UncleChuck

These acts are like the three-legged race at the company picnic--fun for the participants, entertaining for the spectators, and forgotten ten minutes after they are over. The appeal of this show to me is NOT a competition but just six pleasant folks having a hell of a good time doing stuff that is entertaining to watch. Period.

As I understood it, the terrorist stole an advanced mortar weapon, which essentially just lobs a fancy grenade at a target a few miles away. A mortar shell does not contain a guidance system, and the mortar weapon doesn't have guidance either. It just fires an object a fixed distance to a target. So when Pride found the weapon in the woods why not just knock the thing on its side and point it away from the refinery so that the shell would just be directed into the bushes and explode harmlessly??? And if they had figured out that the target was one of five nuclear plants, and then they figured out that it was ONE specific plant...why not warn the plant operators and take the place offline, or kill the power grid so that it could not short-circuit the nuclear portion. Then the big bad could toss his little wires into the power supply and when it went KABLOOEY, nothing would happen except the lights would go out. And the foreign terrorists needed a dirty cop, a crime-boss woman and an inside man at the port to smuggle themselves into New Orleans, but then with no help at all from any corrupt Navy personnel, they figured out where the fancy mortars were stored and all by themselves snuck onto a guarded base and waltzed off with a mortar as big as a truck????????????

Exactly... Franks retired, yet kept showing up... Then he died, yet he still is showing up to impart his wisdom... So if Gibbs dies, his ole ghost can still keep hovering over the orange room to pop DiNozzo on the head or quote some "Rules" to the team. Or maybe Gibbs will actually retire and move down to Franks' old beach house in Mexico... But sooner or later (likely sooner) the team will be down on the beach begging for his help... And heeeeee's back! I don't really think TPTB can kill him though. I just cannot imagine Abby running into the orange room with her large CafPow yelling "DiNozzo--DiNozzo--DiNozzo"

Of course, Blair is going to ignore Hayley... After all, he is a Doctor--and she is merely a nurse. I know some highly experienced nurses and more than a few of them will tell you in a hurry that the almighty Doctors seldom listen to what they have to say. "Just do what I tell you nurse--and don't ask questions." So Hayley was introduced to her "blind date" and when she learned that he was a Doctor she automatically figured "He will never listen to a word I say". And he did not. So the battle was on. However, her nagging sounds so cartoonish when I listen, that I would not be surprised if the post-production wizards are speeding her voice up to make it sound even more ridiculous. And once in a while, when we keep hearing "Blair-Blair-Blair" I wonder if the wizards are not just splicing in some additional "Blairs".

moved to Blair/Hayley thread

It has been discussed in earlier posts that Kono might be somewhere in her late 20s to mid 30s. In my family, it is the norm that someone who is 30 would have parents aged 60 to 70. A bunch of youngsters who have not even yet married have retired parents with gray hair. Maybe not normal in a lot of families, but not unrealistic either. Personally, I have a great-grandfather (yes--my grand-dads father) who was born in 1818. 1818 is NOT a typo.

Only difference -- on A-Team, the most violent thing that ever happened to a bad guy is getting thrown over Mr. T's head into the back of a pick-up truck. No one EVER died on A-Team.

Actually, it was only $474.00 plus tax and extras. About what I've budgeted for a week long stay next month when I attend an out-of-town wedding. And I assume that some/most of the gobbledygook that they use for this show is supposed to be at least partially feasible in the real world, but I swear -- magic spells and curses and potions on OUAT or Grimm make more sense than most of this stuff.

Is there any significance to the text that Joan received from "Canadian Online Pharmacy"? Or was that just a telemarketing text that came to her randomly and she used it as an excuse to leave her girlfriends?

Seems to me that they did not deserve the Phil Phield Elimination. As they pouted in that train station, I would have loved to see a production INTERN, perhaps the junior assistant to the assistant transportation manager's secretary, show up to deliver the news.

I'm glad they softened bitchy jealous woman cop HATES Laura to a competent co-worker who often works with L. But here is what I couldn't get past in this dumb episode. The genius software nerd girl dumped the memory on her computer before Laura and her fellows could get to her...but the screen grab that they showed to demonstrate the memory dump was a format screen for a 1.4 MB floppy disk. (Please insert diskette into drive A). Those disks went obsolete back in the 90s. I wish TPTB would spend just a bit more attention to detail.

It occurred to me that J.J. was way more than a little knowledgeable about how married women were most likely to cheat with a married man, and how that was the best way to avoid detection--as well as being VERY CAREFUL. Wonder if she got all that out of a profiling class textbook?

It appears from the previews that her dramatic delivery continues. Grissom, J. B. Russell and others from the mothership just followed the evidence (unless a family member was in peril). Even Mac Taylor was somewhat restrained. But if the previews are any indication, Avery looks like a female version of Horatio Caine. Maybe TPTB can get her a pair of the "Sunglasses of Justice".

I am interested in Patti LaBelle on DWTS because she and I share the same birth day (Month, day and year) and as we both approach 71 years old, I know that I could NOT endure the physical challenge for one day, much less several weeks. Go Patti!!!!!

Leslie as POTUS? That would mean that somewhere in Indiana (probably Pawnee) is the world's largest Presidential Library. It would have to be the largest to house the voluminous collection of binders that President Knope would have created and distributed during her term(s).

Because she learned that trick from watching Morgan for several years. I figure she still has to go alone into a dark room and get attacked from behind 12 to 17 more times to catch up to him.

So, the experts showed on their map that this fatal contamination would spread to THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE WORLD...and the fate of the planet rested on six cops sneaking through the bushes? And one woman wearing HEELS. And no backup?

Anyone could easily wear clothes from five years ago--IF they had an entire studio wardrobe department to do the alterations. And while I still don't buy that nerdy Reid has the ability (or the time--since is always out of town on a case) to maintain that ole Volvo and keep it running, I am not worried about his license plate change., If I still had the same plate on my car from 5 or 6 years ago, I would be ticketed for "expired plates". Some things do change--even if we wish them to always be the same.

Good luck with that. Moriarty might be an evil genius and master manipulator, but she has not met a true "badass" like Kitty. If Kitty can capture and subdue a serial rapist like Del, Moriarty would have no chance at all. Besides, the show spent half a season allowing Kitty to grow from a simpering victim to an overpowering vigilante. TPTB would not revert Kitty to some defenseless, weak victim tied to a chair or chained in a cage. Just not gonna happen.

I am also bored with Reid. His speedy monotone line reading and unasked for bits of arcane knowledge just hurts my ears. It was also ridiculous that nerdy Reid would come driving up to Gideon's cabin in a 60 year old car. Those old autos need CONSTANT care, maintenance and know-how to keep them running and I doubt if Reid could change a tire. It might seem quaint and "old-school" to have such an old beater, but those cars are only practical for those willing and able to maintain and repair them. Reid needs to be available at a minute's notice to come-a-running, and he would always be asking for Morgan or JJ to come give him a ride because his clunker was in the shop. Re: Young Gideon and Rossi--I thought Gideon was pretty spot on, but the young Rossi would have been better if he had used some of the older Rossi's speech patterns and intonations. Joe Mantegna has one of the most recognizable voices around, yet the younger version of Rossi sounded nothing like him.

My mother graduated from college in 1938 and her first job was teaching at a Nursing School. I have a copy of her employment contract that specifies that one of her duties was to accompany any of her students as a chaperone whenever they went off campus. So yes, women could be over-protected in pre and post-war America. I enjoyed the Dottie reveal. Almost every crime procedural on the air these days cultivates some "big bad"--a super-villain with powers the police just cannot contain. So when we met Mr. Smuggle/Murder and he was able to identify Peggy, track her to her apartment and gain entry, I just assumed that he was this show's version of "big bad"--then Dottie--and ... WHAM!! "big bad" is not so big and bad.

It was my understanding that when Flynn found the Library, it then became attached or connected to the annex under the bridge. This way we can still have Jenkins, the annex, AND the original library. If we get a new season, the three newbie Librarians might go off individually to solve a case, but as this season ended, they ended up going off to Peru on Cassie's quest voluntarily, so I suspect they will pretty much stay together.

Gregson identified the dead woman to Sherlock as "Melanie Lucas--24 years old". The 16 year old that Kitty was searching for was named "Tess". So...not the same.

I enjoyed the initial driving in L.A. when the wrestlers (who had no idea where to go or how to get there) were following the Surfers, and the meathead could not resist pulling up alongside--likely to intimidate Bethany by showing her how close they were. In a GREAT moment, Bethany then exited the freeway from her lane and the wrestlers were in the wrong lane to follow and thus began their strange odyssey into last place. If they had been content to just follow and not show off, they could have followed Bethany directly to city hall. The wrestlers did set one record that might never be topped--thousands of miles--dozens of cities--multiple countries--and NOT ONCE did they have any idea where they actually were in the world.