Sonja

Thank you!

Oh, I didn't even think of that! They could also remake season 2 of The Paradise with Moffett taking over Ben Daniels' character. I was wondering about that too. When McPreggers held up the tuning fork, I thought the issue was on the left side, but then they showed the right side of her head being shaved. How is the housing situation in Chicago? I live in Vienna and there are A LOT of 'Beethoven Houses' because he had to move every few weeks for hammering so loudly into his piano that he was constantly evicted. ;-) I'm not so sure how far you can get as a violinist when you can't hear at all. Learning new pieces must be extremely difficult if you can't listen to them beforehand, but at least she could use her muscle memory to play for herself.

Couldn't agree more to all of this. McDouchebag and McPregnant deserve each other, even though I see no chemistry there (and could the production department please spring for some acting lessons for her?). How the heck did he not realise that doctors lose patients before? I can't believe this was the first time he bollocksed it up either. It's not like this is his first week in the job. Chicago Department Store has a nice ring to it... I really like Sharon so far, she doesn't suffer fools lightly. I'd like more scenes with Charles and Rhodes, they seem to gel pretty well and the delivery of the line about fathers like Daddy Rhodes keeping Charles in business cracked me up. I also liked Rhodes giving Reese something to do after 'never apologise' McGibbs (I really can't remember her name) pushed her out of the way. This! I was starting to wonder if they had any or were running some kind of cunning money saving scam. So Sister Rhodes knows enough not to move Russel when he's impaled by the chandelier in the department store but later gets all worked up about them not just yanking it out? Not very consistent, show...

I would have liked to know who the doctor was who poked her head in and told Halstead he had to call it but then left. Was she another resident or someone who outranked him and should have put her foot down? This episode made it look as if everyone could just do what they wanted without having to expect consequences.

Deciding that his patient's life was more important than Manning's and ripping the bottle out of her hands should actually have brought him a disciplinary hearing IMO. He was way out of line. I can't take any guy seriously who uses the pregnant/hormonal/PMSing allegation as soon as they are talking with a woman. I doubt he would have dealt with Rhodes or any other male doctor the same way had it been him to sign out what he thought he needed for his patient. He certainly wouldn't have just taken it like that. I was willing to give Halstead the benefit of doubt after the first ep, but all goodwill I might have had towards the character went right out the window. Love Oliver Platt, the nurses and Rhodes so far though. The med student also started to grow on me this week, showing that she's willing to learn. Torrey DeVitto's acting is making me cringe sometimes, I hope she gets more comfortable in the role.

You're right, they are only scratching the surface. Rayna hinted at her own expierience when she talked to Marcus, but even Juliette had Glen trying to protect her from the start of the show. They could expose a lot of hideous behaviour in the music business beyond artists taking drugs and label heads being slimy turtles, but unfortunately, the chose to go the soap direction. Staging an average A&R or marketing meeting at a record company could actually be a lot more scandalous than Gunnar getting it on with the sound tech, but they won't dare to go there.

Maybe he doesn't want to be in the position of Cole telling his mother what happened. Luke seems to me like someone who subscribes to the ostrich method of burying his head in the sand. Rayna tells him there's something wrong with his artist, he ignores it until everything comes to blow in spectacular and tragic fashion. His son repeatedly tells him he has to come clean about what happened with Jeff, instead he sends for psychologists, etc. He's like a big kid putting his hands over his ears, going 'lala, I can't hear you', hoping the problem will go away. Also, I think it's despicable he leaves Layla not knowing what happened and would rather have her and Jeff's family believe he jumped than giving them closure. Sad when a sad, hormonal teenager shows more compassion and integrity than his supposedly grown-up dad. As someone who actually used to work for a record company, if someone in my circle of friends would tell me their 16 year old daughter had an offer from one, I would tell them only if they can be with them 24/7 or they are putting them in serious danger. It's not just the long hours and loneliness, it's a real physical and mental threat that should not be underestimated. Rayna is keeping her daughter safe and trying not to let her turn into Juliette, ending up on a roof in a few years.

To be fair, no one is allowed to be happy on this show. Is there currently a single functional relationship? This has been ticking me off for some time now. The constant breaking up couples wouldn't be necessary if they could just think of decent storylines for once. It also screws with the show's music in some instances which I don't appreciate. I really like Kevin, but being a fairly regular guy and a voice of reason isn't getting you far on Nashville. Apparently everyone has to be a drama queen to a certain extent or they become disposible. I used to work in the music industry and some things are pretty realistic, but turning the soap factor up to 11 is making it really hard to stay with the show.

I actually knew Clarice was toast from episode one. It was quite the misjudgement putting her on the cross in the bloody opening credits. *grrr*

A question countless artists have asked themselves in the last centuries ;-) This plus the common sense she displays when it's necessary and how she does it. Getting the band back on track via Ukelele for instance was pure genius.

The morning routines were hilarious, as predictable as it was.

Wasn't she leased, not bought? They also mentioned the Hawkinses would get their deposit for her back. Also, we already know that authorities can order citizens to destroy their synths, so I didn't dwell further on Laura's attempts to bring out the lawyer being shot down that quickly. The police obviously have the upper hand in the show's society.

I usually can't stand sitcoms, but I find this one hilarious. Full disclosure: I worked in the music business for almost a decade, so my view may be a bit skewered. Joan Jett was awful! Not just the line delivery, but although she was supposed to be the cool one in this situation, to see her stuck in her 80s hair and outfit was more tragic than fictional Johnny doing the same. I fully expected Eddie Vedder to appear when they were talking about Ukeleles not having a place in rock music, that was a wasted opportunity ;-)

Had they gone full Final Destination, at least it would have been funny. That Drill is very well versed in human psychology, isn't he? He's constantly sussing out the children's weeknesses and plays them like a fiddle. One would think an extraterrestrial entity would check out practical things like power grids first if that's what it depends on, not take How to manipulate humans 101. This episode nearly bored me to tears. The only good thing about it is that I like seeing Martin Cummins back on my screen. And that the herbs on my living room window sills are now properly tended to so I wouldn't fall asleep.

Actually, Christopher Nolan would be a reason for me not to tune in despite this insane cast, so I'm quite glad he's not involved.

From what we know so far, I suspect the only way he would destroy Karen was if she posed a serious threat to the others. He saved Fred, didn't want Maxie to jump and seems to see the concious synths as something beautiful rather than dangerous. If they go the 'he can't kill her because she looks like Beatrice and he used to have a thing for her' route, I'll lose my dinner, but the show has been too good for that up to now. They are going to find out about Leo when he's in custody I suspect. If Hobb doesn't suspect already. Leo's reaction to Karen was heartbreaking. Even though he rejected his mother's double as a child, he immediately caved when she appeared. Do we know how long they have been on the run? George and Odi killed me. I really didn't care about creepy Vera, but those two...

She almost ruined Ant-Man for me because all I could see was Harper. Gäh. She was slightly less annoying in it though. Bloody hell. I usually finish what I started but they are not making it easy. At all.

Perhaps a combination of reflex and Hippocratic Oath. She probably also didn't want to kill either of them by crashing the car (although that was a possible outcome), but thinks he needs help. Personally, I wouldn't want to see (and smell) a person being barbequed by an electric fence either. Wait up, I'm coming with you! Harper comes across as a little psycho without the help of Drill. I'm not a native English speaker, but I've always been under the impression that the meaning of minx wasn't something that you would call a child, so my reaction when first learning her name was WTF.

Stop casting people with the greatest potential for friction and rather check for culinary knowledge instead. A potential question: have they ever bothered to visit an Indian restaurant. I know Ramsay said in a previous episode he didn't care what a chef did upstairs and I think that's wrong. If you pretend to look for a head chef, you should also pretend to give a crap about soft skills. How can someone lead a brigade if they can't actually deal with people and will therefore not be accepted as a leader? I've seen what happens when there's no leader in a kitchen and it isn't pretty. I also think that some things that go on during prep and punishments should go into the decision. Can't be arsed to participate in the punishment? Suprise! There were cameras, you're up for elimination. Threaten a fellow contestant upstairs or scheme to sabotage them? Step forward, please. The way they are doing it now is sending the message that cooking and leading a brigade is secondary to being a rude, destructive piece of leftovers. It's not good television either because I'm not rooting for someone who behaves either despicably or like a 5 year old on a sugar-crash; if I don't care about the contestants, I'll stop watching at some point.

I'm unfortunately an expert on this ;-) I'm left handed, but apparently the left hand is the 'hand of the devil', so my grandmother and teachers decided I was going to be right handed. My parents didn't notice until it was too late since I'm the only southpaw in the entire family. I try to avoid hand writing as much as possible, otherwise I get really nice headaches, from a certain point onwards I have trouble actually holding the pen or break it in half when writing and I start to leave out the last syllable of longer words. No to mention that it looks appalling anyway ;-) I finished all my written 5-hour exams in school within 2 hours, otherwise I would have been screwed. I read a few books on this when I was trying to decide if I was going to try and write left handed as an adult - I had been doing everything else with the left anyway when no one was watching - and apparently I got off really easy thanks to my stubbornness. The only things to go were my ability to tell right from left and my fine motor skills. There can be some really nasty side-effects down to disabilities when it's done in a way that 'blows fuses' in the brain though. Two good things about it though; my friends watch their kids really closely, so they don't accidentally teach them things with the non-dominant hand and one side effect that I do have is extremely associative thinking which makes an ideal trouble shooter. So yeah, I absolutely understand changing a character in order to not unnecessarily tire out the actor because it sucks.

So TV Jamie is not going to be

Did the ADR job in the WWII train station scene sound better with the headphones? It seemed really badly mixed when I watched the ep, but I'm not sure if that was because I had to turn the sound up thanks to my noisy neighbours, so it might have been overamplified.

That might have been my problem with the shrieking. I turned the sound on my laptop up to 11 so it was audible, which of course does affect the sound quality. I just managed to keep the Jameson in its glass one time because I was so startled by one of the 'I loooove this scene' interruptions. Of course I didn't want to get up and adjust the sound once I had started the episode *g*

Couldn't agree more! I re-watched with the podcast on yesterday and thought the exact same thing. Who knows how many interesting things we didn't get to know because it was more important to state for the umpteenth time that Lotte Verbeek likes to play with her clothes or that we've seen this or that piece before. Was it just me/my laptop or was she very shrill in this one? I literally flinched a couple of times when she shrieked into the mic. How about an additional costume podcast for those who are so inclined if there's so much to say? But please, let us hear about the other aspects of production too. I would have liked to hear more about how the train station scene came about, considering it's not in the book. The fact that Terry hates military uniforms on the other hand was rather expendable to me. Edited because grammar is important.

Ha, there's still hope for me then ;-P That's the interesting thing about Jamie, he's got more dimensions than the average TV character. On one hand, he's an educated man, stands up for his sister and Laoghaire (even though he doesn't really know her), gets Claire out of situations like with Geillis or being drunk in hall, talks about his past as if there was nothing much to being flogged and outlawed and then he's this little kid again. I think it substitues for another scene in the book, but I thought it was very well done. And really nicely shot. The tourism board must have increased server capacity after that one (again). What, does his arse offend you? Sorry, couldn't resist. That scene didn't really endear Frank to me to be honest. Of course he doesn't want his wife to go off to the front lines, but if she doesn't go, someone else's wife has to. It's what we call Floriani-principle where I'm from ('Holy St. Florian, spare my house, burn others down'). Thank you! I'm Austrian and I really scratched my head about that one. Also, doesn't Jamie I think he's just protective of Jamie and doesn't want him to end up with a girl he can't count on when the manure hits the Scottish breeze. Not unreasonable considering there's a price on his head. I haven't seen him as anything but a baddie in the last years. It really would have been a surprise if he ended up playing someone on the other side of the spectrum for a change. He'll always be Darling to me...