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Oh yeah, it was "flirty and thriving". Don't know where i got "fabulous" from! Like i say, i skimmed over it.
I only saw this movie for the first time last night. Well, "skimmed over" it would be a better description. I started hitting the fast forward button around the time this was revealed because it really bugged me too.
Having read the answers on here, it starts to make a bit of sense.
The only thing i could add is that she didn't just wish to be 30. She wished to be "30 add fabulous". And generally get what she wanted in that moment she wished for it.
So perhaps being "fabulous", and getting what her 13 year old self wanted (the glamourous job, being a 6 chick, being with Chris throughout high school etc) meant being something she wasn't, behaving in a way that the 6 chicks would approve of that wasn't really her, the underhanded tactics she was using to advance her career etc
It's not explained in the movie very well at all though. There's 2 threads asking about it on the first the pages for this movie!
The melodies on most of Nevermind were off the charts good. And before that - the melody of About A Girl reminds me of Caroline No the way it wraps itself around the chords.
There's some really good lesser known songs between Bleach and Nevermind too.
I think he struggled after Nevermind though. Whether it was Courtney, or the increasing heroin use, or just the fact that they'd become so successful and the pressure that went with it, i don't know, but he just kinda stopped.
The few tracks i like on In Utero were actually written around the time Nevermind was being recorded.
In short, i think yes but i also think he burned out around 3 years before his death
in addition to the other answers, the rest of the superheroes weren't framed for a mass murder drone attack (including Mysterio's murder) at the same time as having their secret identity outed
just watched this and thought the same thing re the professor when she said "what about your parents" - I really wanted Katie to sarcastically say "oh wow I never thought of asking them"
And I hadn't really thought that about the dad, but yeah, it continues when she gets him an expensive new lounge chair for his birthday and his first reaction is to look the price up online and then complain about how much she must have spent. Not even a 'thank you'. It's no wonder the poor girl resorted to doing what she did, if she's been practically brainwashed to be obsessed about money and how much things cost all her life in that household!
Also plumbers aren't exactly on minimum wage, and her dad was inundated with work, so unless had a serious gambling or drug problem, it's hard to believe they were so hard up
they've reprised it on Saturday Night Live a few times, and I think that's enough. A little 10 - 15 minute segment every few years. Topical, witty, and without overkill - and because they're just on the couch doing the show, there's no need to see their lives outside the studio, acting like teenagers, like one poster's already said.
The Kanye West one was especially good.
accurate accents weren't considered important to this movie - Mike Myers basically does his Shrek voice when he's supposed to be a leprechaun
ha ha ha ha
Swedes would have been neutral, surely?
doesn't dance along to Summer Nights and doesn't dance the drinks over to Tommy's table
could have done with a spoiler alert ahead of the o/p! Short answer - Yes, she does, but it doesn't matter.
Long answer - As her science teacher said, there's always going to be jerks, that doesn't change after high school, and you can either waste your time and your physical and mental energy trying to get revenge or trying to prove them wrong or trying to "beat" them, or you can focus on what you want to do with your life.
Nice case in point that in the end, the a-hole principal is still the principal and will continue to lord it over said science teacher. It makes a refreshing change that they played it this way - I was expecting some cliched scene near the end in which the science teacher gets one over on the principal or finally stands up to him, or better still there'd be some big reveal that the principal was having an affair with Whitney (which would make sense as he seemed to worship her and do everything she commanded) and so is fired and arrested, and the science teacher takes over. It would go against the message he gave earlier though.
And kudos to the writers for an ending in which the bullies "win".
Also gotta love the irony that Jodi and Mindy were "winning" for so long and then got greedy for more and that's when it fell apart and Whitney capitalised. There's a lesson there too.
I also think it would have been better if she'd died in season one, not to troll or because I "hate" her character, but because it would make the shooting, the effect it has on McNulty and also the stakes at the end of season one so much more serious.
It's not very well handled in season 2, the way she breaks her promise to her partner and goes back to the action of major crimes first chance she gets (although it's nowhere near as ridiculous as Daniels going back when he's on his way out with a law degree after being buried in evidence control).
While she had her moments up until the end of season 3, I think a lot of her story arc after that, especially her moving to homicide, would have been better served on Sydnor, especially since it's implied that he becomes the new McNulty by the end of it.
That said, one of my favourite lines in the entire show is when she's in hospital after surviving the shooting and Bunk's pressuring her to lie that she got a good look at both shooters, saying that it'll play a lot easier in court.
"Sometimes, things just gotta play hard"
I've just watched it with this theory in mind -
To answer your points, they could have put the piles of stones or those stick objects there themselves while Heather was asleep.
The walking south all day - IWasn't that also the same day Mike was a bit too gleeful when he admitted he threw the map away? Leaving her with no tangible way of knowing how to get back to the car/main road and so relying on them and their wits - a further addition to the o/p theory. If it was that same day, then I'm not sure at what point Heather seized sole control of the compass. Josh may have deliberately led them north for a while before she took over, or him and Mike could have picked arguments and wandered off in different directionsenough to disorientate her. Plus it's not 100% if it was the same log.
Only thing that I can't explain are the fairly distant noises at night when all 3 of them are shown to be in the tent. And the noises are picked up on camera so it's not as if they're only in Heather's imagination, egged on by Mike and Josh claiming to hear them.
Damn
I don't think Tony's age is ever specified. Maybe he was only 10 years or so older than Gina. Even 15 years is reasonably possible. So he could be in his early to mid 30s. Sure, he may look older, but that's caused by hard time in Cuba, eating octopus 3 times a day
I thought Andy only came into it in Season 3? When Jim goes to Stamford (Karen and the all too brief Toby also only appear then)?
Can't remember if the whole anger management thing happened in 3 or 4 - probably was 3, which means a lot happened to him during that season.
Sorry if this is a petty sounding response - it might just be a typo in the o/p
i've wondered about this too. All the evidence and testimonies wouldn't matter - Wee Bey's confessed to it and is happy to do the time for it, so the bosses wouldn't care, so it wouldn't even get as far as going to trial.
You saw in Season 4 the flak that Bunk got for "unsolving" the murder in Andre's store. Why would this be any different
Absolutely. There's nothing like hearing Norman singing "we won't go until we get some" to put you in the Christmas mood
he also plays a not dissimilar character in Starlet, which would be about 10 years later so when he's well in his 30s. He plays it well though
I think at times they tried to portray him from Michael's perspective - and on 2nd viewing, when you know why Michael has this attitude, you can see how it can come across as creepy. The bit when he sort of leans on his shoulder while talking to him when watching the sparring, and Michael literally shrugs him off in disgust. And the bit when he's talking to him at the mirror, and he says something like "yes, I do love the ladies" - such a weird thing to say, as if trying to overcompensate.
We've already seen enough of Cutty throughout Season 3 and at other times in Season 4 to know that he's a stand up guy and certainly not a predator. Michael hasn't though, and whenever Michael's at the gym, it'll show Cutty saying and doing things that could be misinterpreted. And like I say, especially on repeat viewings, when you know more about Michael's story, it's like "no wonder Michael's creeped out".
That's the genius of the show that I hadn't even noticed before until I read this thread.
thank you, glad someone else has mentioned the same sayings being spoken by different characters, often in the same episode.
The most talked about one is that Clay Davis and Naymond both say "I'll take any mf'er's money, if he giving it away". This, followed by Naymond's more prosperous circumstances at the end of Season 4, and his ability to debate shown during his cameo in Season 5, has led many to read in to it that Naymond was to become the next Clay Davis.
I personally just viewed it as an example of them showing that the streets and high end politics weren't so different.
There's another episode shortly after this, on election day, when Randy's friends stop helping him with his leafletting gig after they learn that he's already been paid - one of them (think it's Donut) tells him that his employer for the day only has himself to blame for paying him upfront.
That same episode, Carcetti agrees to bribe Clay Davis to not endorse Royce. He does so anyway, to which his advisor, Norman, says that it was foolish to give him the money in advance!
My favourite of the characters saying the same words, though, is when both Stringer Bell AND Bunny Colvin start saying "get on with it mf'er" when they're meeting their demise
just to go back to my initial response to the OP, I remember even as far back as season 2, when I first watched the booze cruise episode, that moment when Jim looks at the camera that's following him and quietly says to it "I'd save the receptionist!" - I remember thinking then, 'as if you'd say that knowing that what you've said could be broadcast at any minute.'
I think the longer the show ran for, though, the more of a joke it became - when Michael leaves mid-way through Season 7, one of the last things he says to the camera is "let me know if this ever gets shown" or words to that effect