The offing of Jimmy seemed pretty strait forward by the final scene we saw him in…really, I was waiting for some kind of police action at the last minute to Save Jimmy (sort of Daughter turns state evidence against father to get immigration leneancy for example, or something a little more believable) but we didn't get…

Really an excellent episode, the peak of which was Mickey and Ian's confrontation, and Mickey informing Ian that not everyone has the luxury to just state who they are.This is something easily forgotten in this show.  While the plight of the Gallagher children are dire, they are in many ways, the luckiest of their…

They were lucky to get together in the first place. - P.T. Barnum.

Sure…but Robocop was a robot from the future, the bigger more bulky robots that were actual contemporaries just had too much physical mass to really be threatened by a human….unless they were talking about Tobor, then the fight is scewed in the other direction.  I mean they could use fictional robots, men in suits in…

You know, I didn't meet my wife, (who is very much alive) until I happened to finnally move across the country and chase some dreams, that were largely unaccesable from my previous home.   I often think about how my life might have been different had I come out earlier as I think I might have, had I not been chasing…

really it could never live up to hype….I mean even The Junkyard Dawg inhis prime wouldn't be a match for a comperable old school Robot like Roboasaurus in a cage match.

ahh well…would have been cool.   Of course, this show relies so much on an unreliable narrator, that I could never discount that they could throw a real curve ball, something, like "now kids I know I said person X wasn't your mother, but that's because she didn't become you mother till we met that fateful day and she…

Just such a wonderful episode.  Anyshow that can pull off a perfectly executed gear shift like that, from light airy comedy to emotional poignancy is always going to be one fondly remembered long after it's run is over (sort of like the whole premise of the show).

The key is to have an advanced directive, that includes whether or not you consent to and from whom you consent to receive oral stimulation as a theraputic technique. So long as you plan ahead you avoid the whole question.

Lip is very intelegent, but then again he is also surrounded by short sticks by which he is measured.   It is sort of the Ben Grimm Problem in reverse.  People think Ben Grimm (test pilot, aronautical engineer, and astronaut) is a big dumb lug, primarily because he hangs out with the worlds smartest man, and so looks…

Personally I had thought that there would be a reveal that the mother was infact on the pill or had already entered menopause, and was just engaging in the activity because she wanted to have sex with Kev, but that is obviously not going to be the case now.  I'm going to go out on a limb here, and just say that the…

No,I do agree with you, the beneficial result does not make it not rape, if for example, an orderly had come along and just decided to have a go with a coma victim who came to due to the action, doesn't discount his act of rape.  This however isn't that situation, in truth, the rapiness of the situation isn't…

Which just goes to show, Lip is just a few shots short of being Frank…scarry thought when you realize how close you really are to being exactly what you do not want to be.  Hopefully Lip recognizes it before it's too late.

I kind of wonder if they willl be going back to the well of "he's not really the father" after all we know the Russian is a prostitute, so that she is pregnant doesn't necessarily mean she is preganant with Mickey's kid.

Incidentally, Frank knows big words because he is a highly intelegent well read individual, a unique subset of deralic that although not the majority is not uncommon.  Often their stories start out with great success destroyed by addicition, but just as common, they were just a poor kid like Lip, too smart for their…

Frank does serve a purpose, he is the object lesson that all the Gallaghers need to observe, and he is also the explaination why smart people make stupid choices.   Frank can, with only his wit, intelect, and gab find his way through a wild life where he is up, then down, then up higher then ever before.  He is the…

Karen is the far worse girlfriend because her motives are selfish.  She wants Lip not because she loves him, but beause he is a high status male and she feels she deserves him.   Mandy perhaps chases after Lip for the same reason, but at least cares enough about Lips life to try and make it better.  Yes they are both…

If they actaully let Lip go to college, he will definatly meet someone as smart as him, but will also likely get his ass handed to him academically, when suddenly he's not the smartest kid in school anymore.  That is assuming he even gets into MIT, since his whole "I'm not going to classes" thing probably isn't the…

It was kind of telegraphed from the moment that the doctor told them to do something that she likes, followed by the prince comments.  I suppose we should be thankful it wasn't Lip bringing her out of the coma given all that.

With regard to the question raised regarding the coma oral sex, and Karen's inability to consent, it is repulsive to our sense of sexual autonomy, however within the context of the story I felt it was played in such a way as to removed a sexual dynamic from the question.