JLVerde

As a fat woman I resent that sentiment so freaking much. Way to play into stereotypes that all women are martyrs who will give and give and give to the point of physical sacrifice. Even if they have a single female contestant with no children, she'll most likely be spewing that awful line. DEATH TO THE FATTY MARTYR SYNDROME!! (so says the fat childfree woman who's fat simply because she was lazy with her eating and physical movement--what? nothing to blame but me? *headexplode*) Re: cheerleader isn't a "real athelete" I have one question about the cheerleader (I'm too lazy to look up her backstory and missed it because I was flipping between TBL and Hell's Kitchen). Was she a professional cheerleader or just a high school cheerleader? If it was the former, then I'd have no problem extending the blanket of "real athlete" to cover her as well. Professional cheerleaders work hard to maintain their bodies to remain employed and aren't given nearly enough respect for it (or pay), either. Now if she was only a cheerleader in highschool then I'm poo-pooing her just like I'm poo-pooing pretty much any/all contestants who's athlete claim to fame was high school. I think they should make that an aspect of the show. Just have him randomly show up in the background, maybe lurking in the bushes. Viewers could tweet #Where'sDrDeath when they spy him. Maybe make it into a little contest, with the winner getting a trip to one of those Biggest Loser fat camps. I despise Dr. Death but I love seeing him, too. His segments are so over the top and snarkable it does my lazy heart good. I'll eat more fruit if it's low hanging!

Dome help me, I still keep checking back on this craptacular show. This week I'm glad I did so I didn't miss the special (needs) effects on the egg. HOLY CRAP!! That was like something from an 80's music video. DAYUM. It was so bad it actually took me a second to start laughing. I really just can. not. with this show. It's like the writer's fell asleep after receiving a concussion and this is their fever dreams.

HAH! I'd watch that (but we've already established I'll watch just about anything *cough*UnderTheDome and TheFollowing*cough*. Disappointing Future Tech showed up IMMEDIATELY this episode. I was kind of disappointed, to be honest. Maybe that's why I started to get sleepy and nodded off during the second episode and missed KrygerDeath. Anyway. . .Disappointing Future Tech was definitely that sad tracking device that looked like a freaking pager (or a garage door opener). Seriously? A black box with a blinking red light stuck up under the front of the car? The only way that could be lower tech is if the car had a big ole marker on the rear bumper that left an actual mark on the road as it drove. Hell, that would have been more impressive. Was anyone else a little creeped out by the Ethan "flip" thing with Odin? To me changing a robot child's battery would be akin to helping them in the bathroom (like wiping or pulling up their pants) and not something Odin (who's just Julie's hump at this point--not even a long established boyfriend) should be doing. Guess that was the point, though, that Ethan is too trusting, a flaw of not being human? Since the show appears to be setting up an Ethan vs The Offspring (hee hee, I totally thought of the crappy fratrock band) showdown to save teh worlds, I hope it plays out that Ethan actually battles the vision of Sparks' daughter in child form. Creepy Child Face Off! Now THAT'S a way to send a show off (because I'm assuming this show won't make it to a second season the way they're burning through episodes).

Ok, it's official. This must be a "good" show because I fell asleep during the second episode. I routinely fall asleep during Hannibal (a "good" show but on too late for my weary old self) but stay awake during Under the Dome (so. very. wrong.). I need to catch up with the second half of this set but I liked what I saw in the first half. I agree with other posters that the first half was disjointed, though. LIke watching two different shows. The whole Odin storyline just seems weak, too. We already have more than enough going on (aliens, robots, big bad company, crazy henchman with fabulous hair) we don't need Odin leading La Resistance (unless he's going to burst into song, then I might be ok with it. . .might. . .or blame Canada). I was far too amused when Fabulous Hench Hair (aka sinister Chandler) smashed the glass and then grabbed up that wee dust broom and pan to sweep it right up. I like how he keeps a dust pan handy like that. I bet his mother would have approved. (also, I'm using that as my Disappointing Future Tech of the week. Still sweeping up busted glass with a wee broom, like a sucker. Can vaporize the garbage but can't zap some broken glass? Or better yet, make glass that, if broken just reassembles? tsk tsk Maybe one MechaSon Ethan takes over the world, he'll get on that. Well, after he has a bike ride.)

OK, I just have to point this out. One of the lone Characters of Color who has actually survived to this point (despite being shot TWICE on two separate occasions), DJ Phil has now been put behind bars. Nicely done, writers. Put that black man in his place! I blame my husband for my having watched this episode. I'm trying to fully break up with this show but he keeps making sure we meet each other every week and then. . .well, I watch and then take my snarky walk of shame here the next morning. After staying awake for the whole damn episode (which is so unfair because I always fall asleep when I try to watch Hannibal--a far superior show that aired at the same late hour) all I am left with is wondering if there will be a season three and how in Dome's name are they going to manage THAT? Oh, and the new "computer nerd" guy is going to prove to be this shows Garcia/Abby (Criminal Minds/NCIS). Just tap-a, tap-a, tap-a on the computer and he'll solve the mystery of the week. Good thing he's both cute and white. His character just might survive to see an end to this craptacular show.

sjohnson, I don't see bad acting, either. You want bad acting check out Under the Dome. That show is a trainwreck in all the worst ways. I do think it took a bit for the chemistry to get going between pretty much all the characters and Halle Berry is still a bit wooden at times. BUT. . I'm almost starting to think of her wooden acting as purposeful. We keep seeing how Molly doesn't play well with others (and there was the throw away comment this episode about how she has next to no friends) so the acting may be to show the character (and not merely bad acting). The writing is decent. It's not the best thing I've ever seen but it's above a lot of network offerings (Under the Dome, I'm looking at YOU). It's about on par for this type of show (sci fi/suspense).

HAH! I thought the same thing. Now I wish Molly had imagined Patrick Swayze running his finger down her abdomen to impregnate her. The time of your life, indeed! Curses! You beat me to it. I always watch looking for the blatantly non-futuristic item and I totally MISSED the paper thing. Nice job. I need to up my game, you are a worth I Spy opponent. Right now Ethan is just a plot tool. "We can't break this encrypted thingie. . .give it to ETHAN, it's just like that game he's kicking butt on." We need to show the humanity of the human characters, so we'll feel bad for them when/if the evil foreigners. . .oops, I mean aliens. . .race across the border to steal their jobs. . .oops, I mean invade and take over. Get ETHAN in here so he can have some "robot has a human moment" that will make Molly well up with maternal pride. Same with the bionic limbs on Julie and her (soon to be) hump. We're both different because of our robo limbs but we're still human and need to connect with one another. Except Julie is more like the evil aliens because it seems she really does want to be Mom (from Futurama) and lead an AI uprising. She'll kick your butt right good with her bionic legs. Watch out! All snark aside, I'm liking this show more now that we're actually getting to the plotty plot. But I'm a tiny bit disappointed that Sparks' big plot point all hinges on figuring out what happened to his child. Really? He can't just be curious about the aliens because. . .ALIENS. We have to have the won't somebody think of my children schlock? I don't want Sparks to be an evil mustache twirling baddy (a la the Asian business guy) but there are other ways to "humanize" him. I'm going to have to remember it's a Two Hour Event next week and tune in earlier. I was just getting used to it being on at 10. I really hate when networks pull that crap and move a show around. A new series is like a plant. It can't take root if you don't let it stay in one place for any length of time.

I was only half watching so can someone answer this: Did Phil die? I really feel bad for Poor Phil. He gets shot EVERY season. And I think it was in the same shoulder, right? That man can't get a break. And since I'm commenting on this pile of crap show (that I tried to break up with but now I'm like "oh, I just wanted to see if you're ok" and driving by its house all quasi-stalkeresque) could that fight scene (toward the end) have been any WORSE? Honestly, it was more blatantly choreographed than So You Think You Can Dance. WAIT! I think I have a great crossover idea. So You Think You Can Dance Under the Dome. I'd watch the hell out of that, especially if the judges from SYTYCD could critique the folks of Chesters Mills. Yes, this needs to happen. I want Mary Murphy screeching about how Julia's hair should be on the hot tamale train.

I love that, too. And they still use cheap dollar store brooms to sweep up the dust that they put in their high tech compactors then take out to the funky trash at the curb. REALLY? Not even a Swifter? Ethan looks like how I imagine Andy Richter looked as a child. Ok, maybe Andy Richter didn't have that hint of "I'll trap you under a cardboard box and let you die a slow death" but. . .that round little face is adorable (and so is Andy Richter). (oh and they still use cardboard) Julie was stealing the show for me. Her creepy is delicious. But I can't help thinking of her as Mom (from Futurama). Maybe if she'd just wear her hair up in a bun. . . Speaking of creepy, the faceless robot was creepy to the max. This show has me all conflicted now. I'm loving the robot storyline which annoys me. I wanted to love the alien baby storyline (hello! alien freaking baby!) but it's just so final seasons of X-Files that I'm suffering from major meh flare up. I love a good conspiracy as much as the next gal but this one is just missing something. I think it's because we see both sides of it all the time, so it's less spooky. It would have been better if we didn't see (the boss guy--what's his name?) telling someone he was going to trick Molly. Just have him show up and then we can wonder if he's doing something nefarious or if he just might be doing a double trick-a-roo and going to screw over the folks in the conspiracy. Part of me hopes they do pull that (that Boss is actually a good guy) but even if they do it still won't work quite right because the set up is so weak. Funniest moment of the night? When the big black SUV is following Molly and we're all "oh noes!" only to find out it's the lackey guy returning her GPS retainer. Holy crap! That's totally what my parents needed for me when I was a teen. I never would have lost a retainer. Hmmm, maybe I'm on to some kind of business here. Retainer Guards? No, that's not quite the right name. I need to think on this a bit. I'm giving this show a few more episodes before I decide to cut it loose or not. I really like the premise and Halle is giving some decent acting (she does WTF face and severe abdominal distress very well) and Luca is still easy on the eyes (yes, he'll always be Luca to me--even my spouse, who never liked ER, refers to him as Luca).

They also haven't invented a new kind of dryer. Still using an old drum style air dryer. To dry their LACE UP shoes. I think I've officially found the "thing" I'm going to watch for in this show and it's the odd ball tech/not tech. What will it be next week? Walking a dog on a fancy futuristic laser beam style leash but still having to pick up its turd with a baggie over your hand? Or better, a robot dog but you have to wipe up little oil spill "pees". I enjoy this show but it's so. . .forgettable. I was all geared up for it when they were hyping its start but come this latest episode I was all "OH, yeah, that show is on" only after I was checking what was going to be on. No sense of anticipation. I still like how it has All The Plot Lines, too. I want MORE loose ends. I want them to wrap around me like a big warm hug from my undead alien mother who tries to impregnate me on a spaceship that's funded by an evil government/big corporation with Super Nefarious Agendas!

This show totally reminds me of my years immersed in The Sims 2. Hell, the whole storyline is totally one I love writing (yes, I wrote stories using sims 2, go ahead and giggle, it's silly I know). Seriously, it has robots being integrated into the human population (servos in the game), aliens impregnating people against their will (abductions in the game), AND Halle Berry's hair do is totally a base game hair style (which is worn by an alien character!). I think that's why I'm giving it a good chance. It reminds me of the good ole days of writing sims stories about alien abductions, government conspiracies, and the advancement of servo's rights. Just one question. They still have SHOE LACES in the future? They went out of their way to show us all the quasi-futuristic things (including that funky trash dealie) but they still tie their shoes? WHAT?

re: Under the Dome minor derail Under the Dome is definitely WORSE than The Following. I don't actively root for the entire cast of The Following to be killed in one fell swoop like I do with Under the Dome. Here's how I know for certain a show is truly awful. My father mocks it. That man will watch pretty much anything and rarely says a bad word about it ("it's not so good" is about as critical as he gets) but he actually snarks Under the Dome.

I second the nomination for this. Claire's old wig could make a fabulous comeback on GirlTriplet! Or they could just cycle through the Many Wigs of Emma. Who's pussy do I have to choke to make this happen?

This show is SO BAD it broke FOX last night. It wasn't my t.v. or the reception. It was crystal clear right up until the end and BLACK SCREEN and funky noise. I think that was the best part of the episode (and everyone in my house who was watching all said at the same time "see, even the t.v. knows this is a shitty show"). Thankfully the writing on the show is so weak I was able to piece together the oh so well constructed plot *eyeroll* to figure out what I may have missed (which was a whole lot of nothing). Here are my take-aways from last night's episode (in no order): 1. DON'T LITTER. I was totally offended that Joe and Ryan just tossed the invitations onto the ground. Ok, I wasn't expecting them to keep them for their scrapbooks (or to pin to the walls of their secret investigation rooms *looks at Ryan*) but to just casually fling them to the ground? Yeah, that was more shocking to me than any throat slitting or cat strangling. SHAMEFUL! 2. Why, oh why, do the bad guys always follow proper dinner protocol and set the table with a KNIFE? Didn't we see this mis-step back in season 1 when Joe tied folks up at their dinner table and didn't remember to take away all the sharp and pointies? Then he took a knife to the gut for his stupidity (as rightly he should). So the Blunder Twins set the table with a knife and low and behold wiley Joe gets hold of one. Wait, why am I not shocked by that? Oh, that's right. All my shock was used up over the littering. 3. Please let the Mystery Driver be Emma. I really doubt it is her, given that we were treated to the extra long look at her body, a kind of In Memorium moment. But I really want it to be her. I just can't handle having a new face added to the mix. This season alone we burned through Joe's wanna be daughter (I forgot her name), TWO cult leaders (and a wife), an FBI lesbi-mole (and her spouse), and Creepy Mama and the Blunder Twins. That's just to name the folks who made it more than one episode. I'm done learning new faces. DONE. But the one HUGE takeaway from the entire episode was this: If Joe and Ryan had just fucked when they first met, none of this would have ever happened. Yeah, think about it. You know I'm right.