I looked for a thread and didn’t see one. I watched it Friday night, and I don’t know if it was a repeat from earlier in the week, because Friday’s not the usual night.
Anyhoo, great episode. Matt was even tolerable. I don’t know what that means. Are the writers inconsistent with him, or are they doing a great job creating a multi-faceted, complex character?
I didn’t care for the Santa and Mrs. Claus subplot, but the rest of it was fine, especially Sean in the family clinic – his facial expressions were heartbreaking. He was really only thinking of what was best for Julia.
Christian bringing the baby to Mrs. Claus was also heartbreaking, and so sympathetic, that he swaddled the jar in a blanket.
Next week, a two hour finale, and the Slasher’s identity is revealed. I hope Kimber’s still alive somewhere.
Can you tell me what happened at the very end. I left off with Christian and Matt eating chinese. What happened with the nativity scene, Julia and the pregnancy–and who is the dad?!?
I always seem to miss the last minute or two. Stupid ReplayTV :smack:
Well, it’s been made clear that Julia and Quentin never had sex, but Julia and Sean did recently (Matt walked in on the aftermath) so it’s pretty clear Sean’s the daddy…
Matt and his girlfriend had painted the Nativity figures with white paint and replaced them in the scene, but rain washed the white off.
I wondered for a minute if this was going to be a miraculous pregnancy. Quentin talked about ejaculating when he was in a jacuzzi with Julia – what did he say? Something about “shooting into the stream”?
But yeah, it’s Sean’s baby, and Julia and Sean both know it.
Do you think Matt had an ulterior motive for telling his GF’s dad about her black heritage? That maybe he didn’t really believe dad would accept it but he told him anyway, to force them to rethink some things?
No, I think that in spite of his current “rebel without a clue” pose he’s basically a well raised liberal little punk who can’t actually believe that someone holds radically different values from his. He was operating out of cutesy-fuzzy “can’t we all just get along” afterschool special let’s make it all better before the final credits motives figuring that once they know the truth it will of COURSE make it all better and dad & daughter will make up and Learn Something About Themselves as the schmaltzy music plays in the background. The fact that she might just be right about Dad and his craziness just doesn’t occur to the little weasel.
It’s this kind of attitude, in fact, that pisses me off so much about the character of Matt. I went to school with these spoiled rotten little pantywaists who fell apart as soon as the tiniest little bit of cloud spoiled the perfect sunshine of their endless birthday party lives. They’d then freak out and put on this endless embittered bitch act and make everyone miserable, but feel all justified because they had been disappointed about something.
Oh, your mom lied to you about who your dad is–well shit, boy, who says it’s any of your business anyway and besides she didn’t know herself! Not to mention that instead of having a cool dad and a REALLY cool uncle, you have two cool dads–what the hell are you bitching about?
Aww, poor baby, your totally inappropriate older woman lover turned out to be a really good tranny–deal, you puss! Does it actually matter what her DNA is if you’re both having fun? Besides, she lied to you as fast as a horse can trot, abused her kid to a fare thee well, and then left him dead in her apartment for you to find–and what you’re pissed off about is that your parents rubbed your nose in what a toxic influence she was on you and your cool uncle fucked her to get rid of her, and she walked off without a glance back.
Matt’s an idiot and I detest his character–I could go on ad infinitum but it will just piss me off worse. Suffice to say he’s a spoiled little brat and I cheered when the girls beat him up and pissed all over him. Too bad they didn’t kick his stupid head in and do us all a favor…
Am I the only one who thinks it’s kinda weird and vaguely icky that Joely Richardson and John Hensley are an item IRL?
It’s not the age difference (I assume there is one), but the mom-son thing. It’d be like Richie Cunningham’s mom and Fonzie getting together. Or June Cleaver and Eddie Haskell.