AlwaysWatching

I didn't know Timothy Omundson had a stroke. God I hope he's totally recovered now. He had a small part on Lucifer recently. I've been watching him since Xena : Warrior Princess. That was back in the late 90's, I think. Just not sure what years he was on the show. Xena ran from 1995 until 2001. Oh, and yes, I have that same smile when Martin is on screen.

Showtunes! Love it! I would like to think that my dogs picked up my constant bad singing, but I'm afraid they most likely just talked like sailors on shore leave. :) For some reason, I have not been bothered by all the "likes" that Martin and the others are saying. Shows you how much I love DD because that usually bothers me.

I simply love this show. I'm in love with Martin. The household I live in has five cats. Lost my dogs (they had long happy lives) a few years ago. One of them, who happened to be a major mutt in looks, had the most soulful eyes. I'm almost positive she was separated from a sibling or mother. We found her almost dead wondering the streets after a hurricane. She kept trying to get back to where we found her, (she was a stray) but she would come right back to our home. It was like she was trying to tell this other dog she had found a great place to live. I used to stare at her and wonder what she was thinking. ::sniff:: I'm positive she never forgot that street companion. Also, I don't take any of the dog training or things that dogs can or can't do very seriously on this show. It doesn't strike me as a show about realism. It's just supposed to be weird set-ups that Martin can go into funny streams of consciousness on. I don't even know if that makes sense. Eh, I'm crazy about Downward Dog. Please don't get canceled.

I suppose that religion's benign purpose is to have a sense of community. Shared values and possibly shared symbolic experiences appear to help people stay grounded and feel safe in a very unsafe world. That part I get. Almost. Unfortunately, religion, like absolute political power, always comes with this huge umbrella over the many dark things men and some women ( Ireland anyone?) can do to each other. These awful things go on in every religion in some form. Baptist preachers do the same thing. When I was a very young child, my parents took me to a friend's Baptist Church. I felt like Damien from the Omen. I couldn't get past the, oh so welcoming front door with all those smiling people. EWWW. Not sure what that says about me, but I've been a non-believer for a long time now. My point, if I have one, is that I do understand someone who wants to hold on to the good things they feel are in their religion. You could say the same about a Scientologist...and boy do I hate saying that. I'm only up to a part of Episode 4. When I was listening to all the things Jane Doe was saying in Episode 2?, I did have a slight, slight doubt for a few minutes, but not about her abuse. I got the feeling that from what abuse she suffered and the way it all came back to her, that she might have inadvertently added more detail. Then I realized how wrong I was. These men had so much POWER over these girls that they had to feed their power monster more and more. This sickness has gone on forever - and is a human thing. Most women, especially in Western Countries, don't realize how dangerous it is to be around certain men. The problem is, who are the good guys and who are the ones that are acting on a twisted sense of biological urge? This is a subject that hits too close to home for an incredulous amount of women. Putting it in the setting of the Catholic Church, where men who crave this particular type of power and control gravitate toward, is just one small slice of the sexual abuse of children and young women and men, that make up one horrifying, human demoralizing pie.

I'm really late getting back to this subject and I apologize for not thanking all you wonderful people for your good wishes. I haven't told anyone in my family that I am on dialysis. There's only a nephew and a niece and some cousins, but we are not in contact and if you tell someone your kidneys are shot, well, some people think you are asking for a kidney. Ha! It happened with an old friend of mine. She kept saying she would donate one of her kidneys because we were childhood friends. Sorry to say, that I didn't believe her. I was right. Her son talked her out of it before we even did any tests. That was at least four or five years ago. I'm so glad your dad got off that rollercoaster and got a great kidney! Since I made my original post here, my renal doctor has started me back on the kidney transplant work up. So, I guess maybe talking about it here gave that push I needed to actually think about a transplant again. I did want to comment about the techs. I've only seen one bad one. One that obviously didn't care, and I think she was getting ready to leave the job. Most techs are so hard working and they do know they are working with very sick people. I've also heard patients who are having mental problems scream and scream the whole time they are there. They cuss out the techs and the nurse and anyone around them. It can be a very depressing and stress inducing experience for everyone in the dialysis clinic. When I come off, when they take the needles out, I should have a tech that is only concerned with me for at least ten or fifteen minutes. They will have one tech left ( I'm a late in the afternoon person) to take down however many people are there. Three can come up at once for one tech. He or she will run from partly doing me, to partly doing someone else and the patient, usually me, because I treat them very kindly and say I can wait, ends up spending even more time in that damn chair. I actually had a bedsore for awhile. Anyway, my tech right now, is new and he is very upset about this situation but has decided people will just have to wait. He was terrified of making a mistake if he rushed through us all. Ok! I'm done talking about my DaVita experiences. Ha! Thanks again for the well wishes and thanks for letting me finally talk about my journey. Have a great day and please chalk up all my grammatical errors on the infamous dialysis brain. ;-0

Well I don't know what's wrong with my brain, but I f'n loved this first episode. I loved the fact that it wasn't exactly a comedy,...oh, what's the word I'm looking for? Pathos? Pathos mixed with some comedic moments that weren't really played for laughs. Also, I absolutely love the fact that it's from the view point of the dog. I know that's not original, but I really felt like a dog might think this things. I don't know. Truthfully, I got goosebumps when Martin is telling the story from being a puppy in a box and then falling in love. Hmm, I think my eyes started watering. It was just so touching to me. Like others have said, I don't know if they will be able to keep this up, but I will watch every episode they make.

Unfortunately, for me, I'm one of the unlucky ones who has to spend three days a week at a DaVita Dialysis Clinic. I have a disease called PKD, which is big old painful cysts that overtake your kidneys. I had known for years that dialysis was coming. This disease cannot be stopped. I hate it, but I have tried to make the best of my time sitting in that damn chair. Also, it does get to you at times when people automatically assume that because I'm a bit overweight, some actually from the cyst around my stomach, that I am there because of diabetes or something I could have controlled. I have to admit, that Oliver's investigation into this place has me more depressed than ever. Not only do I have a nurse that is more worried about her schedules and how good her numbers look, but the techs are totally stressed out. She also speaks very little English and what she does speak is almost unintelligible - and I am very good with accents. There is constant tech turnover, so you never know who is going to be sticking you. Every day you just hope for the best. They also don't usually watch patients machines for any kind of mess up. I've seen them almost lose people because they hadn't checked them out in awhile and they were close to being dead. The machines have all kinds of loud warning bells on them, which is a good thing I guess, but the techs just wait to hear all the ear piercing warning signals and decide who they want to check out first. It's sure best to have some good noise canceling ear phones or you might start going deaf. I've given a lot of thought to in home dialysis. But, that takes some money, I think. Anyway, I do thank John Oliver for exposing things like this. It's too bad nothing can be done. Huge profits are all that matter.

Let me see if I can get close on this one. Ira can sue to get his money back because he suffered the damage. Chuck's father can't sue, even though he also suffered damage, because Chuck has talked his father into not telling anyone he put money in to the venture. He "son" guilted him and he also knows his father does want to see him as Governor - even if his father kinda hates him right now. Thanks Rock knocker! I want another season!

Wow. That could be a series ender. I haven't looked for any confirmation or anything - just making a comment. I admit to not understanding most of what's going on in Axe Capital. But, this is the type of show that is still great even if you've never owned a stock in your life. What a perfect ( or absolutely awful ) place for Axe and Chuck to be. They did surprise me a bit with Wendy and Chuck at the very end. Going back to the first scene of the first episode, if I remember correctly, it makes perfect sense.

Here's Chris Sunday ( David Gulpilil ) as another Chris. He was amazing in this strange movie. I couldn't help but think of this during Kevin Sr.'s walkabout. At first, I didn't think I would like the episode when I realized it was all on Kevin Sr. But like many others here, I got caught up in it and loved the last 20 minutes or so. On you tube, right after the above clip of the trailer, Peter Weir, the director, has some really interesting things to say that I think can be seen in The Leftovers. The only think I'm totally in the dark on, is the fact that The Leftovers comes from a book I haven't read. I suppose that's a good thing for me if they are going to make the ending like the one in the book...or maybe the TV show left the book long ago. Either way, it works for me. I love creepy stuff like this. Oh, and I mean creepy in good way. Obviously I'm not using the the right word. eh

Australia. Flood. Has anyone seen the 1978 Richard Chamberlain movie "The Last Wave"? That movie has always freaked me out. When they were showing the future clips of Australia and the rain, it took me right to the mood of that movie. I don't think they are going to use the whole "Last Wave" story or anything, but I wonder if they've used bits of it. It's perked my interest quite a bit and I was already loving the creepiness of the Leftovers. It's so strange. Humankind has always had some kind of religious doomsday philosophy that our inability to follow some deities rules and regs would put an end to everything. Now, it simply looks like humankind itself has accomplished that "can't wrap your mind around it" planet destroying capability (mostly) by itself. Makes for good TV, though.

Romero looked like walking death to me. I thought he was seriously end of life hallucinating Norma. Guess I'll find out if he dies from his wound. I can not believe this show is about to end. How many TV shows have you watched that got progressively better for years? And coming down to the end stretch here, I can't miss 10 seconds of any episode. Bates Motel is why I watch television. I can't even imagine it being over for good. It really feels like they could keep going and keep going and keep........."sniff".

I don't know if someone has mentioned this yet, but..uh..Rhianna is supposed to have an "expanded part" on Bates Motel. I'm not crazy about her being Marion Crane either. This simply wasn't the right part for her. I don't dislike her or anything. Fortunately for me, the rest of the show is still so freaking fantastic that I'm not going to let her ruin it too much. Still, my mind goes to other people, even an unknown, that would have kept the same atmosphere for which we have become accustomed on Bates Motel.

The bracelet scene was such a fantastically touching moment. I knew that I should have seen it coming, but I didn't. That's one of the reasons this show is so much more than it appears to be. One of my friends, who doesn't read nuance well, finds this show boring. Wha??? Louie Anderson's oh so subtle and brilliant facial movements speak volumes and volumes of dialogue never needed. I almost feel a little bit of sympathy for Zack G. because Louie has just about stolen this show. I still watch for Chip and Martha, but what can I say? Every time Mrs. Baskets is on screen I am mesmerized. It was also so nice to see two people treat each other with such kindness and genuine affection. Mrs. Basket and her new friend, ugh..I can't remember his name, were worlds apart politically and yet they got past their differences and enjoyed a wonderful day together. Yeah, this show has made me cry, too.

If this has been mentioned already, I apologize, but...uh, what happened to Carrie's bi-polar disorder? Guess she's on some good meds. Also, they probably covered that enough in the previous seasons. It's just strange, it's not like it goes away. Maybe she just needs more stress. Ouch! That was cruel. Seriously just kidding. I agree with all the Saul love. The writers give him great depth of character. Hopefully Carrie will get written a bit better in coming episodes. I was getting tired of damaged Quinn, but he's got my interest again. I don't know what to think about PEOTUS. The showrunners have admitted they thought, like almost everyone in the world, that the U.S. was going to have a female president. OOPS It shouldn't matter because it's not like it's a totally original idea. But, depending on your political beliefs, you are either laughing about it or feeling this nasty sting every time she is on screen. I don't mean this to be a political discussion, just an observation about the show tied to present events- what the show had been great at doing up to this season.

Having always been found of Jude Law's acting and, yeah, his looks, I admit to watching The Young Pope to stare at the many lingering shots of his face. Then, surprise! I now find myself loving the mystery, the not knowing of what the hell is going on. Being a non-believer, I am also fascinated with this pope's views on how to worship his god. I know it's dogmatic fanaticism, but there seems, at least to me, to be another level to it's intensity. Intensity with a wink-wink. I want the mystery to continue. I'm afraid if everything gets spelled out, it will destroy my reverence for the story behind the beauty.

Geezuzz! Who dresses Lucy Liu? I started watching this show for Jonny Lee Miller and still do. Not that I don't find the plot of the week interesting, because I do, it's just that now I can't wait each week to see what Joan is wearing. Sherlock always looks good too ;). But dang Joan, that sweater and tie outfit was a killer.

I think it was about fifteen years ago or more that I downloaded parts of someone's book on the internet. I can't remember who wrote it and at the time I remember there wasn't a lot out there about the "secrets" of Scientology - at least that I knew about. Still surprised that I remembered as much as I did. People on this thread talk about going down the rabbit hole, reading everything they can, and that was what I was doing whatever year that was. Ok, to the quote. If I am remembering correctly, Hubbard was a terribly gross man in the physical hygiene department. His "messengers", who where very young, had to do really sickening things for him. Sorry, don't remember exactly what they were. I just remember that they made me literally sick to my stomach. I'm really curious to what the heck it was I was reading. It had to have been someone who was either a messenger or very close to one. Who wrote the first big tell all book? Maybe someone else remembers reading something about how gross old man Hubbard was, ah, way beyond just his teeth. Eewww.

Bart Simpson's voice (Nancy Cartwright) has been a long time member. I wonder how many times she has had to do the bridge? I get the sense that real top performers-very famous and/or super rich-don't have to redo the bridge. They are the shining "stars" of Scientology and they earn their COS god like treatment by bringing in more and more young celebrities who hopefully will bring in more and more money. The only new (relatively) one I can think of at the moment is Alanna Masterson (Tara on Walking Dead ). But, she is of the Masterson family of the two brothers Danny and Christopher. One was on "That 70's Show and one on Malcolm in the Middle. I know at least one of them is a Scientologist. So, there's another family situation. I think Elisabeth Moss is a member. Obviously Kirstie Alley. Maybe Jenna Elfman? Oh, there are others I can't think of right now. There is a list out there, I was just trying to remember who I've known for a long time were members. Going to back to the really rich and famous, I can almost understand why they stay. They truly are treated like gods. They see all that a mulit-billion dollar church has to offer. They stay in the best places all over the world. The lowly sea.org, if they have to come in contact with a Tom Cruise or John Travolta, have to, AGAIN, heh, treat them like gods. It would be hard to walk away from that strange, other worldly reality. Oh and L.Ron creep was always crazy, crazy, crazy. Miscavige was his errand boy on the ship L.Ron creepy floated around on to avoid the law everywhere. According to some people, some really sick stuff took place on that ship for years. This is where DM got his start and all his bizarre, cruel behavior. The only reason that I can think of that COS might not want members to have children is that fact that the family dynamic keeps members from giving 100 percent of time and money to the church and it can also pull more people out by the threat of disconnection. COS doesn't want to have more members by members having children. That doesn't make money for them. They want single people to bring in more single people who bring in more money. Kinda simple. I have no idea how much COS might be shrinking.

Oh god, I cried. Cindy appeared to be as sweet as she was smart. On Monday I canceled a appt. I had for a mammogram for today. I have to reschedule very soon, though. It's for a transplant work-up. It just really gets to me now when I see people realize their dreams - especially when they are facing the end of this journey.

There are so many shows on so many network and cable channels that I find that, for myself, if I don't get something out of a new show within the first fifteen minutes or so, I usually don't end up coming back. As soon as they introduced us to the Aliens, wham!, I was hooked. There were funny lines all the way through and I immediately liked all the actors and characters. Can't wait for the next episode. I need more comedies to balance out all the violence and bummer stuff I watch on Sunday nights. You know what I'm talking about. heh

Yeah, me too! I did end up enjoying most of the episode, but it was the first time that I felt I was watching something that came from a comic book. I know that must sound ridiculous to people who watch the show because of the comics (graphic novel?), or at least are very aware of them. I'm not sure that I knew this show was from a comic when I first started watching way back with those 6 original eps. Heck, I don't even like the zombie genre. Oh, there was a hilarious movie way back in 1989 called "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown". Oh god, it was funny. Anyway, TWD was simply great drama with great acting and fantastic special effects on the zombies. I was immediately hooked like so many, many others. I am running out of interest, though. I keep telling myself that when Carol is gone, I might stop watching. I'm not upset with anything about the show. Ok, maybe Negan is a bridge too far, but I started losing interest quite awhile back. It's hard for me to let go of things, (I'm still forcing myself through "Once Upon a Time"), so who knows?

And thanks to others who set me straight on this. Wow, I don't usually miss that much when I'm watching a show. I guess trying to watch a few minutes of Westworld then a few minutes of the World Series didn't work out all that well for me. Ha! It really wasn''t the nudity, although I did find that a slight bit distracting. I totally remember Teddy grabbing the knife at the table. I totally forgot exactly what MIB's threat was to Ford. I do remember now that I've been corrected and I realize I didn't think of Ford being a host because of that threat. I thought it was just MiB being MiB. I guess I was just remembering MiB's comments about opening up Teddy (in the past) and saying he was beautiful or perfect or something like that. He was complaining about them ruining what the Hosts used to be like before they made them more human like. So, I can honestly say that I don't have any idea of what's really going on in Westworld. I had some crazy things in my head during the first few episodes, but they were really way out there. I'll pay better attention from now on. Well, once I get past the World Series and this insane election.

When did MIB say he wanted to open up Ford? I know he said that about Flood (Teddy), but I don't remember him saying it about Ford. Is that why people are thinking Ford is a host? I think I'm missing a whole bunch of stuff in this episode. Maybe all the nudity threw me off. :chuckle:

That's exactly what I thought in that scene. Then I completely forgot about it and was surprised when it turned out that he was watching child porn. Creepy and sickening. Still, a very interesting episode. Just a little aside: One of my uncles, years ago, absolutely could not or would not believe the statistics on men abusing young children. Fortunately, for him, he had never experienced this nightmare in any way through 65 years of age at the time. Well, I grew up with this kind of crap all around me. I can imagine how the internet has just turned the world into a pedophile's dream come true. The ones who can actually not act on their urges and rape a child, can now probably get want they want online. Oh, and now that I think about the episode, maybe him having that short interaction with the young girl was what sent him rushing home to his computer. Yeah, it was all right there and I didn't catch it. Maybe that's a good thing.