I was struck by how much annoying behaviour was in just the first 5 minutes (or would be 5 without the ad break)... First, while Calvin is watching basketball on TV, Dave WILL NOT shut up about his stupid useless fridge app, being so insistent about it as if it's urgent instead of being a normal person and waiting until ads or after the game, when the entire thing is clearly useless and Calvin is clearly uninterested and VERY interested in focusing on the game. Then, the mere mention of Gemma getting a new bathroom and Tina demonstrates she doesn't deserve any nice thing ever again, that the newly renovated rooms of the house are suddenly not good enough just because the bathrooms weren't included, and clearly nothing ever will be good enough (then I was quite offended-by-proxy at her taking Calvin's clear dismissal as acceptance, and that Calvin didn't correct that). Then Marty with his non-stop ridiculous pregnancy demands of Courtney, as if he's in charge of her and her body and is in a position to be questioning her perfectly normal choices. This is actually a pet peeve of mine, people falling prey to the fallacy of making such precautions top importance under the excuse of "It's better for the baby" while forgetting how many millions of babies were born and grew up perfectly healthy before such things were known. Take these things under advisement, certainly, but they shouldn't be treated as THIS important, SO important as to question the autonomy of a NON-GIRLFRIEND adult who is highly intelligent and obviously would already be well aware. Especially by a guy who has been depicted as the most intelligent main cast member. Nobody likes being preached to or commanded, calm down. End of rant.
The episode was fine overall (though I'm always bothered by depictions of injustice, even when the message is raising awareness like this), but that was THREE large loads of annoying piled together like that, it frustrated me into writing a rare review.
The episode was fine overall (though I'm always bothered by depictions of injustice, even when the message is raising awareness like this), but that was THREE large loads of annoying piled together like that, it frustrated me into writing a rare review.
