I think it’s the heat (or the fact it’s a hot-beverage) more than the caffeine that makes coffee forbidden.
I’m assuming that the store was closed but that Alby and Adaleen had keys and were doing a little after hours shopping for their trip. This wasn’t really made clear. If it was open where was the clerk and if it wasn’t open then why were Alby and Adaleen stupid enough to have every light on (surely they have flashlights)?
I just popped in because I remembered the big-assed house and was going to ask about it, it had slipped my mind so far this season. I wonder what the monthly mortgage on the big custom house is and how that impacts the allegedly cash strapped Hendricksons.
Maybe in this last ep it will turn out that Sarah and Teeny and Lura and Ray Henry and the lobbyist from last season and Barb’s Indian Chief and his family and God knows who else are all stashed away in the Big House, renamed the Lodge of Forgotten Plot Points.
The Mormon’s I have known says the church interpreted “Hot drinks” to mean caffeineated drinks…aI don’t get the logic but the Mormons I have known were big on hot chocolate.
As for the coffee machines in the convenience store, yeah, that’s weird…although I read somewhere that some of the fundamentalist groups date their doctrinal split from the mainstream church back to the days BEFORE the prohibitions on alcohol and hot drinks and they can actually be more relaxed than the LDS types.
Mormons can sell coffee. They just can’t drink it.
Marriott had no problem selling coffee, liquor and even in room porn to the customers of his hotels, right?
But why would non-Mormons be around in Juniper Creek? That doesn’t make sense.
This show will go down in television history as an example of the worst, sloppiest, half-assed weak-dick writing ever.
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Yes to all. Of course it might help to know if this store is IN Juniper Creek or on the road that goes by Juniper Creek; if the latter then it probably sells it to passersby.
Colorado City/Hildale are very isolated and surrounded by desert. They’re a place I think you only really get to unless you’re going to Colorado City/Hildale- you don’t pass through them going somewhere else. There’s a state highway but not a major U.S. highway or Interstate within 20 miles (I-15 is about 25 miles away) so you don’t pass through it going to another place. I wonder if there are any polygamist compounds that are close to a major highway or Interstate.
When the rest of the family confronted Nicki about sending Cara Lynn to boarding school, did anyone else think of Teenie when Barb yelled “You thought we wouldn’t notice she was gone?”
Maybe Joey and Wanda will be there too.
and Alby somehow escapes, and joins the Carnivale?
The FLDS do not follow the same Word of Wisdom prohibitions that the mainstream mormons do. Carolyn Jessop explained this in detail in her book, “Escape.” (Which I believe you have or have read, is that correct? I know you’ve referenced it in this thread.) She also talked about how the FLDS also drink wine and beer. FLDS do not view D&C 89 as a commandment like the mainstream mormons do; to them, it’s more like a gentle suggestion.
Scott, Sarah, and Teenie are all supposed to be back for the finale.
Why did Alby go to the Senate building at night? Wouldn’t it make sense to go when it’s in session? He had no way to know Bill was going to be there at that time, and with Alby looking for him, Bill should not have been there anyway. It’s like Alby showed up to kill the security guard and got lucky Bill was in his office. There were a couple of things in this episode that were hard to explain. The bulldozing of the Grant homestead was another (although it was one of the most dramatic things in the episode).
And we now have confirmation Ben and Rhonda had sex offscreen. We were pretty sure that happened and I don’t mind that this show is not sexually explicit, but there was no reason we had to wonder about that - or about Cara Lynn and her teacher earlier.
The scene with Nicki and Cara Lynn was really a shocker. Yes, Nicki was obviously talking about herself and I think we knew she does not like herself. Still, those were absolutely horrible things to say. She’s disappointed in Cara Lynn and from her point of view she may have felt that saying those things would discourage Cara Lynn from being like her. Still, Nicki’s failings are that she is self centered, stern, and sheltered. She is not normally blood-curdlingly horrible. That may have just been too much but I’ll grant that it was interesting.
The copper wiring thing was very Frank. It didn’t serve any particular purpose, but it was Frank.
To be a foil for Nicki, I guess. It is not realistic that she has adjusted so well and so quickly (although at this point I have no idea how long she’s been with the family). I think a couple of people commented on this earlier. Remember what she was like her first few episodes?
Yeah, that was much too obvious. Even though I don’t think Alby had any reason to go to the Senate office at that time of night, it was obvious as soon as she left the room. I think my exact thought was “Well, that’s a stupid death.”
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My understanding of the tithe, is that it is 10% of your income. If you are unemployed, your income is -0-. 10% of -0- = -0-. How could the LDS (or God for that matter) expect you to continue pay 10% of your previous income?
Just rewatched it, and while I saw a hot cocoa dispenser and a soda dispenser, I actually did not see a coffee dispenser. Are we sure there was one?
I assumed Alby had been following/stalking Bill since he escaped from the Gas Station Showdown. He saw Bill go into the capitol and followed him in.
I haven’t rewatched it, but I’ve been reading along in this thread and this was my impression, too.
Well, you can’t pay 10% on nothing, but if you don’t pay tithing, then you don’t get a temple recommend. Pure and simple. For that reason, some people will pay tithing on unemployment, disability, or Social Security benefits. Some people pay tithing on things like inheritance and insurance settlements. Or student loans. If mormons don’t go to the temple, they don’t get into the highest level of heaven, where they can be with their families for eternity. That is a powerful motivator for a believer. So there’s no need to coerce or force anyone into paying tithing. The doctrine does that for the church.
This. Frank is exactly the kind of guy who’d squirrel away a small fortune, but never spend a single penny of it unless he really, really, had too.
On the other hand the line “Our son has purged Juniper Creek of the last of the hated Grants” or whatever that was… that stuck out like a sore thumb. That didn’t sound like Frank.
I don’t know-- I thought it did. I mean, yeah, Frank is a crazy, cantankerous bastard-- but even crazy, cantankerous bastards have their moments of clarity and pride. i thought it was a touching moment. I mean, we’ve known all along that deep down Frank and Lois were proud of what their son was doing, even if they fought it, but this just cements it.