This Is Us final season

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Anonymous wrote:^^pp again, I remember! The memory boxes. Why were people convinced Kate’s was empty? It wasn’t as overflowing but we couldn’t see what was in it! My guess is there is plenty of special stuff, maybe more so than the others, and it will be revealed soon enough.

+1 Rebecca didn’t open Kate’s box yet.

She didn't open Kevin's either, right? You could just see through the handle that it was mostly full.

I was thinking about the Randall dynamic at the pool and it's interesting... I actually feel it in my family with a lot of siblings. I am a middle child (out of 6), I am pretty independent and don't need much, but I get upset that my parents don't offer as much to me as they do to my sibs. But, I know deep down they are super proud of me and just show it differently. I feel like that's what was happening with Randall - he was off on his own because he was thriving at swimming, but he was bothered that Kate and Jack were getting more attention from their parents. He didn't realize how important it was to his parents and how impressed they were by everything he accomplished.

I am youngest of three, girl, boy, girl. I got hand me downs, even my brother’s clothes. We were not poor. Sister always got first choice in every thing and my mother adored my brother. All family dynamics are different.

Especially when there are multiples. In two families of triplets I know (both with 2 boys and a girl), the boy with fewer needs (parents’ perception) got the least attention and resources. Kevin was that second boy.

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched last night, ugh, I hate all the jumping ahead. 5 seasons with toby and one night for happily ever after with the new guy.

+1. Would have rather seen more of the actual events than just snippets of them.

IMO, they have wasted a lot of episodes this season that added nothing to the overall story. THREE episodes about the stupid pool! They added nothing to the overall story of the characters.

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Anonymous wrote:Toby and Phillip have better chemistry than Kate and Phillip.

Lol! So true!

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched last night, ugh, I hate all the jumping ahead. 5 seasons with toby and one night for happily ever after with the new guy.

+1. Would have rather seen more of the actual events than just snippets of them.

IMO, they have wasted a lot of episodes this season that added nothing to the overall story. THREE episodes about the stupid pool! They added nothing to the overall story of the characters.

Definitely. All the repetition of the pool scene from different points of view was unnecessary.

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Anonymous wrote:Toby and Phillip have better chemistry than Kate and Phillip.

Lol! So true!

All those happy scenes between Kate, her kids and Philip that they skipped over before he proposed didn’t help.

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THREE episodes about the stupid pool!

we got to see Milo without a shirt though.

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Anonymous wrote:So have we noticed that Kevin is sitting with Cassidy in the preview?

Also we see Madison with new boyfriend and the twins in the family photo and Kevin standing with Rebecca with Miguel lurking behind.

I’m beginning to think the wedding ring was a decoy. He’s wear Jacks ring as Rebecca thinks he’s Jack…

I don't mean to be rude, but yes the first two things have been discussed. In like the last couple of pages.

The idea that Kevin is pretending to be Jack is absurd and gross.

If that's why he's wearing a ring I will be very very disappointed.

Serious question - is it advised that you play into a dementia/Alzheimer's patient's beliefs like these?

Do Drs. advise that you wear a wedding ring to pretend you are your dead father? Because that would surprise me. A lot.

It is advised that you do not contradict or correct them because that just escalates their anxiety. If it upset Rebecca (thinking he was Jack) that Kevin was not wearing his ring, he might wear one to calm her.

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Anonymous wrote:I just caught up on the last three episodes. Couple random thoughts…

- with all the talk about the flash forward deathbed scene(s) I figured they’d revisited it. I can’t believe how much analysis some of the people on this board have done for a couple episodes way back when.
- I’m surprised no one mentioned how chubby jack was in the Phillip proposal scene. Toby’s worst fear came true and his kid got fat, but he outgrew it or got it under control because he’s fit in the later years.

I thought I had another observation but can’t remember it now.

I think the fat Jack kid was miscast. He didn’t look like the younger or older Jacks.

Maybe miscast but I am 100% sure that making him chubby was intentional based on the tension the whole food issue created between Kate and Toby.

Young Jack has blond hair, grown-up Jack has light brown hair, and 8 year old Jack had dark brown hair? Super weird casting.

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My MIL has dementia. She does not believe that she has any children because she now thinks she is a younger woman. She thinks DH is her husband or brother. It would not be unusual for Rebecca to think Nicky might be her father and Kevin her husband.

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THREE episodes about the stupid pool!

we got to see Milo without a shirt though.

Those two are some fine looking parents!

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched last night, ugh, I hate all the jumping ahead. 5 seasons with toby and one night for happily ever after with the new guy.

+1. Would have rather seen more of the actual events than just snippets of them.

NP. I really wonder if this is all because the showrunners said this was the final season so they gave themselves a deadline and now must jam so much into remaining episodes. Does anyone know if the show was facing potential cancellation, so Fogelman et. al. decided to end it on their own terms rather than being canceled, or was this truly about "I've plotted this out so this is the expected end" and it had nothing to do with ratings, cancellation etc.? I find it hard to believe that NBC was anywhere near axing the show at the time it was announced that this was the last season.

Though if actors' contracts were getting near the point of renewal, and any actors had said they wanted to move on, that could have spurred the "we'll finish with this season" approach too.

No series benefits from being drawn out too long, for sure, and any good producer wants to end a show, not have it ended FOR them mid-plot. But I wonder if Fogelman hobbled himself and the entire show by announcing "this will be the final season" when there had been little to no real prior buildup for Kate/Philip, and way too many potential directions for Kevin's love life, etc. etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched last night, ugh, I hate all the jumping ahead. 5 seasons with toby and one night for happily ever after with the new guy.

+1. Would have rather seen more of the actual events than just snippets of them.

NP. I really wonder if this is all because the showrunners said this was the final season so they gave themselves a deadline and now must jam so much into remaining episodes. Does anyone know if the show was facing potential cancellation, so Fogelman et. al. decided to end it on their own terms rather than being canceled, or was this truly about "I've plotted this out so this is the expected end" and it had nothing to do with ratings, cancellation etc.? I find it hard to believe that NBC was anywhere near axing the show at the time it was announced that this was the last season.

Though if actors' contracts were getting near the point of renewal, and any actors had said they wanted to move on, that could have spurred the "we'll finish with this season" approach too.

No series benefits from being drawn out too long, for sure, and any good producer wants to end a show, not have it ended FOR them mid-plot. But I wonder if Fogelman hobbled himself and the entire show by announcing "this will be the final season" when there had been little to no real prior buildup for Kate/Philip, and way too many potential directions for Kevin's love life, etc. etc.

Show was probably getting too expensive. With Covid and actor contract renegotiations (with some probably not wanting to continue), probably decided to call it.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine being Jack Jr.’s girlfriend/wife the day you find out the overly dramatic story he’s been telling you for years about how the big green egg ruined his parents marriage is really just some grill they owned and used one day when they had a fight, a year and a half before they split up? Wtf

+1. If anything, I would think a massive ceiling leak would be his memory, no? The big green egg was barely involved. Just another reason to think the writers didn’t map this all out fully before throwing these flash forwards in.

Ha! Makes me think a PP's speculation about negative publicity for an appliance. I could imagine that the company who makes Crock Pot raised a bit of a stink, the show writers did the episode alluding a big green egg disaster, and the show lawyers came to the writers and said, hey, let's not go through that again. Rework your plans for the marriage implosion day.

Sure, but it’s not just the product they changed. The marriage didn’t implode that day. They got in a fight, and then apparently stayed together for another 18 months or so. Why is that the day Jack ties to his parents splitting up?

Actually, it's hard to believe Jack would have anything but a fleeting memory of that day. He's what, two or three years old? His memories would be more emotions or physical feelings. I broke my arm at age 3 trying to climb something tall after neighbor kids teased me, so I have an idea of what a 3 year old remembers during an emotional event resulting in injury. He'd have no memory of that grill. He couldn't see it, and because it was hot he couldn't have touched it, either.

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From the interviews, it seemed that at least Sterling was ready to move on.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine being Jack Jr.’s girlfriend/wife the day you find out the overly dramatic story he’s been telling you for years about how the big green egg ruined his parents marriage is really just some grill they owned and used one day when they had a fight, a year and a half before they split up? Wtf

+1. If anything, I would think a massive ceiling leak would be his memory, no? The big green egg was barely involved. Just another reason to think the writers didn’t map this all out fully before throwing these flash forwards in.

Ha! Makes me think a PP's speculation about negative publicity for an appliance. I could imagine that the company who makes Crock Pot raised a bit of a stink, the show writers did the episode alluding a big green egg disaster, and the show lawyers came to the writers and said, hey, let's not go through that again. Rework your plans for the marriage implosion day.

Sure, but it’s not just the product they changed. The marriage didn’t implode that day. They got in a fight, and then apparently stayed together for another 18 months or so. Why is that the day Jack ties to his parents splitting up?

Actually, it's hard to believe Jack would have anything but a fleeting memory of that day. He's what, two or three years old? His memories would be more emotions or physical feelings. I broke my arm at age 3 trying to climb something tall after neighbor kids teased me, so I have an idea of what a 3 year old remembers during an emotional event resulting in injury. He'd have no memory of that grill. He couldn't see it, and because it was hot he couldn't have touched it, either.

I think one of the pps was on to something about the writers deciding later that the Green Egg be associated with a tragic event (like Peleton).