20세기 소녀 - 20th century girl - 2022

I’m so angry at this film, it is so light and happy for, like, 3/4 of it, and then it’s all tears and tears. Why, what was the point? There was no reason to end it like this, now it’s ruined and it’s like so many others with the same ‘switch’, it was uncalled for here. I understood it in Pavane, but not here.

Edit, reading this now - not watching the film again, once was enough - I can see it being a good finale in a sort of artistic way, but the thing is, I don’t really care about that, the whole thing was so light that I never wanted or expected a tragic ending, and never wanted it. 

Na Bo-ra is best friends with Kim Yeon-doo who has a weak heart and must leave for America to undergo surgery. Bora promises she’ll write often and tell her all about the boy she likes. For a long time Bora keeps following and watching Baek Hyun-jin, so much that they get to know each other and he asks her out. This is so wrong, she strongly refuses, but she can’t explain the reason for all her interest. Watching Hyun-jin also makes her know Poong Woon-ho, his best friend, and they start working together in the school’s ‘news’, and they start liking each other. She even tells him so during a school trip after she drinks too much but she won’t remember it. Still, they spend time together and they like each other, but then Yeon-doo comes back, finally, and they’re so happy to be together again. Bora has always been protective, and now that Yeon-doo is here it comes out that there was a mistake, Yeon-doo never heard the name of the boy she liked, she read it on his jacket, which was borrowed. Yeon-doo likes Woon-ho, not Hyun-hin, he wore his friend’s jacket because he had just arrived, he was in New Zealand. Bora is sad, but because of her protectiveness she keeps her feelings from her friend, and tells Woon-ho they won’t be together. Bora helps her friend see him, meet him, until Hyun-jin tells Yeon-doo that “they like each other”. Yeon-doo is angry that Bora lied to her, but she won’t stay angry forever. They’re best friends and love each other above everything. So when it’s time for Woon-ho to go back to New Zealand, where he still has a mom and little brother, Yeon-doo tells her to hurry, to not let him leave like this, and Hyun-jin is waiting for her on his bike to take her to the train station, where she confesses to Woon-ho that she does like him, very much, and they promise to exchange emails often, and he promises to come back to her as soon as he can. This all happened in 1999, and they exchange email through Christmas and New Year, but all of a sudden he stops writing, doesn’t answer his phone, totally disappeared. She’s hurt, it hurts very much; she attends college, moves on, starts working, and then years later her father receives a package. Bora is invited to an art exhibition, and finally learns the truth. Joseph invited her, and he’s Poon Jun-jo, Woon-ho’s younger brother, who is no more 5, he’s an adult and he tells her that Woon-ho died in an accident, so she can now stop being angry at him and can go back to remember the good times together. 

Bora is Kim You-jung

Woon-ho is Byeon Woo-seok

Hyun-jin is Park Jung-woo

Lockwood & co. season 1

I’m not sure how to describe/review this series because I didn’t love it, but I would have watched a season 2 for sure, had they made one. Netflix cancelled it. I must ask them all, stop making cliffhanger endings unless it’s sure there will be a second season, because from now on I will ask around if a series has a finale or not, and not watch it if it doesn’t have one, it’s very annoying.

The characters/actors weren’t the best, but were also intriguing enough that I wanted to watch more.

The George character was really sacrificed, I never felt all that friendship towards him because he was barely in. They could have showed simple, quick images of how they got to know/work together in that first year together that we don’t see at the beginning. Quick images to show us how close the three of them had become, in a way, how closely they worked, anything.

Other than that, it was nice to.-)

1- Lucy Carlysle is 13 when her mother, if I can use such a word for her, sells her to an agency. Lucy has the gift of ‘listening’, very useful in this world where ‘the Problem’ is a big thing, ghosts are real and can be seen and heard, can kill or cause people to fall into a vegetative state. Apparently only minors can have the gifts to fight them, so the adults use them. Lucy’s mom gets all her wages while she trains and risks her life every day. Luckily she finds comrades in arms and also a best friend, Norrie, but their adult supervisor Jacobs is only good for drinking. When they find a ‘visitor’ much more dangerous than they were told, she’s sent back to Jacobs for help. When she runs back she finds them dying and Norrie unresponsive. Jacobs sees it all but doesn’t help, he shuts them in and goes away scared. Still, at the trial he blames it all on Lucy, so she’s fired. Of course her ‘mother’ cares nothing about the truth or what she feels and only cares about the money, insisting she’ll have to apologize and beg for her job back, so Lucy runs away to the big city, London. Unfortunately, without a parent or proper documents nobody even listens to her. Her last chance is a new agency, Lockwood and Co., and she’s hired. Both Lockwood and his friend George are teenagers like her, and there’s no adult supervisor here. One year later, Lucy and Lockwood work together to free a haunted house, but during the work the house catches on fire and they flee. Lucy got strange emotions and images from this ghost, she feels something, so when they find the woman’s corpse inside a wall, Lucy takes her ring.

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Lucy is brought to a hospital but sneaks out after a nurse says she tried to call her mother. Lockwood is told the insurance will not pay for the damages to the house because they didn’t follow the right procedure - well, it’s true that they didn’t have the chains - so they have to pay 60.000 pounds in two weeks. George thinks Lucy is too weird and things got worse/weirder since she’s with them. The ring, not the body, is the source of the ghost who appears in their house so now she has to tell them about it.

For some reason the inspectors are very much against the Lockwood agency. They tell Lockwood to fire her because she’s not qualified - true, and he knows it. They tell her to go home because Lockwood is a charlatan - but still better than home.

Lucy tells her story to George so now he understands her. To raise the money, Lockwood chooses to solve the ring-ghost case: she was an actress, Annabel, 40 years ago then she was murdered, and even though Lucy asked him to leave her name out of it, he named her on tv. 

She connected with the ring and felt how Annabel’s lover choked her to death. Lucy almost leaves, sure they don’t want her and don’t really value her, but Lockwood gets her to stay and promises to always tell her the truth. Someone breaks into their house to steal Annabel’s ring. Lockwood put it in the basement, but Lucy took it back so she still has it.

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Not only they owe 60.000 pounds, but they can’t do anything without adult supervision, so Lockwood accepts a job from rich Fairfax who need professionalism and confidentiality, to be done in secret without telling the inspectors. This ‘country house’ is huge and ‘a lot’ has happened there over the years, and those who tried to do the job before, all died. There’s great danger but together they make it, thanks to Lucy who finds a hidden door first and then the source, and thanks to the bomb Lockwood smuggled inside. It’s not a triumph though because Lockwood realized they got it wrong before, in the last episode they accused an actor working with Annabel but no, it was Fairfax who killed her, who sent his assistant to steal the ring and who now tried to have them killed by his house. Before they can go out, Fairfax is there with a rifle demanding the ring. Afraid he might shoot Lockwood, Lucy stands up and shows them all she has the ring. She tosses the ring in the air an Annabel comes out and kills Fairfax, then she vanishes when they lock the ring away. Inspectors come and even some important man, and many things are taken away. At first the three are arrested, but then they’re let go free after they sign a document, to never speak of what happened. George and Lucy are relieved that their debt has been paid and they don’t need supervision anymore, but Lockwood is upset because they can’t talk about it and they’re not named in the case, and Fairfax’s name will somehow come out clean. As boss of his agency, Lockwood promotes Lucy to 4th grade, so now she’s qualified, but then she stupidly unlocks something in the skull case and she faints. 

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Lucy sleeps for 14 hours or such, and at first doesn’t remember anything that happened. They’re hired to open an unknown grave and contain the ghost within: it’s all metal with chains and stuff, just like they do nowadays to protect against ghosts, only this man died like 100 year ago, a long time before the Problem started. There’s also a mirror that enchants George for a moment, but he sees the ancient writing and is excited to translate it: “the truth lies beyond”. George knows who the man is and a lot of things that I’m not sure when he figured it out, but he shows his knowledge to outshine the Fittes squad. Still, the inspector decides to have both teams on the case, because the mirror has disappeared. Lockwood and the squad leader, whatever his name, really can’t stand each other, and they make a bet so who fails to solve the case first loses the bet and can not work anymore. During the opening of the grave Lucy starts remembering stuff, and once home she goes downstairs to open the skull container, just a bit, and indeed the skull talks to her. It’s incredible, she’s freaking out and excited all at once, because there’s only one person in the world who can talk to type-3 ghosts, Marissa Fittes the legend. The fact that Lucy can do it means she’s really powerful, and both boys do not believe her. Well, at first Lockwood wanted to consider the case closed and was arguing with George who insisted on translating the inscription, so neither boy was in the best, most open state of mind, but Lucy felt bad. She questioned if he minded so much the idea of being n.2, or something like that, and he told her that if she kept questioning him or his locked room upstairs, they’d be done! I guess he feels bad about it later because he goes to her room to take care of the wound on her arm, and admits that for someone who likes the spotlight so much it’s hard to realize that his role is to give the spotlight to someone else.

He tells her “I was orphaned at the age of 6. So, all I can say is I don’t really enjoy talking about my past, and that’s what’s behind that door” and “the problem is, when you like the spotlight as much as I do, it’s quite an adjustment to realize that the real reason you might be here is to shine it on somebody else”.

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George is obsessed with that mirror, keeps thinking about it. Lockwood and Lucy meet Flo, a relic hunter he knows, for information. Since they found Danny’s corpse, they’re now looking for his partner. I think Danny helped Lockwood once, and then he became… a relic hunter? I think. To find his partner Jac, they leave a message on a wall as Flo suggests, but when Jack shows up at their house, it’ll be too late. Jack has been stabbed and can only say a few words before dying. Anthony and Lucy also checked the warehouse of some relic hunters to see if they have the mirror, and when he talks to a young boy a woman sort of tasers him and he wakes up on some sort of electric chair. A man wants to know who he is, who he works for and how he found them, the obvious things, but he doesn’t say much. Then Lucy is captured, basically the same way, and all of a sudden Lockwood is all ‘kill me but let her go’ and when she saves them both - because she wakes up much quicker than he did - and they’re out, she questions what was he doing, trying to get himself killed, and what is happening to him…

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Jack Carver mentioned a bone glass, and they’re now researching it. George tells them about Bickerstaff, a respected clinician and psychiatrist. Mary Dulac went to one of his meetings and disappeared, and reappeared many years later completely mad. The skull wants Lucy to free him, and he calls Bickerstaff ‘his master’, and leads her around his house, Bickerstaff’s house, in search of his documents. George studies the papers: Bickerstaff was studying the sources, “murdering his own patients to make sources”, but simply doing that would not guarantee the bodies would become sources, so he took “parts of them whilst they were still alive” to make sure, that would indeed cause lots of trauma. Seven ghosts, the recipe for the bone glass. George also found out Dulac wrote a book and the only copy is “in the black library at Fittes”. Luckily they’ve been invited to their ball for their 50th anniversary. Kipps, the Fittes squad leader, offers her a job and asks her to the ball, and also out for a coffee, but she turns him down. At the ball, Penelope Fittes also offers her a job, but Lucy refuses. When Lockwood sees Norrie’s picture and they talk  about her, he asks “you lost her?” - “ghost locked” - “you never said” - “never asked”, and indeed he never did. She told George because he asked, but Lockwood never did. He gives her a necklace: “it belonged to someone I was very close to”. According to Penelope, she made sure Jacobs “will never be in charge of agents ever again”…

Lockwood and Lucy find the book in the library but then a man comes in. They hide, but he sees the map Lockwood used - how did he get that map anyway? maybe George made it for them…- so they have to fight a bit and escape. The guy has a gold, or golder, rapier. 

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Flo told them last episode of a private relic auction for tonight, os they all go, them three and Flo to help them.They sneak in and are found out by an undercover agent, like a policeman, investigating humans, who warns them to go away. She’d go, understanding the situation, but Lockwood refuses, he wants to get the mirror. They argue, she says he’s obsessed with winning. “yeah, of course I care about winning, I have to, I don’t have anyone around me to pick up the pieces if I fail” and “if there are things I haven’t told you about myself, it’s probably for your own good”. But she’s not having it. “Two hours ago, at that party, you were petrified at the thought of me leaving you. You made me believe that you, me and George could be a family. But Lockwood & co. can never be that, because at the center of it is you. And at the center of you is just a…” - “is what? A cold, dead heart of stone?” - “yeah, maybe, but who knows, though? ‘cause you don’t actually show anyone” - “nothing good comes from letting people in. Everything ends and everyone leaves. When my time comes, I don’t intend on leaving anyone behind who’s gonna lie there every night wishing I would just walk through that door one more time” - “then you never should have let me in. Or George. Because now it’s far too late”. They wear the cloak and hood like all the buyers, and witness the auction.

So… the bone glass is the mirror, it’s just one item, not two, they’re looking for.

He’s found out, she causes a diversion, and he takes the mirror. The agent dies to help them escape. Lockwood is shocked “they just killed him like that” and “what did he die for?”. Lucy: “because they’re bastards!” - “it’s because I am”.

Flo helps George realize he’s bsessed with the mirror. Lockwood and Lucy have to fight the man with the golden rapier - Lucy helps a lot - then they throw George and Flo the mirror and escape by jumping in the river from the roof.

Flo takes George to Deprac’s door - the inspector or whatever - but he can’t give the mirror away, she underestimated its power.

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Lockwood thinks it’s over, Lucy is very upset because now every relic hunter is after them. He apologizes. They read Mary’s book, she’s the one who killed Bickerstaff, and she explains about the mirror: it’s actually a window, she wrote, “since that glimpse, I am damned. All I want to see is more” and they finally realize that George is under its spell. George has gone to the cemetery, to Bickerstaff. 

Lucy says: “can’t stand mirrors, there’s always this stupid girl staring back at me” :lol:

Lockwood and three of Kipps team stay out to fight the bad guys while Lucy goes down to the catacombs to save George. The skull tells her he was there when the mirror was created but he was never so fool as to look into it: “the way to look is with someone else’s eyes, someone weak, someone curious, someone vulnerable”.

George trusted Joplin, believed her a scientist just like him. She does want to know, and she planned to use George whether he wanted to look in the mirror or not, but since they met Kipps - and George helped him because he’s growing up and losing his talent - she plans to have Kipps look into the mirror… until she learns about him losing his talent. George understands that she killed Carver because he sold the precious mirror instead of giving it to her. Before Lockwood can go down, the man with the golden rapier calls him insignificant like his parents and shoots him. With a gun. 

Lucy begs Joplin to use her, to let her look in the mirror ad not George. But then, when Joplin uncovers the mirror, Lucy turns her head and puts the skull in front of the mirror. Joplin looks into the mirror, vanishes and when the mirror breaks, the seven ghosts go away, finally free. But Bickerstaff’s ghost is now free of his chains, somehow, but Lockwood comes to help and saves theem. For some reason, Lockwood doesn’t tell inspector Barnes who shot him. Anyway, the case is closed, bad guys arrested. Kipps and Lockwood make peace.

The man with the golden rapier was of course working for Penelope - we did see him with her before - Lucy keeps sending voice tapes to Norrie, she’s glad she was wrong in thinking George hated her, and also glad that even though “Lockwood almost died1000 times, but I think he’s decided he’s better off alive, which is really good”. Lockwood tells them “the golden blade” shot him and that “he mentioned my parents, said their deaths were insignificant, like mine would be” and he also wants to show them  both the locked room… but of course it ends here, we would know if there was a season 2 but Netflix cancelled it, who knows why. 

Pamela Joplin is Louise Brealey (Sherlock’s Molly Hooper)

Gilmore girls season 3

Dave is Lane’s Dean, while Rory’s Dean gets fed up with her, dates another and proposes too. Rory dates Jess but not for long. Dave reads a bible and can take Lane to the prom. Yale beats Harvard.

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Lorelei has a dream of living with Luke and being pregnant with twins, so she calls Rory in the middle of  the night to tell her. Rory is in Washington with Paris. They talk to congress people and Paris is asked out by Princeton Man and Rory has to explain to her because she hadn’t realized :) Whey Rory gets back, she dresses up hoping to see Jess, but then she’s gets upset when she sees him kissing a girl. She tells her mom about the kiss, and Lorelei rightly tells her that she’s treating Dean very badly. When Lorelei tells her parents that she’s not seeing Chris, she hasn’t seen him all summer, Emily starts ranting at her until she explains about Sherrie’s pregnancy. Now Richard is all on Chris’ side, because he’ll do the right thing and marry Sherrie and ‘have a family’, like he proposed to do with Lorelei all those years ago. Lorelei goes out and to Luke’s; they’re still not as they once were together, but now she cries and he listens. So they’ll go there again now.

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Chilton 2002-2003, Rory’s last year. Rory speaks as the Vice President of the “student body government”, but the Puffs can’t stand Paris and they put Rory in the middle, and Rory doesn’t tell the truth to Paris. Lorelei has lunch with Emily who tells her she called Christopher. Emily tells her she should fight to keep Chris but Lorelei doesn’t want her to get involved. She doesn’t, but since neither Lorelei or Rory answered his calls, he shows up at the Friday’s dinner, and they both yell at him because he hurt them both. There’s nothing he can do, he still intends to marry Sherry so there’s not really much to talk about and both girls are very hurt. Rory then fights with Jess about his girl, saying it surprised her after they kissed… which is stupid because he’s right, she never called him and she’s still with Dean.

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Rory thought she had her application papers all worked out, but it turns out her choices were the worst, she freaks out and talks to a Harvard family for help. Taylor wants to open a soda shop. Lane meets Dave, a guy who answered her ad and has a band.

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Lane has a place in Dave’s band, with Zach and Brian, and has to find a way to go rehearse in Hartford. Her mom has chosen the colleges she can apply to and as an act of rebellion she dyes her hair purple. Rory is very rude to the beauty shop girl, only because she’s Jess’ girl. Lorelei and Luke go to Rory’s old high school, and she was excited about it but all the kids’ questions are about her pregnancy when she was 16, and the moms are not happy. Lane turns back to black, she died her hair black again.

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Luke is not happy because a family with babies occupies his diner and a woman even breastfeeds. Dwight is Lorelei’s new neighbour and asks her to water his lawn and flowers inside while he’s away. Lorelei and Michel go to an auction organized by Emily, where Lorelei learns her mom is called ‘cobra’ by her friends, and she meets a man. She’ll have to ask Emily for his name and number. They go out on a date and it’s so boring… Emily is more excited about it than she is, because she’s friends with his mother and Richard with his father. Dad scolds her because this could upset ‘Emily’s world’, where “it is very very important that she have the first cup of tea” and “if my wife wants the first cup of tea, she’s going to have it!” :-) So Lorelei has to go to the already planned concert with boring Peyton.

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Lorelei hasn’t talked to Christopher since he left but Rory has, and now Sherry wants her at her baby shower, and Lorelei gets stuck there too, and after a while she gets frustrated with all Sherry’s talking of her baby girl, of Harvard being so close Rory could visit all the time, and how Christopher is wonderful with her and the baby… 

Jess buys a car, he’s been working secretly at a Walmart. Rory suggests she and her mom throw Sherry’s boiled eggs at it.

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Paris goes out again with Jamie from Princeton because he missed her and showed up again, so Rory has the weekend free and her mom wants ot do the town’s dance marathon together and win. They make it almost to the end, but then Lorelei leaves her to dance with Dean while she gets Luke to repair her shoe’s heel. Dean has been a saint all this time, but now he’s fed up because Rory keeps looking at Jess and talking to him or about him, so Dean breaks up with her. Rory storms out and Kirk wins the marathon.

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Richard wants to show Yale to Rory, and both grandparents take Rory and Lorelei there and they’re all having a great time until Richard tells them he set an interview for Rory with the “Dean of Admissions”, which starts a fight with Lorelei who accuses him of manipulating Rory who wants to go to Harvard while he throws back in her face that she never went to college. Rory is also upset because he didn’t tell her so she wasn’t prepared as she liked to be. Rory and Jess are together now. Luke seems happy at first but then acts all over protective of Rory. After kissing Jess she goes to knock at Dean’s window to say sorry for hurting him. 

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Thanksgiving. Emily wants them at her house, no excuses. So now they have 4 Thanksgiving dinners. They try to get out of Luke’s but he looks disappointed so they go. Rory doesn’t want to kiss Jess in the street where people, or Dean, might see them. He’s quite upset. Lorelei tells Dean they don’t have to avoid each other. First they eat at Lane’s, where there’s Dave playing guitar, to stay near Lane. Next they eat at Sookie’s, where she’s upset because Jackson is cooking, putting the turkey in a “vat of boiling oil”. Kirk gets a cat, but it scratches him very badly. At Luke’s, there’s Jess too and Rory explains how she thinks everybody’s watching her now that she’s with Jess. At her parents’ house, Lorelei learns that Rory also applied to Princeton and Yale, other than Harvard. She’s very very upset.

Lane’s mom got Dave to play for hours, for only 20$, but he still wants to date her, and he gives her a kiss. Sookie is getting drunk to survive the night and Jackson and his friends frying everything, burning the lawn and breaking stuff. They stop at Luke’s, where Rory kisses Jess and Dean sees them. They didn’t actually eat at Emily’s, “because of the upset”, so they get something to go, they’re not too full.

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Paris spent Christmas at her boyfriends’s house (Jamie) and he told her he loved her. Dean stops by to give her back her stuff and helps Lorelei with a big spider. Then they casually meet and get a slice of cake together and decide to stay friends. When they attend Richard’s birthday party, grandma Trix suddenly appears sending Emily out of her mind. Trix yhen comes to watch Lorelei’s house. Rory goes to the town’s carnival. Jess refuses to go, but changes his mind when they meet Dean and his sister Clara invites her to go with them. Lorelei dines at her Inn with her parents  and grandma. Trix plans to leave London and come to live here. Francie has everyone meet when Paris is not there, to change her decisions, and it upsets Rory.

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Paris is ok but Rory is on a war path against Francie, so Francie schemes and gets her to fight with Paris. Sookie meets an old friend but is shocked to learn, when they meet again, that he thought it was a date, because he’s always liked her. Lorelei should give a deposition to help Emily who has been sued by an ex maid, but she doesn’t want to lie and can’t say what Emily wanted.

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Since they promised Lane that her band can play in their garage, Lorelei and Rory now need to clean it up because it’s full of stuff. Lorelei accepted a date with Alex, and then said she too loves fishing so she now has to learn. Luke offers to help. Paris is so furious she wants to throw Rory out of their student council, so the Headmaster scolds them both. When Lorelei comes back, she keeps the fish in her bathtub. Luke asks Taylor’s lawyer out on a date. Lane’s mom won’t let her go out with Dave because he’s not Korean, even if she likes him.

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Rory is invited to Sherri’s C-section to see her sister born. There’s a lot of remembering when Lorelei was young with Christopher and when she didn’t enter the dress Emily wanted because she had gained weight, because she was pregnant. Christopher’s parents were very much against it and her. Sherry’s labour a week earlier so Rory joined her at the hospital, but she wa the only one there and was freaking out when they told her she should be present at the delivery, so Rory calls her mom urgently. It’s a very sad episode in my opinion, because we get to see the difference from now and when it happened to Lorelei. Sherry has Rory and Lorelei and a loving Christopher, while Lorelei went alone and when Emily came she kept scolding her and wasn’t allowed to enter. And Christopher wasn’t there.

And when he came he spoke of having to get married, but we know she didn’t like that plan.

Lorelei buys Emily a dvd player with dvds of films she likes. Back then, Emily found a note after Lorelei left home. 

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Rory is forced to tell Emily she’s now dating Jess, so Emily wants him to come but he shows up late and with a black eye. He won’t tell her what happened so they have a big fight - because she thinks he fought with Dean - and he leaves. The next day Emily scolds Lorelei for letting Rory go out with him. Jess will tell Luke that it was a swan, and Luke makes him a speech on how to deal with a girl like Rory. Lorelei went to New York with Alex, Sookie and Jackson for the weekend.

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The “Doose clan” will stay at the Inn where Lorelei works. Grandma Trix comes to stay at Richard’s home making Emily crazy. Rory keeps staying home waiting for Jess’ call until Lorelei scolds her telling her to go out. Emily sees Trix kissing a man. Lorelei tries to convince her to be superior and let it go, but when Trix attacks her again she reveals it in front of her lady friends. Emily feels terrible later. Rory went to the hockey game with Lane. Dean was playing but they lost. He has a new girlfriend now.

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Lorelei says Rory wants to become “a foreign correspondent”. Sookie can’t taste food well because she’s pregnant. When Jackson learns the news he starts thinking of money. Rory and Paris compete to take the speech for the bicentennial of Chilton. Lorelei meets Medina again.

Paris and Rory both win and are to combine their speeches. Paris shows up at her house to tell her she slept with Jamie, and they make peace. Rory is ready for her speech but Paris isn’t, she shows up unkempt and starts saying in front of everybody that she won’t go to Harvard, she had sex but won’t go to Harvard, and it’s very embarrassing… She doesn’t care because she’s so sad she cries and cries, all her family went to Harvard but they didn’t accept her. Lorelei apologises to Medina but he tells her he’s ok… until they kiss and he admits he’s not over it. Rory has been accepted into all three, as the big envelopes show.

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Rory makes a pro and cons list to choose the university, but all town is sure she’ll go to Harvard. There was a fire at the Independence Inn during the night, so Sookie and Lorelei burst into Luke’s to take over the place for breakfast. The girls give up their beds to hotel guests, so Rory sleeps at Lane’s and Lorelei at Luke’s. Lorelei thought the hotel would reopen soon, but when she enters they can see it’s in bad shape. Yale’s pros are so many, Lorelei turns encouraging towards her going to Yale, now.

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Both grandparents are thrilled that Rory will go to Yale. Luke is invited to meet Nicole’s parents. He also sees Jess skipping school. Richard gives Lorelei a cheque for 75.000$ for an investment he made in her name when she was born… and she uses it to repay Emily for what she paid for Rory’s school. It’s a hugemess. Richard met her at a restaurant to give her the money for a reason! Lorelei wanted to pay back the loan because it was weighing on her, but Emily’s real upset thinking they won’t go to their dinners now.

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His principal tells Jess he won’t graduate because he missed too many days. There’s a 20-days limit, he missed more than a month - well, I thought more…

Lane’s band plays at a guy’s house. Jess is upset, so he gets aggressive and rude making Rory cry, so when Dean sees her he hits Jess and they fight until the police arrive. Medina doesn’t want to be in close proximity to Lorelei. Lane drank beer and got drunk and called her mom to say she likes Dave.

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Fran of the bakery died, so now Lorelei and Sookie think they might buy the Dragonfly. Lane’s mom doesn’t react, not even when Dave shows up himself to say he wants to take Lane to the prom. He shows up again after having read the bible in one night so mom gives them permission to go together. Dean tells Rory he proposed to Lindsay and she accepted. Jimmy, Jess’ father, shows up at the diner. Luke tells him to go away. Jimmy introduces himself to Jess and then he goes away. Jess and Luke have a fight, Jess does not want to repeat the year and graduate, so Luke says he’s got to go away.

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I had to look it up because I had no idea who Gore Vidal was or what he had to do with Rome, anyway it was just a passing line :p

The kids are 18, and Jess left home to go see Jimmy in California. Santa Monica. His partner Sasha seems a great woman to me, her little girl too, but Jimmy seems… not responsible at all, to say the least, he doesn’t even ask Jess why he’s there or if he’ll stay the night or more… Lorelei and Emily have another arguement, and for once finally Rory says something, calling Emily stupid - well, acting stupid. 

Jess asks to stay for a while but Jimmy says he can’t stay, and things like that”I’m not a father, never was, I left you because I wasn’t a father” and how he’s not able to take care of him or raise him…Jess doesn’t know what to do so Jimmy accepts. Rory was named Valedictorian, apparently.

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Lorelei and Rory want to go backpacking through Europe, but the backpacks are really heavy. Luke wants to close the diner and go two weeks away with Nicole. The Independence Inn is closign so Lorelei hasn’t got any money anymore. They can’t buy the Dragonfly now because they don’t have “financial aid for Yale” anymore, becaues those 75.000 made them look rich so they lost the aid. Rory asks a loan from her grandparents, so they’ll pay for all her schooling. So now she tells Lorelei to buy her Inn. It’s Rory’s graduation: Sookie, Jackson and Luke are there too, but Christopher is not. Paris has her nan with her three kids that love Paris, and she loves them. 2003. Rory makes her speech filling it with love for her mom. Jess calls her without saying anything, so she says her piece and her goodbye.

end of season 3.

Gilmore girls season 2

This is the season when Lorelei does not get married, but Sookie does. There’s a new Jess in town and Cristopher has a new Sherrie, then he has an old Lorelei but then again, he has a pregnant Sherrie… Lane hides a Korean boy from her mom and loses him, Richard loses a job and starts a new one, and Lorelei graduates.

1-

Stars Hollow is full of yellow daisies. Lane is worried her parents will send her to Korea forever. Everyone in town, even Rory, thinks Luke has feelings for her. Lorelei tells Max yes, and Sooki cries when she tells her. Lorelei has glasses at home… Rory invites Dean to her grandma’s special dinner in her honor. Surprisingly, Richard is more hostile than Emily, awkwardly hostile, so much Rory gets upset too. When Sooki tells Emily about the wedding, Emily insists Richard will have to apologize to Rory. She’s hurt that Lorelei didn’t tell her.

2-

Rory freaks out because she doesn’t have charity credits that will help her enter Harvard, while Paris has been doing it for years. Lorelei is hurt by Emily’s lack of reaction when she tells her.

3-

Three months go away quickly, it’s already two weeks to her wedding. She says she loves him and he’s the love of her life, and he sleeps at her house and they go on a double date with Rory and Dean, an adorable date :-D Taylor gets a traffic light installed in front of Luke’s diner, and the light blinds Kirk who drives into it. At Lorelei bachelorette’s party, Emily is there, and Emily and Patty start talking about how excited they were, but Lorelei isn’t. And she still hasn’t given him the keys to her house. I guess Summer’s over. The wedding is that same weekend, Luke even made her a huppah, brought it at her house to get married under it, but all of a sudden it feels so wrong not to be as excited as everyone said they were when they got married, that she takes Rory and they leave for a trip of five or six days… they leave so early in the morning nobody sees them… but they still have to stop at the red light. I hope they’ll warn everyone so they won’t gather all at an empty house…

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They’re on a trip not knowing where they’re going. She calls Sookie to tell her the engagement is off, and to tell Patti so everyone will know soon. They stop at a B&B, she thought a sort of friend owned it, but the new owner is a woman who named it The Cheshire Cat, the decoration is full of flowers. They have a bit of fight, and Lorelei says “I wish I did love him”. They go looking at Harvard, to take a look around, and Rory attends a lesson. They’re actually back before the weekend. Lane is back.

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Luke’s sister Liz sent her son to live with him. He’s 17, Jess. Rory hopes for a truce with Paris to work together on the paper. It doesn’t start well. And she feels awkward seeing Max. So Paris gives her the big interview with Mr Medina…

Luke and Jess are invited at Lorelei’s house, but it doesn’t go well. Jess hates being there. Jess looks and acts like a rebel but he knows books. OmG, if he loves books, we know already how it will end, right?

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Emily's friends tell her to send Rory to a debutante ball. Lorelei calls Christopher to tell him because the father should escort the daughter in. He agrees, and comes here. Richard and Emily keep fighting. He’s got work troubles, and doesn’t want to ever stop working. Emily can always ruin things, bringing up how Lorelei should have had a ball like that. Christopher has a woman, Sherrie, and they live together and it’s serious.

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At the Chilton, they say that Rory doesn’t interact much, always reading alone, so she sits at a random table and it turns out those girls are all in the n.1 sorority club, the Puffs. Rory gets Paris to sit there too, she really wanted to. Lorelei gets trapped into helping out a group so she has the event at the Independence Inn and she models next to her mom. They’re actually cute together. The sorority girls ‘kidnap’ Rory and Paris for their initiation, only Lorelei warned Rory beforehand so she’s all cute. They’re blindfolded and made to ring a bell in the headmaster’s office, but they’re caught and scolded. Rory is veery upset. Now she’ll be allowed to read at lunch :lol: 

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Lorelei and Sookie are seriously talking and discussing opening their own Inn, but Fran of the bakery doesn’t want to sell. Mia, the Independence Inn’s owner, is back. Lorelei appeared at her door 15 years ago begging for a job. When Lorelei tells her of her project, Mia is not upset but glad she might now sell the Inn. Lorelei is so upset she fights with Sookie. Emily comes to meet Mia, a brief chat and then Emily asks for old pictures.

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Rory and her school group must play a Shakespeare scene and there’s Tristin too, and they’ll rehearse at Miss Patti’s (she’s on the internet). Tristin of course bothers Dean. She asks Tristin to not tell him that they kissed once. At the end, he can’t even act in the play because he’s pulled out of school, so Paris plays Romeo instead. Even Sookie tells Lorelei that Luke is into her, so she sort of asks him out… but also not, apparently, it’s not clear. Anyway, it appears they’re going to ignore it.

10-

There was a big dinner party planned at the Inn but they can’t come because of the snow. It was already paid, luckily, so Lorelei and Sookie invite the whole town. Jess and Dean of course do not get along. Richard and Emily are there too, and he appears all happy, then it turns out he’s not working anymore. Lorelei is jealous of Sherrie and doesn’t like the idea of Rory going to stay with him/them. Emily is upset Richard didn’t tell her he left his job, but they make peace of course. 

11-

Lorelei’s home porch is full of termites. She has a big fight with Rory because she refuses to ask her parents for money but Rory tells Emily anyway. At the end the only way she can get a loan is if Emily signs too. Lane is a cheerleader at her school, and so cute at it.

12-

Now that Richard’s home all the time, Emily is going crazy so she asks Lorelei to keep him occupied a whole day. After months of working on it, Dean has finally finished Rory’s car. Taylor puts Rory’s face and name on the Vhs rental shop because they put all inappropriate videos behind a red curtain. Poor Richard feels useless now.

13-

One of the town’s tradition is that the girls put together a basket, boys buy it and then they eat it together, but Jess buys Rory’s basket because Dean could not outbid him. Dean doesn’t want her to go but Rory goes anyway, she shares the picnic with Jess, they talk about books and then go for a pizza and she likes him… of course… 

Lorelei tries to tell her to stay away from him, but stops when Emily agrees with her. Lane was still with Henry Cho, but never actually seeing each other because she had not told her mother, so he leaves her and she’s so sad. 

14-

Chris comes to the Chilton to see Rory’s debate, and Sherrie is with him. She wants to meet Rory so they go out together and Chris joins Lorelei at her parents. So Emily yells at Lorelei because she always wanted to see the family back together and is worried that Sherrie won’t just steal Chris but Rory too.

At the end, Lorelei tells Chris that maybe deep down she could never commit to anyone because she was waiting for him but now she can move on… and of course he’s not happy, he gets angry because it does sound like she’s blaming him for her ‘unhappy years’, meaning for her failed stories, and it’s not right.

15-

Lorelei hires Jess to do some work on the house because Rory insisted, she likes Jess and wants them to get along, she makes a speech to both of them about this. Luke rents a new apartment to have more space for himself and Jess, and it turns out Taylor owns the building, so the contract is null. Dean notices that Rory isn’t wearing his bracelet anymore so she looks everywhere for it. She lost it two weeks before at the picnic but never noticed , and seeing how crazy she’s acting now, Jess puts it in her room under her bed so she can find it. Lorelei saw him coming out of her room and now the peace is broken because she thinks he stole it and bad words are exchanged.

16-

Luke is having works done at his apartment above the diner. Lorelei goes to a spa with Emily for the weekend, two days. Emily talks a lot but honestly for once she’s not antagonistic, it’s Lorelei that needs a good check. It’s actually nice until Emily dances with a man and freaks out, and chooses to go home earlier. She complains that they can’t have a relationship and wonders why.

Since she’s home alone, Rory wants to stay alone -  no Dean - to do the laundry as she likes it and eat Indian food that Lorelei doesn’t like. Paris shows up asking for a bit of study review and then Jess shows up with food, lying and saying Luke sent it. He wants to stop and eat so Rory has Paris stay too, and when Dean comes to see her, it’s awkward and he gets angry so Paris lies for her, volunteering that she asked Rory to invite Jess for her. At the end, after they eat at Luke’s, Rory goes to pay and stays a bit to talk to Jess, and Dean watches from outside wondering ‘Rory wouldn’t lie, would she?’ … well, she’s a teenage girl, not the saint her mom paints her to be.

17-

Luke books 9 rooms at the Inn because an uncle died and he plans the funeral, but then no relatives want to come, and even the veterans in town don’t want to go because Louie was bad, mean to everyone. The Gilmore girls help at the diner while he runs around to arrange everything, even Jess helps after Rory finds him and drags him to the diner…

Emily learned of Sookie’s wedding and started making suggestions, which quickly developed into insanity, like acrobats and things imported from all over the world, until Lorelei brings her back to reality.

The veterans do come to play instruments at the funeral and then they all gather at the diner for the wake.

18-

Rory leads a project for school and enlists Richard’s help, and he helps a lot and enjoys it, and gets enraged when they don’t win. Still, he liked the experience so much he wants to start working again, as a teacher and counselor. Lorelei has a word with Dean about his calling Rory 14 times a day, so he stops, but he knows she likes Jess. 

19-

Luke asks Rory to tutor Jess after the principal tells him he’ll loose the year if he doesn’t change.Lorelei is worried. It’s definitely more a date than a study session. They go driving and have an accident. Rory only has a wrist fracture but Lorelei gets mad and yells at Luke. Rory’s car is in bad shape. Lorelei calls Chris and he comes. At the end, the town watches Kirk’s film and the girls hear Babette saying Luke sent Jess back home.

20-

Richard rented an office, but he’s about to abandon “The Gilmore Group” project when his old secretary Margie prefers to stay at her present, old job. Lorelei offers to help him set up. A new shop opens in town, a music shop, and Lane is enchanted. Rory is sort of upset that everyone in town blames Jess and always Jess, and only Jess for their accident.

Lane checks the music shop and now wants to become a drummer. Richard feels so good, and Lorelei is so good at her job, that Richard wanted to keep working with her, together, but she already has a job so pushes him to choose a new secretary. He chooses Karen. Rory yells at her mom because of Jess. Only Rory and Luke agree that it wasn’t his fault - an animal crossed the street in front of them.

21-

It’s the end of Lorelei’s business class and she’s about to graduate, so Rory secretly invites her grandparents. Rory chooses to ditch school and take a but to New York to go meet Jess, ‘because he had not said goodbye’. Lorelei is embarrassed that her parents come with a videomaker, but then she’s glad that they’re there. Rory isn’t though, her bus runs late and she misses the ceremony. She confesses going to New York and feels very bad for missing it. Apparently Lorelei “has been going to business school at the Community College for three years”.

22-

Paris runs for school president, and she’s of course competent, but nobody likes her, so Paris asks Rory to be her vice-president . Christopher and Sherrie may break up, so he spends the night with Lorelei, and they decide to make it work, or well, to try…

Jess comes back to ask Luke if he can come back, Luke agrees so he stays. If Rory and Paris win, she’ll have to spend the Summer in Washington. Jess goes to tell Rory that he moved back, and she kisses him before running away. All three Gilmore girls were happy to have Christopher with them, but then Sherrie calls to say she’s pregnant, so he goes to her.

Sookie gets married, and the two Gilmore girls are her bridesmaids. It seems Paris and Rory won. 

End of season 2.

The mentalist season 1

This is a positive enough review, it’s a good crime show, in the usual style of crime shows but with the new addition that is so much the fashion these days (well, years). I like that this Patrick Jane has no powers and doesn’t pretend to be (not anymore), he is just someone who has been raised since he was born to notice little things, trained to read people, and that is now his specialty. It may seem too much to someone, but considering it’s his specialty talent, his maybe only talent, concentration and memory, it is acceptable.

I also like that not being a cop or any agents, he only does the mental work but then steps aside and lets the cops arrest the bad guys.

His character is also moving and tragic; he acts every day like it’s all a big joke, like he’s having fun, all to mask the deep pain inside for having lost his family, the great sense of guilt because it was a little bit his fault… because of this, there really is no love story for him and there won’t be for a good while, until he will sort his past. I haven’t seen that happening yet, I have yet to finish all the seasons but have no doubt whatsoever that he will end up with Lisbon, that is the norm in every show where a man and a woman work together, apparently the world doesn’t believe in friendship, respect and stuff like that without sex or marriage becoming part of it.

Since they couldn’t write love banters between the two main leads, they wrote a love story between two of the other cops. There has to be one, apparently it doesn’t matter that it’s a crime show, there has to be a love story/sex story somewhere, it must be one of the rules on how they write screenplays.

Only thing that I didn’t much like: despite having Patrick Jane totally on the rational side, there is one character, Kristina, that is treated like a real psychic… we’ll see in future series if she’ll keep true or turn out to be another con artist… I also don’t believe in how easily they hypnotize people in this show, both Jane and other experts… I know many people believe in hypnosis but I don’t and will never believe that a person can be hypnotized without even knowing it and made to do stuff, I will never believe that anyone could do that to me and it annoys me to see how easily it is used in films and shows because it’s such an easy way-out in a way, and it’s absurd.

Mentalist: someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion. A master manipulator of thoughts and behaviour.

So, here I write about all the episodes, what is enough for me about them.

1- 

A missing girl is found dead. Patrick tells the mother that he once earned money pretending to be a psychic but he’s just someone who pays attention. Jane knows she suspects her husband, so he asks him directly and when he denies it the woman can see he’s lying and shoots him dead. Jane got suspended for that. Next case: it’s Red John, Lisbon didn’t want him on the case for how he acted, but he asks her boss. A married woman and a gay man are murdered and there’s a red smiley on the wall as Red John’s signature… but Jane knows this time it’s a copycat. Van Pelt believes in psychics: Jane says there are no real psychics but she believes her cousin to be one. He doesn’t believe in anything after death.

He’s been after Red John for years. He was already helping the police, when he pretended to be a real psychic they asked his help with Red John, and so Red John killed his family. 

The cops question the husband and his brother and their close relationship is broken when it comes out the dead woman was having an affair with her brother-in-law. Jane knows it was their doctor who killed them to cover up his theft, so he tricks him into revealing himself with a fake diary. The cops are not happy with him. Jane still sleeps in hte room where his wife and daughter were killed, there’s still the red face on the wall, but there’s only a mattress on the floor. 

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A girl is murdered. Jane sort of hypnotizes her friend/coworker so she tells him the girl was in love with her drug-dealing cousin. Lisbon wants to arrest him but Jane suspects the chef where the girl worked, but even he’s surprised when they find he did it with the help of his wife.

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A child finds a 15-y-o girl dead on a beach, so CBI California Bureau of Investigation is called. They start investigating while Jane makes a big sandcastle on the beach, and still they find him already there when they check their first suspect. In the end it was her four friends together, because she didn’t want to cover up the fact they accidentally killed a guard. One of the boys’ father is also arrested because he had sex with the 15-y-o girl. Lisbon is touched by the girl’s family because they lost the wife/mother just like she did, though hers died in a car crash.

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A man is thought missing but Jane guesses the safe door’s combination and he’s there, dead. He had lost a lot of money, he was also laundering money for some people, and he had planned to escape with his lover and daughter. The wife did it to get the diamonds that was all he had left.

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A girl is found dead, under her car in the woods, and soon her friend is found covered in blood and in a state of shock. She remembers nothing and the sheriff thinks she did it. Jane wants to solve the case, but he also does not want her to live not knowing if she killed her friend, so he takes her out of the hospital and helps her remember the man who killed her friend Kara and tried to assault her but she ran away. Kara had confessed to her she had slept with her fiancée to prove to her that he was not worth her time, and then she tried to help her when the murderer showed up, but he killed her. 

The murderer is now one of the guys pretending to help the police in the research, and also alone with Lisbon when Jane finds out and tells her on the phone, but she and Rigsby arrest him.

I like that the two girls were really friends, that Kara really cared about her in her own way, and her death proves it, and how Jane cared about them as well. 

6-

A meter away from the Nevada border, on the road, a severed hand is found. It belonged to Jim who managed a casino, so they go there. Jane borrows 100$ from Lisbon and wins a lot, like 250.000, and he bought two really beautiful parures, green for Lisbon and red for Van Pelt, and two not so beautiful but very expensive watches for Rigsby and Cho. He also tries to explain to them how his “memory palace” works. The girls wear it for one night then give it back, the men don’t. 

Jim’s wife had an affair with Matt, head of the hotel’s security, and the body is found in Matt’s garage. Jim also saw a video of his daughter Jessica entering the rom of a “whale”, one of those who play big money, often playing in private rooms. Her husband had lost all his money so he “put up his wife against 50 grand”, then he lost again so he sent her to his room so the guy could have sex with her as payment. Now Jane is playing with them in a room; the guy loses and leaves, then he plays with Jessica’s husband who uses Jim’s 100.000 fiches because he was sure he’d win. He still loses of course, but that marks his end and he confesses the murder: Jessica’s father had seen how he was using her and confronted him, and got killed. All the money Jane won at that game, he gave it to the woman with a sick mother in a hospital. She worked at the casino and cheated to pay for her mom’s medical care, so now she can do it :-)

7-

The next case is of a widow, Rosemary, killed with a car. In her will she named Jeremy, a photographer who has already gotten money from other widows before, and also Kristina who also has gotten lots of moeny from widows by pretending to be in touch with the dead. Van Pelt is very eager to believe psychics esixt, while Jane is a bit upset because he does not believe in it at all and he’s sure Kristina is conning these people - like he did before. He even suggested more than once that Kristina had something to do with the murder, but no, the daughter did it. At the end, Kristina comes to talk to Jane in private; she says she got a message from his dead wife on a question he’s always asked himself, and tells him that his daughter never woke up ,she was never scared because she never knew what was happening, she was not awake and terrified while a man murdered her and  her mom. Kristina then goes away, he says thanks and starts crying, so Van Pelt closes the room’s door to give him privacy.

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A witness and a girl are murdered. The local cops think he was the target, but no, it was the girl. A young cop killed them, thining she was having an affair with his father, the righteous cop, but he wasn’t, she was his daughter not his mistress, so Jane gives the old couple their ‘granddaughter’, the baby girl who is now without parents.

9-

Rich is killed in a fire on purpose. Another man met the same end three years prior. When the chief almost dies too, Rigsby ges him out. These men weredrugged before someone set the fire. He dies, but the third man caught in a fire will live, because he was locked in with Jane and so somehow they got out - no idea how. The two dead men and thislast one had killed Dave three years ago for money, and now his friend Tommy took revenge. Tommy was never a suspect because everyone thought he was retarded, but it was just a play, he’s done it for years. When Jane talks to him he drops the façade. Since the episode is about revenge, Jane comes clear with Lisbon and tells her that when they catch Red John he will kill him. She says they’ll arrest him, and she’ll try to stop Jane if he tries somehting, or arrest him if he does it.

10-

When a man, who was about to speak at a university campus, dies, dr Sophie Miller calls Jane. It was her ex-husband, and Jane believes her when she says she didn’t do it. She was his “psychiatrist”, right after the tragedy he spent some time in a hospital for a breakdown and she helped him. A group against experiments on animals is also suspected, because these people are neuroscientists and of course they experiment on animals. This group is just a crazy guy who loves cats. The real murderer was the university chancellor, to ‘protect’ his school and its stellar scientist, because the experiment he was doing with Sophie does not work and for a year they’ve “been falsifying data” to cover that up and the man who died knew it. Jane is glad Sophie didnt’ do it and his ‘debt’ is now paid in full: she saved him and now he saved her. He kisses her on the cheek and says his goodbye. Nice episode, showing Jane’s vulnerability.

11-

A  man in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit, tells Jane he can give him important info on Red John, and he knows a detail nobody else knows, that Red John printed his wife’s nails, so Jane investigates his case because the deal is: prove his innocence to know what he knows. The chief won’t allow it, so Jane quits but the team wants to help anyway so the chief goes away for a week. The guy’s mother did it, because the girl Jared loved was actually his sister, the secret daughter of his father. So Jared is let out of prison, and runs away immediately, deciding that it’s too dangerous to betray Red John. They find him but Red John has already found him and killed him, and then he calls Jane’s phone to laugh in his face. 

12-

A missing 16-y-o was missing but Jane finds his body under the flying crows. There was stuff around to throw suspicion over the town’s witch - who does a spell on Cho because Jane gave her his full name, Kimball Cho. To be nice, Jane gives him some ashes in a glass jar saying it was from Tamzin, so he’d feel more at ease, because he was actually worried about her spell. 

The kid was killed by his violent, abusive father. 

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A guy is murdered and a famous painting stolen. An artist makes copies, adding something so it can’t be passed as the original. A suspect is another man who tried to buy the painting but he has diplomatic immunity or something, so Jane, Rigsby and Cho go talk to him without Lisbon’s permission. How easily Lisbon dismantles their lies :lol: “Rigsby’s not on a date because he’s in love with you” she tells Van Pelt :lol: Both rich men had copies, the real painting was taken by the woman who sold it at the auction, or however she procured the art for them, and the dead guy had confronted her. Jane scolded the rich man for caring more about the painting than his daughter’s pain for having lost her husband. 

The artist is dubbed by Roberto Pedicini :-) *love*

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A rich woman is killed while she was with her lover, a guy who defines himself as “a pick-up artist, a woman whisperer”. A waitress is still in love with him, they were together once.

Jane takes Cho shopping so he looks even more handsome, like in a k-drama, so he can pick up waitress Katie and see what happens, and it was Katie’s boss in love with her. Jane called the ‘artist’ stupid because he has a good girl there who still loves him, so he goes to talk to her. Cho spent some time listening to her after she burst into tears and he felt bad for her. At the end, two women ask Jane to join them at their table, and he refuses saying he’s married, he still wears the ring.

15-

A rich woman dies of poisoning, so they investigate her country club. She used to sell drugs, and that’s why she was killed. Another woman dies too because she wanted to pick up the business. They died because a girl had taken those pills and they killed her, and her mom never recovered. After she confesses, Jane asks her if she feels better now, but “it doesn’t change a thing”. At the end, Rigsby goes out to dinner with one of the club’s women.

16-

Someone puts a bomb in a van near Cbi Hq, and sends a message to Jane’s phone. He finds it but there’s no time, the bomb goes off killing the man tied up inside the van. Jane is hurt by the explosion, the concussion makes him lose his eyesight. Van Pelt is all smiles because she sort of have a boyfriend, but of course it’s him, who thinks the victim and Jane are responsible for ruining his life, when Jane told his mom about his dad cheating on her and stuff like that, and towards the end he came to the office to see her. Rigsby tries making a ‘you treat her well’ speech and then gets beaten up so it’s just Van Pelt and Jane. Well, Jane of course understands it on his own, while Van Pelt gets a call from Lisbon with the guy’s name. They manage to escape when a guard sees them - and we’re not told how the poor man is doing, but I think he only got injured. Since Van Pelt has her hands handcuffed behind her back, she can’t drive, but Jane’s blind, so it’s a desperate escape indeed, and they crash into all the cars parked around there, and do not succeed in reaching a road or whatever, but Lisbon gets there in time to shoot the bad guy. Of course at the end Jane can see again.

Now you tell me, in such conditions, a blind man and a girl with both hands behind her back, wouldn’t it be smarter to keep running instead of trying to used a parked car?

17-

A rich guy wants to kill a woman who wants to leave his company and go to the competition, so he plays the crazy-bomber card: he sends the police messages and he kills a random member of his group by sabotaging a parachute, then he puts a bomb under his bed but the bomb does not go off for what is believed to be a silly mistake in making it. Third, he shoots the woman. Pretending to suspect another man, Jane puts him in front of a bomb that he ‘clumsily’ activates, then Jane ‘tries to defuse’ it, as part of his plan, but the guy jumps in in a fright with the right way to do it. They arrest him. Throughout the episode the police suspected a poor man who had good reason to hate that company, since they did not give him the money he had been promised and even fired him, so the money he makes now only covers mantaining his family of three kids, but it’s not enough to pay the medical care for his wife who has cancer. At the end, Jane makes a deal: the first murder, down to manslaughter 1, no mention of the bomb whatsoever and of course no death penalty on the table, in exchange for a 500.000 $ cheque for the poor family.

18-

I did not like this episode, it was all about everybody getting hypnotized. It starts with a man carrying a dead girl in, thinkingit was a sack of potatoes, and it ends with Rigsby hitting a suspect and then almost killing Jane. The story was that a girl was in love with her boss and also very jealous of her sister who was always the one people liked, so she killed her sister thinking the man would love her once her sister was no more, and when he didn’t she wanted to kill him too. It was all stupid.

19-

Felix is killed: he did campaigns against drugs, was married to an actress and was producing her new film. The actress used her stepdaughter’s boyfriend to kill him and then she almost killed the boy. It was a very boring episode, pretty obvious the whole time, and not very well done.

20-

Lisbon’s birthday. Jane guesses each one of their gifts, but his own is late to arrive. Lisbon is a bit upset thinking he forgot to get her one. The very last scene will be of the pony he got her, the pony she always wanted as a child I think.

The case: a witness is found shot dead. He was an ex mafioso and now he sold weed to kids and had a romantic relationship with the female U.s. Marshal. His wife found out and killed him; Jane met the mafia boss and got his number (!) so at the end he scares her saying he’d give her name to the vengeaful boss, so she confessed and got arrested.

21-

Rigsby is very sick, but he’s got to stay at work anyway. A rich man’s body is found, hanging on his yacht’s anchor, and they find out that he hid a lot of money, 10 millions I think, so he wouldn’t have to share it with his ex-wife. He kept the key on a chain around his neck and a guy killed him for it. There is a woman who pretended to be a psychiatrist for months, but is actually a con-woman. She was actually in love with the guy, so he gave her the key, but she didn’t know the hidden place.

At the end she goes with Jim’s financial advisor or whatever, because he knew the place but did not have the key? I guess so, because he killed Jim for it, but he only got a fake key, she got the real one.

When you eventually see them both enter the train station it all becomes clear, but it was late enough for me to still be a nice twist, because he was in a wheelchair, but once she gets the money he stands up and takes it from her… but of course the team was watching and they were both arrested. It was nice when Jane explained how he knew because he’s had the habit of checking the shoes of people in wheelchair, and for the first time it actually turned out to be useful, and he called it “very gratifying”.

22-

I didn’t like this story because there was a scumbag ‘doing it’ with an underage girl under his responsibility, and there were kids afraid of  a ‘legend’ called Zacharias which is pretty much like being terrified of Freddie Kruger in real life. 

A boy, Justin I think, is found dead in the woods with “an electronic monitoring device on him” because he was attending “a wilderness program for troubled youth” called Bright Arch, a usually one-year high school but it can be longer. Justin had found out that a boy, using the fear of Zacharias, was manipulating a girl into accepting the abuse, and since he was not afraid of Zacharias he wanted to do something and confronted the evil kid, and got killed. Both evil kid and adult will be arrested, of course. 

News on our team: Cho says “a little deprivation and discipline is good for the soul” and that “this is like spring break compared to juvie”, which means that he was once in a juvenile Hall, juvie prison, and he thought Rigsby knew by reading his file, but Rigsby hasn’t read anyone’s file. Cho has.

23-

A girl found dead per Red John’s method, and then a plane draws the smile in the sky. The girl’s twin is missing. Jane finds a woman who might know Red John but she’s blind. Jane fights again with Lisbon because he doesn’t care about procedures here because he has no intention of arresting Red John, he wants to kill him and of course she can’t let him.

When she goes to get a warrant, he won’t wait and goes ahead with the sheriff, who turns out to be the son of Red John’s accomplice who died in prison. Sheriff Hardy wanted one of the twins, so he left the other twin to Red John. When Lisbon rushes in to stop Hardy and arrest him, Jane is not happy, he wanted her to wait for Red John to arrive, even if he died in the process, but when they’re outside and Hardy shoots a cop (I think… how is he?) Jane shoots him with a rifle before he can shoot Lisbon. And then he lets the weapon go as if it burned him. They take the surviving girl home to her parents and brother.

End of season.

A Korean woman in a shop asks Cho if he’s married, and then tells him about her niece :lol: and next time they see each other she has a picture to show him :lol: 

Tim Kang is Kimball Cho

Simon Baker is Patrick Jane

Robin Tunney is Teresa Lisbon

Amanda Righetti is Grace Van Pelt

Owain Yeoman is Wayne Rigsby

Leslie Hope as Kristina

Inside man - miniseries 2022

I’m afraid  it can’t be a totally positive review. It’s well made, thrilling and everything, but all based on a premise that is so so wrong it is hard to accept, both Harry and Ben act in such a wrong way… I mean, I don’t know if maybe this is normal behavior for an English kid, but I am so very sure that Harry acted in such a wrong wrong way, it is hard to just accept it. After that, everything that happens is a consequence, because he didn’t know how to turn back to the right way. The chilling thing is that Harry thinks, and is sure of this, that he tried to do the right thing all along, that he did it to protect people… and look at how he helped Edgar, he caused him so much distress that he hanged himself! People out there, if someone is troubled, this is not the right way to help! How much troubled? Edgar knows it’s wrong, but he can’t stop looking at ped+pornography, and Harry telling him to stop is no more helpful than when his mother tells him the same thing, has anyone ever stopped taking drugs simply because someone told them to stop it, just like that, on their own, a simple decision and voilà, they stopped?

Harry tried to protect Edgar in the worst possible way, by covering for him. I could understand it for a moment, for as long as they thought it was just simple porn in that usb key, but once they learned what was really in there, then no, covering is no more acceptable. 

More comments to follow. 

There are only four episodes, but three would have been better, there were scenes to fill the time.

1-

It’s a psychological drama where a vicar who at first tries to do the right thing, or what seems right to him but is actually not, ends up in a terrible situation he can’t get out of. He’s a British vicar liked by everyone, he has a wife, Mary, and a teenage son, Ben, that he loves. He pays good money for Janice to give Ben Maths lessons. Well, Ben says 70£ but I don’t really know how long she stays, it’s a lot for just  an hour but maybe it’s not or maybe she usually stays longer… still seems a lot though.

One Sunday Edgar runs to Harry begging him to hide a usb key because there’s porn inside it and his mother is coming, and she will check everywhere. Reluctantly, Harry takes it and leaves. Edgar is a very troubled young man and his fanatic mom doesn’t help, it rather reminds me of Carrie’s mother, although to be honest this one does have a reason. She still goes at it the wrong way.

Harry drives Janice home from the train station, and empties his pockets as soon as he enters. When Janice  says she needs to give Ben some files but there is no connection, he grabs the usb that Harry left in the coin tray and gives it to her. She plugs it in before Harry has time to stop it. This is the only bit I didn’t really understand so far: Ben barely looks at them: Janice’s shocked face and Harry’s embarrassed one and lies saying that it’s his key, it’s just porn, dad didn’t know, apparently totally oblivious to what is going on. Now I wonder, is it really normal for Ben to think that Harry carries porn in his pockets? No jokes, and the question is not if Harry ever watches it or not, the question is: is it common for a teenage boy to see his teacher’s surprised face and quickly jump to the obvious conclusion that his father keeps porn in that drive? It wasn’t just a joke, at the end of the show he’s still sure that’s what it was. This was a very weird scene for me, maybe he thought it was the only thing that could shock so much his unmarried teacher? Or the only thing that could worry/embarrass his father so much? Well, he’s a teenager boy, point there, but I don’t like how it was played, it doesn’t sound normal when listening to it the first time. It may make sense now thinking about it and all, but when watching it I didn’t like it. 

Anyway, I could clearly see that it was something else, Janice looked really shocked. She wants Ben out of the room and then she speaks to Harry and reveals that there’s children in the videos, that’s horrible abuse. Of course she thinks ben is involved, he just said so himself, so Harry tries desperately to convince her that he’s not. Harry tries to tell her the usb key is not Ben’s, a guy gave it to him in the Church, but he won’t reveal Edgar’s name because he once tried to kill himself, and Harry wants to protect him - and what a good job he did of that, huh? Edgar needed real help, while all that time he was left alone to deal with it all by himself and he obviously wasn’t strong enough, had Harry gone to the police things would have changed for Edgar too, maybe he could have received the hep he desperately needed. And those children too deserved more than a: let’s just ignore there’s this stuff here and not think about it.

She wants to go away, Harry won’t let her until he can persuade her of the truth. She gets scared of him blocking her way, he insists, keeps her there because he’s sure that she’ll go straight to the police accusing Ben. Somehow, for some reason, he opens the door leading to the basement and she falls down the stairs. He closes the door. (Did he open it on purpose, did he make her fall? I’m not sure, I thought she fell but am not sure).

He tells Ben to go to his party, that Janice went away, and when Mary comes back home he tells her everything. Harry hopes to record Edgar’s voice admitting that the usb key is his so he’ll finally convince Janice and let her go. Edgar is so troubled, he can’t admit it, not to the vicar, not to God or even to himself out loud, so Harry does the only thing he can think of: he tells Edgar to put it all in his computer (Harry’s) so he’ll take the blame. His wife is vehemently against this but he insists it’s the only thing he can do. He even downloads and prints more of that horror to make the lie more believable, but it’s all useless. When people tell him that Edgar hanged himself and named him in his last note, he hopes he confessed and that this will convince Janice that Ben’s got nothing to do with it, but no, Edgar couldn’t say it; Edgar only wanted it to stop and didn’t want the vicar to take the blame for him so he wrote not to believe the vicar because he’s protecting “someone else”. Making things even worse, but he couldn’t know.

Harry and Mary talk about it but he sees no way out to protect Ben, so he puts an old heater in the basement “to keep her warm”, but actually because it’s sort of broken and the carbon monoxide will kill her. He locks the door even if she’s handcuffed and puts tape all around the door and on the lock, not knowing that Ben is in there. Since his parents had been acting weird and he himself saw Janice’s bag in the house, he decided to look around - they never locked the basement door before - and found Janice all bloody and handcuffed. Actually nobody really hurt her physically, she did it to herself so that Harry would know it wouldn’t be easy because now her blood in everywhere and their house is known as her last appointment. She even hurt her head to make Harry believe that Mary hit her. Now Harry has locked Mary out of the house to protect her…he’s not even answering her calls. He sent her to get rid of Janice’s bag,  computer and jacket, and finding her keys Mary decided to bring them to Janice’s house.

Now, Tucci’s role: he’s Grieff, on death row in America because he strangled his wife and hid her head. He’s a reknown criminologist with great mental abilities that from time to time solves cases, if they meet his requirements. He tells Beth, British journalist who knows Janice, that it’s about “moral values”, to do something good without publicity. Beth wants to write about him, wants to see him in action, and tries to entice him with the story of her dear friend Janice who disappeared.. but she doesn’t really know that Janice really disappeared, she only received a weird picture very much out of focus, the last thing before Harry ‘accidentally’ broke her phone, but then she agreed to never speak about it to witness his next case, and he keeps his word. It’s the case of a girl wanting to know what happened to her father who disappeared five years before , not knowing that her mother killed him, even though she loved him, we don’t know why. Still, Grieff works on janice's case too. He has lots of people on the outside working for him, so he has a woman, who commits burglary for a living, take Beth to Janice’s house. Therefore, Beth is there when Mary enters the house with the key and without a sound reason for being there. What’s more, Ben calls her. Ben already tried calling his father, asking for the truth, but of course Harry lied. Ben has realized that things changed after he gave Janice that usb key, he knows that much at least, so he tries his mother and she tells him about the children, so Ben understands what happened. When Ben lets out that he’s with Janice, Mary loses it, she repeatedly calls Harry who doesn’t answer then she runs out followed by Beth. Mary can only  think of hurrying home to save Ben and wants Beth to leave her alone so she walks without looking and gets run over, killed, lots of blood on the street.  We don’t see how but Beth hurries to her house. Grieff also tried another way: he sent people to Harry’s house, only for some reason he didn’t say the real reason. He had lots of people doing what he asked,   and yet for this he decided to put on an elaborate scheme: he says that if they stop his execution he’ll reveal where he hid his wife’s head, he tells her father where it is, who apparently is something like a mafia boss, who sends some men. We are almost at the end.

Ben is losing his mind because of the poisoning, and he hits Janice with a hammer. Harry comes down to see if she’s dead and finds a delirious Ben. Harry starts saying again that he’ll take the blame for him, and Ben runs out only to stop and get sick. Beth runs to the house and it’ll take the investigative journalist a while to find the open door… she get downstairs in time to stop Harry who is about to kill Janice for good - in his mind, to protect Ben, for sure. Harry turns against her too, but here and now is when three men arrive expecting to dig out a woman’s head, while instead they save another woman’s life. Well, two now, with Beth.

Harry is, of course, arrested. Janice is still alive so he didn’t actually kill anybody, but still, it does not look good for him. 

During the credits, Janice comes to talk to Grieff. It’s been two weeks - since his execution is only a week away now - and she’ all better. She ays she wants his help with her husband's murder, who is alive but doesn’t deserve to be. 

When did that happen? She got married and regretted it in only two weeks? Or she was already but lied to everybody saying she wasn’t? Who knows, but if they’ll make a season two this is what it’ll have to be about. 

Now, first of all I want to say that if it may be true that under the ‘right’ circumstances everybody can kill, I do not agree with Harry’s actions at all, and I mean from the start. It did not help Edgar to hide everything and cover for him. He was troubled and fragile, yes, so much that if you really wanted to help him you should have provided medical support, experts, mental help, he could not do it alone, it was too big, it was tearing him apart, and it was even cruel to just tell him to stop, as if it was that easy. People must stop thinking that mental problems will go away if you just stop thinking about it! 

Also, the good vicar was not enough shocked at what Janice saw in those videos. She was right in being shocked, he should have been too, he should have gone to the police with her and explain everything and explain Edgar’s mental problems. Experts could have proven Edgar’s computer was used to download those videos and could have maybe followed those links to shut down those sites of horrors. Harry used them instead to download more!

It’s not really clear to me what did Janice have in mind. Well, the first injuries were a good idea, actually, it was a clear message: if I die, they’ll find lots of evidence here! But all the rest, hurting her head to make Harry believe Mary hurt her, give Harry her password so he could send an email to her sister to postpone their online meeting… what was her goal? And where did it lead?

Anyway, final words: the morale is that he may, perhaps, have had good intentions, but he went about it in a very wrong way; he ignored something awful but distant to him to try and help one boy that he knew personally; in spite of his words that he wanted to help Edgar, he never really tried, he only burdened him more.

He kept saying he wanted to protect his wife and son, and ended up in prison, with a dead wife and a seriously troubled son who’ll require serious therapy. 

Anyway, mabe this is jsut my weird mind, lots of people can probably relate or understand his actions. I don’t, like panic. I don’t understand how people could trumple on each other to death, even walk over children’s bodies in the name of panic… and I don’t really want to, I refuse to. 

I’m an Adhd woman and have to live with that.

By Steven Moffat. 

It has David Tennant as Harry, Stanley Tucci as Grieff, Dolly Wells as Janice, Lindsey Marshal as Mary and Louis Oliver as Ben.

The Residence season 1

A positive review. It was interesting. The plot was good, the making was too. The detective was different from our usual detectives, she’s quiet, silent, loves birds, but sees everything. I liked that they used titles of real crime stories for the chapters, and titles that perfectly matched the story. I would like to see another, with people Cordelia knows around her. It was a bit difficult at first to warm up to her because she had nobody around who knew her and could help us know her as well.

8 episodes

1-The fall of the house of Usher- è stato un suicidio. White house. The ‘chief Usher’, who should have retired, decided to stay another two years but got killed instead. Metropolitan police has jurisdiction, and has the best detective in the world already on site: Cordelia Cupp, a consulting detective. Harry, advisor to the President, insists it’s a suicide and to keep it all a secret because there’s an important State dinner downstairs, with important Australian men. Cordelia sees many suspicious things, like no knives, so how did he cut his wrists? And not enough blood, and the shirt he’s wearing is not his own… when she asks the president to lock everyone in until she’s talked to all of them, he refuses, but when she notices that one of the Australians is wearing AB Winter’s shirt, finally he agrees. 

2-Dial M for murder- delitto perfetto. The shirt change happened because this David guy had sex outside with the chef, hurt his nose and therefore bloodied his shirt, and when AB saw it he proposed an exchange, since he was wearing a gilet that would cover it. Cordelia talks to everyone, and everyone w different things, they all talk well about AB… and at the end we see that the pastry chef Didier saw AB dead and went away with the knife. Probably because it was his.

3-Knives out-cena  con delitto. Didier eventually admits he saw AB’s dead body and the knife, and took it away because he didn’t want to be involved. Still, to Cordelia Cupp that’s just another interesting piece of the picture, she doesn’t stop investigating to focus only on him. At the end, it seems that Sheila was one of the two people outside while David and the chef were having sex.

4-The last of Sheila-un rebus per l’assassino. Sheila is the butler, who likes to drink and likes her job, but doesn’t like the new president and his husband, she loved the previous one. She lies a lot, but Cordelia knows what happened. Sheila went up to the third floor but drank the alcohol instead of giving it to the old lady. She entered the game room were AB was found, but didn’t see him because he was killed elsewhere and then brought there.

5-The trouble with Harry-la congiura degli innocenti. Cordelia talks to the president’s brother, who is some kind of troublemaker, and then there’s two people who snuck into the white house not invited, they crashed the party. AB wanted them locked in a room until the end of the night, as per protocol. He was worried Harry planned it waiting to catch him breaking protocol - if he let them go - and then fire him. And then there’s a story when AB is accused of spying on Harry. Wrongly, but Harry got angry.

6-The third man-il terzo uomo. The third man is a third person who crashed the party after the Motta couple. Senator Bix thinks he’s a killer hired by Harry to kill AB. 

Nobody wanted her to keep going, so they let the people free to go, and Cordelia went away. Senator Bix gives a speech to the press encouraging the third man to come forward and tell his story. Cordelia is away birdwatching, but she’s sent stuff to watch the proceedings so she calls and has them ask the right questions… and it comes out this third man saw another man dragging the body.

7-the adventure of the engineer’s thumb-l’avventura del pollice dell’ingegnere. Cordelia comes back because Harry is giving her free reign of the white house and 48 hours to find the truth. The president is not there anymore. A long talk with Bruce the engineer, a talk with Lilly who is redecorating every room. She heard AB arguing with the housekeeper Elsyie, a nice girl. AB wanted to fire her because she lied about her past, it seems she has a criminal record, old stuff, and she met Bruce who saw in what state she was. Then he saw her coming out of the yellow room with a candlestick and he saw AB dead. She also says she found him dead, and they both think the other did it, Bruce because he saw her with the candlestick, and Elsyie because he told her that he took care of it. I guess he moved the body to protect her. They are in love.

8-The mystery of the yellow room-il mistero della camera gialla. Finally Cordelia speaks to the committee to explain it all and how she figured it out. Now Tripp: that night he was pissed that his brother didn’t let him attend the party, so he got… drunk? high? anyway, he went into room 301 and passed out, and woke up next to AB’s dead body, so he dragged the body into the game room. He used paint to cover the blood in room 301, and sees AB’s keys - actually Bruce’s, but he thought they were AB’s - so he went to put them in his pocket and sees what seemed a suicide note - but it was a piece of his diary - so he took Didier’s knife and cut his wrists.  But AB was not killed in room 301, he’d been dead 20 minutes when Tripp moved him. Kylie found blood in the Lincoln bedroom, because AB’s body was there for a shirt time, dragged there from the yellow oval office before being moved to room 301. Of course Bruce moved the body thinking he was protecting Elsyie. He carried the body upstairs into room 301 where he lost his keys, that Tripp put in AB’s pocket. Now they’re al in the yellow oval room, to find out who did it. Could someone come in and kill AB before Elsyie and Bruce saw the body? - and once again, as it often happens, and has happened in this show, there’s much talk of: why looking for something else, why, when you already have likely suspects right here?… I mean, seriously? Nobody cares that they might not be guilty? disgusting. So, AB met someone in the yellow oval room, wanted to poison him, but AB only took a sip and poured the rest in the vase next to him, and that’s what ruined the flowers.  So the person with him took the big clock and hit him with it. There was a hidden door there that this person used to escape, that has been closed now. Jasmine ordered the door to be sealed under Elliott’s orders, the first gentleman, but Lilly admits she gave the order to seal the door pretending to be Elliott, because she was there and saw AB dead after Elsyie and Bruce killed him. Lilly had already ripped a piece of AB diary in anger, and now used it to protect them, gave it to Bruce who put it in AB’s pocket… but Cordelia opens the door and finds the clock full of Lilly’s prints, because she hated the house and all of them. And because AB knew she had stolen money, all her tricks. She’s arrested, case closed. Good. She was the one creating troubles everywhere, for everyone.

AB Winter is Giancarlo Esposito

Stephen Roos is Julian McMahon

Kylie Minogue is herself. 

Star Trek the next generation season 6

This is the season when Data’s head is put back into place and he’ll even start dreaming, the season we meet old Scotty again. Picard is turned into a child, tortured and even made to wear blue. He also has a personal saddle, falls in love and meets everyone’s Prometheus… or Nuwa. Moriarty has a happy end and Worf is a jerk, as he often is. 

Intro: “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

Starring

Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker

Also starring

LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge

Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf

Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher

Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi

Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data

1- Time’s arrow, part II

ITA Un mistero dal passato: parte 2

There’s a recap, of course. Then the conclusion: S. Clemens is very “interested in the notion of time travelers”. He wrote a book about a Yankee in King Arthur’s time :lol: Mr Twain’s Connecticut’s Yankee :-) Riker is dressed as a cop; analyzing Cholera victims, Beverly says many of them actually “died because their neural energy was drained”, and taken to be ingested by those aliens.

By going to the past, “when there were plagues and epidemics” they could “murder and use the disease as a cover”. They’re all smartly dressed :-) Picard a bit less, he pretends they’re actors :) but he looks more comfortable than the others. The young man who helped Data for money is Jack London. 

Data’s machine allows him to find the others and help them :-) They got the alien’s cane, and Picard meets Guinan :-) Clemens thinks Data and the others are an invasion force :-/ He tries to stop them with a gun, the aliens appear to get the cane back, Data tries to stop them… and his head flies. The female alien is k.o., the male flees and Picard orders the other four to follow him. He must take care of an injured Guinan. Clemens follows the others too. Back to the future :-)

They also have Data’s headless body… how come?

Using Data’s head, Picard sends a message to the Enterprise. Geordi attaches the old head to Data’s body and he’s good as new. Clemens goes back and tells Picard how to go back, then they fire to destroy that alien place. 

2- Realm of fear

ITA Paure nascoste

46041.1 Barclay is scared of the transporter, so he panics and doesn’t go with the others even if Geordi told him to go. Troi talks to Barclay, tells him to hit behind his ear to relax and he jumps up and tries again, and does it. And sees a thing that bit his arm…

O’Brien says “I’ve been doing this for 22 years and I haven’t lost anybody yet”… really? The Enterprise did. Since they ‘judge’ him for his fear, he doesn’t tell them when he feels and sees his arm glowing, and believes to be sick. Troi thinks he’s too nervous and stressed and temporarily relieves him of duty. Still, he tries the transporter again and tells all superior officers there really is something in there. They try to clean it of microbes with a biofilter, and then Barclay realizes the other ship tried to do the same, so he grabbed one of those worm-like entities and it’s a man. Barclay tells Worf that there are many others so Worf and his men do the same, as Barclay told them to, just grab them, and they save the four crew members. How brave of Barclay! It ends with O’Brien’s pet spider crawling on Barclay’s arm,   and he doesn’t yell!

3- Man of the people

ITA Il prezzo della pace

46071.6 A ship under attack asks the Enterprise to take Ambassador Alkar to his destination; he comes with his mother who immediately appears very hostile to Troi as if Troi wanted Alkar :/ …

Troi leads the exercise class: there’s Troi and Alkar among others. When they go back, his mother is even more hostile, yelling at Troi that if she’ll be with Alkar, she’ll regret it forever. Right afterwards, the old woman dies. Troi does a sort of ritual with Alkar because he asks her to, and something happens. She acts strangely and soon goes to his room sort of propositioning him and he refuses her. So she has better luck with a young ensign..

Troi acts in a very different way than before. Beverly is quite obsessed with the death of the old woman, because there’s something wrong with it. Deanna enters ten-forward with a Crudelia look, white in her hair and a long, stretchy and see-through dress, verbally fighting over Alkar. She scratches Riker’s face, and when Alkar comes to tell her he’s leaving for the war negotiations, we see she looks older. She injures Picard when trying to stop Alkar. Beverly sees that she’s very much like ‘the old woman’, only the autopsy reveals that woman wasn’t old at all! Picard wants an explanation and Alkar says he found long ago that he “had the ability to channel by darker thoughts, my unwanted emotions, to others, leaving me unencumbered”. He calls them his ‘receptacles’ and they usually live years, and since he asks for nothing and works to put a stop to wars and such, he feels perfectly justified. Picard disagrees. To break their link, Picard and Beverly decide to ‘kill’ Deanna so that he’ll break it. He starts the same ‘ritual’ with another woman, only this time, for some reason, he gets old as Deanna turns young again, Dorian-Gray-style.

He dies. 

4- Relics

ITA Il naufrago del tempo

They receive a signal from a ship that went missing 75 years ago. They see a Dyson sphere, and the missing ship, and there was someone stuck on the transporter. They materialize him and it’s Scotty! When he hears Enterprise, he thinks Kirk came to his rescue :-p He was a captain. He says about this Enterprise: “the doctors are a fair sight prettier” :lol: Scotty would like to help, but his knowledge is obsolete. Data gives him a bottle of green stuff that Guinan kept under the bar. Picard calls it Aldebaran whiskey, he gave it to Guinan :-) The sphere traps the ship inside. Geordi and Scott work together on the old ship and together they save the Enterprise. They give Scotty a shuttlecraft to go wherever he wants to go. 

5- Schisms

ITA Sonni pericolosi

46154.2 The Enterprise is mapping a region, a dense cluster that would need at least a month to map. Data reads his own poems, one is called “ode to Spot”. Riker looks terrible, he keeps waking up more tired than the night before , so Beverly gives him hot milk to drink, “it’s a recipe of the captain’s aunt Adele”. It won’t work because he’s actually being abducted by aliens to be studied - like in old alien abduction stories - and also other people disappear from the ship and then reappear later with no memory of it. Even Data. They put a stop to it and Riker saves ensign Rager still there. Lt Hagler died because of their experiments.

6- True Q

ITA Una vera Q

Miss Amanda Rogers comes for an internship. We see she has powers, and when there’s a core breach she stops the explosion and they see it too. It was a test from Q, to see her powers because she’s a Q. He comes here for her. Picard finds out that Amanda’s parents were executed by the Continuum for escaping and choosing to live like humans. Q gives her a choice: come to the Continuum as a true Q or never use her powers and live like a human. She chooses to be human, but she can’t resist, and helps the world they’re trying to save because she couldn’t let all those people die. She chooses to become a Q. Both Q leave together.

I would have liked to see more of her in future episodes.

7- Rascals

ITA Giovani eroi

46235.7 Ro, Keiko, Picard and Guinan come back after a visit to a planet. They come back on board… as children. Picard doesn’t want to but still gives Riker command of the ship. Guinan wants to play with Ro who was in a refugee camp as a child and never had a true childhood, and Keiko goes back home, putting Miles in an awkward position: lol: she’s unreasonable but understandably. A 12-y-o can’t be a wife and mother.

A group of Ferengi takes the Enterprise and beams all adults on the world’s surface. All ‘children’ are put together, so they work together to get the ship back and save them all. Alexander helps. They capture all Ferengis and bring back the crew. Of course at the end they’re turned back into adults.

How old is Molly now? Already yelling for mom to read her a story…

8- A fistful of Datas

ITA Per un pugno di Data

46271.5 They all have time for personal projects. Picard practices his flute. Alexander plays ‘ancient west’ with his father. Geordi and Data experiment with his interface with the computer. Troi joins Worf and Alexander. Data and his things start appearing everywhere. Feline supplement 127, Spot is still red but a different cat. Quite clearly too.

Worf and Troi must save Alexander when the holodeck isn’t safe anymore, until Data and Geordi put things back in order. Geordi hasn’t shaved his beard.

9- The quality of life

ITA Il sapore della vita

The poker game is for Riker, Worf, Geordi and Beverly. Geordi’s beard is showing :) Beverly bets her becoming a brunette against them shaving their beards… but duty calls all the men so no deal :lol:

46315.2 A scientist created what she calls exocomp, devices that learn, move, fly and generate the tools it needs for the task. When a place is about to blow up, the exocomp refuses to go in. Beverly got hurt while practicing the Bat-leth :-p Data says that the exocomps might be alive. They test it. When there’s trouble and Picard and Geordi risk blowing up, Data refuses to let them send the exocomps to blow them up, and as a compromise they ask the exocomps what to do. They change the solution and indeed go and then one of them stays behind to allow all the others to escape free.

10- Chain of command, part I

ITA Il peso del comando: parte 1

46357.4 An admiral comes to send Picard, Worf and Beverly away on a mission, and put captain Jellico to guide the Enterprise. It’s in response to what appears to be a Cardassian threat. The Federation thinks they’re working on metagenics weapons - the worst bioweapons - so Picard, Worf and Beverly will sneak in and look into it. They book a passage with a Ferengi smuggler to Celtris III in the Cardassian space. On the ship they talk with a Gul who knows of our trio team. When the three reach what was supposed to be a lab, there’s nothing there, it’s a trap. Worf and Beverly escape, Picard is captured. The Cardassians know very well who he is and want informations

11- Chain of command, part II

ITA Il peso del comando: parte 2

The Cardassians give Picard a serum and interrogate him, it’s a truth serum but they ask “the Federation’s defence plans for Minos Korva” and he says he doesn’t know, so they go on.

46360.8 Jellico’s negotiations with the Cardassians don’t go too well, and the Cardassians say that out three attacked and killed civilians. Worf and Beverly go back on board. Picard is tortured. Riker is relieved of duty because he argues with Jellico over helping Picard. Data is Number One now, in red uniform, and thinks the whole trap was made specifically for Picard, he was the only possible choice for the mission. The Cardassian torturer’s daughter is very cute, but he goes on. He keeps showing Picard four lights and demanding he says five, and punishing him with lots of pain. Jellico investigates. Starfleet thinks the Cardassians will invade Minos Korva, Jellico that they’re “hiding in the McAllister nebula” and wants to hit them before they do anything else. They put mines in there and threaten the Cardassians until they go back to Cardassia and release Picard, poor man.

12- Ship in a bottle

ITA La nave in bottiglia

When Barclay repairs the holodeck, he finds Moriarty’s saved program, the one who knew all about Data. Barclay is confused, but Moriarty is quite pissed off that Picard didn’t keep his word and simply forgot about him.

46424.1 The Enterprise is to witness a “unique celestial event: the collision of two planets”. Barclay gives his message so Data and Barclay take Picard on the holodeck and Moriarty seems to come out and insists on bringing his beloved countess out too. The ship doesn’t respond to them anymore, and soon Data understands that only the three of them are real, they never got out, they’re still on the holodeck. So they create a program inside the program to give him what he wanted and save it. He’ll live his whole life with the countess, exploring and going wherever he wants, and they now have control back.

13- Aquiel

ITA Aquiel

46461.3 A station near the Klingon border doesn’t respond. They find it deserted, and also some remains that match Lt Aquiel Uhnari. They also find a dog Geordi listens and looks at Aquiel’s logs - wow, she sings really well - Aquiel was Haliian, and the dog was hers. As proof that no Klingon killed her, they bring Aquiel on the Enterprise! Alive! Geordi falls for her and wants to protect her. Beverly finds “a coalescent organism” when what she thought were remains touch her hand and replicate it. They keep Aquiel and the Klingon Morag who entered the ship confined, but they forget there was someone else there: the dog. Geordi shoots it when it attacks him. Aquiel and the Klingon are free.

14- Face of the enemy

ITA Il volto del nemico

We see that Deanna wakes up as a Romulan. A Romulan who knows who she is - the only one - tells her that they’re on the Romulan warbird Khazara. Deanna was taken after she attended a seminar. Subcommander N’vek tells her she’s now Major Rakal of hte Tal Shiar, the Imperial Intelligence. Since she can sense no lies from him, she has no choice but to comply. 

46519.1 The Enterprise takes on board ensign Desene, under arrest for treason. He appears human but dressed as a Romulan, he has a message from Spock to Picard. To meet a ship and bring his cargo onto Federation territory. Troi is shown what’s in the cargo: “vice proconsul M’ret of  the Imperial Senate and his two top aides”, alive and in stasis. He’s defecting to “support the dissident movement”. N’vek is part of Spock’s movement. The real Rajal was killed so Troi could take her place. The Khazara’s commander doesn’t like the Tal Shiar for what they did to her father. The Corvallen mercenary ship is destroyed by N’vek after Troi senses their lies and deception, so they’ll have to meet the Enterprise themselves. When it happens, Troi has to take control of the ship, brings the three people on the Enterprise and luckily Worf succeeds in beaming her back on board. Success.

15- Tapestry

ITA Una seconda opportunità

“The Lenarians attacked us outside of the conference room”. Picard is seriously injured. Q appears in the white space and tells Picard he’s dead, and Picard regrets how he hurt his heart when he was young, when he took on three Nausicaans, was stabbed through the heart and wend down laughing. Picard says he was different then: “arrogant, undisciplined, with far too much ego and far too little wisdom”. Picard started that fight and he regrets it now, so Q sends him back. He meets again his friends Cortin and Marta, when e was an ensign, fresh out of the academy. Picard has a second chance to change what he wants to change. He now wants Cortin to be more responsible, he sleeps with Marta and then stops Cortin from fighting the Nausicaans. Q takes him back to ‘his’ future on the Enterprise, where he’s a simple Lt because he never took chances. It’s as weird to see Picard in a blue uniform as it was to hear his friends call him Johnnie :-/ 

Q tells him this is what he wanted, a man “who was less arrogant and undisciplined in his youth”, he “never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realized how fragile life is, or how important each moment should be. So, his life never came into focus. he drifted through much of his career with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never led the away team on Milika III to save the ambassador, or take charge of the Stargazer’s bridge when its captain was killed. And no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe and he never, ever got noticed by anyone”.

Picard says it was a mistake, and asks to put things right, choosing to die as he was rather than live like this. So, back to when he stopped Cortin, this time he fights and like last time he’s stabbed and laughs, and this is how they see him on the Enterprise when he wakes up. Laughing. He tells Riker that “there were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads, it unraveled the tapestry of my life” and then he starts telling him more of when he was young… :-)

16- Birth right, part I

ITA La voce del sangue: parte 1

46578.4 At DS9 “to assist in the reconstruction of the Bajoran aqueduct systems damaged during the Cardassian occupation”. Data meets Dr Julian Bashir, chief medical officer on DS9, very excited to meet him…and about everything else.

An Yridian tells Worf that his father didn’t die 25 years ago at Khitomer, he’s still alive. He says some prisoners were placed in a prison camp on a remote planet. He goes there. Worf reaches what he thinks is a Romulan prison camp with guards and prisoners. A Klingon says his dad died in battle. There are 73 Kliingons here, but they do not want to go away!

During an experiment with Geordi and Bashir, Data is hit by a plasma shock and has a vision, a young dr Soong using a hammer to forge a crow’s wiing, then the crow flies away and Soong - Data’s face as young as lively as we never see it. Data is developed enough that he can dream, now. He is the bird :-)

17- Birthright, part II

ITA La voce del sangue: parte 2

These Klingons were taken prisoners while unconscious, interrogated, used to bargain with the Empire but Klingons do not see prisoners well so that led nowhere. Since they weren’t useful anymore, they were let go, free, but their families believed them fallen in battle, as is right for a Klingon, so did not go back to bring them dishonor. They asked to stay. Now they want to keep Worf here. Worf blames Tokath for these Klingon’s dishonour, because he didn’t kill them while they were unconscious…

There are youngsters here, who know nothing of their Klingon heritage. Worf likes a girl until he sees her ears. Tokath is her father, Worf calls it “an obscenity”. He calls all Romulans treacherous and deceitful. Worf is unjust, but the poor girl has been lied to, her dad did not escape wars to avoid killing anyone. 

Worf speaks to the young of what it is to be a Klingon. The girl wonders why did he come here, they were happy before… now she knows she can have no future anywhere else. Tokath puts him to death but it’s their own fault, to force him to stay they gave him free access to their children. Now all the new generation wants to go away with Worf. Not the girl, of course. His reaction taught her clearly she can’t go away.

18- Starship mine

ITA Complotto a bordo 

46682.4 They’ll have to leave the ship to let a station clean the ship of radiation with a baryon sweep. When he hears there are horses on the station, Picard has a good excuse to flee the reception: he goes back on the ship to take his personal saddle. He’s dressed in horseride clothes when he caches the people doing the sweep/repairs doing something weird. He is caught too; his officers are taken hostage at the reception. Picard enters Worf’s rooms because of course there are weapons as decorations. He thinks these are terrorists who want the trilithium to make weapons, something like that. Actually the leader only does it for profit. 

19- Lessons

ITA Amore e dovere

The stellar cartography department is doing an experiment that prevents Picard from making calls or even getting his tea. Curious, he goes to see what they’re doing and meets Lt Cmdr Daren. Nella Daren plays the piano so they start playing together. It’s lovely when they play the “inner light” music together. They start a relationship. Picard asks for Troi’s permission :lol: and tells Daren of his life on Ressik and the deep meaning music has for him now. He grows concerned when she goes on a dangerous mission, and she makes it, but not easily and a few people die. He tells her he’s lost people under his command but never “someone I’ve been in love with. And when I believed that you were dead, I just began to shut down”. They both know that he’ll never put her life in such danger again but he might have to if she stays on this ship. They’d never give up their careers, so she’ll transfer.

20- The chase

ITA Il segreto della vita

46731.5 They’re doing a three weeks analysis “of several dozen protostars”. Prof. Galen comes on board to see Picard. He’s Picard’s old archeology professor. Galen asks him to go away with him on an important expedition. Picard’s very sad to have to say no but he won’t leave the Enterprise. Troi asks him to walk with her in the arboretum, but then Galen’s shuttle is under attack, “a Yridian destroyer”. Galen dies. Picard follows his steps to understand what happened: fragments of Dna from different life-forms from 19 different worlds, all similar. Put together they are part of a computer program. Beverly: “Someone must have written this program over four billions years ago” - Picard: “so… four billion years ago someone scattered this genetic material into the primordial soup of at least 19 different planets across the galaxy?”

They need more of the right Dnas to complete the program. In their search, they encounter a Cardassian and a Klingon ship. Picard convinces them to join their efforts because they have dna samples too. On the planet for the last sample there are humans and Klingon, Cardassians and Romulans. Once  completed, the program activates a holomessage - she looks a bit shapeshifter like Odo…

Their species is long gone but there is something of them in all these species. The Klingon hoped in a weapon, the Cardassians want nothing in common with Klingons, but at the end the Romulan calls Picard to say that after all they’re not so dissimilar. Not much, but progress nonetheless.

21- Frame of mind

ITA Schegge di realtà

Riker is to play a mental patient in one of Beverly’s plays. He is also to go undercover on a dangerous mission on Tilonus IV which is in chaos now. “Frame of mind” is the play’s title. After the play, he finds himself as a real patient somewhere. He can’t remember his name or other things. Dr Syrus tells him he’s in “ward 27 of the Tilonus Institute for mental disorders”; they tell him he killed a man… then he wakes up on the Enterprise, before the play. He still hears dr Syrus’ voice and then he’s there again… he asks dr Syrus for help, and they decide to analyze the various parts of him to remember and face what he did… eventually he realizes what is true or not, wakes up and calls the Enterprise for an emergency transport out of there. He was abducted on his mission and drugged.

22- Suspicions

ITA Sospetti

Guinan comes to Beverly with tennis elbow, and hears her story of why she doesn’t work here anymore… It started when she went to a conference. She had heard of a “new subspace technology, developed by a Ferengi. A Dr Reyga”. People laughed at a Ferengi scientist but Beverly believed in him. She wanted to be a facilitator, inviting various scientists on the Enterprise they might understand. Only four were really interested: Kurak, she’s the Klingon, Dr T’Pa, she’s famous and important on Vulcan. Her husband is Dr Christopher - a human? Not so rare anymore…

“Jo’bril was a Takaran, the first one I’d ever met”. And of course there was Dr Reyga.

Jo’bril volunteers to test his “metaphasic shield” and he ‘dies’. Not giving up, Reyga keeps investigating, sure that his invention works, until he’s found dead, made it look liek a suicide. Picard tells her she can’t do an autopsy but Beverly won’t let it go. She questions the other scientists and then she does the autopsy… and discovers nothing. She confesses to Picard and thinks it’s all over for her career. 

46830.1 Guinan makes her notice that she risks nothing more at this point by continuing her investigation. 

(Ogawa’s name is Alyssa, Beverly calls her by name)

Beverly takes the shuttle out because she believes the shield works and she’s right, it does work. What she never imagined is that Jo’bril is not really dead. The physiostasis: they can “control their physiology at a cellular level”, they can “create the appearance of death”. He wanted to discredit Reyga so that nobody else would pursue his technology, now he thinks he can bring the shield itself to Takara to transform it into a weapon. They fight and eventually she sets her phaser to kill. With these news she’s reinstated. She gifts Guinan a new racket but Guinan has never played tennis :-p

23- Rightful heir

ITA Il ritorno di Kahless

Worf is afraid his faith is not strong; the Sto-vo-kor is life after death, or “the life which lies beyond this life” so Picard suggests a quest for his faith. Boneth is the sacred place where the followers of Kahless await his return and Worf goes there, on leave, to seek a vision. He stays for days until Kahless appears, not just in a vision, he has properly returned. He says Klingons “fight among themselves in petty wars that corrupt the glory of the Klingon spirit. They have lost their way” so he’s here now to lead them again. Worf is skeptic but he wants to believe. For Kahless there should not be only bloodlust in a Klingon heart. The Enterprise takes them both on board. Gowron is not happy, of course, and doesn’t believe it. When Gowron wins their fight, Kahless himself is confused. He didn’t know but the Guardians, after waiting centuries for his return, now they have the technology to bring him ‘back’, he’s a clone. Worf suggests he might provide moral leadership as Emperor, the political power would remain with the High Council. Kahless finds it acceptable. So he and Gowron are on the same side.

24- Second chances

ITA Duplicato

46915.2 Riker plays his jazz and Troi asks for “Night bird” because he’s never been able to do it. They go back to a place where Riker went eight years ago and almost didn’t make it back. What they find is… another Riker. The second Riker was ‘created’ eight years ago, and is a Lt. The transporter beam reflected back to the surface materializing a second Riker. Lt. Riker reacts to seeing Troi with enthusiasm. He says his feelings are the same as they ever were. She can’t resist him this time - she never could. Beverly encourages her. Riker says he’s ok with it but to be careful, because in the same circumstances Lt Riker would have done the same. Soon he receives another assignment and says if they marry she’ll be able to soon join him on his ship… but she has a life here. She’s not ready to give it up. From now on Lt Riker will call himself Thomas to avoid confusion.

25- Timescape

ITA Frammenti di tempo

Riker hurt himself… not playing Parrises Squares but feeding Spot :lol: He is so scared of that cute cat :)

46944.2 Data, Picard, Troi and Geordi were away for a conference and are coming back on a shuttle when she sees them frozen for a few seconds. Then she freezes or three minutes. Around them there’s temporal distortions everywhere. They see the Enterprise and a warbird frozen in time while firing at each other. They ‘wear’ “an artificial pocket of time” and visit both ships to study the situation. When time goes on they see the Enterprise explode, then time turns back. An alien species, out of our time, uses black holes to nest their young, and they thought the Romulan engine was one, a mistake so they need to free them. The warbird’s engine stopped working, the Enterprise gave them power but it was dangerous to the young so they fired to stop it… our heroes prevent the core breach on the Enterprise and restored the right continuum. They saved all the Romulans.

26- Descent

ITA Il ritorno dei Borg: parte 1

Data playing poker with Einstein, Newton and dr g :-D .

They go to check on an outpost that was under attack, and find the Borg behind a door. These are different, with individual names. 

46982.1 Fighting a Borg, Data gets angry, and he’s quite confused. Picard is reprimanded by an admiral for not destroying the Borg when they got Hugh. These Borg have names and refer to a leader they call the One and they destroy those they think inferior, they do not assimilate. Data frees the Borg they took prisoner and when they all search for him, leaving Beverly to command the Enterprise, they find many Borg under the leadership of Lore, and Data joined him.

Deanna is wearing a uniform now, since ep 10 I think, which is much better. 

End of season 6.

Special guest star Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan in ep 1-7-22

Special guest star James Doohan as Scotty in ep 4

Guest stars:

Jerry Hardin in ep 1

Colm Meaney in ep 2-7

Patti Yasutake in ep 2-3-22

Dwight Schultz in ep 2-12

Olivia  d’Abo in ep 6

John de Lancie in ep 6-15

Rosalind Chao in ep 7

Michelle Forbes in ep 7

Hana Hatae in ep 7

Daniel Davis in ep 12

Siddig El Fadil in ep 16

James Cromwell in ep 16-17

Tim Russ in ep 18

Wendy Hughes in ep 19

Robert O’Reilly in ep 23

Professor Stephen Hawking in ep 26