Sunday, November 1, 2009

BC - Fri, 10/30/09

I hope Amanda plans on waiting until AFTER her next period to get inseminated. Well, actually, I DON'T, but that would make sense for the situation. I still think Trevor is really Jake's bio-baby in the first place, so the next baby might as well be Jake's, too.

Have you noticed that Adam rarely wears a suit anymore?

Ah, now we have an answer as to the painting of brothers on Adam's wall. It WAS painted by Stuart.

O-M-G -- that is one TIGHT unitard Petey is wearing! Petey apparently dresses to the ... um ... center.

Hm. I never realized how much Adam really DOES look like Frankenstein.

Let's see, Bailey called Corrina to babysit Stuart. Okay. So who is babysitting Emma, or Spike and Ian, for that matter? I'm guessing Kathy and Jenny are home with Opal.

Here's a hint for the men out there. If a woman confides to you that she's feeling emotionally empty, LAUGHING is NOT the best response.

Robin "I hope the Fusion elevators have cameras" Coutellier

BC - Thu, 10/29/09

How RUDE! That lady with the two kids just barrels between Ryan and Erica without so much as an "Excuse me" (well, as well as one can barrel while wearing heels and trotting like a horse, not to mention SOUNDING like one). I'm guessing someone won a contest or is friends with someone with some pull, so they got to have a walk-on (or, in this case, a trot-on).

Line of the Day (and possibly YEAR)

Zach suddenly walks through a curtained entryway (or maybe long window) in the Chandler living room. Scott whirls and indignantly says: "How do you get IN here???" Zach: "I know it's not my house, but you really gotta work on your security." BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! LOVE IT! Then later Scott threatens to call Security to escort Zach out and Zach says: "Oh, don't worry about it. I'll find my own way out -- I know a shortcut." LOL! They have made several little digs on the show about security lately, which is refreshing.

Tidbit: Scott apparently dresses to the right.

Don't they teach basic mechanics at the police academy? Maybe they don't, I don't know, but it would make sense to do so.

Robin "she was pretty clueless about it, considering her uber-self-reliance attitude" Coutellier

Thursday, October 29, 2009

BC - Wed, 10/28/09

Marissa picked up some candy in case they have Trick or Treaters -- at the Yacht Club. If I were staying at an exclusive place like a Yacht Club or some other hotel, I would expect management to keep little (and big) beggers wearing disguises OUT of the establishment.

I don't recall ever seeing that painting of Stuart and Adam as boys. Adam acted like he was hanging it for the first time, so maybe it was found among Stuart's stuff. It would have been nice for them to SAY something about it.

Tires squeal outside the church. Kendall looks alarmed and stares at Aidan, who just stands there. Kendall just sits there and keeps staring at him, waiting for him to remember his line. Aidan, with considerable lag time, looks toward the sound of the tires with vague interest and off-handedly says they need to hide. Only THEN does Kendall get up to do something.

Did Kendall pack a large bag of makeup to take with her, not to mention a mirror, and various other cosmetic-oriented instruments? She's wearing a lovely shade of perfectly applied eyeshadow, along with a full contingent of other makeup. Yeah, she'll blend at the General Store. Haven't they been on the run for at least 2-3 days now? Surely the two of them are starting to exude a scent other than cologne and perfume by now, and you'd think her makeup would, at minimum, look at little stale. And where are they relieving themselves? Does the bathroom in the church still work, or are they just squatting in the corner? Did they bring any TP or are they just using the scraps of paper and dead leaves that are strewn about?

Oh PUH-LEEZE! Two teenage boys think a church is "haunted" and they don't bother to actually check out the sound that's only a few feet away from them? They can't figure out a whooshing sound is coming from LAPTOP speakers a few feet away? How did Aidan queue up the whooshing sound-effect without alerting the boys by tapping on keys or the mouse? At the very least, the eau-de-on-the-lam scent should have clued the boys in. They DEFINITELY fall into the TSTL category. Seriously, how do those boys even manage to gather up the wherewithall to cross the street without getting killed?

This ridiculous storyline with Kendall and Zach chatting via laptops while she's on the lam is making me feel like I want to hurl! After EVERYTHING they've gone through so far (which has been pretty damn ridiculous, too), WHY would they risk it all because they are so much in luuuuuuuuv that all they can think about is spouting poetry and saying sappy things to each other? T-S-T-L. And don't even get me STARTED on Jesse's participation in all this! He's utterly USELESS as a police chief! The ONLY thing he does is break the law over and over and over again for his felonious friends and family. It's an insult to the fans to keep portraying him as a good guy when he digs himself in deeper and deeper every single day!

Is it just me, or does Junior Junior's Halloween costume look not so much like he's sporting a super-hero six-pack as he's sporting a bad boob job?

Robin "how can I top that last sentence with a simple sig?" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 10/27/09

Poetry bores me. I don't get it. I mean I understand it, it just doesn't DO anything for me other than annoy me. Some people have an "ear" for it, but I'm not one of them because my brain automatically glosses right over them. Maybe if poetry were set to music it might work for me (there are a lot of SONGS I like); otherwise it just falls flat. I don't want to have to decipher what someone is saying on my soap -- I have word puzzles for that kind of thing and I only work on those if I WANT to do so.

Natalia is talking about how they moved a lot when she was a kid. Huh? They made it pretty clear that Jesse found his way to Colorado where Natalia's mother, who was a nurse, took care of him. Since there were in Colorado when Jesse hit Pine Valley again, either they never left or they moved BACK there, which would be a really bad idea as far as track-covering goes. Mind you, when he first came back Jesse SAID that he had traveled all over the world (without a passport, apparently). The Colorado/Rebecca/Natalia storyline came later, and we were pissed off because how could he have settled down with a common-law-wife and a daughter Natalia's age if he was moving around every few weeks or months? So which is, it AMC?

Robin "Papa was a rolling sto-- papa was a static sto-- papa was a stop-&-go stone" Coutellier

Monday, October 26, 2009

BC - Mon, 10/26/09

Ryan asks Erica how she managed to grow up in a single parent home and get through it undamaged. UNDAMAGED? ROTFLMAO! Erica is the exceptionally neurotic person she IS in large part because of the emotional damage caused by her father's abandonment of her and her mother, not to mention him pimping her out to Richard Fields when she was 13 or 14. It's been an ongoing storyline from day ONE of the show!

Now SCOTT is wielding a gun. What IS it with Chuck Pratt's fascination with guns? Is he a frustrated cowboy? There have been shootings off and on over the years, but I've never seen so many people with guns on AMC until this last year. Then Annie picks it up points it at Zach, then fires it 3 times into the ceiling before pointing it at him again. Isn't there some sort of condition of her release that she not be around guns?

I think it's funny that the poetry page that Zach will see is called the very lengthy villadiodatipoetrysociety.com, but Kendall's password to it is "ian". Not only is it an INCREDIBLY stupid and easy-to-crack password, but no modern s/w is going to accept a miniscule 3-letter password. I can understand how her peabrain couldn't remember anything else, though, and she will, after all, be exhausted after typing that long URL.

The fact that Amanda is even CONSIDERING David's proposal that they have another child together puts her in the category of Too-Stupid-To-Live (TSTL)! Yeah, conceiving and having a another child to put into that lunatic's hands, not to mention doing so on the vague promise that he MIGHT go for joint custody of their children and allow her to live with her own husband is a GREAT idea!

On pinevalleypodcast.com someone said that we need a new nickname for Annie. She's no longer Blandie and InSannie doesn't seem to work as well these days. My suggestion is, now that she's going to marry Adam (maybe), who is more than a little bit into senior citizenship, perhaps we should call her GrAnnie

Robin "she WILL have at least 2 or more grandkids if she marries Adam" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 10/23/09

Emma just got home from the hospital last night (having had holes drilled into her little head) and she's very upset about her mother's upcoming marriage to the mean old man who lives in the big, spooky house. So why is Ryan out and about so he can make up with Erica? Shouldn't he be home with Emma? Can't he be WITH his little daughter for even a DAY? Even ANNIE is wondering WTF is up that he left Emma to be with Erica, although she seems more concerned that Emma is now alone with her secret than that Emma has some extra holes in her head.

Why does Trevor have to be in a hospital crib for a simple checkup? Whatever happened to the parent holding the baby until the doctor comes in, and then the doctor examining the baby on an exam table?

Does the church where Kendall and Aidan are hiding out have a refrigerator (not to mention electricity)? Kendall bought that soup at a general store at LEAST 24 hours ago, and probably longer than that. Now she's about to feed it to Aidan again. Ewwww! I hope it's VEGETABLE soup.

I still can't believe how callous and unfeeling Kendall and Zach have been about the woman he paid to stay in jail in Kendall's place. Now Kendall is appreciating the fact that she is on the run instead of in jail. I can understand that she doesn't want to be in jail, but you'd think she'd feel at LITTLE bit bad about the fact that the other woman was f**king STABBED! The fact that she and Zach and Aidan all think that escaping, hiding out in a secret room and/or being on the run is the right thing to do is just mind-boggling. Their sense of entitlement knows no bounds.

Will the book Kendall was writing while in the "safe room" be published while she is on the run? Will any of her books be published because she shopped it around, as opposed to behind her back?

Erica tells Annie that the fashion designer who purportedly wants to design a dress for Annie is currently doing a fashion shoot at Lake Coney. Annie (knowing this is a con) says she'll just grab her wedding shoes and go. Just how big IS "Lake Coney" that anyone can just drive to it and instantly find someone else who happens to be there? Maybe Lake Coney is the name of a trendy nightspot or restaurant.

So, did Annie, yet AGAIN, shimmy up the fire escape? In a DRESS and HEELS? Of course she did.

Robin "all things considered, you'd think Ryan would have had it coated in Vaseline by now" Coutellier

BC - Wed & Thu, 10/21 & 10/22/09

Angie tells Natalia that she's going to go to church to beg God for forgiveness for wishing Madison dead (more than twice). Now Madison IS dead. I can just hear God now: "Oh, NOW you tell me!"

Why are the incriminating DVDs that Madison had just casually occupying a chair at Frankie and Randi's apt? Considering that little ceremony Angie made them perform about forgetting about it from this moment onward, you'd think they would have included DESTROYING THE EVIDENCE in the process. Not that Madison's father couldn't have EASILY made copies of them.

Speaking of destroying evidence, don't even get me STARTED on how RIDICULOUS Frankie's method of finally destroying them was! Too late, I'm started! If you have a decent paper shredder, you can shred a CD or DVD (good ones have slots for just that). You can also take pointy instruments such as scissors or screwdrivers and gouge the hell out of it. Or, as Taylor said in R.A.T.S.A, just break it. They really aren't that strong. I sometimes used to get broken DVDs from Blockbuster and/or Netflix just from them being crammed into mailboxes or possibly stuck in machines at the post office. Cassette tapes are even easier to destroy. Pull the tape out and cut it up with scissors. Sticking tapes and CDs/DVDs in a wastebasket and setting them on fire (with the help of lighter fluid) is beyond S-T-U-P-I-D and quite dangerous on several levels. BTW, don't Frankie and Randi have a smoke alarm?

Robin "FINALLY Emma remembers seeing Adam shoot the gun" Coutellier

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

BC - Tue, 10/20/09

Ryan tells Annie that as soon as he gets Emma home to the penthouse where she feels SAFE, she'll tell him everything. SAFE? How can Emma POSSIBLY feel SAFE at the penthouse where so much trouble happens? Every Mommy-figure she has ever had has gone through that place like it has a revolving door. She's in the hospital NOW because she fell down the stairs there. Women, including her Mommy, keep climbing the fire escape and getting in, so it obviously isn't very secure. Daddy is constantly yelling at everyone who walks in the door (or climbs up the fire escape). Her kitten appears to have disappeared -- did they ever let her even take it out of the box? And she keeps slipping on that perpetually wet spot in front of the fireplace ;-)

Given his hangover, do you think Scott regretted slamming the door when he stormed out of JAR's room?

Well, Jake isn't limping or hunched over, so I guess Amanda's shoes didn't poke any holes in him. Was Amanda on today? It would be kind of funny to see her show up on crutches after not quite sticking the landing with those high heels. Or wearing another eyepatch because the riding crop went askew.

How did Kendall manage to carry groceries a mile home (let alone even get the groceries BAGGED) without getting even the tiniest of crinkles in her grocery bags? Did anyone else catch what might have been an in-joke when Kendall commented (re her shopping expedition) that she was in and out and "no one even looked at me sideways"? BWAHAHAAAAAA! Considering people often say that she would disappear if she turned sideways, that's kind of cute!

Robin "although she would show up a LITTLE now, given her real-life baby bump" Coutellier

BC - Mon, 10/19/09

Is it just me, or is Scott wearing WAAAAY too much makeup?

Emma's been PRETENDING to be asleep and the doctors and nurses couldn't tell? Oh PUH-LEEZE! I have to say, though, that it's pretty good (albeit inadvertent) timing what with the Balloon Boy hoax in the news. And there's Annie, telling Emma not to ever, ever tell what she saw that night. How long will it be before, like Balloon Boy, Emma is vomiting from the stress of lying and pretending?

Did not notice that, all things considered, Amanda didn't sound THAT upset when she told Jake that she thought she might have killed David?

David tells Jesse that he just saw Kendall and that if he sends some cruisers right away, they might catch them, but they have to hurry. David didn't even say where he WAS.

Scott is drunk and his head is on the bar as he plays with a quarter, trying to spin it or something, but not having much luck. The (sort of) funny part, if you were watching it on ABC, was that they put an obnoxious promo up for "Dancing With The Stars" up at just that moment, with a tiny dancing couple in the middle of the screen. It looked like he was trying to hit THEM with the quarter or possibly figure out why there was a miniature couple dancing on top of the bar. He was confused and asked the bartender if was he tipping the BAR. It was great timing

DAMN! For such an upstanding and by-the-book cop, Jesse sure is corrupt. He's breaking the rules, in a BIG way, right and left! It still doesn't make any sense that he'd put his neck out so far for people he barely even knows.

This casual attitude on everyone's part about David being hit over the head with a shovel and knocked unconscious is downright surreal. The banter and laughing between David and Amanda (who happens to be the one who hit him on the head in the first place) is just plain bizarre!

I'm glad to see that David at least took his shoes off before napping on the nice off-white couch.

When Amanda, brandishing a riding crop, jumped off whatever it was she was prancing on, was I the only one who cringed, thinking of how she was going to land in those VERY high heels? Either a) she was going to break one or both her ankles, or b) she was going to puncture one or more parts of her husband, who was lying there waiting for her.

Robin "either way, a happy ending would seem unlikely" Coutellier

Monday, October 19, 2009

BC - Thu, 10/15/09

A package is delivered to the main house and Scott signs for it. A) the deliveryman doesn't even say whom the package is for, and b) why was it delivered to the main house? Doesn't Adam still have that "crack security team" in place? Even during NON-threatening times he should have guards at the gates that, at a minimum, sign for packages so that the people at the house don't have to deal with mundane things like that.

Aren't rookies usually teamed up with more seasoned officers? Not Natalia. Oh well, I buy her not having a partner WAY better than her, as a cadet, notifying someone (in the middle of a casino, no less) that her husband is dead or her being involved in securing murder scenes.

Kendall chants the Slater mantra to Zach: "Always only you" The part they cut out: "... except when it's somebody else."

I think Aidan's a little rusty. He points his gun at Jesse and the two other uniformed guards/officers and says (regarding Kendall, whom he has in a (fake) chokehold): "Come any closer and she's DEAD!" Uh, shouldn't he be pointing the gun at HER head? How is he supposed to kill her when the gun isn't even pointed at her?

Even if it is proven that someone else killed Stuart, won't Kendall still have to do time for escaping from custody (more than once)? She and her various friends and cohorts escape from justice on a pretty regular basis. And Aidan seems to be involved almost every time.

Robin "Why hasn't he ever done prison time for that?" Coutellier