"What also struck me is this psychopath managed to murder all of the childfree people in that room. I guess their lives were far more meaningless. Unless I'm reading this story incorrectly?"

I told my sister the same thing. And her boyfriend opted not to go to Penn State because of this.

See if you can change her focus to just being healthy instead of losing weight. With all due respect to AB, as someone with PCOS who has real issues with weight, both being able to lose it and mysteriously gaining it, there is nothing that infuriates me more than someone who says 'you just have to treat your body…

I'm pretty team-Spike, I admit, but I think he just has a more interesting development than Angel. (Plus, he's the better actor, so that helps.)

Thank you! That's very nice to hear.

I didn't really mean to write you an essay, honest. I do a retro-recap series for another site and write about Buffy extensively, so I probably spend more time thinking about this than the average bear.

"We never actually see him say 'give me my soul'"

I thought there was a significant passage of time between the events at the end of season 7 and where season 8 picks up. I mean, they had an actual army. They had a castle in Scotland. That doesn't just fall out of the air.

That's not true, since Caytlin and Tyler were on the show after giving up their daughter for adoption.

Its a bit more than habitual yelling. She's manipulative, mean, and has no problem using the baby as a wedge to make her daughter do as she wishes. She strong-armed Janelle into giving up custody (which is maybe not the worst thing, but it does mean Barb has responsibility for Jace, not Janelle), thrown the girl out…

She choose to live with her mother, or the show encourages it for drama?

They do fuck with the continuity editing — last week there was an example of Janelle's fingernails magically changing length and color on the 'same' day.

So, wait, we're supposed to hate Janelle for the stuff that happens on an edited 'reality' show, but we're not supposed to draw fairly obvious conclusions from her mother's behavior on the same show? It's not just Barbara's yelling that is an issue. Janelle is no peach, but its obvious she didn't have the best…

Well, we don't see her doing that now. Who knows what she was up to at Jenelle's age?

It makes her look like a middle aged soccer mom trying to stay young. She is young!

I'd rather have a fund to by him a new nuclear family.

I would have definitely guessed mid-40s.

Well, thanks to medical magic, women can keep having babies into their forties. I just have a hard time believing that she is 3 years older than I am.

Is she really 40? Or am I really terrible at guessing people's ages?

Well, to a point. Some kids are able to break free of asshole parents, and some of them just end up becoming assholes themselves. I'm not excusing Jenelle, who is too old for this bullshit, but that is one toxic household.