"You are the best of us Ms. Montenegro.
You discern humanity in the wreck of a ruined
human body. You give victims back their faces,
their identities. You remind us all of why
we're here in the first place. Because we treasure
human life."
This makes me tear up every time I watch the episode.
"Dedicated to Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth,
the people who taught me that understanding,
compassion and love are not just notions in a book.
My life means more because I know you."
Now comes the 4-5 month wait while they edit and polish. That is an assumption based on speculation that Season 3 will air in January. I would love it if it aired earlier. It is too bad this is only a three-season show. I think they could easily have gone four or five. Fogelman's next show is supposed to be about a family who owns a football team. I'm not all that jazzed about that one.
For me, I think it's Link. We have already gotten backstory on most of the main characters. I would like to know more about Link. I am still not convinced he is Sinatra's son.
Was Beth, Toby and Miguel in the bar discussing being married into the Pearson family. I often felt bad for those three because that was one hard-ass family to be on the outer limits of. It was a realistic discussion of "Saint Jack" and what happened if you spoke a wrong word about him.
I can't stand it and find it very annoying.
Where does she go from here? Sinatra is gone; Jane is gone (we think). Where does Torabi's story go from here? I can't believe this writing team would go the soap opera route of having her be pregnant with Xavier's baby. I don't see her becoming the next "leader". I think this has become a leaderless society. If anyone is going to be in charge, it will be Xavier and Link. Maybe Torabi will help with transitioning people from bunker life to outside life. That will not be easy for many of them.
When Russ's girlfriend Amy comes to see Brennan and tells Brennan about her daughter with Cystic Fibrosis, Brennan gives her the name of Dr. Leo Getz, an expert in Cystic Fibrosis. Leo Getz is the name of Joe Pesci's character in the Lethal Weapon movies. 😊
Jack is re-creating the carnival date. Miguel comes in and says "I got everything. Hot chocolate, candy apples, corn syrup." What was the corn syrup for?
Why does Randall ask Deja if she likes "Police Academy Four?"
Why does Randall ask Deja if she likes "Police Academy Four"?
Obviously, Rebecca's mother Janet instilled some very unhealthy body images in Rebecca. Advising her to starve herself before her wedding, serving her a ridiculously small piece of pie at Thanksgiving and the "we have to watch ourselves Rebecca" line. Also, any woman who has ever struggled with weight bristled at Rebecca's line to Jack "no ice cream for me or you won't be able to pick me up anymore". Impossibly thin women who say things like that annoy me.
I also think that Kate had a valid point in the argument between her and Rebecca at Kate's first gig. Kate told her mother "you wanted me to become the you that you never became". I think that shows Kate felt disappointment from her mother about her weight.
Team Jack or Team Rebecca? I realize they both had their part in how things led up to this point. But if I had to side with anyone, I side with Jack. Earlier in the episode, Rebecca says to Ben, "I look like a mom playing dress up" and she did. I have been in the music business. Female lead vocalists in pub bar bands do not wear full length sequin gowns and feathers in their hair. And I agree with Jack's comment that she was a 40-year-old woman singing covers in pubs. That is not a career, that is ridiculous. Rebecca went to Los Angeles and was told she was "Pittsburgh good." She then decided to become a stay-at-home Mom. Being a stay-at-home mother of triplets IS a career and she wasn't done with it yet. She made the choice to opt for motherhood instead of continuing to pursue a singing career. There are other things Rebecca could have done with her love of music that would have fit in with her life as a mother of three teenagers.
About an expensive liquor is very similar to the scene between Dr. Loge and Sinatra about an expensive liquor. I don't know if that means anything, but I noticed it on a rewatch.
Seem strange to you? I thought the opening sequence was odd. As you face the bed (from the foot of the bed) Xavier is on the left side of the bed. He reaches out and strokes the pillow next to him. And yet, as we find out later, Teri had never slept next to him in that bed. Okay, maybe it was a "before the bunker" memory he was having. Then, in the next scene, Xavier is taking a drink from a glass of water that is on the right side of the bed, as you face the bed (from the foot of the bed). Okay, that was likely just bad editing. When Xavier goes to talk to Mike about the film footage of the day in question, Mike says, "That dude has said four words to me since we got down here." First big clue about the bunker situation. Did you notice anything in Episode 1 that seemed off?
They are surviving triplets. I always wondered why the show made so many references to them being "twins" when technically they aren't.
When I do a re-watch of this series, I often think that certain scenes and episodes were weaker than others and could have been replaced by others. I love Milo and I can see why they wanted to devote a whole episode to Jack, but the episode about his mother dying seemed out of place. It was weird that Nicky was not addressed in the flashbacks. Okay, maybe Nicky was a baby at that point. But since there was no mention of him, or scenes of a baby crib or something, that episode felt like Nicky didn't exist. Maybe they originally intended to include that episode before we knew about Nicky and it got moved to a later season.
The flashback scenes to Rebecca getting her hair cut seemed out of place and like they didn't really serve a purpose. However, I did get a good laugh out of young Kate's line, "Mommy is upset because she looks like He-Man". Were there any scenes or episodes that you thought were weaker than others?
I have always found it an odd creative choice to make the very last scene of the very last episode, Jack looking at Randall. This show was not about Jack or Randall or their relationship. This show was about the whole family, and how each of them developed, changed, and dealt with their challenges. It was about the people they brought into the family.
I would have thought the last scene would have been Jack and Rebecca looking at all three of the kids.
These scenes always made me laugh. Especially the last one where Beth says that Randall buys an RV and travels from parent grave, to parent grave and ends up in Puerto Rico swimming with Miguel's dead mother.
There were a couple of things about this show that have never made sense to me. One was Randall's nasty voicemail to Beth. Yeah, I get he was angry. However, Beth and Randall had been angry with each other before and he never spoke to her in such a shitty way.
Another thing that never made sense to me was Jack's refusal to make things right with his only brother. That was very "un-Jack" of him. I have rewatched the whole series several times and these two things always feel out of context for the characters. Anyone else have any things that didn't make sense for them?