shang yiet

On TV or movies, people are really good at packing. After some big fight or quarrel, they decide to leave the house/spouse and are all packed up 30 minutes later with just one suitcase and one handbag. For me, it would take hours or days just sorting out my stuff and deciding what to bring with me.

One thing which I find slightly annoying is celebrities or certain royals hiding the faces of their little children on the pictures they post and choose to release to the public. I don't care about their children anyway but still, what am I supposed to look at, the back of the kid's head? No thanks. Don't post any pics of your kids then, if you're so concerned about their privacy.

I understand why Ada would enjoy being the lady of the house after so many years of being dominated by her domineering sister. On the other hand, she needn't lord it over her sister as she must know that Agnes sacrificed her happiness to marry a cruel man to save the family financially. So she is in debt to Agnes. I just wish the writing was better. Julian Fellowes is not at all subtle, every point he makes is underlined twice. I remain bored by Peggy's story. It feels like a dull history lesson. Also is it realistic that the only racist out of all the people she meets in NY is Armstrong? Also not very discreet to be arranging a meeting at a public park with a married man. Now about the downstairs folk, I'm still not that interested in their personal issues. I feel they are most useful (storytelling-wise, exposition-wise) when they are commenting on the upstairs folk to give us another POV of the upstairs people. Now Marian is too modern for me. Any 1880s lady with no personal fortune of her own and with her aunt financially ruined would not so quickly break off her engagement like that, even if she really didn't love him.

Mr Van Rijn will turn up alive and well. Is it confirmed he is really dead? Maybe he went exploring or was lost at sea but they never found his body. A long-lost love of Agnes will turn up. She was in love with him 40 years ago but he was poor so she had to turn him down. Gladys will be forced to marry the Duke but the night before her wedding, she will escape out the window with the help of the guy she really likes.

The thing is, Marian has been written as 'modern'. We never see her eagerly putting herself out there or showing any anxiety about securing her future. Gladys can afford to sit back and wait as she's an heiress and there will always be suitors chasing her. Marian is a poor relation who should know the van Rijn money is not coming to her.

Same here. I feel like every Peggy scene is like being hit with a condensed history book. Boring. And so not subtle. Of course boorish white racists would burst into the restaurant..... I felt that way with Downton Abbey. Mary and Edith are allowed their personal quirks and flaws but Sybil had to be always Doing What's Right, which is why I found her the most boring sister. Tired of the clock which is getting more airtime than some major characters. Still don't care about the servants, I can't remember why one butler has to forgive the other, don't care about the dead wife. That scene just doesn't ring true to the 1880s old money circles. I almost expected Agnes to get out her smartphone to record the moment.

I am just not interested in Peggy's dull baby storyline. It's not Gilded Age specific, it could have happened to any girl, rich or poor, black or white, in any time period. Yes, Agnes, Bertha and George really should be busy matchmaking. What are they waiting for? Although I suspect Oscar's sexuality is an open secret in high society. He's already in his 30s, hanging out with that dashing man friend who is also single, no interest in women, disappearing somewhere at nights. Agnes and Ada are not stupid, I suspect they know. Not interested in the servants, I can hardly tell them apart. The footman and the maid are both still bland. I agree that things seem too easy for Bertha. I feel Mrs Astor and Ward McAllister succumbed too easily.

Yes, Viserys is slow on the uptake. Every episode, they have to tell him the freaking obvious to get him to act. "A King needs to remarry, sire new heirs, hunt the white stag, end the war on the Stepstones..." They practically spelled it out for him.. marry Laena to join two Houses... like Viserys can't figure out anything for himself. Speaking of marriage proposals, surely the King himself should have had to deal an avalanche of offers from the other Houses pushing forward a maiden daughter or niece. But the show acted like Laena or Alicent were the only two eligible high-born girls in the whole of Westeros. The princess is taking the wrong tack if she wants to be accepted as heiress. First, don't sulk under a tree and avoid family functions. A future Queen needs to be seen all over the place by the side of her father. And don't spend two years cold-shouldering your stepmum. You're practically begging her to retaliate by getting her own son named as heir. I was surprised the Crabfeeder was dispatched so easily, I thought they were setting him up a season one villain.

The writing of Downton Abbey was not really that good and the same weaknesses are cropping up here. Characters behaving dumbly like the maid and Marion. Just a bit too heavy-handed for me. And I am really not interested in Peggy. I feel like I've seen that storyline before - spunky smart girl resisting family pressure and needs to do her own thing, blah blah. As for Marion, it would be more interesting if she drops the wide-eyed act and suddenly become aware that she is penniless, dependent on Aunt Agnes's charity and needs to marry well before Agnes drops dead. That would be a more interesting storyline, how to find a husband in the Gilded Age. I really can't tell the servants apart. The dialogue seems somewhat stilted to me as if the fictional characters are always ''aware' of the viewer.

I keep expecting Mac's mother to turn up now that the dad is dead. Also Riley suddenly pining for Mac came out of the blue. They always had a brother/sister vibe.

Lovely film and I can understand the focus on Freddie and his lifestyle but I wish the other three were more well-fleshed out. They had hardly any scene without Freddie in it. I had little idea what they were doing off-screen when Freddie's not around.

Not another Little Women remake. Why not move on to Good Wives and Little Men? It would be interesting to see the second generation plus the other kids at the home.

Theon's death was so unnecessary. He died thinking he failed Bran. How did the Night King' s sword manage to pierce his front and back armour?

Our hero/heroine enters the armed forces and is singled out for especially harsh treatment by the training officer for being too weak or a sissy. Once or twice our hero / heroine comes close to quitting. But he or she makes it to the graduation day ceremony. He or she will step up to exchange salutes with the very same training officer who taunted him or her. There will be a special moment. The training officer will have a look on the face that seems to say "Damn , I guess I underestimated you. You're tougher than I thought. I take back my words. You' re not a sissy." Now whether this happens in real life, I don' t know.

The Quest,a Western that came out in the late 70s and lasted barely half a season. It starred a young Tim Matheson and a young Kurt Russell as brothers who love each other. If this show had come out 20 years layer, the fandom shipping and broyay buzz would have helped the show last 5 seasons at least.