Grandparents minus Boob have to be there and worse why in the world did Michelle need to take Jordan with her.  To a hot spot on its way to lockdown, on a plane then back home where they're in contact with the rest of the family.   I seriously doubt they quarantined properly when they got home.  I don't care where you are on the virus belief spectrum from grocery shopping in a hazmat suit to protesting masks there's a certain example set with these people among their serious followers and Michelle and Jordan taking that risk and Jinger and Jer allowing it seems terribly irresponsible. 

    On a side note there's a point in the episode when they're in the kitchen and you can see the wall at the base of the stairs.  Look closely at that - it is two full shoe racks of sneakers, just sneakers.  And going by size the mostly look like Jer's.  Seriously there must be 30+ pairs there, I have never in my life seen anyone who is not playing professional sports with that many sneakers.  I'd say it's weird but I think for him it's par for his narcissistic course.

    There is always good with the bad though - the new baby is cute, Felicity is adorable and the name isn't horrible although I wonder if they'll just call her Evie or Eve or if she'll have the double "Evie-Jo" name permanently.

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  11. 21 hours ago, tennisgurl said:

    This thing with the dad is so weird, what is this guys deal? Does he feel remorse for hitting Eddie and wants to apologize, or does he want to finish what he started? Or is he just a stalker who is really bad at staying hidden? Its such a weird plot, I really want this whole thing with Eddie's guilt over his friends death to be over and done with, and having her creepy dad around keeps it going while making it even more needlessly melodramatic.

    I'm torn between two plots - One that he went after Eddie in a fit of anger after the confrontation at the lake and he's calmed down now and feels guilty about it but doesn't know how to make it right or confess what he did.  Two that his anger hasn't gone away at all and he's trying to get close enough to Eddie to finish what he started when he hit him with the truck.    Those are sort of two opposite ends of the rope and each could be likely but if either are where they're going with this I'm honestly not sure which story I want to see, the guilty but can't confess is, as you said, needlessly melodramatic but then again the "I'm going to finish him off if I can get close enough to him" idea seems a little too soap opera.   

    Katherine and Eddie just need to talk.  What happened when they left the house was terrible for him but it's mostly just planning and the "new normal", it wouldn't hurt to say hey we need a checklist and routine for each day to make sure things are in order and where they need to be.  The home health aide can help with that but please do not let this person be connected to the characters in any way or some sort of terrible borderline abusive person.  Could we get someone like Howie from Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist for the role?  For that matter could we actually get Zak Orth to do a little cross over and reprise his role even if it is a different network?

    I don't hate Delilah but I guess I don't care much about her either since the idea of her possibly being off the show while she's in Paris, if she goes, doesn't seem to bother me at all.  On the other hand was anyone at all actually fooled into thinking she was making that offer to the boyfriend not her Dad?  One of the worst fake outs ever.

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  12. Asher is quickly becoming a favorite of mine; he's a good actor and a good character both.  I know most watchers don't like Leah and Shawn as a couple but I did like that she recognized that he needed to be at the hospital for that patient and she was kind about it.  It's better than the usual, "you put your career over our relationship" drama that couples usually get stuck with.

    Complaint about Morgan though - shows of course take liberties with reality vs fiction but there has to be a middle ground - in her scenes on the hospital stairs with Park her shirt sleeves were wildly distracting.  There is no way any doctor wears a shirt with huge oversized frilly cuffs.  They not only hung past the end of her coat but went all the way down to her knuckles....very impractical and unsanitary.  I'm sure the costume department can make them look fashionable without being ridiculous.

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  13. On 11/20/2020 at 6:59 AM, cardigirl said:

    And what happened to Charlie? Why is she an infant again? She's at least 6 months old if not older, isn't she? When Eddie came home though, Charlie was presented to him to kiss as an infant (very obviously fake). 

    I think this is the one thing that we, as viewers, are going to have to ignore and forgive on every show right now.  Nobody is going to have a baby on set during a virus situation - that's probably why on This Is Us Toby & Kate's baby Jack hasn't been seen yet this season ( just mentioned napping, babysitter etc).  I'm still trying to guess how Call The Midwife will deal with this.  But I'm giving all shows a pass for either disappearing babies or dolls that don't really fool us if it's all done in the spirit of keeping the actual babies/toddlers they would have used safe.

    I didn't hate the episode but I'm definitely disappointed that of all the choices they went with paralysis.  It's the standard, almost cliche choice that's been done many, many times before.  Eddie is a musician if they wanted to give him a challenge they had so many other choices.  My original guess when last season ended was a hand or arm injury that left him unable to play guitar but they could have gone with brain trauma that affected his coordination, deafness would have been devastating for him, even making him blind although a little cliche would have been more compelling.   But can't walk and hinting at an Oxy problem (why didn't he tell Katherine to flush those pills immediately?) seems like taking the easy way out.

    Also Gary is pretty good looking, definitely loyal and can be funny but I don't know if the writers have sold him as such a great catch that we want to see two women dealing with their jealousy over things like whether one of them knows he took the dog to the vet.  James Roday Rodriguez deserves a little better then a one note story line and being the perpetual sidekick.

    But..........Still going to keep watching.

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  14. 18 hours ago, driver18 said:

    I just can't, you guys. Seriously, I can not stand Reznick. I CAN NOT STAND HER. I have not liked her ever. Not once. I do not understand why they decided to make her a series regular. I loathe everything about her. She's rude, obnoxious, selfish, uncaring. I just can't stand her. She ruins every scene she's in. And she's in SO MANY FREAKING scenes with my favorite Claire. I literally can not find one redeeming quality about this character. Not one.

    Joining the Reznick hate train.  I get she's pissed that surgery was taken away as a career but someone needs to take her down a few notches with her "In it but not in it" attitude.  Especially when it comes to yelling advice from the peanut gallery - if you don't have your hands on the patient, haven't been asked for an opinion and won't suffer consequences if the surgery goes wrong then keep the lip zipped.  Her career arc doesn't make sense though just like Shaun when he was pushed to the lab and they acted like it was surgery or that and no in-between.  There are so many specialties out there and the majority of them don't require you to have surgical skills; so if internist is so boring to her why isn't she looking at what might match her skills and her goals.  For that matter why isn't Glassman giving her guidance and suggestions - "If you hate it so much you can suck it up, you can move on or maybe you'd be better off to look into X, Y or Z as a specialty"

    Claire needs to find more backbone and authority both to deal with Reznick and to handle the residents training.  She can't keep being nice and hesitant and letting people like Reznick walk all over her only getting angry about it later or in private AND advance her career and handle disagreements at the same time.  She needs to take a page from Lim and Andrews books.

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  15. I liked this episode a bit better than the premier.  They're settling in to the seasons story lines.

    I think Randall and Beth did pretty well with Tess, I wish they had talked to her more, maybe given her books to read or people to research and talked to her about why it's different to "act" than to "react".  Her reacting and lashing out to the incidents at school was pretty age appropriate and she's not wrong but like anything at her age she needs guidance how to channel everything she's learning and experiencing into actions that can make a change.   Also teachers don't touch a kids hair; or any other part of them unless you're actively pulling them away from danger like stepping in front of a speeding car....seriously they may be kids but they're not your cute pets (and they're not stupid).

    I liked the Madison and Kevin interactions and I'm OK with Madison changing - I think her normal bubbly over the top personality was a bit of a put on to cope with her problems and pregnancy hormones and her disorder rearing up have sort of overshadowed that and brought her a bit more down to earth.  That plus navigating a relationship with Kevin (also why do we forget that Justin can truly act until they give him one of those monologues and he crushes it every time like the last one by Dad's tree?  This guy needs more credit than he gets).  Whether they have a happy ending as a couple or whether they should even be a long term couple is a different question though - but no way it's going to be that easy.

    The only story that I'm still on the fence about is Randall's Mom........It felt a little too soap opera when the EMT's realized she was alive and with the reveals this week, her picture on Grandpa's boat and the assumption that she's still alive it still feels the least realistic and the most soap opera-ish of all the plots.  Jack's brother was one thing but it made sense as the story played out and I hope they have a good explanation for Randall's Mom because it's really stretching believability so far.

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  16. What strikes me and what I almost feel I don't have patience for is how unprepared these kids are for this "world beyond".   If we as viewers didn't already know so much about the walking dead world we'd probably be more invested in the kids journey - it would be:  "Oh my god this is strange and scary what will they do how do you fight and get past these scary creatures!".    Or that's what it should have been, instead we look at them sneaking through the fire area and it was "Just cover yourselves in their guts and blood and you'll be out of there in half an hour, Oh my god Carol and Daryl would have solved this yesterday how stupid are these kids".    So half of me feels like hey it's interesting to see how these kids have been almost over protected and never really prepared for what the world is like now and the other half is just too impatient to deal with how stupid they are and how stupid the adults were to not prepare them for how the world is now with every trick in the book.   They are just way to neat and clean and confused and it's a little like rolling all the way back to watching the antics of Camp Dinner Bell outside Atlanta except we're nearly a decade into this little apocalypse and their naivete should be long gone by now.

    So far the most interesting thing to me is my curiosity about what are they going to do when Finn Felix (Fixed on 10/14; I think I did some sort of crazy Huckleberry Finn typo there!) and Huck, who are way more interesting characters; catch up to them and will they find out there's no community to go back to.

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  17. On 10/6/2020 at 7:05 AM, cardigirl said:

    What is up with Eugene Monreaux? My guess is he is in a coma somewhere in a hospital somewhere. He keeps meeting people who know who he is but who don't help him get back to his people. Like he can see tv, but he can't pick up a phone? They just keep telling him to keep walking.  It's weird. 

    This, This, This.......and everyone who commented after you.  So glad to see I'm not the only one going down that thought path.  She happens to have a vest with his name on it, they just chill watching his TV show, he can steal from the register but not use the phone.  No way he's in the real world.  But considering how well known he must be I'm not sure he's in any actual hospital or anyplace official - I'm leaning towards him waking up back in the bed at the first old ladies swamp shack.  It's getting pretty twisted and a little (or a lot) weird at times and for some reason, maybe because it's a little different and weirder than what's on; I still want to keep watching and see where it's going.

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  18. On 9/30/2020 at 9:41 AM, peachmangosteen said:

    I still loved it lol. It's just mindless fun to me, which I enjoy.

    I'm SO glad they had Rose find out about JasonMark so early. Now I can fully enjoy shipping them!

    They continue to surprise me honestly. I was especially surprised that Eugene is already away from weird swamp lady. I'm interested to see where that goes.

    I was also shocked that the son isn't gay and that he and the reverend aren't secretly together. The son being into the cam girl is kinda whatever but I am with @Door County Cherry on seeing some chem with the reverend and Ginger so I hope he isn't still be revealed as secretly gay.

    All your points are great!

    I'm loving it too in an over the top 80's soap opera kind of way - which isn't said as a bad thing, I guess sometimes it's fun to watch people being bad.

    I like Rose and Jason Mark too.  She seems like the most innocent of the bunch, certainly not as plotting as her Mother but I'm wondering how can these two get together and keep the secret of the real Jason.  If they keep up the ruse it's incest to the rest of the world, if they reveal they're not related they give up the inheritance. 

    Also very interested to see where Eugene goes after he leaves the swamp, who he interacts with and for how long.  Eventually he has to run into someone that recognizes him and make his way back to his family.  Have to admit I am living for the episode when he makes his appearance and they all find out he's alive.   I think that's what makes me want to keep watching, plots like Rose and Eugene making me curious and waiting for/wanting to see the big payoff.

    As for Eric being gay or not - I don't think that's fully off the table yet.  His big secret could be just that he's into the cam girls and virtually cheating on his wife but they could go with him using that to "fix" himself.  Sort of a home version of conversion therapy where we find out he's been using porn to force himself to be more attracted to females and suppress any attraction to males.  Maybe not, maybe it'll just be the standard guy with a wandering eye story but him also being gay would make a fun sort of twist on the twist.

    Definitely going to keep watching and see where this fun bit of escapism goes.

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  19. On 9/9/2020 at 1:16 PM, QuinnInND said:
     

     Nothing against Josiah specifically but if freaks me out when parents carry their kids like this.  It seems common and mostly safe but all I see is the kid tipping over backwards and either hanging down Dad's back as he tries to get them upright or Dad loses his grip and they drop.  Can't help it......gives me the shivers every time.

    That said it is a cute candid picture of them and I'll excuse the head bow because I love that she's wearing jeans and not a dress.

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  20. The babies and little kids continue to be the best parts of this show.  Ivy has the biggest eyes and getting them set up on the couch watching the younger ones tip over was pretty cute and funny.  

     

    Jim Bob building the greenhouse:  You missed me guys

    Kids externally:  Oh, sorry Dad, ha ha

    Kids internally:  Damn maybe if we drop a hammer from above.  Keep trying.

     

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  21. 28 minutes ago, Silver Raven said:

    I think the US Open is going to be shown on those preemption days.

     

    I see it now - They have Kelly Clarkson at noon so I couldn't figure why they had that in place of Days.  I didn't look at the rest of the schedule but I see at 2pm it says US Open so they must have bumped Days to give the afternoon programs a time for their shows since the Open is later in the day.  That's good, at least it's only a few days they'll be off and not an extended break.

  22. Not sure if this goes here - Scheduling question - Asking for my Mother.   Days isn't on the schedule for next Thursday or Friday, 9/17 and 9/18.  Did a little digging and found the below (warning, full article contains spoilers).  I tried to find the Soap Opera Digest article referenced but couldn't.  My question is:  Is the show off air just those two days or are they taking an extended break?  The quote from the writer almost makes it sound like the show is off until sometime in October except for a few episodes for the "mini-storyline".  Any help appreciated, Mom is 82 and Days is part of her daily ritual, she gets really upset if it's not on so if I can prepare her beforehand whether it's just two episodes or a long break it'll be a huge help. 

     

    Days of our Lives spoilers for Thursday September 17:

    Days of our Lives will be pre-empted.

    Days of our Lives spoilers for Friday September 18:

    Days of our Lives will be pre-empted.

    Fall Previews for Days:

    Head writer Ron Carlivati told Soap Digest that in order to get the episodes back on track, they will insert some shows into October – a mini-storyline – “There is a sort of seven or eight day incident that happens in Salem that was not there originally.”

    https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/spoilers/576799/days-of-our-lives-spoilers-september-7-through-18-2020/

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