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May I just say?
I lovelovelove Brian's lawyer and the fact that he is a total shark who demolished Mel and Michael's lawyers in about two minutes flat.
Also, did they cut the lighting budget? Turn on the damn lights.
I liked this one too, nice interactions between Brian and Justin, Brian and Ted, Ted and Justin and Brian, Ted and Emmett...
Speaking of Emmett, OMG I love him so much!
Guess I'll end now since this is incoherent but I'm totally with the Brian Lawyer love. Add him to Alex the Shrink and Tom the Rev as people I'd like to see back again.
ETA: Lawyer's name is Mr. Gabriel! Love.
I lovelovelove Brian's lawyer and the fact that he is a total shark who demolished Mel and Michael's lawyers in about two minutes flat.
Also, did they cut the lighting budget? Turn on the damn lights.
I liked this one too, nice interactions between Brian and Justin, Brian and Ted, Ted and Justin and Brian, Ted and Emmett...
Speaking of Emmett, OMG I love him so much!
Guess I'll end now since this is incoherent but I'm totally with the Brian Lawyer love. Add him to Alex the Shrink and Tom the Rev as people I'd like to see back again.
ETA: Lawyer's name is Mr. Gabriel! Love.
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This story line is interrupting the "Brian and Justin Show". THAT's what ticks me off.
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Mel really IS an idiot. She brought all this on herself by being a selfish, mean-spirited bitch. Serves her right. But I feel sorry for JR and even more so for Gus - everyone ignores him and yells at each other. Poor kiddie.
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Um, link? I'm embarassed to admit I'm on my little LJ Island here. I never go anywhere else, lol.
Several people mentioned the low lighting this season so far. Maybe = ominous??
Oh please God I hope not. I so don't want to deal with anything ominous.
Also, totally with you on the Gus thing. They constatly fight and snipe in front of the poor kid.
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Most of the discussion threads are safe for virgins; there's a separate Spoilers Only thread. I'm not a virgin but some of my friends are, so everyone tries to be very careful.
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It's supposed to be a "dark" season. Heh. Heh.
CowLip - NOT kings of subtlety.
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Probably my fave minor character thus far. ^_^
But...yeah. Silly lights. Such subtle nuances...(/sarcasm)
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Brian, Justin and Ted is my OT3. ;-)
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I was thinking the exact same thing =))
Killer Lawyers
I don't care if he was Brian's lawyer--a horrid lawyer is a horrid lawyer. To use Michael's sexuality and going to gay bars is like a lawyer parading a woman's sexual history in a rape case. Lindz is right; they'll never forgive her and they shouldn't. (In RL anyway; probably not in Cowlip World.)
I'm aware that Cowlip have made many of the characters into caricatures in many ways: Ted is the sad sack Eyore and Mel is the raving lesbian bitch--(and incompetent lawyer to further the story line--grrrr). And I understand that people are reacting to that when they hate Mel. And that people will love Brian no matter what.
That there are so many who are so pro about something like this just because he's 'Brian's lawyer' really throws me for a loop. If any another character had sic'ed a lawyer like this on another character I think a lot of people would have a different take on it.
Don't get me wrong. I think everyone in this mess has made bad decisions. And I'm finding it harder and harder to keep liking Mel as they make her more and more shrill. But I just can't get excited about watching a lawyer get vicious like that.
I think that Lindz overreacted just like Michael did. They're both throwing fuel on the fire. And yes, the big losers are the kids. It also creeps me out that she keeps running to Brian. I still say she harbors fantasies about her and Brian. REALLY creeps me out.
I don't mean to step on any toes here. But the whole lawyer thing really got to me when I watched it last night and reading the comments here brought it all back.
I don't imagine many will agree with me, but it felt good to vent a little bit.
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I'm not pro about this because he's Brian's lawyer, I'm pro because he's a great lawyer. Mel and Michael were so busy sniping at each other and making this all about themselves and it was going to drag on forever with hearings and court dates and fighting. Lindsay was the only one who seemed to have any care at all about the kids and her lawyer stepped in ans stopped the whole thing cold. It was made clear to one and all that they had to get along and get along now or go to court and risk losing everything, which is exactly what would have happened had he not done what he did.
You can count on the fact the Mel and Michael's lawyers would have pulled out the low blows when court rolled around and Mel had already made it clear that she wasn;t going to play fair. Lindsay should 'trust her'? and Michael and Ben can spend time with Jenny Rebecca when she's 4 or 5?
Nope, Mr. Gabriel put a swift and just end to it. As far as Michael or Mel not forgiving her, who cares? Mel has already not forgiven her and both of them are trying to cut her out. If it was my kid at risk I'd want him on my side and I'd play as dirty as I had to.
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And has this stopped it all cold? Will this stop anything or just make it worse? Now the kids are being divided up 3 ways. If Mel and Lindz had showed a united front it might have in fact helped to calm things with Michael. Not to mention that it might have helped Mel and Lindz start to learn to trust each other again. IMO, Lindz's choices are as bad as Michael's.
And if--or when--Mel and Michael let their lawyers go so low I'll be pissed then too.
If I had a child I'd fight for him or her too, but I wouldn't do what Lindsay and this lawyer did. Once one side goes low the other side does it too and it's tit for tat and then everyone is in the muck--and no one wins. I don't think good lawyering means taking something from someone's past and twisitng it so that you hurt or destroy the person.
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He is Brian's lawyer, but you're implying that that is why I like him. It isn't. I like him because I like him as a lawyer and as a character. Had Lindsay gone out anf ound him and hired him and paid for him I'd love him just as much and I'd be referring to him as Lindsay's lawyer.
As far as Gabriel destroying anyone he didn't do that at all. He merely pointed out in a closed meeting that everyone has flaws and no one should go into court thinking that they are holier than thou or better than anyone else. He didn't trot any of that out in a public forum and because he did bring it up in private it never will be brought up in a public forum.
Mel had already made it clear that she intended to play it nasty in her meeting with Michael and Michael is playing it nasty out of some sort of foolish mememe attitude that somehow he is a batter parent for a nursing newborn just because he has a husband.
I have no sympathy for any of them and hate the whole story line so I lveod seeing all their cases demolished. and the whole thing brought to a swift conclusion. Now with any luck they'll all get some brains and figure out what's best for the kids without trotting out the lawyers. After all, Lindsay didn't start with the lawyers, she was the last one into the fray.