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Episode 9.12 - The Chairman
Cold, rainy day in Central Iowa. I'm off this week and heading to the grocery store in a minute for goodies.
I'm looking forward to tonight's episode.
What's your snack?
Added: it's a slice of apple pie for me 
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IW, I decided on Entenmenn's Raspberry Cream Puffs!
However, my cable is out!! 🙄 I will have to find another way to see it tomorrow? I guess I will be reading about it later....
It's a shame you have no crackers
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Yummy! Cream puffs are great, too.
I hope you find another way to watch the episode!
It wasn't bad, but I felt it was more of a filler episode. I won't give much away . . .
I'm also wondering if history is being re-written: they were calling the fulcrum a flash drive.
Time will tell, but I feel like they are taking at least two of the older story arcs in new directions
and that will take bending some of the initial history of the show. See what you think after you've watched.
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Good episode. Apparently nothing happened other than graveside chatter! Each member accused another of being devious and deceptive. Park as a hired assassin still rings hilarious!
Harold gonna be super circumspect every time Red gives him a Blacklister - almost every one of them has a deep connection to Red. Harold should just ask him - "and whats your connection to #___, Pinky?"
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Big Badd Bazzer wrote:
Harold should just ask him - "and whats your connection to #___, Pinky?"
LOL! That is SO true!
I've been attending a conference, so I haven't checked in much here this week. Even during the long breaks, I normally look at the board at least once per day, and there are usually one or two bots trying to join that I need to reject and banish. Most have .ru domain names and they always answer the questions totally wrong. So i changed the questions and that seems to have gotten rid of them for now.
I did watch the episode on Friday. Thank you, Iowa Watcher, for starting the discussion thread! When the show airs on the east coast it is 3 PM my time and I am not always near anything with web access at that time. One thing they made clear is that Cooper is totally in with Red as Agnes' grandparent, in this case, grandfather. And then they had Red talking about his father, and I don't know about you all, but it didn't really sound to me like he was talking about Dom. If it recorded, I will need to watch that scene again. Well, Red's need to know the truth obviously trumps Ressler's need to let it be, and he convinced Harold that they needed to do it. I don't remember Liz swallowing a tracking device when she was dealing with Townsend. No wonder she couldn't shut it off!
Yes, it was definitely a bridge episode because we are still following Red's search for who had Liz killed. I have a feeling this person or persons is going to be the driving story getting us into season 10.
I guess you could call the Fulcrum a flash drive. 30 year old technology-version of a flash drive anyway. Don't forget, back in those days we were still using floppy disks and computer memory was still measured in megabytes. 
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Oh, I remember, HW. I connected to the BBS with Telix and waded through more than my share of bad ASCII "art," back before AOL came out with all of their free discs, which changed the makeup of the boards forever. Prior to that, most users had some sort of computer engineering background or were curious enough to learn what they needed to know . . . whole different crowd in those days, LOL!
But, yes, it didn't sound like Red wasn't talking about Dom, plus the stuff about the rabbit caught my ear, as well. Would Red really remember that about the bunny? Yes, a rewatch will happen here, too, at some point.
BBB: HA! Yes, what's your connection, Pinky? Good one!
They should host a writing contest. A lot of the fans would write much better episodes. They could take the best of those and finish out the show with them.
(I know. Won't happen. Writer's Union . . . )
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LOL! IW! Some friends had a BBS and we would spend hours typing messages to each other. Had a 300 baud modem on a Commodore 64 computer on my end and they were using a Commodore 128 with a 1200 baud modem! Ha! We could have communicated so much faster by just calling on the phone. I guess it was the novelty of using computers to type at each other. 
Yes, the bunny and father stuff definitely needs to be reviewed.
A writing contest. Yes, that would be fun, but not likely, as you said.
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About the Cooper-RR ruminations re “talking to the dead” --- TBL Refugee comments above sent me back to the Artax Network episode in Season 3. Dom was a complex, multi-talented Russian. As a pianist he could play Rachmaninoff. He had stacks of music scores by his cabin piano (e.g., Gilbert and Sullivan). He kept theater or ballet glitter that inspired one of RR’s most poetic monologues. Dom had a carpentry workshop. His cabin walls were packed with Euro-Asian art. A single landscape, which was not framed behind glass, looked like a real painting: artist … unknown. Perhaps this painting later hung in RR’s bathroom after Dom’s death. Or perhaps not.
For me the golden clue in the Cooper- RR chats was when Red reminisced about Lizzy being a colicky baby. A dictionary told me that colic rarely lasts longer than 3 weeks after birth. Only Lizzy’s parent (or Mr. Kaplan) would know of this intimacy.
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