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You know, I'd even forgotten Wesley was a character. Like, it took me a minute to remember who you were talking about.
They did it with Paige, Alex, Jay, Johnny, Bianca, Holly J, Peter, Owen, arguably Marisol (I never really warmed up her), and even Spinner to a lesser extent. Not to mention people like Fiona and Imogen.
I think my bigger issue might be that in a few of those cases, particularly Paige and Zoe, they got on the redemption arc by being sexually assaulted. I thought both of those were incredibly well-handled--especially given how the Steubenville aspects of Zoe's story were done so sensitively when the show is more often as subtle as a brick to the skull (and I think a lot of the credit for that should go to Ana Golja and Sarah Fisher), but it still kind of bothers me.
I honestly don't remember anything redemptive about Owen except for his obvious love for Tristan, and to be frank, until they teased this pairing of Tristan and Miles, I've actually not been all that fond of Tristan either.
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I just did not feel like there was much effort put into making Adam believable, especially since about Season 12.
Not to mention that their way of trying to make her look more like a boy was to put her in increasingly baggy clothing.
As bad as Chante got it, Hazel got it worse. There have been a few "Note: Poochie died" departures since then (see: KC, Tori), but aside from Hazel hiding that she was a Muslim, and sort of being the default girlfriend whenever one of the popular kids needed a romantic attachment, there was no point to her whatsoever. What does it say that the most memorable thing about her is her "Who's gay?" when she interrupted a conversation between Paige and Dylan about Marco.
Did it ever bother anyone else the way the bitchy girls always ended up getting their rough edges filed off? Paige, Holly J, Marisol, and now Zoe. With Paige and Holly J it at least felt like character growth, and I think that might be happening with Zoe too (understandable, given what she's been through of late), but the show needs a love-to-hate girl.
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And then Riley crushed on Peter and Fiona crushed on Holly J. Good times.
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I loved the idea of Adam, and I've always thought Ramona Milana who plays Adam and Drew's mother is a goddess, but after a while, it really bothered me that they didn't try very hard to make Jordan Todosey look like a boy. And while I never really cared for Eli, the immediate accepting and supporting friendship Adam formed with both Eli and Clare had me warm up on Clare a lot.
I get that the show is a melodrama and that part of what makes people watch is that not everyone always gets a happy ending, but to be perfectly honest, it's always really bothered me the way that the show's LGBT characters have exited. Nothing quite so bad as just randomly killing off Adam because he couldn't get of HastyGram while he was driving, but after everything they went through to reunite Marco and Dylan, that was handled almost as an afterthought, Riley and Zane got denied a reconciliation even though they were perfectly set up for one, Fiona and Imogen was also too abrupt, and I was downright offended by what they did to Paige and Alex.
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Or even a gay character who started out actively dating girls?
Weren't Riley and Anya a couple for a while? I mean, I think the show had pretty much set up that he was gay and really in denial about it, but I remember them having a quasi-real relationship, as opposed to Ellie being Marco's beard.
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I guess this is just a reflection of some of my own prejudices, but there are certain characters that I didn't warm up to until they moved into LGBT storylines, or at least LGBT-adjacent stories. I thought Imogen was incredibly annoying until they paired her with Fiona, and now I love her, whether she's dressed for Deadliest Catch or in a nun's habit. Same with Becky and Clare before they either dated or befriended Adam. Even going back to Paige and Alex.
So, yeah, despite myself, I found myself really digging Tristan/Miles. I just hope that if it does turn out that Miles is bisexual, they don't do to him what they did to Paige, and totally insulted both the personal growth and the chemistry she had with Alex (moreso than any boyfriend she had, IMHO) by declaring it wasn't a big deal.
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Becky's parents are both terrible people, and I can only hope she ends up living with Imogen and her mom.
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Are we sure the Miles/Tristan spoiler isn't left over from the Paris arc?
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Like Buffy Summers, ventriloquist's dummies give me the wig, but in the long history of them haunting my nightmares, I don't think I've ever seen one used as effectively. It was both a combination of unsettling and heartbreaking.
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A miscarriage is coming, I hope and believe.
I sort of hope not. As stupid as this baby plot is, I think a miscarriage story would be worse, beyond giving Angie Harmon some good material to play.
I also kind of wish that they'd at least raised the issue of Jane getting an abortion. I don't think she would, but at least acknowledging it would have been nice.
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Thanks to hilarious circumstances, Jordan is forced to treat Steven Bauer, is (understandably, I'll admit) rude to him, he dies, and now the cops think she deliberately let him die, and are now going after her. Sure, why not?!
I'm going to state right now that they'll have completely forgotten that by the time the show comes back next summer or whenever. Because even on a show that's this abjectly stupid so often, that was incredibly stupid.
I like that anyone can enter the sterile field in the OR just by putting on a gown and gloves. And the OR has a sliding door, so I guess they're not too concerned with the surgeons scrubbing before they start.
I'm not maintaining my ironic detachment well enough, because I'll confess, I did get a little teary-eyed with Drew and Krista at the burn patient's bedside with her mom on the phone.
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One of the things that both the writers and Roger Allam have brought to Thursday is the fact that he's still carrying around scars from his service in WWII. It's hard for me to imagine another show making that integral to the character, but they pull it off so well.
One thing I was confused about: Okay, so the climax of the story happens around Bonfire Night, which, as any anglophile can tell you, is November 5th. But everyone was wearing a Remembrance Day red poppy, even though that's a week later. Probably overthinking it.
Speaking of which, was the man who owned the department store hitting on Morse, or was I just writing my own subtext?
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I've been watching S1 over again as kind of a marathon, but I got stuck here.
It's not as great an episode as "Lesbian Request Denied" and "Bora Bora Bora," but god, hearing Larry say such awful things about Suzanne and Miss Claudette just breaks my heart over and over againt.
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I cannot get myself to drop the dough for the book after reading many reviews that say the real Piper is an obnoxious bitch and cannot go a few pages without reading how pretty and smart she is and her hoity-toity education. Is that really the case? I saw her interviewed on Ellen and she came across as extremely self-centered.
Is the book a worthy read? Is there anything in the book about Piper reaching out to anyone that she was in prison with or help them in any way all these years later when she was cashing in with a book about her short stint in a minimum security prison?
Couple of things: Piper Kerman does mention her upbringing and education a lot, but if anything, it's in a context that's the opposite of what you're implying; she goes out of her way to say that she isn't any better than the other women she's incarcerated with, and that she is fully aware how fortunate she was to have advantages that they didn't, especially when it came to legal representation. There's one woman who I think was used to partly inspire both Daya and Moreno, who is serving a much longer sentence for what Piper K seems to think is a much more minor crime than her own, and she finds that unfair.
I was expecting Piper K to be more like Piper Chapman, but she's really not. She doesn't pity herself, she takes full responsibility for the crime she committed and at no point claims that the real-life Alex, who she gives the pseudonym Nora, tricked her into doing anything. And given that she's come out of the experience being an advocate for prison reform, I think she's a decent person.
While I don't know if she continues to have the women she was in with over for lunch, the book is dedicated to "Pop," Red's real-world counterpart.
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TC clearly has PTSD, which they've been telegraphing the entire season and especially so last night. I can't figure out A) why Landry never really called him on that, as she's very perceptive and not shy about sharing her observations, B) why Ragosa wouldn't make his employment contingent on him getting in and staying in some kind of therapy.
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At this point, Topher is really the only reason I keep watching. I'm sure not watching it for Jordan and TC. Where was her other boyfriend, Scott Wolf, btw? Did he have the day off, or did I just miss him because I wasn't paying that close attention?
Ragosa had a line that Scott was on his way in when they were about to receive the first patients from the chemical plant.
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Doctors in Afghanistan participate in armed search patrols.
Yeah, I couldn't wrap my head around that at all.
I spent most of those flashbacks wondering if I'd missed something and he was just regular infantry in Afghanistan, and then trying to figure out when he would have had to do his tour in order to complete four years of medical school and a three year residency. Then I realized the show just needed him there for dramatic purposes, sense be damned.
Pree-post-ter-us!
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I don't know what would be worse, just casually killing off Topher because this is like Game of Thrones and no one is safe, or killing off Topher in service of pushing TC's manpain closer to Jordan.
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If you have Amazon Prime, all the episodes are available there.
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Whenever a TV show gets too ridiculous, I have a habit of muttering "pree-post-ter-us" really slowly at the TV.
I was saying that a lot.
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I know Amazon Prime has them and I believe Netflix as well.
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Bright won me over last week when he accepted Morse's apology graciously and then proceeded to listen to him with absolutely no attitude when he had solved the case, and his completely shutting down DI Church by refusing to get into a jurisdictional pissing contest while they were standing over the body of the little girl confirmed that.
I also have to give him a lot of points for mentioning Burke and Hare, two Scottish resurrectionists from the early 19th century who would kill people and then sell their bodies to the University of Edinburgh's anatomists.
The 1866 murder, in addition to The Turn of the Screw also reminded me more than a little of a real murder that was featured in a book called The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, although I don't recommend anyone read it. I wonder if that was intentional.
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I don't know what it is about Shaun Evans' eyes, but they amaze me.
He reminds me a lot of my first boyfriend, although my fellow wasn't a ginger. I'm sure I'm not projecting here at all.
I don't know what exactly I was expecting, but that was a much better episode than I could have hoped for. Firstly, I thought having the World Cup (which was in fact held in and won by England in 1966) as a runner was great, especially since they must have stuck it in for the American audience because it aired in Britain a few months ago, before the World Cup started. I love English country-house mysteries, and even though that's more Agatha Christie territory, they managed to tie it in to the present day events splendidly.
I'm increasingly impressed by Bright, who seems to actually listen to Morse and value his opinions more than he did at first. Jakes is still an SOB, but you need an antagonist.
I still wish Morse had gone to watch the final match with the Thursdays.
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Score one for the show then. I would have honestly thought they'd just made it up for dramatic purposes.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
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I loved it. I loved it without reservations, and yes, I teared up for "We are Groot." And also before, when Groot released the fireflies so that Drax, Gamora, and Peter could see where they were going. And also a little when the Nova Corps ships joined up with Rocket's guys.
I think 3D is a gimmick used to artificially inflate ticket prices, but this was the one movie where I was happy to be proven wrong.
Bill Mantlo, who created Rocket (and wrote a lot of Howard the Duck as well), was involved in a horrible hit and run car accident about twenty years ago and had incredible brain damage, and has lived in a nursing home ever since. I hope somehow that someone is able to make him understand that something he did made a lot of people happy this weekend.