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If you can't post civilly... don't. -DTC
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I thought that it was kind of icky that Carter plotted to make sure that the bottle landed on Taylor every time during spin the bottle. I could be wrong since I watched a bunch of episodes in a row, but I think that Carter knew that Max and Taylor kind of liked each other at this point, so maybe she could have just made the bottle land on Taylor when Max was the one spinning it.
Speaking of Max, I think that it was completely sweet that he wanted to be Taylor's first kiss. Basically, Max, Taylor, and Grant are the only kids that I can stand on this show. The rest of the teens are just awful. The way that they go along with Carter and actively try to help her reunite with her kidnapper is bizarre. Outside of Max, Taylor, and Grant, none of the teens have an ounce of sense.
Exactly, they just pretty much go along with this girl they just met over her kidnapper mom and no one questions her.
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This show is definitely lacking in the build up. No one is saying Cater needs to immediately like Elizabeth. No that's gonna take a long time. What needs to be shown is Carter asking herself why Lori kidnapped her in the first place. Also Carter was taken when she was four years old. So she has absolutely no memory of her family aside from a brief connection with her grandpa? I remember little things from when I was four (the night my little sister was born, when I had the chicken pox, etc); are they trying to tell me there's nothing around that house that could possibly trigger and old memory?
Exactly, Carter isn't even trying to try and remember other things or even the kidnapping itself. No questions and other characters are just going along with it.
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Totally agree. Carter is getting on my nerves, but it would be totally unreal if she was automatically ready to accept her new family. I've read about real life cases where kids were kidnapped or switched at birth and a lot of times those things end sadder than you'd think they would.
I like how you can just tell by Carter's face her feelings are changing. If she accepted Elizabeth and the family right away it wouldn't be much of a show.
It's the transition/build up leading up to this that's the problem, this was always a predictable outcome. The writers just aren't able to handle this and the characters come off as awkward and it doesn't help that she doesn't ask any questions about the kidnapping or seemingly care about it at all, what makes it worse is how the other characters just going along with it without calling her out on it. Carter straight says that it's good that Lori gets away and that she supports her right in front of a cop in a police station no less. In the real life cases, the family also deals with the aftermath of the situation and it's a struggle for both the victim and the family trying to adjust to their new life style and that should've been compelling to see if that's what we actually got that was brushed over.
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More clips of Episode 207 are up.
http://www.spoilertv.com/2014/08/under-dome-episode-207-going-home-sneak.html
Junior makes yet another stupid statement to Barbie after learning Sam killed Angie and jumped to his "death" -- "I'm just supposed to believe you. You don't know my uncle".
Neither does Junior -- he's known him for all of 5-6 days at this point, after not seeing him for 10 years. The same uncle that was considering killing just two episodes ago. And, for some reason, Drownsie is on Junior's side of things.
I'm so sick of his stupid angsty whining. Jr doesn't know anything and he keeps getting screwed over for being a dumbass.
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I am beginning to hate flashbacks. I got some were necessary in season 1 to set things up, but I didn't want to continue spending half or more of the season in the past and on the island and I am not looking forward to spending half or more of the season in Hong Kong. I already KNOW Oliver Queen is a badass with a bow, I don't need to see episode after episode of him very slowly turning into the character he is now, which is the one I actually want to watch.
Exactly, especially since we already pretty much know what we needed to know. Idc about him being in HK.
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I think they are trying to do the slow build with Carter realizing Lori isn't all that, first with Max talking about Lori and Carter being all "who?" for a moment, then feeling guilty about it. That shows that Carter is actually forcing herself to not move on from Lori, which was interesting to me. And then this past ep when she did not seem at all into the stupid, trite, forced "love you more" crap they used to do. Which, seriously, when something like that becomes that routine it looses all meaning anyway.
I would not expect Carter to be on board the "Lori is bad" train after a few weeks, even months. I think that kind of de-programming, which is what it is, would take years. She's been this woman's daughter for over 2/3 of her life. You don't just move on quickly from that. Hell, children who have been beaten will still defend their parent and in Carter's mind Lori is her parent and never mistreated her. And this mean "real mother" of hers is all "rules rules, I care about your safety" blah blah which, for a kid who seems to have just done whatever the hell she pleased whenever the hell she pleased, must seem like torture.
But when Carter finally does come around, I won't see it as coming from no where. I've seen the very small building blocks in the past two eps, which is good for me because I don't think I could tolerate Carter much longer if she wasn't slowly starting to change her opinions on everyone involved.
That's not build up and all her character did is say that Lori is her real mom and that she wants to go to her. She only forgot about her for 1 scene and then went back on the Lori bandwagon. She has not asked any questions about the kidnapping at all, the situation barely even fazes her even though she should at least be curious and the show did not express any doubt/uncertainly where it would be real build up instead of this nonchalant bs and wasting screen time on her friends like the 7 minutes of Heaven bs scene. She did go into the love you more crap, in the sneak peek, she's even packing her things and still deciding on things. The build up is not sufficient because the writers didn't properly set this all up, that's why it lacks the believeability it needs to pull this off. Her character barely even cares about what's going, she's either with her dumbass friends wasting time or she's on the Lori bandwagon. Her character lacks the depth/development that is sorely needed especially with a premise like this that they've wasted. We don't see how this affects her character, the writers just lazily throw teen rebel cliches and contrived drama on her, all repeating Lori is her real mom and that she wants to be with her on a 1 track mind and the other characters pretty much go along with it.
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I don't have a problem with how they're playing Lori. They're playing her as a wack-a-doodle and just stringing out Carter realizing and acknowledging it. I'm okay with that, because it means they won't do more than flirt with the idea of Carter leaving with her, and put it back in her lap to realize the problems with that.
But they're not, Lori is crazy but they're not having Carter realizing like they should've built up throughout the screen time they've wasted on other bs. Carter has been 'Lori is my real mom and I want to be with her' over and over again. Without the proper build up, it will end up being a complete 180 on her part. Even Max's character has gotten the realization about Lori part better and that's because there's some actual set up for his character from when he was in the pilot to now, Carter doesn't have that.
Carter obviously can't leave or not for long/as a cliffhanger because of the premise (or vaguely at this point).
I DO have a problem with NuCrash. I don't care if we learn he's had a tough life. He's a scumbag thief and drug dealer. Stop trying to mitigate that show, with Sad Music of Sadness, a mean home life, and Car Crash Backstory.
The show seems to love these characters or in this case cliched caricatures, that's why they shamed Elizabeth into being grateful for Lori and has to help out this guy because Carter like him.
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The dialogue writers are really doing their darnest to make Julia sound like an idiot. "You went through this... ... ... locker?" Y - e - s, Julia.
It's not that hard to do, especially considering everyone else is also completely brain dead.
So remember when Julia decided not to save Barbie's life on the gallows, and instead throw the egg into the lake? Now the egg is back up again, and Barbie would have died for nothing.
Biggest waste of time and it was the 'cliffhanger': Barbie's life in danger, 'killing' Jim, and Julia and the egg nonsense. All a completely waste of time.
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Also, it appears that there is no crown prince/princess. That seems kind of short sighted for a monarch, especially one who looked like she was on the older side.
Even if there was, she wouldn't give it up so easily, she seemed like the type to hold on to it until death.
I am so so glad that we get scenes in the desert again. This show definitely works best against different backdrops. I also enjoyed seeing the character interactions between the crew and Asami and Korra. Even though they weren't on screen for very long, I felt like they were very well written, round characters. I have a feeling we'll see them again. But why couldn't Korra or the other crew members sand bend? Does she / they not know how?
I guess they don't have a sandbender, I liked the Korra/Asami interactions though.
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Batman Begins is on TV right now; I know we always joked in season one that Arrow was Batman light but holy crap did they rip off this movie.
Laurel is Rachel Dawes only worse. I swear I can see Felicity in Fox (although that was probably unintentional), Diggle is Alfred (but the producers made no bones about that) and Quentin is Gordon (again EPs admit that).
Hell even the plan is similar to the point that I have to wonder if the Malcolm/Ra's connection was intended to draw a link mental link in the viewers momd between the Undertaking and Ra's clensing.
Yeah, it's something I picked up back in Season 1, I saw a lot of the Dark Knight trilogy elements in the series.
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But of course Aria snitched to Emily. I'm not sure Aria even knows who Spencer was talking about to be honest.
She's still living in her own world with creepy, pedo stalker to care about that.
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I'm a bit curious as to why the show is streaming the rest of the season now rather than putting this on TV.
Idk, but mostly it's because of the low ratings which are caused by Nick's incompetence in terms of promotion and scheduling (and even more after major episode leaks), that and it got replaced by more Spongebob repeats. The move happened more than halfway into the season and was only announced a few days before the last TV episode aired.
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We know at this point that you dislike the writing and direction on this show (and I agree with you that they're definitely not great!), but why not provide some examples of how they're bad?
I have stated examples in my previous posts since you should know all about that.
I have a problem with the awkward characterizations, some of the laziest cliches that are contrived, the writers' need to try and avoid much of the fallout/situation of the kidnapping itself and treating it more of an afterthought of a plot device just to get Carter here so they can have her do stupid things with her 1 dimensional cardboard cut out friends who basically just go along with whatever she wants to do and do stupid things like wasting half an episode on their dumb 7 miuntes of heaven game. Like I said before, it wastes a good premise and even as a teen drama(which is how I'm judging), it's terrible. The last episode not only had Elizabeth having to be grateful for the kidnapper who put her family through hell but also the criminal Carter likes because of some cliched angsty backstory that's like a mish mash of all the Bad Boy cliches imagineable.
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OK, this last trailer posted above is awesome! Emily is blind as a bat and being so stupidly loyal to Ali that I want to smack her, but Spencer as usual is speaking truth to power, announcing Ali is a dangerous person who can't be trusted. Hell yeah. Someone's seeing the light, and I'm so glad that Noel Kahn might be the one to help Spencer figure it out.
Emily is so freaking stupid, she keeps proving that she really is the weakest of the group. Ali just straight up admitting to setting up that whole A thing with Noel and she's blindly following her victim schtick.
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I think that, since Ali wasn't dead and we knew it, they were smart to bring her back. But they need to move it along! A has gotten lost in the shuffle of Ali victim-dom/charades. I'm fascinated by Ali, though, because I think they are making her sociopathic. I really think she has antisocial personality disorder (sociopaths fall in this category), narcissistic personality disorder, or both. This makes her a much more interesting character to me, and about a thousand times less trustworthy and more dangerous to everyone. It also makes me think that, while she may be scared that all her dark deeds are about to come to light, she's playing at victim as much or more than being a victim.
It was sort of obvious that Ali was alive with all the times they kept seeing her and how many things didn't add up for her death.
I'm annoyed by her victim schtick though, it's just not as interesting and things only started to pick up when A finally returned after the Liars were dumb enough to think A was gone.
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I wish they would give us just one episode without any of the friends around. Let the family interact for awhile.
I hate them, all they do is waste time on their own bs (like this series doesn't have enough) and they add nothing good or important to the series.
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I had been saying since the first series that it was possible for airbending to have a sinister side, but several of my friends doubted me. And I certainly wasn't expecting Zaheer to kill the Queen (or so it appears). This definitely makes me fear for the lives of Korra's father, Zuko, and anyone else in a position of power. With that said, this series payoffs tend to fall somewhat flat after a huge buildup, so we shall see...
All bending has a sinister side especially depending on how its used.
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What is it about Barbie getting arrested or almost unjustly executed that irritates me so?
Because of the utter stupidity of it and that it keeps happening to him.
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That was brutal, but this was definitely 1 of the better episodes of this series, I just hope the payoff in the finale lives up to it unlike the last 2 books.
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Also wish they hadn't shown the whole "blames himself for his brothers death' thing; not everyone needs to have a sob story.
It's to fulfill every quota of the cliched bad boy stereotype right down to his poor, redneck, white trailer trash with angst issues.
I don't believe for a minute that Carter would actually run off to Russia or wherever with her crazy kidnapper. She likes her new friends and Crash too much. If they actually show her running away I will be surprised.
That's the problem the show has cornered itself, they've had her constantly go on and on about her 'real' mom without asking any questions about her kidnapping or having any care about the situation at all.
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Yes, I didn't feel that Lin was being blamed for anything but holding on to anger for thirty-some years (and anger that really should be directed at her mother, rather than Su, in my opinion). Su was just in her teens when she did a bunch of stupid stuff, and Toph didn't deal with it until it was too late. That was thirty years ago, though—Lin was the one who let the anger and bitterness eat her up. Anger held for that long is far more destructive to the person who is angry rather than the person she is angry at. Su clearly changed her life and got herself together, and while Lin has been very successful in her career, she's been keeping others out for a long, long time. She was more hurt by her anger than Su was.
The problem was that it was too 1 sided with the writers using poor innocent Opal to put Lin in the wrong. Su was an accomplice to criminals and literally scarred her sister and all the show did was have a fight scene and then have Lin do a complete 180 without the proper build up for her character to come to such an important change.
Maybe it's because I'm older, but I don't consider Aang and Katara to be bad parents just because Bumi and Kya came away with issues. Kids have a way of interpreting things all on their own, or being jealous of the relationship their parents have with their other siblings, regardless of the fact they are equally loved. Aang and Tenzin clearly had a special dimension to their relationship because they shared air bending, and it's natural that the older two felt left out of that. Just because Aang and Katara weren't as sensitive to that as Bumi needed them to be doesn't mean that Aang and Katara were bad parents: just that they weren't perfect.
It's more the fact that the writers used the ATLA character just to make up these family issues. Aang/Katara was used for Tenzin and his family to fight over favoritism and now Toph was used for Lin/Su's long standing conflict that got brushed over in a manner of a few episodes.
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If I were the science teacher or Julia and were trying to think of a way to free Sam and Barbie, I don't think that setting off another explosive would be the first thing that came to mind. I mean, it was an explosive that caused the cave in, so wouldn't setting off another explosion run the risk of just making more rocks fall? My first thought, after realizing that I couldn't move the rocks out of the way, would be to get help - a lot of help. Heck, these townspeople built gallows in an afternoon and constructed a windmill in a few minutes, it wouldn't take them more than an hour or so to clear out the rocks and shore up the tunnel so it doesn't cave in again.
Because 'science', that's all the character does to justify ridiculous bs.
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Sure wish they would stop starting out the show with the Previously on Under the Dome...Two weeks ago. More and more stuff has happened in the two week period....relationships have started and stopped, people have been jailed and released, not to mention how many people have met their demise. Can we at least make it Three weeks or even a month?
It only makes the character and plot changes on a whim even worse since they're reminding us about it.
S01.E06: The Fugitive
in Finding Carter [V]
Exactly, not to mention it would actually relate to the main plot of Carter actually dealing with the aftermath of her kidnapping and adjusting to her situation instead of the ridiuclous nonsense we got instead.