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That is what has always bugged me about this show - that Jackie, who throws cocktails of pills (and other things) down as often as every few hours, is supposedly functional. How ridiculous is that. At least her utter selfishness came out eventually. I never liked the portrayal of her as a superhero of sorts as if her addiction was not such a big deal in light of her medical awesomeness. I've worked with compromised nurses, and they are an absolute disaster. Their medical judgment goes out the window. It doesn't matter how smart or capable they are without the drugs. Drugs impair people. Period. /rant

Just about laughed out loud at Joe telling Cameron *she* had no people skills. Pot, meet kettle. Of course, Joe can turn on a little charm when necessary, but since it's mostly BS masquerading as goodwill, he has a long way to go. And "professionalism." No, she hasn't any. Where, Joe, did you get the idea that you possess it? Please. Just because you've figured out how to turn on the oil after you've skeeved over someone doesn't make you any sort of professional except a professional con. Gordon seemed like a nice if ineffectual guy to me until people started pointing out that he is a user. That's becoming more and more clear, especially when he couldn't be bothered about his FIL's birthday, but voila! He suddenly has time for golf. Loved it when the Japanese stole Joe's thunder by saying they would do anything for Gary's son-in-law. Then, once again, it was Gary to the rescue after Joe and Gordon messed it up. It was good to learn that Gordon had (I hope) apologized abjectly. It saved me from deciding his antics were running a close second to Joe's. Why is Donna's keyboard in the garage? Loved Cameron's litte homage - "I'm taking over Steve's job." Although, she threw out a couple of anachronisms by calling Steve a "tool" and saying, "What was I thinking." I'm liking her this week.

That was my life back in the 70's and early 80's - babysitter nightmares. Every good one you got would move away or her husband would decide he didn't want her doing that, or whatever. Having just one regular person to call on was hard enough. A backup? If you were lucky. A second backup? My mom worked as well. My parents did a lot of babysitting for us, but they just couldn't be available all the time. This was the most realistic moment of the show for me.

I figured he shocked her out of her wits and she decided to cool it. What I'm not sure about is what made him decide not to shoot up the joint. I surely thought he was about to! I thought as well that Donna rocked. The whole storyline about how she "rescued" the code and how she handled everyone was great, as was the fact that the code seemed in jeopardy in the first place. Joe is lower than pond scum and I dislike him more every episode. But they've finally got something going now that interests me.

Donna rocks. She is worth the other three altogether and then some. She's like the only sane and together person around. I like how she handled Cameron after Joe's selfish bid for publicity had them all just about going down the tubes. She acted like a mother to her and Cameron seems to have turned a corner.

A standing O to this! A man isn't your accessory, and your husband isn't your afterthought. Learn to cleave to him, trust him, and, as my husband says, "let him do something besides carry around your bowling ball," or there is no future for this marriage.

And in particular, he was saying he took money out of savings for the project, implying he is low on cash. Perhaps that was reimbursed to him via his 50% share, but he did seem to feel he would be starting from scratch without benefit of money he would otherwise have had. Kandi says, "I'm sorry if he didn't have his own house when we got married. I'm sorry, git your own house with your own money while we're married." Hmm. Especially since it seems he put a lot of money into the house already. She seemed very cold about what would happen to him if they divorced. As someone else mentioned, he's your husband, not some dork off the street. It seems like she'd cut him loose in a hot minute if he disappoints her in some way. Does not seem all that committed, which I did not feel earlier.

LOL, I ran right out into the kitchen and heated up some Schwan's Crispy Wings! That "crunch!" just did me in. Luckily, I had calories left for the day! And y'all did it again! We call that "Johnny Marzetti" where I'm from. It's dinnertime here, didn't know what to make, ran right out and fixed up a mess of that! Baking as we speak! In order to make this NOT an entire food post, MJ drives me nuts, and I agree with the consensus - Kandi needs to put a fence around it NOW.

Rewatching this, this time somewhat more awake. It seems they are going to try to float the idea that Cardiff has been working on a computer for some time now, and that Joe and Gordon were not at all part of that effort, therefore whatever technology is put forth was arrived at by independent research, not as a result of poaching by Joe. Enter Cameron.

I'm hoping Lee Pace's character becomes more likeable as well. I don't really like not liking him. :) I enjoyed him so much in Pushing Daisies and just about everything else I've seen him in. I find Geek Girl obnoxious, too. I'm always less than impressed by plot lines which rely heavily upon characters trying to one up each other with their cleverness. Ho hum. To me, it just seems like it's a vehicle for the writers to patently show themselves off, and falls flat.

Color me confused as well!! I'm enjoying posters' shares of their experiences with computing of the era. I had a big hole in my "education." In the mid 60's, I left school for a time and worked for a production company which had one of the old room-sized computers complete with deafening dot matrix printer and punch cards. Almost was sent to punch card school, but the day I was to begin, I had a terrific case of bronchitis in the dead of winter and my mom refused to let me go to work that day. The boss was hacked and my window of opportunity was gone. I later returned to school and became a health care professional. My sole experience during those years was greedily reading articles about how PC's would soon be affordable to all and everyone would have a home computer. In the meantime, my son graduated high school and earned the computing award for his class and went on into electrical engineering. Unfortunately, I did not get much second-hand from him as it was hard to translate what he was telling me into anything I could really grasp. Home computing didn't become a reality for me until 1995, when I enrolled in a distance-learning course about computers, which included our first PC. At last!

Ahh, I was wondering about Gordon's wife. The only thing I caught about her occupation was that she worked for the company which made Speak N Spell (which I had forgotten was Texas Instruments) and that she had worked with her hubby on the Symphonic. Intriguing that she thought it was such a failure and he thought it was the greatest thing he'd ever done. I actually thought her a huge Killjoy until she finally told him it was OK as long as he was still a "partner" in the family. I, too, wanted to know more about what the Symphonic was all about. When Lee Pace was giving his spiel to the clients, all I could think was, "You're no Don Draper." Too much of an obvious hot shot and too sleek by far. So instead of satisfying my Mad Men craving, it made me miss it more. I do like Lee Pace, but I'm not very fond of his character so far. The first scenes pretty much turned me off, including the obligatory sex scene with the obligatory smart ass. I admit I kept falling asleep and particularly toward the end, which I had to rewatch several times, but I didn't get why IBM would be less angry (or have less recourse) if the inside knowledge was being used for actual development of a new product. I must have totally misunderstood what I was hearing. Going to give it another chance, but am not yet sure it will be worth the effort for me. I agree, this wasn't set up terrifically well, and reading your recap of the era makes me want to stand up and cheer the heroes of the time, who brought the computer age into our homes and every day lives. Yay!!! However, I am a little confused, since both Microsoft and Apple, among others, were mentioned, by Geek Girl I think, the diversification had already begun, so I'm not sure how the new collaboration is supposed to be cutting edge.

" The blue man group dress? The head wrap? The 50's church hat pinned to the shoulder? Did she go out in that?" LOL, sunsheyen, hilarious and right on!

My sentiments exactly! My jaw hit the floor when Joyce said that about Todd's parents. What is with that woman? She gets more outrageous every day.Todd definitely exposed his bad side for the first time that I noticed. I think he should have been much gentler if he wanted to address this issue with Kandi's friend. It's not so bad what he wanted to express, but he really had no business jumping all over her like that, and Kandi should be a little more sympathetic to the fact that between MJ and Todd, she's been through too much. The prenup thing seems a little shady, but the lawyer did say he wouldn't sign one like it, so I'll reserve judgment for now. But then there is that shady looking bachelor party. However, MJ saying Todd didn't have Kandi's best interests at heart because he "let her gain weight." How ridiculous. No one can be in charge of someone else's weight. I hate to say it, but the wedding looks like a hot mess. Phaedra was sure giving someone the stank eye!