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Looks like they made Yumiko's brother go back to doctoring over baking.

Carol's up to her old shenanigans.

I don't understand how that haunted house wouldn't be anything but a PTSD trigger for anyone not originally from Pleasantville.

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Yeah, that's some bullshit.

This is feeling so Hunger Games

He got stabbed in the gut and Negan and Maggie left him in that church so he wouldn't slow them down in the Big Mission.

Seriously, she literally stuck her hand right next to his mouth and he didn't even go for a nibble. Nonsense!

Maggie's Red Shirt is super conspicuous. When was the last time anyone wore color on this show?

Gabriel just made me hot, and then Maggie kind of did too...wow

Aaron better be okay!

Kill that guy, Gabriel. Why we gotta chat with EVERYONE?

Thank you, I feel like I'm not remembering some vital exposition right now

How do they know about all these hiding places???

Yeah, I'm trying to remember/figure out how Maggie has a secret room in the enemy's building that the enemy doesn't know about...

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I was more than half-watching so I may have missed some details. But I think Aiden was upset because he felt they had formed an intimate connection and he had been opening up to her. This while she had been hiding/lying about who she was (and for all he knew other things). I think it was the fact that she lied/kept lying more than what she was lying about. I think when you are getting close to someone any deception like this could feel significant in the moment. The Duchess didn't give two figs they lied, but then she wasn't forming an intimate romantic connection/relationship with either of them. It probably would have come across as less sky-is-falling if they had some throwaway lines where Aiden clarified his feelings of disappointment rather than of being betrayed in the moment he found out. Because really that's all it was. He seemed to come around quickly enough. I thought the real Paige Monahan had more reason to be upset than Aiden did. I don't know the laws, but at the very least it isn't very ethical to pretend you are someone else and claim their work as your own in a professional capacity. Margot had told Aiden and his sister that the real Paige Monahan's website and all of the work represented on that website was theirs. I think the real Monahan was famous enough to be known in Europe and I thought it was mentioned that she did work in Europe before. Having said that, I wish they would stop with this trope. It's kind of stupid and not very realistic when dealing with supposedly decent people. Also, I have to mention the cgi. I understand budgets, so it's not a big deal at all. But every now and then that giant wreath on the castle looked especially two-dimensional, cut-and-pasted, and slightly radioactive I had to chuckle. The shot of them riding the horses across the landscape took the prize, though. I liked the movie though. I usually do like the ones shot overseas if for nothing than the scenery. Stuart Townsend is lovely, I don't think I've ever really seen him in anything even though I've known who he was forever. Lacey was good as always, but I have to agree that all of her characters being same-y. And does she have it in her contract that every one of her movies requires a scene of her baking something? She could be filming a movie of falling in love on a deserted Island. It'd be called Dessert Island and they'd manage to end up baking macarons in a makeshift kitchen constructed from the shipwreck.

I thought the same thing. I was waiting for someone in the family to say something, especially when we find out they'd been together for two years. They could've had him sleeping on that uncomfortable looking sofa in the bedroom while she took the bed, but then we wouldn't have gotten the cute shots of his violent sleeping on the pullout. I get Hallmark's MO but things like this really do kind of pull one out of the story, however briefly.

I was so excited, last night there were three movies on I hadn't seen yet. Christmas CEO was so, so bad, but the cheesy title should've given that away. I actually managed to find some small things I liked. I liked the niece, I thought the actress did a good job in being natural and came across like a normal child. I also liked that the female lead wore practical flat shoes to work and run around in and not Hallmark's standard-issue four inch stilettoes. Everything else was terrible. I like Paul G and even a brief shirtless shot of him wasn't enough to spark an interest. I was too distracted in that scene anyway, as it really looked like he was waking up in someone else's bedroom after a one night stand. That bedroom just looked decidedly feminine. Not that a man couldn't have a bedroom like that, but it somehow seemed very purposefully feminine to me. I liked Unexpected Christmas. Enough to watch it again. I am not immune to Tyler H and I share the unpopular opinion of enjoying Bethany Joy Lenz for the most part, even if I might dislike some of her characters. I think she is one of the better actresses by Hallmark standards. I wasn't sure that they would work together but I think they kind of did. I thought a lot of the comedy was predictable but still effective. Tyler's spit take at the baby comment made me laugh out loud. But I agree that the family dynamic was a bit too clownish and OTT. But I lol'ed at the exterior shot of the house with the twenty inflatables crowding the front lawn. I liked the setup of the movie starting with the two main characters having just broken up, that was something different at least. After having to watch a second time to catch Tyler H in the Family Tree movie, I caught the Andrew Walker cameo on the first viewing in this one (but only by accident because I was actually looking at the screen when it happened). The cameos are really fun, they could've done a little Hallmark Bingo type thing to get viewers involved, just for fun, to encourage people to watch. Nine Kittens was fun, mostly for nostalgic reasons I think. I wish they'd have done a different kind of setup. I don't know why Marilee and Zach couldn't have just been together this entire time and the conflict could've centered around the same thing they broke up over. I guess being together for seven years without "progress" or the "more" Marilee wanted might have been hard to sell, but they've given us worse, less plausible things. I just would've preferred the conflict be external. Having to adopt out the kittens was a fine plot point. But instead of them being broken up, maybe the Fire House was in trouble or Marilee's clinic could've been in trouble and they've have to trope it up to save them. I just would have preferred a movie of the two years they were together that we didn't get to see. It's been two movies and we've really barely seen them together romantically. It seemed like they were apart more than they were together here, as well. And Marilee (or maybe Kimberly S) just seemed a little bit sad through the whole thing. Hallmark seems to think that the romance ends once a couple gets together, or that the only interesting when the couple is broken up. I think this movie should've been done All My Heart style, with the sequel being of the couple together, facing some kind of challenge/adventure together. I did like seeing some of the familiar faces. I liked seeing more of Sam and his relationship with Zach. I was wondering if they'd possibly be using the same cats from the first movie, or if they'd have them be gone, what with it being kind of long ago in cat years. I was happy Ambrose (although I'm assuming that was not the same cactor) was still there but surprised he was a bit sidelined. I was distracted by Harriet wanting to adopt two cats because it "had been so long" since she and Sam had had cats, when in the first movie Sam clearly says Harriet is allergic to cats. I can't stop thinking about it! Where were Jaclyn's dogs? She and Kyle had four dogs in the first movie. It's sad to think they'd all be gone seven years later or that they wouldn't have adopted more along the way. I think I must be immune to Paul Campbell, at least to the degree that he is adored here. But I do like him quite a bit in movies, and his movies, though. The movie with Brianna(?) Evigan as the princess-in-hiding is one of my favorites. I was excited to catch his cameo here on the first viewing! It was really cute how he was snuggling and cheesing with that kitten. I got a kick out of Zach saying his adoption listing of the kitten looked like a mug shot, lol. And one of my favorite Hallmark moments is Marilee choosing ice cream in the first movie, so it was fun to see a call back to that here.

Iris and Hope's dad is supposed to be the Brilliant Mind that saves the world, but he HAS to tell Lila their plan. Lila, who also has a crap poker face, and who dad wasn't able to deduce is not quite 100% on his side.

Haha, Felix's poker face is shit.

I've already forgotten what the plan is, but who even cares what happens to Percy.

Yeah I think there may be one interesting thing at the very end of this that might tie into the main show. Maybe. I still hold out hope for the main show, too, even though in my head I know it's all for naught. I'm still going to miss it. It's been fun even when it was bad.

Aw, it's all good. Honestly, I kind of figured no one else was going to be on and I still decided to talk to myself publicly and will do so again tonight 😅. I don't blame anyone for bailing on the live chat or the show. It sucks that there is literally NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT while watching this crap. I just have a chronic ride-or-die-to-the-bitter-BITTER-end attitude when it comes to TWD shows that I've committed to. And I'm gonna miss hanging out with everyone here once these shows are done.

Dude just said "battle axe". Do people still say that??