quartermainefan

They bring the show down for me every time they are on. She is a fake witch too. She gave birth in season 2 to black smoke or some sort of monster and nothing ever became of it. That was a fake out plot development that went nowhere. Then she put leeches on Gendry's tesiticles for some reason in season 3 but nothing ever became of that. She talks and talks but doesn't actually do anything.

Lores to me is this tertiary character who the show clearly will not spend time on unless the plot calls for it. Bronn was Tyrion's BFF for the first few years so yes he will get more writing than Lores, who is nothing more than Margeary's brother. Margeary herself isn't a main character so it shouldn't be that big a shock her support characters don't get much attention. It's like that wild woman who is tending to the MIA Rickon, she exists and we know her, but the show is not in the business of hanging stories on her. Or Rickon apparently, or Gendry, or the magical sister who is with Bran, or so many others who are on to flesh out the show and the world. Lores might eventually have a dramatic purpose, but that time clearly isn't now.

He is a tiresome grumpy drippy character and I never enjoy when he and his whole crew is on. He, his friend, and that witch girlfriend of his are all no fun to watch.

I thought the premiere was pretty good. Cersei seems surprisingly upset Tywin is dead but I guess her problems with her father were not one dimensional, Not sure why we needed the flashback but the girl who played her did a good job. Everything else seems like setting stuff up, but Dany once again has the same old problems controlling her city and her dragons. I just never see where her story goes anywhere year after year. She just treads water with these incidental little problems that stall for time. Poor Brienne just missed another Stark girl, Stannis is still sort of a drip, and Tyrion is still traveling. I guess not much happened but they did bring us up to date on most of the characters.

I watched the first one. I won't discuss it in depth until after it airs but it was pretty good.

I have never read the books but everyone I know that has are in lockstep agreement the later books are not as good and the 4th book in particular I think it is is the weakest of the lot. The critique is always the main characters in the series are mostly absent and you just have to muddle through this huge portion to get back to business. The TV show does not have that luxury in giving most of the cast the year off to focus on secondary characters people really aren't tuning in for, so they did fix it from almost every point of view possible that I can see.

That's the Nicole I was introduced to when I first started watching the show, so she is just Nicole to me. I think what was shocking was almost immediately after this murder mystery was resolved the show took a breath and then Nicole got it. I was shocked anyway. Nicole's death I remember just because there was a little creativity in it to the point of silliness. As I recall she was killed with poison make up. Something like that.

OMG!!!! This is it, one of the most memorable moments I ever saw on a soap. I was talking recently about this in a thread a week or so back. It was so different the way they had her talking into the camera and then that choking out of nowhere. I have never forgot Nora Fulton or her death. The actress did a bang up job playing her, I wonder whatever became of her. I don't recall seeing her anywhere else.

Has anyone ever heard of Postmodern Jukebox? They do covers of popular songs in retro style

Yeah, Sasha to me just the next red shirt waiting to be killed off. She is better than Tyrese but everyone is better than Tyrese except that stupid priest. Sasha I think just had the bad luck of being saddled with Tyrese and consequently became "let me go to the bathroom while this is on" fodder. She got a promotion when Tyrese died so I will watch her but can't really care, and now my official eye glaze character is Eugene, Abraham and that girl who has no personality except she came on wearing short shorts. For me the problem with Sasha is I honestly don't know what she is so traumatized about. Andrea never behaved this way, Glen never behaved this way, Maggie, Carl, Lori, Hershel...none of them carried on the way this whiney brother/sister act have been doing for the last two years. I don't know what has her so upset? Is it Bob. They just inserted this trauma onto what was a blank slate, and expect me to care.

Very happy neither Daryl nor Carol died. The writing was a little sloppy in parts. How did Glen survive? This was basically a Tyrese patented off-camera escape for something that would inescapable if on camera. Why didn't Glen kill that guy? How did Morgan beat off 100 walkers with a stick? Why didn't Maggie ever tell anyone that she overheard Father ass-hole talking bad about the group to Deanna? Carol and Rick had just decided Michonne was not on the same page, why did Rick offer to give Michonne his only gun? When Rick killed the two walkers how does he know there aren't others strolling the streets and rummaging through the houses? All that said, I enjoyed this episode. Daryl has his new BFF which is cool, because you have to question whether Daryl had ever known a gay guy before. The whols truck trap at the food depot was great. Sasha laying atop the walkers was cool, and the scene with her and Putzy Priest was well done. I can't believe no one died. Andrew Lincoln tweeted about how saying goodbye is hard, and Norman Reedus said to bring your handkerchiefs. I guess it was all subterfuge. Oh yeah, Daryl's whip chain three for one kill was the coolest kill yet any of our group has done.

80s GH was extremely well directed and far superior in that department to all the other soaps even to this day. That aftermath shot with first Tiffany and Emma, then pan to Rick and Leslie and finally what looks to be a crane shot over to Dan and Ruby is beyond anything seen on soaps before or since. If the shot called for tracking on a dolly or a crane, or overhead, they just did it. This clip is not able to be embedded but I love it, the ending is so well done and it is one of my favorite GH scenes of all time: https://youtu.be/NKjy_OrnhS0 The ending when it goes silent for a beat is perfect and then the crowd shot. There is no way any soap could stage this scene today. The money is just not there for quality production values.

Ron Paul may be a crackpot about many things but he was a true believer even when it would cost him. Last time around he made all those republican debates entertaining by taking every one of the others on on every topic. Rand Paul is not as brave because he probably feels he has a realistic chance of securing the nomination, but he doesn't. His cause would have been better served sticking to his guns, getting that decent double digit share, and pulling his party towards his positions so perhaps in the future a libertarian might have a shot. But alas he genuflects to the christians and the so-called values voters. More bible thumpers are the last thing this country needs. There are already way too much as it is.

I think you are looking at the show with far too strong soap couple glasses. I don't see any of this. For the longest time everyone I knew thought Michonne was lesbian and loved Andrea. All week long I have been discussing the show with those of my friends who watch it, and have yet to even hear once any mention of Jessie. Most refer to her as "that woman who cut his hair" or "that girl he likes". She is a minor concern, insignificant I think to most people except whathisname who has to talk about them on Talking Dead and the writers. She has been on three episodes, why do you give this character such weight? People think of Michonne on her own terms already because she has a cool sword. Don't underestimate that sword's appeal. I really think if she did not have the sword she would have been written out long ago but the sword is her great and main selling point. Daryl has his arrows. These things matter to people whether we like to admit it or not. What makes a character cool to people and therefore popular? Swords is a good an answer as any.

Daryl is the most popular character on the show. I guess it is possible they could write him out prematurely but I don't see them doing it.

But the group is really just there to offer support to the stars of the show. Yes it is an ensemble, but the characters that are the shows bread and butter are Rick, Carol, Daryl and Carl. Perhaps Michonne now too. I really hope I am wrong about Carol being the next to go, but we shall see.

For me Sasha's problems are pretty inconsequential. She is just a half step in front of Eugene and Abraham when it comes to how central to the show and the main stories she is. That may be just a by-product of her not being Rick, Daryl or Carol, but this is really her first storyline other than her mourning the true love of her life, the guy she dated for all of one episode.

In Deanna's defense, this wife beater happens to be the only doctor or surgeon on earth for all intents and purposes.. It sucks but in a very Carol way of looking at things the group must survive and this guy has the most important skills of all. I could see why she is loathe to lose him. Had he not been a wifebeater I am sure everyone would agree his survival would be of paramount importance and certainly just as valued as an architect. When the human race is on the line and you see your group as the last front holding down the fort for civilization, what do you do with your only doctor when he goes bad? Once he is gone who will teach the future doctors?

Its too bad the show didn't ask the guest stars back. Would have been nice to have Holly Holiday or to see Kate Hudson' Cassanda at the Tony's. I thought both were excellent on the show, and Hudson especially really worked her songs. They brought back Carol Burnett (whose voice is fading) so they could have done something with some of the others.

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Strong episode. That fight was intense and Rick was like a wild animal. His rant at the end he was slightly unhinged even though the things he was saying were sort of correct. He went about it all wrong. I don't see how or why Deanna would let him stay especially after the incident with her son dying. From her point of view things went south once this crew arrived. I guess we don't know what it was like beforehand. Sasha lost her mind too, but again, she is right. There are walkers literally lining up at the wall trying to get in and these people are making casseroles. Carl and the girl? Eh, not really that important to me but whatever. Next week's preview is troubling for me because for the last two weeks I have had this nagging worry that Carol might be coming to the end of the line and there she is in the preview getting right into the middle of the situation. Plus Interesting what is going on with the W situation. Maybe that will be the cliffhanger.

A satisfying finale for the most part. I liked the flashback to the original kids, and how nice to have an episode of just the originals, but it was a weird choice to not include Quinn, Briittany and Santana except for one brief cameo which if you blinked you missed it. Nice way they incorporated Finn and I guess his absence was glaring. Weird seeing Will's first wife again. The second half was happy and sad but again, no Quinn, no Santana, no Brittany, no Puck. They all showed their faces in the finale (at least I think Puck was there) but I wish we got to see something of them. Sue becoming VP was just silly, but Will changing the world of Lima was very sweet. The finale was nice that they got every cast member ever to come back but I feel they went by the faces too fast and that almost none of them registered. Was little Puck there, or the Irish guy? I think I saw the sandal dreadlock guy, but what about the girl who was the star of the new teens who had the overweight mother? I guess she was there but the camera wouldn't slow down for a second. I wish Mike Chang got to say something, oh well. So now Glee is over and I think we have to give it its due in that the first two seasons the show was well done and really hit a dramatic height with the Kurt/Karofsky story. The coming of Blaine was a huge moment for Glee and turned Darren Criss into maybe the biggest star on the show? Perhaps. The later years the show dipped in quality. I forget what was happening in season 3. West Side Story I guess, and Quinn in the car accident. Season 4 is a bit of a blur. I am not sure what happened in season 4. Was that the split season? Then Season 5 was strict;y NY? I honestly have no idea what happened last year either. Finn died and everyone came home and nothing else stands out. If I had to pick my favorite performance of the entire series I guess I have to go with The Warblers at The Gap maybe, or when they sang Bills Bills Bills. I have watched some of the earlier episodes on Netflix, and stuff like the football team dancing to Beyonce is worth going back to check out.

Opal definitely ruined Palmer, but he had a touch of comedy fairly early on. He and Myra had a great comic relationship throughout the 80s and he then was affiliated with Mr U. Opal destroyed Palmer as any sort of lead. I hated that relationship from day one because it was obvious where this was heading. I guess the show felt they already had Adam and Palmer was getting up there in years and it was time to move him out of lead stories and more into wacky day player status.

I am surprised Bibi won reelection. His outright admission he is against two states puts him in direct contradiction with the US policy and even if it is just a fiction all parties pretend to want, admitting it will never happen just makes it all a mess. What then is there left to discuss with the Palestinians and what is the US supposed to say to them? He needed to go. He has been around far too long and the guy is an obstacle for any sort of peace. Not that the Palestinians actually want peace but it seems tough for any Palestinian to have wiggle room for talks of any kind.

Interesting episode. Those two back to back deaths were disturbing, watching the faces as they experience being eaten alive. I don't undertand Father Boring, and his nonsense ramblings. The guy is a useless character who appears now to only have one purpose: being deranged and mopey and paranoid about the people who saved him multiple times. Then hopefully he will die. This was Abraham's best episode to date and as long as he stays away from his irrelevant pain and personal anguish I can tolerate him. I must say I was shocked about Noah. It seems like he just got here and dead already? Easy come easy go I guess. The one I worry for is Carol because here she is again deciding someone needs to die. Her cold realism and ability to make decision is starting to morph into this dangerous, slight crazy killer ready to threaten or take out anybody. I guess it is good she went to Rick because the next step will be her killing people and Rick having to uncover the murderer. I really hope they aren't writing her into a corner.