This episode started off pretty boring and was on the way to becoming a very uneventful one at that, maybe even the "worst" episode ever in its entire run. But somehow it morphed from a 2 Star episode to that of 4 1/2 Stars. It started off slow and ended up incredibly strong. A lot of stuff went down with Max, Drew, Sarah, Zeek and Crosby, Zoey and Julia and of course Kristina, Amber and the douche Congressman. This one was a really good episode all around and I can't wait till next week. Pretty cool to see John Corbett show up at the end.

I’ve lived through some pretty hard life experiences and what I’ve learned is, it is so easy to make follow up emotional decisions that should have been thought out. Sarah, Mark and even Seth I think are in very delicate emotional states that can make some very bad decisions. Well I guess that could be said for all the characters and the whole show. Oh well, let’s see how this plays out. From the previews of next week, looks like Crosby is going to be pulled back into Jasmine noose.

This was a very interesting episode. One family is getting crushed while the another is repairing and salvaging theirs and another is looking to start fresh in New York. That's a lot of change and it was interesting to see the interplay between the three. Not sure which had the biggest impact both on screen or with me, so I will just start with the order it is presented.

Sarah and Mark have decided to move to New York so that she can resume her Broadway ambition and give Mark a chance to teach there while preparing to start a family of their own. Although they can dream Big with the best of the them, I wouldn't hold my breath in Sarah even pulling the trigger on this for a lot of reasons. A) She agreed to it rather quickly, in spite of thinking about her own kids. She will come up with and excuse (her Ex-Husband) as a reason not to go. B) Has she ever followed through on anything that she has said she would do? Wishy-washy. She's already using the excuse of "this is a year from now, right"? See. Doesn't want to have to think about it already.

Poor, poor Julia and Joel. The ending did not surprise me at all. I saw this coming from Day 1 and that Zoe would not give the baby up. I can imagine the feeling Julia had in the pit of her stomach when she went to the Nursery and saw Zoe playing with her newborn baby. And I can imagine the rage that was welling up inside of her. If that happened to me, knowing that you were not going to take that baby home after dreaming about it for 9 months, I would be FURIOUS!!! Oh, I can't even begin to think how irrational I personally would get in a situation like that.

But didn't Zoe sign papers giving Julia and Joel rights to adopt and that there would be no "out" clause should she change her mind at the 11th hour? If I were to draw up a contract, THIS would be at the very top of the page: YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR MIND AND TAKE BABY BACK EVEN IF YOU WANT TO. X__________: Sign Here.

And then there's Crosby and Jasmine. I saw this coming a mile away. Even though as the scene played out, I'm doing a facepalm and saying "why, why, why"? Have they not seen how this movie ends? They keep going back and making the same mistakes over and over. Having said that, I thought the scene was amazing with the way it was shot and Jabbar's reaction was f ucking priceless!! It was so damn good I had to replay it a few times. The song they chose to underscore the ending montage of the episode was perfect. Awesome.

Let's not forget about the suitors that are looking to buy The Luncheonette from Adam and Crosby. This should open up a great story arc as they are bound to butt heads over this. I think with Crosby and Jasmine back together, he will be even more steadfast in keeping his recording studio with Jasmine's backing. Hell, she even told him earlier in the episode that he should NEVER sell it. And let's not forget about the perceived "betrayal" that Crosby is sure to feel when he finds out that A) Adam had a meeting with the Suitors behind his back and B) He is working on their behalf to get him to sell.

I'm not giving Jasmine anything. My opinion of her hasn't changed at all. As you said, she is the most selfish person on the show and constantly leads Crosby around by the nose. In spite of how I feel about her, the character and the history between those two, I thought the scene was pretty kick ass and really, it boils down to Jabbar's reaction that his parents are getting back together that sold me on it more than anything else.

Not sure if I would go down that road of "...a million dollars in her head" as her motivation here. She would have a nice, cushy life with Joe The Doctor. Free band-aids for life, baby!

I agree, but how do you explain the sudden turnaround. I say sudden, but she says it never stopped. Maybe so, but Jasimine's action said something completely different.

I have no idea why she would come back to Crosby now. What happened?

Well, like I said, this wasn't a shock to me. Watching the last few episodes with regards to her, I have been noticing subtext in how she was interacting with Crosby and every time they were together, she was saying one thing, but her body language and eyes were SCREAMING, "Take me back. Tell me not to move in with him. Say something. Show me something that tells me you don't want me to go". And I think that moment, as subtle as it was, occurred in the tent. And then when Crosby finally manned up and told her how he had f ucked up and regretted ruining their family and what he truly lost, is where she finally came to the realization of what she would herself be losing should she decided to go forward and move in with Joe. It was seeing this "life" moving on without her when she was watching Crosby drive off that finally decided to take action.

That's how I saw it.

Plus, a Million bucks isn't anything to sneeze at either.

Huh... who?

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