Bobby is very attractive. Who ever picks Bobby will have to have really wide shoulders. Not only is he a cop, but he has a huge amount of baggage. She will have to help him carry it.

Laura

I'd be willing to carry it. Sometimes I think of praying for him but then realize he's not real.

I'm guilty of that. I was thinking, I better pray that everything goes well while he was at the mental hospital, and then I was like, wait. he's not real. nevermind. I do say prayers for the cast, though.

I think that is what makes Goren so appealing. He needs, wants to be taken care of. In the fantasy world, I would take care of him, I think he would go out with me.

I think Goren would take care of someone if they took care of him too.
Sweet.

Angela

I think Bobby would take care of someone even if they didn't take care of him (Mom and Frank).

Sweeter.

If I were Bobby's girl, I'd have to find a way to take care of him and keep you "men stealers" away from my man.

As it is, I'm claustrophobic (can't even get into an MRI machine) and am having anxiety attacks about Bobby being chained to that bed. What would happen if the bed legs collapsed or it tipped over. Ahhhhh!


Laura

In one interview, VDO calls that table "the slab", I think. That sounds scary!


spook

See what you've done. I need to take a prozac now (just kidding). No wonder he makes Bobby scream and cry. Kathryn says some bits of scenes are unscripted. VDO says in an interview he tries to get to the core of the character in each episode. I guess that's why we love them so much.

Girl, you'll have a fight stealing Bobby from all of us! LOL! K

this is for questions about episodes. In case anyone wanted to know.

I am curious about something in the episode Stress Position. The guard who was killed had been accepted with FDNY and the nurse was glad that he was getting out. When Bobby and Alex questioned her, Bobby noticed that she was studying to be a paramedic. I don't know if it was said or just implied that she was also trying to get out of the prison. But why would she have to change professions (well, its not that much of a change from nurse to paramedic) to get another job? Are nursing jobs that hard to come by in New York? I know that here in CA there are always positions available for nurses, especially RNs. I assumed it was the same everywhere. In fact, that is one of the perks of nursing--you can always find a job. So why was Gina feeling trapped? Of course, it was her conflict about her job that got Logan involved with the case. But every time I watch this episode (and I watch it a lot--its one of my favorites), I wonder about it.

She may have needed a change. Granted its not a big change, but she may have decided that nursing was too much. A nurse tends to have to spend more time with the patients, and working in that prision may have affeted her ablility to detatch from her patients.

I'm a retired OB/GYN nurse for 23 years, and from personal experience, nursing is a very stressful and hard work. In that episode her changing from a prison nurse to a paramedic, IMO, would be due to all the flack and harrassment she would get from inmates. I would never want to work in a prison as a nurse myself.

I am also an RN, the prisons in my area, don't hire RN's they hire LPNs and they don't make much money, compared to RNs, I am not sure what Paramedics make.

Don't know if this is the right thread, but I was watching The Good Child last night (it's on again right now...USA, 5pm cst), and noticed that it used the name of the show's unit production manager / production manager, Mary Rae Thewlis, when they show a printout of families on welfare in Buffalo...her name is shown on the list a line above the name Eames is referring to.
I just thought this was interesting...I don't always watch episodes over and over...do they do stuff like this very often?

I'm an LVN (most other states call them LPNs) and about once a year I get recruiting letters from the state for jobs in the prisons. They are always recruiting. But I just throw the letters away. Good pay, good benefits, but NO WAY! They also hire RNs for the prisons, but more LVNs. A friend at church who is a counselor at one of the prisons told me how much I would make if I went to work there, and how much more with overtime. Its a lot of money. But, good grief, I don't even like working 40 hours/week, why would I want overtime?

I was just curious about Stress Position. I get that maybe Gina wanted a different career. I just thought that if she was so stressed and scared about the abuse she saw, she could have easily gotten a job at at hospital and been out of there. I assumed she was an RN, but if she was an LPN maybe that would limit her choices more. I know some hospitals only hire RNs.

Well I think Rene Balcer has the gun locker right under Eames'... But I don't have HD so I can't be 100%. I know alot of shows, especially when they've been on for a while with the same core group of cast and crew, do that kind of thing. Have you actually READ any of the plaques for the ships in Star Trek? The Enterprise D's is like a who's who of the producers, writers & art people.

party

Does anyone know if the vampire books in Collective are real? My daughter is REALLY into vampires these days and she watched the episode with me not too long ago and wanted to know if they are real. If they are she wants to read them.

I remember the ep but not the names of the books - you can go to Amazon.com and do a search. If you can get me the names (or author), I'd be happy to look for you.

weren't they Carlotta books or something? I'm not sure how to spell it.

Thanks. All I can remember is the author's name was Carlotta something. I'll have to watch the episode again (and write it down, my brain just can't hold onto information very well anymore!). Gee, watch an episode of CI again. I am such a devoted mother!

What season is that in? I'll 'force' myself to watch it, too (lol). I'm learning my eps but still don't have seasons and titles down yet like most folks here do.

Carlotta wasn't a real author, I think it was based on Anne Rice. But the episode was Collective season 4

I think it's Carlotta Francis and the girl's name was Rosalie. But I am quite sure they are fictitious. But of course it would be better if you checked the episode yourself especially since I think it's a pretty good one ("It feels like highschool only without the zits")

seems someothers did research I did a search and found this, read the comments after.

Collective

In The X-Files, they did a lot of name-dropping. I remember a character (a park ranger of sorts) in X-Files Season 5's ep "Detour" that I thought was an odd name: Michelle Fazekas (sp?) - who works on L&O and/or SVU.


spook

I offered this inquiry before .. but no hits.. so here goes again.

has anyone else noticed that the intro for *semi-detatched* is different than any other intro? the pic of VDO in that intro is sweet.. why oh why did they start using the pic with the orsen wells hair?

*bug*

I think that I know what you're talking about bug. I have semi-detatched on tape, and I'm pretty sure that I noticed it was different, but I thought that it was from an earlier season.

Lemme look through my DVR to see if I have it on file.

bah. I don't have it on dv and I have no idea which tape it is on.

Thanks, JRyan. That answered my question.



Yes, I had noticed. Isn't that the one that shows a picture of him in that knit cap? I LOVE him in that cap.

yeah.. but the main pic with his name is the really nice one.. i LOVE that.. he has facial scruff and the shorter hair.. and just ever so slight grin.. very very sweet.

*bug*

I love that hair.
actually, I only like it in the opening credits, I didn't like it in the 'want' episode

ok, this has been bugging me for all of *checks watch* three days.

What episode was Lewis introduced? I know he was in Season 2 (ep - "Cherry Red") for a few minutes.

I've looked through season 1 and 2, but I could've accidently skipped over him.

To be honest, I didn't like the episode I saw today. "War at Home" was the name. Even though Ross was in it ALOT, Goren was very stressed out and that made me fell bad for him. Like everyone was depressed in that episode. And I thought it was rude and sad whenever Ross commented on Eam's late husband:

Ross: " Sounds like Joe was an EX to me."

Eames: " Not my ex.. He's been dead for 8 years now."

*akward silence*

Ross: "Sorry."


Thats all he says!!!!!!!! I would feel so bad, yet all he can say is " Sorry" and he doesnt even sound like he ment it.

I loved The War at Home - you begin to see the toll that Bobby's mother's illness is taking on him and how he feels he's being pulled in two different directions. And I actually thought Ross's reaction to Eames' husband was actually very human and kind of sweet (OK - I think this is twice I've defended Ross!) - it was typical not sure what to do now that I've stuck my foot in my mouth 'sorry'.

I think it was Season 1 - The Pardoner's Tale. It has to deal with a classic car that was in need of parts and Bobby & Eames go to see Lewis. (I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's the ep.)

so I checked Semi-Detatched on Netflix. No difference. I know that I've noticed that the opening on on at least one of the eps was different, but Semi-Detatched is not different from the others (at least on netflix)

Yep, it is the Pardoner's Tale. They go to see him about the getaway car. I like how Eames tells Bobby that she loves meeting his buddies right before going to Lewis' garage.

Ok. A comment aoubt the 'Ugly grey suit' that everyone is complaining about this season and the 'blindspot suit' that looked so hot on Bobby last season. THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME (I'm pretty sure). I think that it just looks worse b/c vince was so rotund the first part of the season. I think that it looked bad in self-made because he lost the weight again, and he may be a little smaller than he was last season. Not much, but enough to make a tailored suit look bad.

I just think the color makes him look washed out. I don't have any problems with the way it hangs on his body...or anything else that hangs on his body for that matter.

Oh great! Guess what I'll be doing tonight? So, Blind Spot, Self-Made, and Untethered. Yep, I'll just have to watch them all to compare the suits. Am I dedicated or what?!

Please do. I might be wrong. I will admit that the one from this season is a little lighter, but I'm attributing that to the type of camera used in filming rather than a change in suit.

Report here when you find something out.

I liked that too - In one episode the tatooed biker dude shows up at Major Case and it just makes you wonder what Bobby was like off duty or when he was a teenager. He has a WIDE variety of friends.



I'm dedicated too - It's research, remember? All for the good of the cause.

Is that the scene where Eames asks Bobby if that tatoo-ed guy is a friend of his and he says, "I hope so." ?

I love that line.


spook

Ok. I'm corn-fused. Why in the world was Bobby dancing and hummign to himself in Prisoner. I don't get it. Anyone?

I love that line too - Even though people refer to Goren as 'anti-social' I think the man is very accepting of most people and makes friends very easily when he wants to. I can see him in the check-out line at the grocery store making friends with the little old couple in front of him. He just strikes me as very open-minded (except towards dead-beat dads and abusive husbands). And what an array of friends he seems to have - language majors, bikers, mechanics, professors.



Correction to your observation Lozzie - I do NOT sell the clothing on E-bay. If I did, I would be sooooo wealthy. I keep every and anything that has come in contact with VDO. Once the scent has faded, I add it to the main sail I am sewing together for the VDOSilverClipper - every good pirate ships needs an impressive main sail and what would be better than VDO's own clothes?!

I wish I had Chimera and Janx's talent (or that of most of the folks here - I can't photoshop to save my life). Thanks for the sharpened cutlass - that could be dangerous, have you seen me with sharp objects? And the grog will come in handy, although it won't bode well for me sewing a straight line!

(And since you're back, I'm learning new things again. I need you to keep me enlightened.)

AHA! So THAT's why you wanted help with ebay, eh, Sister?

I'm on to your little scheme now!


spook