<p>^^oh I agree, whether we want to admit it or not, most of us have probably felt like ditching the whole dam-fam at some point! She fulfilled my fantasy…I was cheering!! </p>
<p>And yes, hate the Sarah/Seth scenario. I’m hoping she wakes up and sees that she should let go and move on, for everyone’s sake.</p>
<p>I loved Kristina dumping the family. They were behaving badly and needed a reality check and they were close enough to home. That family fun night was going nowhere the way they were acting. I liked her talking about her feelings about Haddie going off, but in the past I have felt that Haddie had to take care of Kristina too much emotionally, so in that context it bothered me a bit. I totally bought Julia on the sushi thing. When my SIL got pregnant the first time, I noticed her swilling wine at a family dinner and I had to explain to her why she shouldn’t do that. She just didn’t know and was glad I told her.</p>
<p>I haven’t left my family on the side of the road, although there were long car trips where I might have been tempted. I did run away from home one night; the kids were bickering, my husband was late, and as I pulled dinner out of the oven, I dropped the pan! I had had enough, grabbed my keys, and left. I wondered the mall until closing while the family kept calling my cell phone which I ignored. When I got home the kids were bathed and in bed, the kitchen was cleaned and I don’t remember what my husband was doing, but I would guess watching tv! For a few days everyone behaved and to this day some 15 or so years later, they all still talk about the day mom ran away from home ;)</p>
<p>Am watching what I missed right now. The Seth thing makes me sick. The teacher is gonna get crushed.</p>
<p>Add me to the pro family dump crowd, they are all so wrapped up in themselves and Kristina seems on an island ( literally the kitchen island) by herself with the baby, someone has to try & pull that family together. I could totally see myself doing just what she did.</p>
<p>Also agree Sarah/Seth thing is off, he doesn’t seems sincere and her going along so completely is crazy and I really hated her putting her kids on the spot to fell bad for him really!? bad enough she is so willing to let him off easy by being there for him but respect the kids rights to not want to have anything to do with him till he is longtime sober and made true amends.</p>
<p>Ohhhh No! She kissed him! This Sarah is just like her character on Gilmore Girls - always doing the wrong stupid thing!</p>
<p>this story line(sarah/seth) is driving me crazy</p>
<p>Phew. He’s gone for now.</p>
<p>End of the promo makes me annoyed. Big TV Trope for the ‘hot assistant/secretary to get drunk with boss and then end of making out’ makes me squirm and be angry. Hopefully nothing comes out of it.</p>
<p>snowball-great story!</p>
<p>I have always liked Mae Whitman based on how cute she was in One Fine Day. I loved her performance last night when Amber nudged Seth out of the picture.</p>
<p>She is a wonderful actress.</p>
<p>I get mad thinking about that kiss with the hot secretary. I predict dh won’t want to watch with me next week.</p>
<p>I liked the episode. I think the Sarah/Seth storyline and Sarah’s behavior is pretty realistic. As she said, she can see the man he should have become, and she still loves him, even if she’s looking at things with rose-colored glasses. It’s the storyline with Jason Ritter that I find increasingly unrealistic. She’s toying with him, and she’s old enough to know that you can’t, honestly, have two ongoing relationships. I’m not saying that it’s wise for her to pursue anything further with Seth, it probably isn’t, but it isn’t surprising, given her history.</p>
<p>My favorite scene was the one with Drew and Amy, when he said “if we don’t want to confuse the elderly, we could just tell them that you’re my girlfriend”. Miles Heizer is a wonderful young actor and so perfect in this role.</p>
<p>I think the introduction of the hot assistant is stupid. Such an obvious attempt to create drama is, in my opinion, lazy and sloppy writing. With the writing team that Parenthood has, they don’t need to inject this type of conflict to the many, on-going storylines.</p>
<p>Good episode.</p>
<p>I loved how Zeke thought he was so cool that he had met Grace Slick and the young girls had no idea who she was. </p>
<p>I hope Sarah keeps Jason Ritter around because I really like him.</p>
<p>HATED the promos for the secretary/Adam thing. Why in the world would such a hot girl be interested in Adam? Definitely my husband should be out of the room when I watch that.</p>
<p>I loved Amber last night, such guts, think about it, at her age, to both be able to stay firm with Seth “I am doing this for Mom” so he is clear that he is not yet forgiven and then to see the big picture and have the guts to ask him to leave (possibly putting him in a less stable situation which risks his rehab) in order to save her Mom. I like her as an actress and I like what the writers are doing with her role.</p>
<p>I was channel surfing the other night and came across “Independence Day.” The little girl who plays the president’s daughter looked so familiar, and then it hit me that she is Amber. She was so young and so cute, but already had that “I’m stronger than you think I am” look on her face.</p>
<p>If you really want to see Mae Whitman with that “I’m stronger than you think I am” look, rent the movie of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.</p>
<p>I liked last night, too, at least after the super-creepy kiss between Sarah and Seth. I liked Zeke’s desperation not to be left out. I liked Drew and Amy dancing around the question of whether she was his girlfriend. I liked the realistic issues of post-partum marital relations and “Is it a problem if we hire the sexy girl?” I liked the two Crosby-Dr. Joe exchanges. I liked that Seth realized that leaving was something meaningful he could do for Amber, and I liked the birthday cards. And I also liked seeing Bonnie Bedelia again after she had missed an episode or so, and NOT seeing quite so much of Julia, my least favorite Braverman.</p>
<p>I like Julia. She and Adam are my favorite Braverman siblings. I think it’s because they act like adults. I just don’t enjoy watching people who are pushing forty and have kids of their own, yet still haven’t figured out how to be adults. I expect adults to have problems, issues, etc., but I just don’t think Sarah and Crosby have totally grown up yet. Sarah’s daughter seems more mature than her in some ways.</p>
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That’s what really happens, often, with young women growing up in her situation. (Older sibling, parents with substance abuse problems – it’s presented as being only Seth’s issue, but Sarah didn’t leave Seth until Amber was already in her mid-teen, so one way or another that kid had a lot on her shoulders from a very young age.)</p>
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<p>I totally get that, and agree with it a lot. It’s a fine line, and Parenthood sometimes crosses back and forth over it: On the one hand, turning people’s (my) internal insecurities about whether they are really sufficiently adult into external plots, and on the other having ridiculous, immature characters. Julia, though, too often represents a complete cliche, the anal, have-it-all, judgmental supermom. I did like it, however, when she realized how horribly she was coming across telling her babymama what to eat, and then she had to hide in her office all day out of embarrassment.</p>