Just saw promos of next weeks episode. Guess what Maura has an ex husband. Come on how bad can this show get. After seven years Jane now learns mauras been married and she's never told anyone. Ian now an ex husband and and a shifty ex husband by the sounds of things. For someone who can't lie. The writers and jan nash have totally lost the plot with this show and I think the actors are just going through the motions. Jan Nash ruined this show.
shareIKR? It's so stupid...based on Maura's personality, she hates lying and as far as I know is not very good at keeping secrets...and yet for all these years she has been close friends with Jane, she has kept this big secret about having been married before from everyone all this time?
But I can't wait to see the next ep nonetheless, now I'm curious about this ex-husband of hers...
Maybe it'll be like Castle's Kate Beckett's short but long on paper former marriage. Wasn't much to remember; so not much for her to fret over.
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looks like you guessed right, they got married during Maura's wilder college years and their shotgun marriage only lasted for like a day before they regretted it (at least that's what Maura had thought).
I thought this week's episode is really good, much better than the last 2 episodes and Sasha did a great job directing this ep, I think she has talent and alot of potential as a director I think Sasha did a much better job directing this ep than Angie Harmon did with the 100th ep.
Not a shotgun wedding at all. That term means "daddy" is standing there with a shotgun making sure the groom doesn't run away to get out of marrying the the girl he got pregnant.
Alcohol fuleled? Maybe.
Impetuous? Definitely.
Dr Jason Bull: Don't give up on people, they're all we've got.
the term "shotgun marriage" basically just means any marriage that was hurried or rushed, made in haste, and does not necessarily mean the woman is pregnant...although that is the case most of the time, but pregnancy is not always necessarily the case.
Since Maura and her ex-husband got married in such a rushed way, technically it's a 'shotgun marriage' or 'shotgun wedding'.
No, honey. A shotgun wedding is a wedding in which one party is pressured or forced into marriage. It does not mean, nor has it ever meant, that a wedding was rushed or unplanned.
Perhaps people with little understanding of English should refrain from posting where educated people can read the postings.
To anyone who doesn't think a shotgun wedding is as defined by the dictionary; watch the scene in the movie Seven Brides For Seven Brothers in which there IS a shotgun wedding.
Dr Jason Bull: Don't give up on people, they're all we've got.
If Maura believed that the marriage was annulled 1 day after the ceremony, why did she immediately identify the guy as her "ex-husband". Annulment means they were never married.
Just saying because Maura is supposed to be so precise with everything she says.
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well Maura did say in the episode that they got an annulment, at least she thought they did...until she learned that the annulment papers were never filed so technically she has been married to him all this time without her knowing about it, I'm just going by what Maura actually said in the ep.
Yes, an annulment means that a marriage is invalid...so if the annulment papers had actually been filed, then they were never married...it's inconsistent, but blame that on the writers, it's not the first time the writing has been inconsistent or wrong on this show.
But since the annulment papers were never actually filed, technically they are still officially married...until their divorce is finalised.
Given how exacting or OCD Maura has been on many occasions, it seemed incongruous she would NOT follow up on the annulment filing. One might blame it on her youth. But if her behavior developed after, that should have warranted an exploratory episode.
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Would you rather she was having an affair with a priest, as she does in the books?
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
From Dictionary.com:
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shotgun wedding
or shotgun marriage
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noun
1.
a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
2.
Informal. a compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity:
An agreement or compromise made through necessity, as in Since neither side won a majority, the coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding.
This expression alludes to a marriage precipitated by a woman's pregnancy, causing her father to point a literal or figurative gun at the responsible man's head. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1900s.
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