MadyGirl1987

While I obviously don't know their personal interactions with each other, it seems from the books I've read and docs I've watched, that, while their personal issues may have gotten in the way and affected their parenting, both of them really loved the boys and wanted to be better parents then their parents were. It also seems like one of the things they could come together on, so I can see them having a discussion about being successful coparents and what it would take. I can't remember where I heard this, but I remember hearing that at this point, before she died, they were actually reaching out to each other for parenting discussion/advice. Whatever their issues were with each other, they wanted to do right by their sons.

I agree. That is the crux of her real story, which is neglected here. Her story is the classic someone playing with forces they don’t fully understand and in the end getting destroyed by it when they can’t control them. She used the press and its attention to gain attention and affirmation she wanted and to get back at the royals. She was unable to control the intensity of the press however, and the press and public just became more hungry and intense, helping lead to all the press intrusiveness she faced and the part they played in her death. In a metaphorical sense she was the lion tamer attacked and killed by the lion she thought she could tame. The show seems to paint her as just a victim of forces beyond her control, in this case that she was manipulated by Mohammed Al-Fayed into a relationship with Dodi.

While I will always love Monica and Chandler, I thought that other then Chandler, Richard was the best relationship Monica had in the show, even if it was a little icky he was a friend of her family from way back when. They had good chemistry and I could have seen them staying together happily if the children issue hadn't come up. Even then, I thought the breakup was handled in a believable mature way. They loved each other but wanted different things and saw different futures for themselves.

I agree with everything you just said. I think the Queen was right to focus on the boys. Why should she be expected to lead the public mourning for her ex-daughter in law who had publicly attacked the institution and family the Queen was the head of? I would argue also that while the public almost certainly did have feelings of guilt(I'm American and was 10 at the time so while I remember this in the news, I can't speak to the reaction of the British public) the more I read or watch about the reaction to her death the more I see the anger against the royals as being pumped up by the press in order to deflect from the role the press had in her death. You see videos of people yelling at the news reporters things like "You killed her!" or "Why didn't you leave her alone?" and the press reports of anger against the royals seem very much like deflecting the anger to another party.

I agree. She had to have known she was being watched by paparazzi. She wanted those pictures taken. She knew how to avoid detection when she wanted to.

All of them are sweet! I like that they released their personal statements on the same day. I'm betting they did that to avoid any one of them being harassed online that "so-and-so put out a statement! Why haven't you?"

Ugh, just why? Apart from the fact I find the Rock insufferable and his persona an act, why remake a movie less then 10 years old? That's not even enough time to cash in on the nostalgia. I can categorically say I will not be seeing this, and is it wrong to say I hope it underperforms so Disney might finally give the live action remakes a rest?

Give me Phoebe and Mike over Ross and Rachel every day. I hated them together, they both brought out the worst of pettiness and jealousy in each other, and the only reason I'm glad they got back together in the finale is that they can make each other miserable instead of inflicting their drama on other people. It's amazing to me the show fumbled their big romance when they were able to write good relationships like Monica and Chandler and Phoebe and Mike where they were able to keep people invested without making the characters unlikable by causing drawn out drama and forced tension. I know Ross and Rachel were end game from the earliest days, but the writers/showrunners should have seen that the characters had evolved beyond that romance and that they should let them stay apart. By being open to seeing how the story developed, they were able to write the best relationship of the series with Monica and Chandler, so they are able to pivot(heh) with a storyline if it's better served by going in a different direction. Why not do that with Ross and Rachel?

Between this Guardians 3 and Loki season 2, I feel like Marvel is getting back on track, even if I feel like recent Marvel projects aren’t as bad as others have said. I agree that Iman Velanni was the best part of the show. I must be a sucker for young superheroes because Spidey is my all time favorite superhero, and Ms Marvel is my favorite of the newer introductions to the MCU. She does well as a teen thrown into crazy circumstances and goes well portraying youthful exuberance and inexperience along with Kamala's fangirlish side, all of which could easily be overdone and come across as tiresome in the wrong hands. This was the most I’ve liked Bre Larson as Captain Marvel. I feel like Larson needs the right scene partners to really do her best, as her best scenes in the first movie was with Fury and the Rambeaus, and her best scenes here were with the other 2 Marvels. I was cracking up during the baby Fluerkin scenes. Playing “Memory” from Cats was an inspired choice. All in all, the best superhero movie I’ve seen all year, and while I think it’s optimistic to think this will stop critics and internet haters from saying Marvel or superhero movies in general are dying, to me, at least, this is evidence that reports of their deaths are highly exaggerated.

I will admit, if the pizza balls were like little pizza bites, kind of maybe hot pockets, that might be good, apart from being on a pizza. I would love like a little calzone bite. Pizza is my favorite food though, so I might be biased...

I really liked that moment as well.

True. I didn't follow the case at all really, but wasn't her invention a cancer test that gave false results? That's really bad and definitely a risk to people who got false negatives.

Very sweet tribute!

I’m guessing that’s what happened. Hot tubs are not good for people with heart issues, which he might have had due to his substance abuse. I was born with a bicuspid aortic valve and had to have a coarctation of the aorta (basically one of my aortas was pinched and blood couldn’t get through) repaired and was warned since I was a child about overdoing it in hot tubs. I am so sad for him and his loved ones. RIP Matthew. I hope the fact you have a lot of laughter and entertainment to the world gave you some peace and joy.

Between them not having baby Burns say anything, which is weird as having him say something would have made the connection that the baby is Burns easier, and the episode with Burns talking with a strange voice last season(can't remember which one, though) are they working Burns out of the show?

It's all so sad. No matter what you think of Nicholas and Alexandra, they didn't deserve that. The kids especially didn't deserve that...

That ending was tough, seeing their reactions to the pruning. Everyone sold the emotions of that scene. Loved Loki and Mobius’ conversation over pie. I can really see where Mobius is coming from. You’d want to know what your life was like, but how hard would it be to see what you were taken from, especially if it was a good life with a lot of family and friends.

I agree. It sounds like that’s a reason why they went away from the concept.

Today I learned the Belchers were originally going to be cannibals and serve their customers human meat ala Sweeney Todd. Safe to say, I would not have watched this show if that was the case…

So glad to have this show back! Was not expecting the reason Mobius didn’t know Loki was what it was a different time. I’m interested to know more about that. I’m looking forward to this season. OB will be a welcome addition, but I think the Loki/Mobius interactions will be the real highlight, as always.

I really enjoyed this series. As someone who works with books (library worker) and follows the bookish world/publishing, I found a lot of the commentatry on the publishing world rang true and added an extra level of enjoyment to me. As for the ending, I wish it would have been less of a cliffhanger, but I suppose if this is a one-and-done it's enough to know they are taking action? I'm just glad they didn't make it that she chose the grease, as I could have seen them going for a tragic ending...

He definitely made the role his own and did well as Dumbledore. It couldn't have been easy replacing Richard Harris after two films.

For all the jokes and memes about how he shouted "Harry, did you put your name in the goblet of fire," he did amazing job in the role. It couldn't have been easy replacing Richard Harris two movies in... RIP Sir.

The Mitch and Cam relationship was the worst of the show's main couples. Neither of them seemed to care about each other, and too many of their storylines together were about one, or both, of them hiding something from the other or being annoyed at the other about something. I also got annoyed at how sterotypically gay they were portrayed as. So many of the jokes were about how catty/effeminate they were. And yet, the show gets treated as some big step forward in representation... Representation matters, but I would argue the quality of that representation is as important, if not more so, then the quantity. What good is having LGBTQ+ characters if they play into sterotypes?

Honest question; why not? Yeah, they want all the publicity they can get, but are people really going to see the next big Marvel/DC movie because they see an actor on a talk show? I see actors doing press tours and other kinds of publicity as more vital to lesser known movies, not the next instalment of a super well known franchise. They can get the date out to remind the public the movie's coming in other ways, without actors, especially in the age of social media.