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That is what drives me nuts about these types of characters here and on the Middle. They are just like that, you know what stress is? When your wife is unemployed, you are only making 41,000 a year when other places would pay you double. Dealing with debt that you still to this day don't know how it amounted to that. In-laws that tell you how to live your life when you are a damn grown adult and they should speak when they had a lot worst to deal with during the 60s-80s with three kids. You work you ass off to do better and never once does anyone say: "You are doing a good job." Not by your co-workers, who think you are very good but family members who make 100k or have all student loans paid off and their kids going to 2K sport camps and events and you would love just to go see a movie once in a blue moon. That is stress (gets off his soapbox now). I wish the writers would see that on these shows. Claire had it pretty good and same goes for Gloria. I hate to say it, but the last character that decided to go back work over good reasons and enjoyed being SAH was Cam.

Her superior complex doesn't help either, in fact that is what drives her problems.

Completely agree. Like I said I had asked Molly Quinn about it last year when I met her at a convention and she thought it originally sounded interesting and it was meant to go longer but she said it didn't make sense why her own father would not let Alexis know he was engaged.

Oh like that matters. Arizona all of a sudden found out that Alex was the person who really removed her leg and realized she should have blamed Alex the entire time for her leg instead of Callie mean they probably wouldn't have divorced. Or how about how Mariah dwelled on signing a will for 10 MONTHS and then hated when he finally did it. I love how Owen can just go right back into the military and Richard can be chief again for almost a year. Doesn't work that way.

Oh I completely agree on Webster. I remembered him from his Mutant X days and I didn't like him then either. He is a very limited actor, sure he looks good but that is about it. Same goes for Ken Baumann, never really thought he was anything special, while I did stay far away from SLAT he was used and acted a lot better on Castle than on that show where he seemed to really seem to get worst and worst by the episode. Outside of Here's Herbie he really hasn't done much and he's a dad now, so I can see why he hasn't done much more but he is only 26, so he has time unlike Webster who gets by on his looks. It is true, sometimes writers can't help things they were never prepared for and do their best. Sadly, sometimes they have tried to carry on storylines where they just pray the actor is going to be free by the time they want a solution. However, when they do it seems very forced or poorly written, like with Meredith's appearing because Alexis was sick and the actress was just free enough for the writers to go: "Now we can cast doubt with Beckett... hehehehe."

I know that Gina didn't appear much because she was pregnant in real life and by the time they got the break up. She had just had the baby, that's why it was done on the phone. They even admitted it was really hard with Gina due to her pregnancy and they couldn't really find a good way to dress her or shoot around it they later revealed. Hence why she was mentioned and not shown. As for Josh, that is a good question. I know that Ashley wasn't used as much because Brenda Hampton didn't like sharing him from Secret Life. Molly Quinn even said that was why he wasn't around much especially by the time they broke up.

It was music was established in season 1 when he quit working to be a SAH dad to Lily and then went back after the high school music teacher was fired. Plus, both Cam and Mitch agreed it was time for Cam to work again because Lily was older and Cam was bored just being at home all day. I felt that was a nice pay off and then becoming the football coach was also a natural step since it was established forever that Cam played football and was a big football fan even if he thought being a clown was the best thing in the world. They just went more with focus on his football coaching since as I said before, the football field is a film on location and not a closed, built set. Cheaper to pay to use the field rather than build one.

Right, which I thought was a good thing because Cam moved past the SAH a while ago. I would like to see him in his classroom more but I guess they rather stay with the football field since that isn't a built set.

That's exactly it, when Alex rubs it in people's faces like that she is getting the opposite reaction of what she wants. If she didn't do that type of superior complex, she would be fine. That has been a large standing of her character from the getgo like with Haley's high school attitude on things. They both need to grow up and realize that isn't going to get them anywhere in life. Of course look who their parents are.

That's the thing I mean they act like they never had a baby in the house to begin with. Sure Lily is older now but the way they get these expensive things and then just leave ways for them to be damaged or destroyed. They come off as morons and you think by now Alex would realize her superior attitude isn't going to get her anywhere in life unless she is going to have Haley's boss's type of company.

Urie is extremely funny but dear Lord, the man should be committed. He brings "hipster" to a very scary level about things and while he might have made big waves with his designs and ideas. He is Cuckoo for Cocopuffs. Have I worked for bosses and managers that have a very weird and almost insane view of how to run a business or department? Oh yes trust me, including one that should have been fired by the head of admin several times. However, if I had one that did this to me I be: "Yeah, good bye."

This episode reminds me of My Wife and Kids where Daymon Wayne's character let the kids for one episode let them do whatever they wanted and they realized that while their dad's rules were strict they couldn't break regular laws or anything. However, that was the last time I ever got Daymon's character because a few seasons later they left without saying what the rules were. At that that time the kids were 19, 16 and 10 and shouldn't need to be told the rules. Yet they went and threw a party, had alcohol, ate stuff they were allergic too and so forth. That is where the line draws between being a young and stupid and just being plain stupid. Here it is where it needs to be: "I am the parents, I'm not perfect but I know more than you and you are being a complete moron here." "I have raised you better than this." Instead of: "I just want to be my kid's friend." There is a line.

I was in middle school in the fall of 1990 when Dance Party was starting to go down the drain but I do remember watching the final five minutes of the show since the USA cartoon express was on right after it before dinner in the late 80s. It was an interesting show but at that time, I really didn't know what the big deal was. Sure, it was current music and a bunch of high school and college kids dancing. Sure we had the bikini shots and classic 80s style during the episodes however I couldn't understand the appeal. Watching old episodes now, I can see how it was appealing back in the day. My best friend's sister who was in her mid teens loved the "Dance and Romance" Thursdays. She was the classic: "I want to dance to this music with a great guy." Of course now we all look back and go: "Wow, what was I thinking?"

I know, the kid can graduate high school in real life four years early but he can't go see a speech coach? He has a very hard time enunciating his words, he doesn't have a lisp or anything and he isn't overly loud but man, the guy really talks weird.

That brings up a lot of good points. It was more of the writers' anger towards not wanting to tell the stories that made them not work. If you want a writer/producer in Hollywood who likes to teleplay his anger on things more than Michael Moore, look at David E. Kelly. The man has constantly thrown his anger on politics, religion or society from Chicago Hope to Boston Legal. Don't get me started on his thoughts on the priests in the catholic church or the Iraq War and Bush Administration. He even threw out his anger over various things in the last few years the government did. I mean it didn't feel: "ripped from the headlines." It was more: "We get it David, you hate it, get over it!" Its when things like that happen when shows like Castle falter like with the entire marriage situation. They were more focused on: "I hate the fans want this, we have to keep them from getting married no matter what." Which meant two grown adults who acted like 10 year olds and its like with Espo or Gates at time. All the the work and history and they still act like kids who were told they couldn't play with the Big Kids. How many times has Espo thrown Castle under the bus after everything they have done together? How many more times can Gates say how much she hates Castle's antics when he has solved so many cases with them and been right about how many things? Of course, how many times has Beckett gone alone and gotten attacked or almost killed when they have pointed out not to keep doing that. Or with Alexis doing something more than being 21 and not aware of the world. Or how many times do we have to hear Laine be told she is Kate's best friend or how she wants to settle down yet doesn't do any of this stuff? The writers don't even try to make it work its more: "We don't like to write relationships."

Yes, that would have really made the season work. It was funny that after Bracken was revealed to be the Big Bad all these years how many people started turning on him or tried to kill him themselves. Up until the reveal in season 5 premiere, these former military men were just worshiping the ground he walked on and then it was: "They know who he is?" "Well, guess we can try and kill him ourselves now or just roll over easily." Kind of like how with 3XK, Tyson basically said: "You are evil, do as I say." And they were all: "Yes, master..." Or how much Tyson kept making the police and the DA's office look like morons and it was Castle who kept saying: "Its him!"

Oh not to mention they kill on a split thought. Like with the girlfriend two seasons back with the entire juice bar cover up. I mean come on, she got killed because she was late meeting up. So, she gets killed because they think she is going to roll over evidence when she was just late. No wonder Bishop said he was dead or Dexter going: "It was her!" "I'll kill her!"

I agree with that, I can completely understand why Castle kept the secret, same with Smith. Of course, we never truly found out what Montgomery did for him. Also, how the military hitman found out who Smith was came to the point in the 5th season when Castle and Beckett tracked him down. The guy can make it so doctors can fake his death as revealed in season 6 but he can't keep himself hidden and instead of copying the real file for the bomb trap. He instead put the real one in place of it. What was he hoping? That Bracken himself was going to get the file and blow himself up?

Season 4 would have gone better if they didn't drag out Kate lying about not remembering what Castle said and then bringing it up because a kid lied about not knowing why he picked up a backpack. Especially, when she knew that Castle was most likely watching then his reaction to it and everyone supporting his anger on it made it worst. My problem was then the reveal of Bracken in season 5. Did it make sense he was the guy with the power to do everything he did and why Kate's mother was killed in the first place? Sure, it made a lot of sense. However, as they revealed more and more in season 5 and then his final take down in season 6. Things started to not make any sense, the blackmail with the police files, the hidden tape in Kate's white elephants. Why the three cops were so willing to fall on their own swords because "they were protecting their families." and these former military men so loyal to say: "You can never touch him." Even the entire cornering with discrediting the mayor made no sense or how the lawyer just magically appeared to stop the assistant from saying: "Its this Senator, Bracken is name." It all rang false and they even admitted they were out of ideas but had this back up plan to end it if they couldn't. Unlike the Castle "mythology" where they had no plan but: "keep them from getting married." Much like season 4 was: "Do whatever to keep Castle and Beckett from getting together." Amazing how scared they were because they aren't in truth, good writers when it comes to relationships. I mean Espo and Lanie spun in circles and then a cut scene was that Lainie was the one who doesn't want to settle. Yet, she complains about it all the time. Whatever.

Yeah and I do remember a lot of critics and fans saying that was so not like Richard. In fact it was revealed it was Edward Herman himself who owned the chain and meant something to him. However, he said he would have taken it off if asked. I can see that after 6 seasons of knowing Richard, why would he have a long gold chain on and even more, why wear it to bed. Very few people wear chains like that to bed for specific reasons. My wife has a medical alert necklace and her grandmother's cross she wears every day but not to bed. She doesn't like being choked to death at night. Why everyone from fans to reviewers thought it was out of place.

I am hoping that we will see Larry Craston a.k.a Mr. Fear since he was mentioned during Foggy and Matt's college day in which he knew them both. They can also bring in Mark Waid's fantastic college day tale about a bitter law professor who almost got Foggy expelled for plagiarizing because he made the professor look bad. Not to mention Larry was a student of said professor and took on his ideals as a result. Be a great: "What if Matt and Foggy would have gone the other way" villain. I do want to see Potter as Gladiator and I really do hope we see the Jester and more of the Hand trying to come into Hell's Kitchen as a result of Nuno dead and Fisk now awaiting trial. I do think they should not have killed Ben off he could have worked with all series from Jessica Jones to Defenders and has been a stable in that end of the Marvel Universe for a long time. If they need to bring in a character who had ties to all they need to bring in Billy Walters, an upstart new reporter who became friends with Peter Parker and came from Hell's Kitchen but decided not to be a victim of the society or his parents' divorce.

Both writers Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns who were big fans of Grodd wanted to point out he was an animal in the long run. Writer Chuck Dixon touched on it in the early 90s but Johns ran with it after that. Writer Brad Meltzer who wrote in the entire Gorilla City cast showed their intelligence but at the same time just like real people. Primal instincts come in when we are cornered.

That should be on a sign on anyone who writes on a show. I have heard so many TV shows from Gilmore Girls to CSI saying: "We don't want to have the Moonlighting Curse so we don't want to put certain characters together." It is like forever branded as why TV creators don't want to put couples together despite the flow of stories and so forth. Even if the "Moonlighting Curse was really the fault of the actors not liking each other, writer's strike that year and having their budget hurt. They constantly said the show went wrong when they put their main characters together. When tons of people have said: "It was not because you put them together on the show!" Yet its a constant excuse and it should be more: "You should focus on better writer." Yet, it continues almost 30 years later as an excuse for almost all shows.

Especially when you know he was being serious and not joking in a loving way. You know what has been the biggest waste? I know there are still two episodes left but we never found out who was Bishop's inside person in the SA office. It wasn't Castro and after he revealed it was Geneva to Alicia then Bishop knew. So, who was feeding him the info? Because if Castro would have been his inside man he would have known it to have been Geneva from day 1 and he didn't know until Alicia found out. Because let's face it, if Bishop had a good inside person he would have known about the affair between Geneva and the Police detective and would have outed that secret in no time and it would have come across as a conspiracy between the police and the SA office to take a "legitimate businessman" down. As of now the affair is still going on and not even Cary knows about what really happened with the frame up with him. He could even get Geneva disbarred and the cop kicked off the force as a result of it. But that is too much for the Kings to do because that would have fixed the storyline from the beginning and Kalinda wouldn't have had to go on the run.

No good can come from this. How much do you want to be that Haley's dream job is going under and she is forever stuck living with her parents.