No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...

To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])


Jessica - Aug 25, 2008 9:40:01 am PDT #1234 of 11998
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I never got the sense of Pete being completely convincing in the authoritarian role. It's almost as if he and more peripherally, Trudy, are playacting at what they think their roles should be

Yes!! So much this.


DavidS - Aug 25, 2008 9:45:32 am PDT #1235 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I never got the sense of Pete being completely convincing in the authoritarian role. It's almost as if he and more peripherally, Trudy, are playacting at what they think their roles should be

I concur.


le nubian - Aug 25, 2008 10:03:18 am PDT #1236 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I never got the sense of Pete being completely convincing in the authoritarian role. It's almost as if he and more peripherally, Trudy, are playacting at what they think their roles should be.

I think that's right, tho Pete really is an ass. He ain't playacting that.


amych - Aug 25, 2008 10:10:03 am PDT #1237 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Oh, Pete's assiness is genuine -- no doubt there.

I haven't watched the ep yet (and I CAN'T WAIT. STOOPID WORK.), but all this talk of Pete and authority keeps making me think of his hunting fantasy last year. It was creepy and bloody, yes, but it was creepy bloody kids' make-believe.


DavidS - Aug 25, 2008 10:18:08 am PDT #1238 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

but all this talk of Pete and authority keeps making me think of his hunting fantasy last year. It was creepy and bloody, yes, but it was creepy bloody kids' make-believe.

Pete's choice of stroke magazine was also creepy. A men's magazine with a woman strung up in a torture/bondage scenario common to that kind of mag.

eta: Hmm, some blog comment says it was a cover story on Pearl Harbor. Still, an odd choice for sperm donation.

They really need to clarify the situation with Peggy's baby and Anita.

Did Anita also have a baby? Are there two kids? Was Anita faking the pregnancy to cover for Peggy? Did Anita's baby die and there's just one baby? Wha?


Barb - Aug 25, 2008 10:21:06 am PDT #1239 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”

Did Anita's baby die and there's just one baby? Wha?

This is what I'm betting on-- it would just add another delicious layer of resentment for Anita. Of course, knowing this show, it's something that's even more out there, such as Anita's baby perhaps being born with a birth defect or with Down's and being institutionalized, so Anita's passing Peggy's healthy baby off as her own. I mean, can you imagine? The bad girl having the perfect baby while the good daughter has one that's "wrong"?


le nubian - Aug 25, 2008 10:41:16 am PDT #1240 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

but there are two (maybe more - like three?) youngsters in her sister's house. are you saying that one is too old to be the one her sister was pregnant with?


Jessica - Aug 25, 2008 10:51:47 am PDT #1241 of 11998
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

There are 2 older kids and 1 toddler in Anita's household (that we've seen). If the toddler is Peggy's, there should also be a younger baby, but we've never seen him/her.


DavidS - Aug 25, 2008 10:56:00 am PDT #1242 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

From a blog comment:

Anita's baby will turn out to be the one Peggy mentioned to Bobbie who died. That would also explain the depth of Anita's "troubles" she spoke of in the confession booth.

I didn't catch that.

Another comment noted that there was reference to minding "the baby" (not babies) and there being one crib.


DavidS - Aug 25, 2008 11:02:57 am PDT #1243 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oh yeah, a nice line by Bobbie: "I bet you made yourself a copywriter."