Well, we’ve seen Joan destroy property and steal from her parents, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen her deliberately disobey them. (Unless I forgot something) It should be very interesting!
See you at 9pm!
Well, my husband and I have a date tonight (woo hoo!), so I won’t be home to watch this or my beloved Third Watch (and its crossover with Medical Investigation), so my VCR will be getting a workout tonight.
I’ll watch it tomorrow and check back in sometime then. Keep the thread warm for me!
I am really looking forward to Joan tonight. My husband, who is on a job interview in another state, called earlier, and I told him not to call at 7pm my time because Joan is on at that time. 
BiblioCat FWIW, Medical Investigation is looked on as a joke by Public Health Depts.(Again this comes from my Sweetie who is on a Bioterriorist Response Team, if you can believe it the show has been discussed at seminars!)
Oh my goodness!
Well, I wasn’t expecting that to almost happen. I mean, two teenaged kids in the back of a camper is a recipe for trouble, but I didn’t expect Adam to apply the pressure. He’s come a long way since the shy, I’m-afraid-to-look-Jane-in-the-eyes thing. I mean, last week he was playing head games with her! I’m not sure I like it. I’m glad they didn’t. I have to watch this show with my 12-year-old.
I also didn’t expect Andy to show up at Kevin’s seminar. It was very touching, and I hope Joan’s little talking-to helps him.
Anyone want to bet Helen knew exactly what Joan was up to? She’s not stupid. She’s very intuitive 
and I know she wasn’t scammed with Joan’s, “Oh, I can’t go on an overnight concert trip with Adam? Fine. I’ll just…spend the night at Grace’s! Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
The box with the photographs was very sad and ironic. But surely the brothers would have known Dear Old Mum didn’t have a lot of money?
Friedman is so clueless. I thought he might have still been mourning Judith, but no, he’s just clueless.
“A recipie for trouble”, indeed.
I remember (dimly) being in a similar situation. Back of a pickup truck, parked by the river. I wanted to, she didn’t, and we didn’t, but it wasn’t easy for either of us. When the heavy breathing starts, it’s very hard to stop.
But, it isn’t impossible. This episode spoke to me quite directly, because it is almost frightening just HOW similar it was to my own situation in 1976…
We didn’t that night, but it wasn’t that much later on. Now that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, the subject is bound to come up again.
It bothered me at the end of the show that Adam wasn’t holding Joan. She had her arms crossed across her chest. scuffing her feet, very nervous, and Adam was close but not touching her.
Nice to see that even Saint Adam can be a horny bastard!
Nicely done, this one. More exploration of Adam and Joan’s relationship, and a nice added touch of the U2 song again (written by the lead singer about his father, but works for many configurations) to emphasize the closeness of Joan and her mother.
I dunno…I really haven’t enjoyed the last three episodes. Maybe it’s just me, but Joan seems to be coming off as really obnoxious lately.
As the mother of a teenaged girl let me tell you–she pegged it. Even the screeching (at her mother) was authentic. I thought Amber played the character perfectly.
I watched this episode with my daughter and we were both feeling a kinship with the characters. Of course, I was yelling at Adam for being a jerk and my daughter was…not…but that’s ok. It was nicely done.
I liked it. I also think Amber played it spot on with the interaction with her mom. I especially liked when Joan came home and Helen had baked cupcakes.
I missed the previews for next week, anyone update me please?
Next week they’re playing Cupid for Stevie and Friedman.
So nobody thought God was telling Joan to put out?
“Joan, you don’t want to be independent and alone - give in to your boyfriend.” 
Okay, probably not :D. Still I was mildly amused when that thought briefly flitted through my head - I would have been even more amused if that thought had flitted through Joan’s head as well, before she dismissed it. But then I guess a little humour would have hurt the gravitas of the scene.
- Tamerlane
At long last, a meager sign of growth. But I’ll take what I can get. I’m talking about Joan’s conversation with Kevin’s buddy, realizing that her advice to him about making decisions applied as well to her. That’s the sort of thing I’ve been wanting to see.
God’s pronoucements on this show as elsewhere are often ambigous. So, yeah, the thought probably did occur to her.
Is it me, or did God seriously botch the details while telling the story of Persephone? God’s explanation made it sound as if Persephone got to return to her mother only a couple days a year.
Oh, I forgot about the Persephone thing. First off, he left out a huge part. Persephone did not leave her mother. Hades kidnapped her, and she was tricked into staying by eating a pomegrante (sp?). She had to stay with Hades one month for every seed she ate, which I believe was six or seven. So during the six or seven months she was gone, Demeter made the Earth winter. When Persephone came home, then it was spring. But Persephone didn’t take off on her own.
Remember when God told Joan to give Adam a gift, and she thought it was you know what? She went to the hotel room to seduce him, and ended up giving him a nice picture of the two of them later on.
Yeah, that bit got a big :rolleyes: from me. If my 16-year-old daughter tried that with me, I’d know in an instant what was up. I kept waiting for Helen to say something to Will, or even admit to Joan that she knew all along, but she never did. I’m wondering if we’re supposed to assume she knew, or if Helen’s a big moron.
I’m still bored with the police storylines. I don’t know what it is, but they just don’t grab me. As soon as I heard “safe deposit box,” I knew it would be full of something sentimental (I even guessed photos), rather than cash or jewelry.
eenerms, yes, I think Medical Investigation is terribly corny. I watched the first two or three episodes, but gave up. I had to watch it this week, though, since it was a two-parter with Third Watch.
I agree with a lot of what’s been said and thought the episode fell solidly into the “pretty good” territory, but it was no Previous Episode (which I thought was “really good,” btw).
I can’t get into the police storylines either, BiblioCat. And this one was waaay too predictable. That safe deposit box storyline has been done on other TV shows, better! I like some cop shows, but I think that the reason the cop stuff doesn’t work with this show is simple. Example: I was watching it one night, and Mr. Frail was on the computer, only half paying attention. During a cop scene, he did a double take–“Is this the same show?” It’s just not relevant enough to the parts of the show I care about, and it won’t ever get that way.