TLSnell1981
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- Sep 15, 2006
The season finale was pitiful...weakest of the season and disappointing. IMO
Chrissy Metz was also talking up the episode all over the place and all about the "huge twist you will never see coming."
I also call BS on Jack moving out, even temporarily. I hate it when shows establish characters and then have them do something out of character. Jack is not someone who would be OK with taking a break especially as he was also stepping away from his children.
Personally enjoyed the episode tremendously. Jack's plan to take back his poker winnings was very surprising to me. Not only does it seem out of character for the person we've been watching all season to think of attempting something like that, but we've also seen him be pretty intelligent and resourceful in tight situations. I just can't understand that he wouldn't have realized after they got the beatdown and robbed after the game that they were out of their league and should stay away.
It actually wouldn't surprise me if the thoughts upthread that we watched Rebecca's last look at Jack as he walked out the door are correct. I suspect he is likely to succumb to a cardiac episode during the separation.
Here's my issue with Rebecca's choices. She knew her singing several nights a week was putting strain on an already chaotic household. She knew when she was single she was having no luck forming relationships because her lifestyle wasn't conducive to it. She knew Jack had sacrificed a lot of his personal dreams for their family life and was stressed and not really loving his job either, but he did it because he had no choice. She either is paying no attention to the strain Jack has been under or she simply decided to go forward anyway, consequences or no. IMO that's not how married people work things out. She's simply been nursing her wounds from whatever is wrong with her relationship with her own parents and having not succeeded in her single years to make a singing career happen and now she wants to lay all of the blame elsewhere that she hasn't gotten what she wanted. Nope, choices she made derailed her continuing with singing in her younger years. Nobody forced her to make those choices.
Just curious why you think this?
I was very bored. I think they incorrectly hyped up this episode. All the actors kept saying how amazing the finale is and how there is a big shocker, and "not what you expect" it to be, and the twists and turns will be unbelievable, and people would be shocked etc. I think we were all waiting for something huge to happen, but nothing really happened.
I'm excited to see if Randal and Beth do adopt. She didn't seem to excited about the idea
Just wondering if people think Jack should quit his job because his coworker is hitting on him? Or should Rebecca go in & knock her out? I think Jack was completely out of control in this episode & she had every right to kick him out.
If he'd go "off the rails" because she was working with someone she dated for 2 months, 20 years prior, then they really have issues. Huge jealousy issues. In my DH's industry, lots of people date young (or just hook up), break up and then enventually sometimes end up working together again. It's not a big deal if you are mature and feel secure in your marriage. The fact that she did not feel safe enough telling him is a huge red flag to me.
Nope, and I don't think Rebecca should have walked out of the bar that night. There must have been someone who could make sure that Jack didn't drive intoxicated. She should have performed. She had a responsibility to the band, and there was no reason for her to ditch them. She should have been professional enough to make it through that night no matter how she was feeling. I can understand if she felt that she couldn't continue the tour because she was worried about leaving a drinking Jack alone with the kids.
Jack was out of control. But I don't think she had the right to kick him out of their house either. That shouldn't have been a unilateral decision.
Maybe the shocker was supposed to be that Jack was almost 30 and still lived at home with his parents...which had to be virtually unheard of in the early 70s.
True - but I wonder if he was worried about leaving his mom alone with his dad?
He did say he needed to get his mom away from his dad. Still, they were playing up the "young and stupid" before he met Rebecca angle. It just didn't fit with his age in that time period.True - but I wonder if he was worried about leaving his mom alone with his dad?
He did say he needed to get his mom away from his dad. Still, they were playing up the "young and stupid" before he met Rebecca angle. It just didn't fit with his age in that time period.
I forgot about my feelings on the little we did see of the kids. I like that Kate wants to sing, but I hope that she knows it's going to be a tough road and that she doesn't get hurt too easily. I am glad that Kevin is taking the chance with this movie, and I hope that he gets out of his own way on the relationship front and doesn't mess things up with Sophie. I'm not so sure about Randall and Beth adopting. I understand why he wants to, but they just had that pregnancy scare and realized that they don't want a baby in their lives now. He's asking a lot of Beth. Plus, I'd think that he needs to focus a bit on finding employment or deciding what exactly he wants to do.
Largely because there has been an intentional connection made between the reveal of Kate's feeling she's responsible for his death and what came out of his following up on his discussion with Kate to see the show. The misdirect was obviously laid out to be the DUI driving to the show. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see it play out that Jack departs for the timeout to Miguel's and subsequently collapses under the strain. Cardiac is the most obvious path to achieve that.
Right, but what we're saying is that in the 70's that would be a stretch for a 28 year old. That would be more 18 year old behavior back then. On the whole most were a lot more mature in previous decades then they are now. Given what we've seen of Jack it just pushes the believability boundaries for me. In current day Rebecca is about my parents age. By 28 they were both long gone from home, had kids, second marriages, their own homes, solid work history etc. I get that they were trying to show us young Jack, it just didn't feel right to me. Twenty eight in the 70's wasn't young.But we did see him be particularly stupid in anything to do with the poker game and bar.