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My headcanon is now that Gary bought the dang candy bar and pretended to be in a hurry to get out of there for Danny’s sake. Because, as the show just finished telling us, Gary is a thirty-eight-year-old man! Theft is not cute or character-building! Especially given the non-shoplifting story Gary tells later, this just didn’t work for me.
I can’t believe I fell for the funeral fake out, even for an instant. It felt cheap, even though this show, as mentioned upthread, is not the first to pull it.
I liked David Marshall Grant as Gene, but I didn’t believe he was old enough (DMG is 67) to have been involved with someone who served in Viet Nam. I thought the scene in Gene’s house was pretty well handled, though, especially by James Roday Rodriguez.
The show is certainly getting rid of non-core cast with ruthless efficiency, isn’t it? Goodbye, Erin Karpluk; sorry they crapped all over your character and then dumped you like hot criminal garbage!
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1 minute ago, Brian Cronin said:
I agree that there are too many sociopathic villains, but boy, if she's not a sociopath, all of her decisions are so ill-considered.
“Monica, if you ain’t an evil-ass sociopath, I just feel sad for you right now. “
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1 hour ago, Brian Cronin said:
Yep, and bizarrely, it seems like they're seriously leaning into the second option.
Maybe the writers have realized the sociopath well is running dry? (Here’s hoping, anyway!)
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On 2/1/2023 at 8:45 PM, WendyCR72 said:
I like Nathan Fillion, but he's best at frothy fun. IMO, his dramatic chops are...limited, to put it kindly. Like I said, I DO like him!
His comic timing might be his sharpest skill, but given the right dramatic material — which is to say, better writing than this — I think he can be quite effective. This show is all over the damn place tonally, which doesn’t do any of the cast any favours.
I swear I don’t have any idea what’s going on with the Elijah Effin’ Stone plot. Was Wesley actually surprised that the judge knew he was being leaned on to produce results favourable to Stone? How could he not have known Stone was the source? And how does rubbing the judge out protect Monica? I begin to wonder if Wesley only thinks Monica is an exceptionally good lawyer because he’s an especially bad one! She might be just marginally less idiotic than he. Also, she’s clearly either a straight-up sociopath, or lacking any instinct for self-preservation; one or the other.
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I get that Upton is somewhat unpopular. But I think it would be worse if Jay abandoned their marriage and Upton was seen to be blasé about it. Showing her having an emotional response doesn’t seem like sacrificing his character for the sake of hers, to me.
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5 hours ago, SnazzyDaisy said:
The arc is far from compelling. It is boring AF.
I don’t find the collapse of Upton and Brown Halstead’s marriage boring. I hate that Soffer’s exit from the show has turned Brown Halstead into a contemptible coward. The audience has known all season that Jay was never going to come back. I think Hailey has suspected as much all along. And now it would seem she knows for certain.
I also hate that Sean’s instinct for exploiting vulnerabilities gives him a shiv to stick into Hailey over and over.
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Well, that was brutal.
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On 1/13/2023 at 4:17 AM, CoyoteBlue said:
I thought Sis said it was in response to an abusive father that Tim's overcompensating about.
Oh, that was definitely in there. It just felt a little over-simplified to me. But I still liked seeing Tim’s kindness emerge (even while rolling his eyes at Chen), don’t get me wrong.
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On 1/12/2023 at 2:43 AM, Dowel Jones said:
That insurance investigator was large and in charge, wasn't she? If I was Van Meter, her employer would get a phone call about her conduct that led to the investigation, not to mention the 'You got lucky this time' remark.
This whole plot seemed kind of broken to me: surely Van Meter’s reports routinely include itemized reference to pieces of physical evidence that are the basis for his conclusions? “See Electrical Whozywhatsit, Exhibit 32A,” or whatever. This was clearly a filing error, not a “Tom Van Meter is a corrupt monster!” problem. The official Severide owed a favour to (I’m not even sure what his role is, except maybe Chief Pearl-Clutcher in Charge) seems to have a knack for jumping to the most alarming conclusion possible.
Poor Cindy. I knew it was going to be lung cancer by the fourth time the script had her cough.
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On 1/11/2023 at 7:58 PM, HurricaneVal said:
However, since then we've seen that Tim tailors his training style to the student. I keep harking back to that other rookie with PTSD from her time in the military, and Tim was almost new age-y woo-woo with his approach to giving her the training she needed. I could see Bradford being extra sensitive with coaching kids and caring about not stomping on their fragile self-confidence.
True — I was thinking about this and realized I probably wasn’t giving the show enough credit for establishing this part of Tim.
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Finally, something Bailey is not an expert at! That's all I have to say about the ridiculous tenant subplot. Its potential to induce rage migraines is too great for me to give it much attention.
Please, no more Elijah. He just makes me so tired. All these "supervillains" who are always five, ten, twenty steps ahead -- but only because our heroes seem to lack the sense the good Lord gave a lemon.
I think I actually liked the way Lucy handled the domestic violence situation. She was shown to be competent and compassionate in ways that she doesn't always get to be on this show.
I ... did not mind the doofy but essentially sunny-natured Uncle Sgt Tim & Lucy Coach Kids at Baseball plot. Bradford refusing on principle to make little kids feel bad about themselves? Sure! I'll take more of that. (Is it psychologically realistic? Probably not really, but who cares? Is "realistic" even a thing this show aspires to? Not that you'd notice.)
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“At least he’s got the trains running on time” didn’t start out as a joke, after all.
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On 6/18/2022 at 4:30 PM, Spartan Girl said:
Especially this little gem: “People forget, there was no indication of who Hitler would become. You could argue that we were the ones that made a monster of him, by refusing to be his allies.”
I’m honestly not sure what degree of liberty the writers were taking with history here. From everything I’ve read, the Duke of Windsor was a shallow, vain idiot. This line seems distressingly plausible to me.
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I’m not sure the casting thread is the place for this observation, but am I the only one who can’t tell Jim Sturgess and Tom Sturridge apart? I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them together, but I am informed they’re two separate people. I liked Sturgess in One Day. I think that’s all I can say with certainty.
Casting Ryan Gosling as a younger version of James Garner in The Notebook (speaking of Nicholas Sparks) is almost as ridiculous as the Bracey/Marsden casting above — but it might just be saved by the fact that Gena Rowland’s Allie has no idea that the story Duke is telling her is about them, so Noah and Duke are kind of … not really the same person?
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On 10/24/2022 at 12:04 AM, shapeshifter said:
Thoreson interacting with Lopez’ Mom in the hospital was the best writing for him yet——probably because it was subtle comedy that called for them both playing it straight, and her mom being a matchmaker was believable.
The funniest was when Lopez came back and told Thoreson that her “cousin is way out of your league,” and he said, “Yeah. I know.”Agreed. I really liked the actress playing Lopez’s mom. The writing skirted just this side of some pretty hoary clichés, but the actress sold every moment — there was something so warm and genuine about her. Hope we see more of her.
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Is Taylor Kinney slowly morphing into Neal McDonough? I’m not sure the Severide Sex Eye needs to become the McDonough Thousand-Yard Death By Dismemberment Stare.
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No way does an FBI field office outside the U.S. get involved in extraction of intelligence agents, let alone such an extraction involving a jailbreak! The American agents depend on the goodwill of law enforcement in the host countries, and local law enforcement would never trust the FBI again.
I kept thinking this was the most unrealistic episode yet. Just call it “Forester’s Eleven” and call it a day.Tank remains my favourite part of the show.
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Well, thank goodness that's over with.
On 10/17/2022 at 11:07 AM, Clanstarling said:Hey, no one disses "Firefly" 🤣
No. One.
I still don't understand how someone as thoroughly and fundamentally unpleasant as Rosalind has even one measly follower, let alone acolytes, plural. Yes, there are clearly nasty, sociopathic serial killers who attract followers, but there seem to be recognizable patterns of charisma to account for at least some part of this phenomenon; I have serious doubts that someone as supercilious and self-adoring as Rosalind could (a) attract or (b) need validation from those she would doubtless consider inferiors.
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Or Severide is the nine-year-old’s version of the ultimate cool guy. But even Severide knows the limits of that.
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Good golly, but I love Trudy. She’s the best character in the whole franchise.
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Already tired of New Surgical Resident Kai. What do we need him for? The one thing this place does have a steady supply of is smug, judgmental bastards in Ethan and Dean, and often Halstead — and Sam, too, but at least Sam is shown to be consistently good at his job.
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1 hour ago, nittany cougar said:
They have never once shown them thinking about the impact of their "undercover" romance on their actual relationships.
I like to think that at least some of Lucy's hesitation comes from this, but you're right: it's never been explicitly said.
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Also, Wersching was so obviously wearing a wig in the opening sequence, I don’t know how any of the various forces missed it. It’s not that Rosalind’s some Evil Super Genius, it’s just none of these bozos pays any attention!
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Can this be it for Rosalind the Evil Genius, please? God, I’m so sick of Annie Wersching’s endless smirking.
I mean, of course it’s a two-parter. Eccch.-
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S05.E01: The Last Dance
in A Million Little Things
This never even occurred to me, and now I’m kind of gobsmacked. Not that I don’t believe it’s at least possible, but now I can’t un-think it. It does seem completely out nowhere that Delilah and Jon were (retroactively) fighting so much that Sophie had to shift for herself this way.