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I think the show would be much improved with Adam gone, so long as the producers didn't try to create the same dynamic with a new person (2 women on the panel would be nice) and Blake. Adam is a tool.
I like Blake and I like that he supports his team but I don't like accusing Kelly and John of being jealous when there's no way on God's green earth (as long as we're voting for people because they choose songs about God and the USA) he didn't know that the criticism was completely deserved. Especially in Carter's case, but the other guy was WAY out of tune as well.
I thought Rod was pretty fantastic last week both in his duet and in his solo. Although I also think Dexter's solo was terrific. If it were up to me they and Maelyn and Shawn would be the final four.
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On 3/15/2019 at 5:39 PM, ChitChat said:
The local news has been following her journey on TC, so I'm sure that garnered her a lot of viewers in this area. I quit watching TC years ago, and when I read that someone local was competing, well, I was all in!
So, the possibilities for fan favorite could be: a) A strong voting bloc in this and the surrounding areas; b) other chefs not getting much exposure in their home towns; c) most viewers liked her! Could be a combination of all of those things. I was just happy to see that she is a genuinely nice person. There have been some mighty big egos on TC over the years! She helped make the local finale party last night a chance to focus on our local animal shelters. They asked for donations of money or food for the shelters. From the pictures in the paper, there was a big turnout.
I hope the other chefs had similar positive experience in their communities. I hope they all have lots of hungry diners knocking on their restaurant doors too!
I'm happy to hear this!
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19 hours ago, Pickles said:
I am answering my own question--Kelsey won that too!
I'm flabbergasted by this. She was maybe my least favorite, or at least in the bottom 3.
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3 hours ago, TiredMe said:
Good lord, Catelynn is so vapid and fake. Spare us her being the bachelorette please.
God Forbid.
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3 hours ago, saber5055 said:
WHAT? He's asking Tayisha for GOSSIP? WTH dude. Just stop it.
Tayisha just threw everyone else under the bus, leaving HER as the only one there For The Right Reason! That's wizard on her part. Stupid for Colt-ton to even ask her much less believe her.
I actually don't think that's what she did. She said - clearly - there are girls here who are sincere .. .. . or whatever word she used.
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On 2/5/2019 at 12:46 PM, the-grey-lady said:
I want to fire both Onyeka and Nicole into the sun via cannon. SHUT UP, BOTH OF YOU.
[Onyeka tattles on Nicole about something someone else may have told her.]
Onyeka: I hope Nicole doesn't spend her time with Colton talking about ME.
Nicole: Colton, Onyeka has been bullying me.
[stupid argument ensues]
They're both JUST SO DUMB! Does this crap EVER not backfire?
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On 2/4/2019 at 6:36 PM, noveltylibrary said:
Actually the smartest contestant I've ever seen.
ICAM.
I believe she said she regretted coming on the show, not that she regretted leaving the show. She was pretty clear about - I can't get there in this short of time because there's not way in which we could actually get to know each other. She certainly didn't put the blame on him. He's kind of like a sweet dunderhead.
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On 1/22/2019 at 8:38 AM, JudyObscure said:
Thank you for that post, GracieK. I hope you didn't think I meant anything derogatory when I said not all Christians are Irish Catholic, I was just trying to say that we aren't all exactly alike and that someone being Pro-life doesn't even necessarily mean they're "religious," as has been implied. Miss Manners once said that all abortion debates boil down to when you think life begins, and that sums it up for me. So I'm always surprised when someone else is surprised that a mother might choose to die rather than let the fetus die. If that fetus is as fully human to you as a four year old then no one would say, "But why did she give her life for that four year-old? He can't raise himself!"
I am pro-choice but I totally get the point of view expressed here.
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1 hour ago, saber5055 said:
Sean was a "born again" virgin. Meaning he decided he was a "virgin" (in his own mind) again after having multiple sex partners up until this "epiphany."
Being a "born again" virgin was Sean's hook for his season. That made the train-going-through-a-tunnel visual after he got married on tv even more ... well, tacky.
OH! Good Lord (no pun intended) I didn't realize that AT ALL. I already though he was creepy but that - YIKES!
And yet, somebody married him. Which is why it's a happy thing that's there's more than one potential partner in the world.
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Um. Wasn't Sean the Bachelor a virgin?
So how's this guy the first virgin bachelor?
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21 hours ago, PhD-Purgatory15 said:
Surprise, surprise, SandyRedd and Kymberli Joye had to be saved by their respective coaches.
I think Blake had his disaster scenario where he had to choose between Dave and Michael Lee. I think he definitely wanted both in his 3, and was hoping at least one was voted in by America. But, Alas.
Adam's was the only team that felt like it went "chalk". To me, DeAndre and Reagan are by far and way the standouts on his team. Which freed him up a spot to take his passion project of Tyke along for at least one more week. RADHA and Steve had no shot at his save, I thought maybe Kameron might've had an outside shot to carry on the tradition of trying to beat Blake with a country singer but it didn't happen.
I feel like Abby was the odd one out on Team Kelly (Keith and Zaxai never really felt like they'd fit into her save plans). I think if Kymberli had got the votes over Chevel....Kelly might've saved Abby over Chevel. But once Chevel and Sarah Grace got the votes, saving Abby would've been overkill.
Wow the two people off of the Comeback Stage were terrible. I wish voting for none-of-the-above was an option...
I so agree with the first sentence of this post. SandyRedd? WHAT? UGGGGGH. That performance was like a BAD Opera performance. So over the top. So melodramatic. That's who JHud thinks is going to win this competition??
I agree about Blake's conundrum but I'm SO happy he chose Dave.
As for the horrifying Tyke. He's . . . . horrifying. And Adam, as always, is completely transparent. I wish HE could be voted off. Both Radha and Kameron were way better (even Steve was better. Even I'M better. And all this "oh no, what should I do? oh, gosh,I just don't know what to do" - such bullshit. Unsurprising from Adam.
As for Kelly's team - see above. All these tiny teens? I just can't with that. And I thought the performance of the singer she saved was flat out terrible. The song is terrible; the performance was terrible. I LIKED the performance of the Adele song, but that wasn't happening because somehow REALLY LOUD with LOTS OF RUNS is always thought of by these folks - who are great singers - as AMAZING. They know better. Don't they?
Both comeback singers were terrible.
I think Kelly has no chance in hell to win this.
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So. Season 15 = TWEEN season? Oh, wait. They're ACTUAL teenagers.
TEEN season??
Uggh.
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Because - actual death happened.
Who cares? Really?
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22 hours ago, himela said:
If I wanted to watch a series about war, I would do that. There are many things I hate watching and the worst for me is war stuff. I didn't watch this episode. You have so many interesting characters with great potential of stories and you keep insisting to show us only one character (a dead one) and his life 47 years ago. I mean, who cares?
Um. I do.
18 hours ago, BuckeyeLou said:19 hours ago, CountryGirl said:Meeting Jack's little brother was reason enough alone for me to watch, but truly, I was riveted for the entire episode and the Vietnam angle only added to this.
I am honestly trying to wrap my head around the thought that well, he's been DEAD for how long so who cares at this point? I cannot fathom not caring about anyone once they're gone, TV character or not. By that token, I guess Kevin shouldn't bother reaching out to Donnie Robinson, you know, the man who taught Jack to just "breathe."
And he should also totally skip that trip to Vietnam.
l, for one, want to understand more about how and why Jack became "Jack." I saw that despite his bitter, alcoholic father, he grew up to be a warm, loving husband and father. The love of his mother and brother clearly helped shape things in a different direction when it would have been so easy for Jack to repeat the same violent cycle illustrated by Stanley and, as we would learn, Stanley's own father.
Yet everything we thought we knew about the old mean drunk Stanley was shattered when we saw the flashback to the night of Nicky's birth. Stanley was a loving, doting husband and father, joking and laughing with little Jack.
I wonder if Jack remembered this. Most striking of all, when offered a flask by his father, he refused, saying: "Come on, Dad. You know I don't drink." So what happened between Nicky's birth and six or so years later? I want to know.
Also, the shots of all those "lucky" babies born on October 18th. Wow...to know that many, if not all of those babies, grew up to go off to war, that Nick may have fought alongside men who were in the same room he was when he was born. If that doesn't move you, well, I don't know what will.
Seeing the beginnings of Jack being the larger than life husband and father when he taped Nicky's glasses and assured his worried little brother that he was really Superman in disguise.
Nicky taking Jack's words to heart when he stood up for his mother.
We see those moments echoed in Nicky's goodbye letter to Jack: It's my turn to save the day. I love you, Superman.
We see more of this when Jack, despite his heart condition (oh my own heart, hearing this!), enlists to take care of Nicky however he can because "it's his only job."
I also found parallels between Nicky and Kevin. The physical resemblance, for starters, with that thousand yard stare.
But more than that...the struggles, the negative self-fulling prophecies, like Kevin's downward spiral last year (which had been a long time coming), harkening back to Nicky's letter to his family: I'm not getting out of here alive and I know that, but I'm not dying on anyone's terms but my own. I'm living in hell on earth, family. Hell, I may have already died and I don't even know it.
Speaking of Kevin, remember this moment?
Well, we all know Jack said he got that necklace in Vietnam and the now we know from whom: the woman, presumably the mother of the little boy with the fish, was wearing it.
Nicky's speech to Jack the day before he left for Vietnam: I wonder if things would make more sense if you looked at everything in reverse. Like, if you started at the end, and move backwards and try to figure out how you got there. I wish I could do that right now. That's exactly what this show is doing...and doing it masterfully.
Oh - and here's a "boring" detail. My father was #65 in that draft.
A beautiful post....its how I felt about this episode also...and yes, this show is unwinding the Pearson family saga...we see how generational issues are carried forward. My husband too was drafted in 1970 and served in Vietnam, so I found this episode very interesting & emotional.
Yes. A beautiful post. The shot of the babies born on the same date - heartbreaking.
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I was/am so rooting for Kenny.
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I think I'm in love with Kenny from afar (a very far). Or maybe it's Jacqueline I'm in love with.
Missed opportunity there.
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On 7/4/2018 at 4:04 PM, watchTV said:
As someone else pointed out a baby was kidnapped / stolen and the kid grew up to love the thief. It does not make it okay or normal. Just fact. Your exact words were:
I only brought up adoption because you said:
A mother doesn't automatically possess this ability. Some mothers can't be bothered. An adoptive mother and even a baby thief can. It's not normal but it happens.
This show is not about that. It doesn't come close to implying that an adoptive mother cannot take care of her child beautifully. Adoption is not what's going on here. That is a false equivalency.
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On 7/4/2018 at 1:57 AM, arabidopsis said:
Re: Eden. My sister had a childhood friend whose dream from a very young age was to get married and have lots of babies. Many years later, we had occasion to stay a few nights at her home, which was indeed filled with children – she had married her first love and they were living the “God won’t give us more than we can handle” philosophy of family planning. Before I go further let me qualify this – I am a 38 year-old single, childless-by-choice, woman, and a scientist on top of that – basically anathema, as far as Gilead-types would be concerned – conversely, the life this woman had chosen for herself makes me feel completely claustrophobic when I try to put myself in her shoes. This woman, however, is genuinely happy with her life, and the household was full of warmth and kindness. The kids (all 8 of them) were intelligent, well-spoken, thoughtful and sweet. The parents clearly loved each other, displayed (G-rated) physical affection towards each other, and were firm believers that disagreements between themselves and discipline of the children should never involve raised voices or violence, but should be handled calmly, with kindness and respect. But make no mistake, the marriage and family was very firmly based in traditional conservative Christian values and gender roles – wives submit yourselves to your husbands; husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her; children obey your parents in the Lord...When Eden talked about her parents to Nick and Rita, my mind immediately went to this family. The thing is, this set up only worked for them because of a combination of their naturally even-keeled personalities, fortunate financial circumstances, and the fact that these people got to choose each other and this life of their own free will. My thought for both the character of Eden, and the kids in this real-life family is what a rude awakening the harsh reality of the outside world will be. Eden expected that as long as she faithfully fulfilled her God-given role as a dutiful and submissive wife, she would be protected and adored by her husband in return. Instead she was met with coldness and indifference from Nick; the gender traitor comment she made to June, which could be interpreted as menacing, was simply Eden trying to make sense of her new life based on what she had been led to believe about the world – she was following the wife rules, so why wasn’t Nick responding in kind? That was the promised reward for her devotion. Beyond that, in joining the household of a powerful commander in this new Godly society, she would have expected the Christian ideal of a devout and happy home – instead she was met with misery and corruption. It makes all the sense in the world to me that faced with the true nature of Gilead, which challenged everything she believed so deeply to be true about the world, that as soon as anyone offered her some small shred of genuine affection, she would latch onto it with everything she had to try to realign her reality with the fantasy on which her whole identity was built. It’s both entirely expected, and the height of tragic irony that the truly devout believers would be romanced by the idea of this society, and then sacrificed at the altar of the power-hungry sleezeballs running it. RIP Eden and Isaac – “innocent” or “guilty,” devout or heretic, oppressive regimes will find a reason to make you suffer so they can live out their sick fantasies without consequence.
Beautiful post. Thanks.
I was deeply moved by her death.
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4 hours ago, Ina123 said:
Friends don't do what Phillip did to Stan. They do what Stan did.
This.
Elizabeth would have killed Stan without a second thought - just as she killed lots of other people - and I frankly think Phillip would have too and then Paige wouldn't have had to wait till the train station to make her decision. Stan could not do to that. That makes him, to my mind, neither an idiot nor a traitor. They did terrible things of course. But they now pose no risk to his country so it would have been "I'm really really mad at you so I'm going to kill you and your kids be damned." Yes, they could have given up others in the KGB - but they couldn't do that if they were dead.
Regardless of all of our diverse views on this particular issue (and that's why this forum - and our country for that matter - is so great), that scene was absolutely beautiful, and tragic.
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8 hours ago, SusanSunflower said:
My impressions of Stan, just released from high-intensity undercover work as a single-man bad-ass, quite reluctant to put on the harness of husband and father, got completely lost quickly, and I felt he was living large on a rapidly fading reputation in a desk-job (counter intelligence may be sexy but I never thought Gaad liked or trusted Stan much due to his inflated self-regard). Gaad valued team work and painstaking attention to details ... And then after Martha went to Russia (and a series of potentially career-ending bad decisions by Stan) he seemed to fade into the background in favor of Paige as mini-me and Afternoons with Claudia ... (I think the writing has been great in close up and incoherent wrt larger themes and continuity)
This last sentence is right on, I think.
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I've been saying the entire season I was looking forward to P and E dying because they should get what they deserve. Well. They did get what they deserve. They lost their children. The scene in the garage was stunning and moving. I don't think Stan betrayed his country - they're gone. There are lots of other people to round up. My only disappointment was that Oleg, such a beautifully imagined and played character, didn't show up in this finale.
I'd say it's a stretch to think P and E are going to live "happily" ever after.
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Can you folks who call Becca "lame" - tell me what exactly you mean by that?
I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt - I really don't know what you mean.
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I've never posted here before, which is weird because I've watched Ru Paul since the first episode of the first season. Huh.
First, and I guess this is a wildly unpopular opinion, I ADORE Kameron. I thought she totally out lip-synched Monet (and don't get me wrong - I cried when Monet was eliminated.)
But I absolutely agree that Monet should not have been in the bottom to begin with. Aquaria should have - and Kameron deserved to be, how much I love Kameron not withstanding. I
And Monet did look stunningly beautiful. But let's face it - you can't make a partner taller. So whatever M. Visage was talking about - !
I'm happy for Kameron though. I can't help it. I LOVE her.
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1 hour ago, Ina123 said:1 hour ago, tpplay said:
Ugh!
If it was possible, I'd jump through the TV screen and execute her myself.
If it was possible to assassinate her twice, I would be right behind you, regardless the sudden turn of events. I could do it for her just kicking the jack out from under the car, killing an innocent man.
Yes. And that poor old lady in the warehouse who she poisoned. And countless others. Not to mention that she is a pitifully terrible parent.
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