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I think my biggest regret is how much squandered potential there was. Season 4 was essentially the show they should have been making for the start, but it was too late by then. And I do honestly think the Xindi arc was great, although it should only have gone for 13 episodes, not the full season.

Grunge Donald was the best thing ever. I thought the voice sounded familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. I loved Mrs. B being so smitten by Yet to Come. And of course, Donald's ugly sweater was a gift from Della. This show really takes the theme of family and nails it every time.

20+ years ago, GH did everything better. I actually didn't hate the subplot, just because the actress playing the patient was appealing, and I bought her chemistry with Max as some kind of spiritual siblings. I just thought it was cheap to give it a total happy ending. I would have found him having to let Luna go a second time a lot more dramatically interesting. While I was watching it, my husband turned to me and asked "Do you guys have a machine with a big red X at the hospital?" And with a running counter, no less. I thought about our shared ire at how ER handled Mark Greene's GBM (and more broadly the depiction of miracle cures) when I was on my way to work this morning. I saw an ad for something promising improved survival length for GBM, with a standard photo of a happy family enjoying one of life's rewarding events. I didn't have a chance to register the name of the treatment, because I really wanted to look up the prescriber information. Driving age in New York is 17, and that's only if the kid has taken driver's ED. That said, the parents said that Shay had started transitioning when he was 14 and at one point, Iggy said he'd only been on Lupron (that's the hormone blocker) for about 6 months, so maybe 15-ish? I will say that, despite his parents wanting him to hit the brakes on surgical transitioning, they were pretty supportive.

I had no strong feelings about this until just now, but I would much rather Buck and Eddie be be Christopher's daddies than have the ex back in the picture. Perhaps it's the actress, because I just haven't warmed up to her. It kind of depresses me that I was immediately expecting some kind of gay panic after the elf lady told Buck how adorable the three of them were.

The National Board of Review kicks us off for the year. Best Film: GREEN BOOK Best Director: Bradley Cooper, A STAR IS BORN Best Actor: Viggo Mortensen, GREEN BOOK Best Actress: Lady Gaga, A STAR IS BORN Best Supporting Actor: Sam Elliott, A STAR IS BORN Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Best Original Screenplay: Paul Schrader, FIRST REFORMED Best Adapted Screenplay: Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Best Animated Feature: INCREDIBLES 2 They also put Black Panther on their Top Ten list.

You're 100% right. It really does hold up .And yeah, adult perspective does change thing--namely the realization that the parents are total assholes. The me that grew up to be a psychiatrist realizes a lot sooner that Heather being a monster is because she's hurting. And poor, scaredy-cat, probably-psychic Molly, being the one nobody believes, who swallows her fear because she knows no one else will protect Heather. Some lovely writing, as well. They apparently made a Canadian film adapting the book a few years ago. Mary Downing Hahn plays the librarian.

I've always liked Michelle Williams. I often wonder if Katie Holmes is ever overcome by the urge to track her, and all her Oscar nominations, down and punch her in the face.

So, he's a disgusting garbage person on two fronts.

They've only mentioned five songs in relation to the soundtrack: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," "Hakuna Matata," "I Just Can't Wait to Be King," "Circle of Life" and a new one, with a collaboration between John, Rice, and Beyonce to go for the Oscar. I had been hoping they'd bring in "They Live in You" and "Endless Night" from the Broadway version. Dollars to donuts, those are better than most of the music from the actual movie. And "Be Prepared," one of the all-time great villain songs. Although Hans Zimmer is returning to do the actual score, and I find myself looking feverishly forward to "King of Pride Rock" in Dolby Atmos.

I can't imagine any reason why a 50-ish "bachelor" would let a 22-year-old gym rat into his life.

Ah, there it is. Mary Dowling Hahn's Wait Till Helen Comes. I think I could probably read it as an adult and be thoroughly entertained, but on the off chance that I'm wrong, I'm not going to risk it. I had completely forgotten the runner-up, Betty Ren Wright's The Dollhouse Murders. Aside from being a good, spooky story and focused only on three female characters, it does a good job of portraying the main character's frustrations at having a sister with special needs without being ableist. I had never heard of Christopher Pike's The Midnight Club, about a group of terminally ill teens in a hospice that get together at night to tell scary stories as a way of dealing with their knowledge of their mortality. However, I'm pretty sure I'm going to try and find a copy, just because it sounds like a fascinating book. Also quite remarkable is that one of the characters, Spencer, is a closeted gay boy dying of AIDS and guilt-ridden about possibly having passed HIV to his boyfriend. I don't know if I would call a character dying of AIDS totally progressive for 1994, but it apparently also deals with the realities of being a gay teen in the mid-90s. All in all, Paperback Crush is well worth a read. The only real oversight that I can think of is that I can't remember a single mention of any of Cynthia Voight's books. And there was only one mention of VC Andrews, although one could make the argument that she wasn't really writing YA.

I've said this before, but Hen and Athena are #FriendshipGoals. I would also love to see more of the support group in the future. I know some of us are tired of superhero origin stories, but I'm glad we had time for one more.

It's actually seriously impressing me. I was just expecting a nostalgia-fueled trip back to the Waldenbooks. It's certainly that, but it's also got some pretty sophisticated analysis as well. I was expecting some dancing around issues of diversity, but it actually tackles them head-on, and mentions some series that I've never heard of from African-American owned publishing houses, and a few books about Asian and South Asian girls. There are even mentions of queer characters, which I definitely didn't think would come up. The chapter on the BSC made me realize how talented Ann M Martin really is. All of the other middle-grade series they talk about seemed to have been made from the same set of Legos, and yet AMM caught lightning in a bottle the way in a way no one else did. And I don't think the author is wrong when she draws a line between Kristy Thomas and real-life entrepreneurial Millennial women. And she quotes an interview with AMM where it was revealed that she actually didn't give a fig about Mallory. Also, there was a mention of Baby-sitting is a Dangerous Job, and that book ruled. I'm hoping there's a chapter on the supernatural coming up, because I have a favorite that I want to see mentioned.

[Obligatory "The king has returned" reference] I'm not too proud to admit that gave me chills.

Should we do individual threads for the new movies?

I'm also worried about his chest hair. I've never gotten a radiotherapy tattoo, but I do have a number of ordinary tattoos, and even though Helen was only making three dots with India ink, I can't believe she didn't shave the area. Nice of the celebrity oncologist to do that herself.

That's the real Bellevue. The masonry is the original entrance and they built the atrium over top of it about twenty years ago. The curved walkways are part of their ambulatory medicine clinics. It's a beautiful space.

I loved that so much. I'm going to call bullshit on how they handled that woman's suicide attempt. Not Iggy and Vijay's attempts to work around the mother, nor Iggy's eventual insistence of bringing the mom into the therapy. No, it's that there is a 0% chance that a suicide attempt with that high a potential lethality would not have been an automatic, involuntary admission.

The part that I’ve been able to read thus far referenced both Jessica and Elizabeth’s sociopathy.

Every time I think we're at the apex of cleverness for this show, we get something new.

I was expecting the Doctor to say she was disappointed she didn't get to join Ryan and Yaz on the conveyors. I certainly felt shortchanged on her behalf.

Someone from Penguin Random House was reading this thread. And one early Festivus present coming right up.

We've gotten Three Caballeros, and now we're getting Mickey's Christmas Carol.

Honestly, I think the OR ruined Connor, and he's threatening to pull Maggie down with him. Not so much on a character level, but just in terms of the kinds of stories she can have. Being Connor's scrub nurse is just a plot dead end. Honest to God, I found Natalie less objectionable in this episode than Connor, and she still did some pretty terrible things.

I wouldn't be surprised if people ended up stealing his vows for their own ceremonies. And I agree. The minister is a great character and I would love it if she made a return. I just really liked the actress.