Legends: well, I don't really care about the big mystery. I hope there is some kind of explanation why "they" didn't kill our hero when they drugged him at the hospital, but I doubt I will get that. I still like the cast, though, so I'm not quite ready to chuck it. But it's definitely a show to have on while I pay attention to something else.

Dear Kurt Sutter,

Maternal drug use has absolutely nothing to do with spina bifida.

No love,

me

The saddest part is(although I'm still watching season 2) they were probably just sitting around the writer's room, kicking it little_details style going "I need something disabling, but not too hopeless.(seriously, fully half of little details inquiries are this and how to give someone a terminal disease that leaves them fuckable-looking until their tragic deathbed moment.I...don't like little details quite so much anymore.) And the new story editor was like "My cousin has spina bifida and she has a job and whatever." And it got late, and they had a Mayan beatdown to write anyway so they just said "spina bifida. Perfect."

I'm going to rely in recaps for this season of SoA. The grim has gotten just. too. grim for me. I'll probably watch the final episode, out of sentimentality is unlikely to be appreciated by the Brothers!

The saddest part is(although I'm still watching season 2) they were probably just sitting around the writer's room, kicking it little_details style going "I need something disabling, but not too hopeless.(seriously, fully half of little details inquiries are this and how to give someone a terminal disease that leaves them fuckable-looking until their tragic deathbed moment.I...don't like little details quite so much anymore.) And the new story editor was like "My cousin has spina bifida and she has a job and whatever." And it got late, and they had a Mayan beatdown to write anyway so they just said "spina bifida. Perfect."

It's the kid of Jimmy Smit's character and I think the actor they hired really does have spina bifida, really quite a bit more severely than I do, but Smit's character has all this angst because his ex was a drug addict and now his son is paying for it. It just makes no sense, and there are other disabilities they could have chosen that would have actually made sense for a drug addict. Sorry, this isn't the first time this story has been brought up on Sons, but it annoys me every time. I'm half tempted to tweet Kurt Sutter, but he'd probably just tell me to fuck off.

If he does tell you to fuck off, that will mean he has read it. Maybe the message will stick, regardless of his reaction.

I've totally given up on reacting to every serial killer storyline featuring child abuse. Not all of us wield AKs!

But for a specific correlation that is patently false, it's worth it to shine the light where you can.

Well, people feel guilty about stuff, especially with their kids, all the time, but that doesn't mean that their perception is accurate. It's too bad they can't write in a character to say "I know you feel bad about all the stuff that happened when he was a baby, but you didn't cause that."(It's mostly so sad when TV tries to do "tragic hero" anyway(except Frank Sobotka on The Wire, that was the first time sophomore English made real sense.) I've had several people I admire tell me to fuck off on twitter over the last year or so...complicated feels. On the one hand, they noticed. But maybe you didn't express yourself effectively so the one time they're actually looking, you look like a schmuck. No, bonny, more people than not sort of glue themselves back together as best they can and are hard to distinguish from, you know,"gen pop", although increasingly I find it hard to believe that anyone's family is ever fully functional like the charts at all times.

Does anyone watch Bates Motel? I just did a quick search of this thread but couldn't find any discussion of it. I'm on episode 3 of S1 and so far I think it is interesting and incredibly dark.

Tried one ep. Not my beautiful cake. Glad you saw something I didn't.

I watch it. I think it's crazy, uneven, and that Vera Farmiga is fabulous.