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The mom seems redundant with Betty there.
I don't know, I enjoy the show. They find really fun people to try and stump the panel. I mean, they brought out Left Shark? And I LOVED the Tupperwear drag queen.
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According to some social media accounts of people who were at the taping, they had to stop filming a bunch of times because JB Smoove was completely out of control. I'm hoping that means they won't have him back.
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The minute she mentioned that cruise, I knew that no matter what, Rosie was going to get her on it. Whatever Rosie's faults, she lives to do stuff like that, and I bet it's one of the few things she misses about doing a daily show.
It was a nice moment, and I find myself hoping that however many episodes they're doing, they keep her.
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Two gay men in Texas? Good luck with that. And while I think that's moving awfully quickly as they've only been married a few months, anything that puts more Rick on my screen is a good thing.
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I really enjoyed this. Kathy Najimy and Sherri Shepard were both great, and I don't even really like the latter. And Strahan is a great host.
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They really needed to let Tituss Burgess and Rosie play up the Charles and Brett thing. Rosie loves Broadway, Tituss is a Broadway star, on paper it's a good match.
JB Smoove and Sutton Foster were fine, and considering Debra Messing was in the seat that was traditionally reserved for airheads on the classic show, I didn't find her too objectionable. However, I didn't feel a lot of satisfication from Michael Ian Black, which surprised me because I usually like him.
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I'm going to make myself a little vulnerable here, and some of it may be due to the fact that I was seeing it at the end of an incredibly stressful period, but there were parts of the most recent issue of Mighty Thor (a series I don't normally consume, but a good review piqued my interest) really got me emotionally.
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but they've done a lot more with Thor being a woman than I would have thought possible. It could have been just about checking boxes, but they make the point that no matter how much fun she has as the Goddess of Thunder, one day a week she has to be Dr. Jane Foster, cancer patient.
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I grant that a black Etta would be challenging, but then I also wonder why they needed to move the setting to WWI in the first place. There actually were African-American WACs in WII, and it would have been an easy way to add diversity to what otherwise looks like a REALLY white film.
And not for nothing, but the corners of the internet that usually cry forth when there's a white character made into a minority are curiously silent here.
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That too.
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4 hours ago, Kelda Feegle said:
Maybe it is because I am Australian and I don't have a deep understanding of American race relations but this episode left me uninvested in any of the outcomes.
As an American who has about as much understanding of race relations as I think a white man can have, I was fairly uninvested in the outcome as well. This show is not subtle, and it's not deep, and this kind of topic requires a lighter touch than this hybrid of a medical drama and an action film is capable of.
There were things about the presentation that bothered me, and there were things that I thought they handled okay. But I have a harder time looking at the complexities of the situation when we're also watching Scott and Paul operating on the suspect on the counter of what appeared to be a jewelry store.
ETA: While I fully support NBC and the show's right to air an episode about whatever topic they want and then leaving it to the viewer to decide to give it his/her support or not, I REALLY wish they'd been a little more sensitive about airing it so soon after Orlando. I know the two situations aren't really that similar, but I couldn't get the thought out of the back of my mind.
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Well, that went about as well as expected.
I'm not opposed to shows attempting to be polarizing, but I think perhaps this is not the show to do it.
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I'm a lot less enthused by it than others, I guess. I didn't think it was bad, it just didn't quite satisfy me, because there's not really an abundance of plot to be had. Which was my problem with Rebirth #1. I appreciate Rucka making sure to feature Steve and Etta (and yet they still cast a white actress in the movie), and I suspect the Boko Haram-esque subplot will be bigger than it appears, and I think that's a very good thing for WW to address.
But the big reveal of
SpoilerCheetah
left me colder than I expected.
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I find myself wondering if the interactions between Jordan and Drew were a last minute rewrite of something that was supposed to be between Krista and Drew. To the point that they had the script, realized that Jeananne Goossen wasn't returning, not just that without her there, they needed a replacement.
Jordan was a surprisingly acceptable substitute (also, I may be a pod person, but I even think TC might have been one too), but Drew needed his little sister. Maybe I'll just imagine him calling her before he pulled himself together for Rick.
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Mebbe leave the headlines-ripping to SVU.
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2 hours ago, millennium said:
Has he created any? Every time I've crossed paths with him, he's screwing with Batman, or Swamp Thing or name a favorite character of mine.
A lot of his work for Wildstorm (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen being the exception), were fairly original and not just deconstructions of other characters.
And V for Vendetta, of course.
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I may be the only person who's enjoying the main Civil War book, but even I have to draw the line at Civil War: X-Men. It was a mistake to pick it up, and I should have known better because the tie-in to the original story wasn't very good either.
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13 hours ago, millennium said:
Anyway, is there anything Moore doesn't put his thumbprint on?
Original characters?
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5 hours ago, Sandman said:
Is it okay if I think I might sort of almost like Tragic Consequences and Jordan, as long as they remain friends, and don't revert to angsty, doom-laden lovers?
Yes. Or if it's wrong, we can be wrong together. Turns out I actually do like them individually, even though I still think Jill Flint isn't much of an actress. They also seem to have turned down TC's manpain, which is definitely to the show's benefit. However, I think Lance Henrikson's talking about how he never had a family because he was too busy skirt-chasing probably doesn't augur well.
Tales of the City taught us that everyone has both a biological family and a logical family. Lucky for Drew, his logical family thinks he's pretty terrific. For all of the show's many faults, they have always dealt with Drew really well. And yeah, my heart broke a little.
I kind of thought Topher's mom kind of leaned into the stereotype too far. The scene where she talked about having to give up her own dreams to put food on the table mitigated it, but then they went for broke. I did really like the actress, so perhaps we'll her again.
Brugada Syndrome actually does cause nightmares. Huh.
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I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why they felt we needed these XXXXX: Rebirth titles that were separate from the actual #1s. I read Titans: Rebirth. While the story--Wally's back, but none of his friends remember him--is just a perfunctory way to give people warm fuzzies (and I got them too), it also confused the hell out of me because so much of it referred back, without any explanation, to Titan Hunt, something I've not read. Couldn't we just have started with the actual story?
I will say Brett Booth draws the sexiest Arsenal and Garth I've ever seen.
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Batman and the Outsiders. Would have been the easiest thing in the world.
However, I'm fine with Detective being the team book. It helps that it has the characters I'm interested in and no Damian.
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Well, that's actually impressive. My opinion just became a lot more positive.
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Maybe I should give the show the benefit of the doubt, but the gender politics here kind of bother me. The rotation of the characters--Lance to the Blue Lion, Keith to the Red Lion, and Shiro/Sven to the Black Lion--makes it feel less likely that Allura is going to end up piloting one of them. They made too much hay about Keith being fated for the Red Lion to make it seem like he would replace Shiro if/when he leaves, and they'd have to do a hell of a lot of character development to make him seem "worthy" of being the leader. Maybe the show will surprise me, and Allura will end up in the Black Lion, but somehow I don't think so. Also, the fact that we've only got two main female characters more broadly bothers me.
And not for nothing, but Pidge, particularly in the original, was so androgynous that they could have easily made him a girl this time.
The odd thing is, even though I remember the GoLion version better from childhood, grown man me who should not be watching this actually remembers Dairugger more fondly.
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Whenever you notice something like that, Dr. Manhattan did it.
I guess I can appreciate what DC is trying to do here, was impressed by the actual Rebirth comic, and moderately-enthused on both Detective and Wonder Woman, but I'm afraid it's going to turn into the same old, same old in a year.
S03.E05: Get Busy Livin' / S03.E06: Hot In the City
in The Night Shift [V]
So, Jessica the Horny Drug Rep is basically the exact same character as one who appeared on Chicago Med this season. I spent most of the episode(s) wondering if it was also the same actress, because you could put them side by side and I couldn't tell them apart.
I think the show has broken me. I'm actually starting to like Jordan, so of course they're going to throw her back into her doomed love affair with TC. The patient in the first half was as paint by numbers as could be, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't effective.