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JJ's loyalty is commendable -- misguided, but commendable. I say if he wants to go after Sami for making his sister feel bad, let him. But he should prepare to have his butt handed to him. Sami is the wronged party, as has been pointed out, and -- AND! -- he needs to learn that his mother's sophistry about EJ being the "cheating" party is just plain wrongheaded. JJ is mistaken as well as immature, but he's young enough that I find it forgivable. I don't think he's in Brady's class of too dumb to live -- or John's. Not yet, anyway.
I watched the scene where Theresa clanged John with the fireplace poker, but I don't see how hitting him in the head makes any difference. It's not like any vital functions are happening up there.
Taken in isolation, I thought JJ's conversation with Eve might actually have been sincere. I thought Eve could be legit. Does that make me naive?
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It's Suzanne's "You little people have to train yours, and you call us dumb" outrage that kills me.
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I don't understand why Will and Sonny are supposed to feel caught in the middle between Sami and Abby. They hardly ever shared any scenes with her and most of the time I actually forget that they're related. Will supposedly being Abby's best friend was clearly a plot point created just for the affair story. They really just seem to be family in name only. Just because they share blood with her doesn't mean they need to automatically feel sympathy for her.
For a moment or two, when Will suggested that he and Sonny give Abby some space, I thought the show might actually be working up to a disagreement between the two over siding with Abby or Sami. I think that could have some potential, even though I agree that Will's being Abigail's best friend didn't seem all that convincing.
I continue to be disappointed with Guy Wilson's acting. After Sami leaves, Will and Sonny talk about how torn Will felt (or rather, they tell us that Will was feeling torn), the scene ends with Sonny telling Will he will always be on Will's side, and Sonny puts his arms around Will. Guy Wilson manages to look, well, "glum" is the only way I can describe it.
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I didn't watch this season all the way, but I cheated and caught the last episode. I wondered if the show might actually have Jack eat his eat his gun before the end, too. Sutherland did a really nice job with the scene where Jack learns of Audrey's death, I thought. Jack's "Everyone I love dies" expression was harrowing. Devane was equally heartbreaking, as mentioned upthread, in Heller's final scenes. Devane's a total pro, and a very underrated actor, I think.
I was sorry to see Audrey die; DoDder kind of grew on me, after a while. I was also sorry to see Kate essentially circle back around to feeling like a failure again, and hand in her badge, much as she did in the first episode.
Am I wrong in thinking that Season 1 Chloe would have said "I never said I was your best friend, Jack; I said I was your only friend."
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From the episode "Killing All The Right People," where Mary Jo's trying to learn how to get fired up like Julia so she can speak at her PTA meeting. Mary Jo suggests they all try to think of something that makes them angry:
Suzanne: "Ooh, I've got one! This just makes me furious. You know, when men use women's liberation as an excuse not to kill bugs for ya. I just hate that! I don't care what anybody says, I think the man should have to kill the bug!"
Julia: "I don't think I can add anything to that."
Again, the delivery is all. But in the midst of a deeply sad episode, it's a nifty little laugh. Suzanne was a very reliable foil and comic relief. Of course, the remark that inspires the episode title sets off a rant of the first order.
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Yeah, I thought Molly looked sort mesmerized or hornswoggled or something. I don't think she was acting in the most rational fashion when Space Ghost started writing on the airlock window. She certainly didn't seem like "Oh, finally! Someone I know."
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I am dying here, people! Dying. Thanks for all the quotes and for the hardest laugh I've had in a long while.
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What, did Sami chew off one of Abigail's feet when I wasn't looking? There's polarizing, and then there's crazypants. Sami is hardly the nadir of human cruelty.
I took some measure of glee from the "Why would I want to do that?" portion of the festivities, and yet I couldn't help wishing Sami had mentioned how much her relationship with Elvis had cost her in terms of her self-image and her relationship with her family.
For whatever it's worth, I found James Scott's scene in the jail where he curses himself for a fool only partly convincing. Watching him call himself an idiot was more powerful for me than his oddly well-ordered tanty (first the food tray, then the rest of the table, then the bed? What?) Less is never more with this show. That's faulty direction.
I'll say Yes for your sake, LP, but I doubt it'll actually happen.
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When TC and Topher were working on that guy and the other guy was waving the gun around, I kept saying (yes, I talk to the TV) "You have scalpels! Use them to incapacitate bad guy!" They had him get shit for them like the clips so he was distracted at times.
While I agree that they might have distracted him to greater purpose, I think it would probably be unrealistic, even for this show, for them to get the upper hand in a hostage-taking. Also, there might be something in the Hippocratic Oath about not using a scalpel to shiv a guy. I think.
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Anyone else find it weird that Goran's character, who is clearly speaking with a Croatian accent, is named the uber-American John Woods? Come on. Couldn't they have changed his name once they cast him?
Totally! "John Woods" is such a robot name.
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And if Holly and Gail do continue to have a storyline together, which seems likely, at least Frosty will be in some kind of relationship outside the squad, more or less.
I agree that Oliver let Andy twist his arm into letting her be a TO, but did he have reason to know that Dumb Duncan would be a challenging rookie to train? Are you thinking of his relationship to the Superintendent?
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Man, if John Aniston were the voice of Pop-Up V.I.C.T.O.R. on Extant, I would not miss an episode! (As it is, ehh.) I wouldn't have recognized Martsolf's voice, I don't think.
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I guess I took the muted palette as a deliberately "futuristic" choice. Everything's very polished and smoothed out and serene. Even the garbage just ... disappears in a twist of light. The future is mellow. Or maybe it's meant to set up a contrast with what I'm sure will be a shocking reveal that humanity's survival depends on a gory, tooth-and-claw confrontation with Species 8472, or the Sleer, or the hippogryph-metamorphs of Wallach IX. Or, you know, something like that.
Hey, maybe "John Woods" can build a tidy little army of killer childbots who can tear the Bug People of Reticulum to tentacled slime with their bare pudgy hands. (Spoiler!)
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If something happens with Duncan, Andy may be proven right but it is still partly her fault. If I screw up at my job because my supervisor didn't train me right, it is partially their fault. I may know I don't know what I'm doing, but there is pressure when you're starting a job. I know my job is not life-or-death like police work is, but if I wasn't trained right, if my supervisor knows I'm screwing up and doesn't discipline me, how do I understand the severity of it? And I hate defending Duncan, because I do think he's an idiot and should not be a cop, but there is blame outside of him.
I don't like defending Duncan any more than you do, but this is a very relevant point. Andy didn't offer Duncan any real discipline, nor any instruction of substance, I don't think. As I recall, though, Oliver didn't really guide anyone's performance so much as tell Andy she screwed up after the fact (a lot.) Sam and Oliver were both, arguably, crap as TOs.
I also wonder if Oliver took the deal because he knows Andy's record isn't clean (being suspended after the Sam undercover situation). If it was opened up, Sam's TO work, and his own, could be put into question.
I think this must be part of it; there are a lot of rocks with a bunch of big worms under them in the story, including Andy's involvement in the Marlo story, if I remember right. I'm sure Oliver doesn't want all those rocks turned over in an ever-expanding professional standards investigation.
But why was the Inspector so insistent on getting Oliver to take the job? Was there one else? I could see turning down a promotion when one is offered as a seriously bad career move, but does it really serve the Inspector's interests to essentially blackmail Oliver into taking the job? (Then again, he pretty much blackmailed Best into leaving it, so ...)
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What kind of a half-assed question is (even ignoring the typo) "Were you sad when you found out James Scott was leaving the show? Or, did you know about it ahead of time?"
What does that even mean? She won't miss him, as long as she finds out about it early enough? She's gonna say she wasn't sad? "Yay! More time for me!" The soap press is clearly about as marginal as everything else connected with the genre these days.
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Even though I think Dumb Duncan ("Duncan't," DropTheSoap? Hee!) is a liar and a piss-poor excuse for a cop, I'm persuaded that Andy is not a good TO. Is there some rule that Andy couldn't have given the guy feedback all along? Tell him you're marking him less harshly than maybe he deserves, just to give him a chance to correct his mistakes. He has less chance of being pissed off if you don't blindside him at the end of the ... year? Probationary period? Season?
And I have to say, Oliver's "defense" of Andy didn't make a lot of sense: if she's "the best ever," then opening up her record for further examination shouldn't be that bad. Oliver believes in her enough to say she's the best, but his behaviour doesn't bear that out, any more than hers does. And the union rep should have objected to the surreptiously taped conversation; he also could have argued that her emotional remarks about her own failings were not reliable evidence of her shortcomings as a TO.
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Well, Halle the Pretend Astronaut and B.E.N. seemed to be getting along just fine.
That was Annie Wersching, and I'm sure she'll be around to give "John Woods" (... Seriously?) a hard time.
I didn't really buy that the garbage vaporizer / transporter or whatever it was still had to be outside -- that was so clearly arranged so that Haunted Harmon and Halle the Pretend Astronaut could meet in the shadows.
Also: I fully expect a reveal that "John Woods" is himself an AI, and that's why (a) he has that name; and (b) Goran-droid and Halle have zero chemistry.
Was Sanada's character being reanimated, or was he getting out of cryosleep after visiting their future alien overlords on their home planet?
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So, Original Revenge Sensei is underwriting the husband's creepy childbot experiments? All right, I'm just going to say it: Molly, you in danger, girl!
I don't like the idea of Agent Ron Butterfield being all Fritz Weaver-y and evil.
(I still haven't forgiven Almost Human for making the not-quite-human dude be the black guy. Wow, progressive!)
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Is it too soon to take bets on the throwdown which already seems inevitable between the creepy AI child and the scary space alien baby? My money's on the destructive mecha-moppet. Unless it's a lizard baby.
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Why is no one ever properly prepared for any kind of activity on this show, other than dressing up like a pretend whore, or Fite Nite? Everything's always last minute chaos and bad decisions in hours, where there should be weeks of preparation of testimony.
ETA: So, Dumb Duncan's eventually going to get someone killed, right?
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Because arrest warrants have been so effective against Stefano in the past. (Lord, this show.)
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Well, maybe it wasn't one of the good forks.
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I don't believe that any parents who love their kid, and it seemed like bulimia girl's parents did love her, would just brush off fork-swallowing and insist on taking her home. Ridiculous.
You know what? That part I had no trouble believing. None. Denial is a force to be reckoned with, people. Especially if the parents cast her illness in terms like "My daughter's not crazy" (which is another way of saying "You're implying this is my fault").
I was more skeptical of the idea that no one noticed Nina had cutlery jammed in her gullet until they reached the hospital. Wouldn't the EMT/first responder types have picked up on that relatively quickly? Isn't "Airway/Breathing/Consciousness" the ABC of urgent care?
It doesn't even bother me that much that Dr. Mo -- er, Krista can empathize with Nina because of her own struggle with bulimia. (I don't really think the actress looks like a long-term survivor of bulimia but this is the only trauma centre in ten counties ... to be staffed entirely by the breathtakingly beautiful.) I think Krista's emotional connection to her patients is sure to become over-used, but I did like the way the actress played the scenes with Nina. ::handwaves::
I do wonder, given her sudden turn for the suicidal, whether Nina had more happening than just bulimia. Borderline personality disorder, maybe? (I'm using my advanced degree in TV Psychology, of course.)
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I think the actress playing Dr. Mole is actually pretty good. (That would be more persuasive if I actually remembered to call her "Krista," wouldn't it?)
Current Plots Discussion: Actually Today's Episode
in Days Of Our Lives
What Jenn clearly meant was "You wouldn't like Abby when she's angry."
I can kind of understand Eric's logic; it makes sense that he'd worry that Sami's focus on revenge is going to hurt her in the end. I think she's justifiably angry, but I hope she can abandon her rage at some point.