Brat Camp: Finale

Day 42, 2 days before Christmas Jada is still complaining. The first adventure today is walking a rope line between trees. Everybody does fine until Lauren gets up and with Jada as her support. She falls but not to the ground.
Jada thinks the walk is some sort of metaphor but she’s not sure, she just doesn’t care.
Derek chickens out again so they give him the old fall back into my arms which he does.
Christmas morning the kids wake up to stockings even the Shawn who’s Jewish is forced to celebrate.
The day is horrible and getting worse so the kids go hiking. They are told to hike alone to a ridge. When they go at the end they see their parents and loved ones, surprise it’s graduation day for them all. WAIT! Not so fast Jada. Jada is told she is not ready to leave, she is also told that everyone else has graduated. The staff, who keeps calling her Robin, does not believe she has grown tell her so. She is at first in disbelief and then breakdowns.
She confirms that she needs to stop her behavior and goes to the ridge. She sees her parents and then stops running and waits for her parents to meet her as she cries all the way.
While talking to their parents the brats all convince their parents they will act right and beg never to come back. Frank had a nice speech; it seemed a bit forced though.
Back home, have they really changed?
Shawn was a drug user but he has stopped and he got a job. His parents are happy.
Isaiah has half a red head and his parents were happy but a written update said “6 months after Sagewalk, Isaiah was arrested for allegedly spray-painting racial slurs on a neighbor’s house. A trial is pending. If, convicted, Isaiah could face a maximum of 2 years in jail and a $15,000 fine.”
Derek stopped cussing, his parents still believe in ADHD.
Heather is better and likes boarding school
Frank is not as angry.
Nick is nice to his twin and has a tutor.
Lauren looks hot, and she is better.
Damn a commercial break.
Jada went to boarding school after but since your not allowed cell phones or email she left now she is in public school. She has smoked pot for “social reasons” her parents caught her although Jada lied and said they haven’t. Her parents said it was a failure. The update was basically like the TV Guide update that I wrote in the last post about directly below, one thing extra the boat incident injured another teen girl the most.
Lexie also went to boarding school, bad parents, she’s back on horses.

2 out of 9 went worse not bad.

Brat Camp: Troubles Update

Jada Chabot the liar compulsive liar and wannabe star had more troubles after leaving Brat Camp. Chabot who is 16 had a boating accident on August 3 near her home in Boston. Jada was doing her best Speedracer imitation when she slammed her speedboat into a family on an inflatable raft injuring two of them.
She faces criminal charges but no drugs or alcohol was found in her system. The Boston Herald has donned her “superjerk”. Her father Doug Chabot has said that all her friends are pulling away from her. Doug also revealed to TV Guide that he thinks now it was a mistake to put his daughter in the ABC show. He just put her in because “Jada….loves to sing, act and dance and this was a chance to be in front of the cameras”, great parenting skills.

This comes on the heals of Isaiah Alarcon’s, 17, little racist arrest. More details of what happened are now out, he was arrested and charged with spray-painting racial slurs at the home of a black schoolteacher in Winton, California. The angry punk was held for two days in a juvenile prison and may be charged as an adult.

ABC has declined to comment on these failures but in tonight’s episode they will have updates, now I wonder will the sugar coat it or show the truth. Remember because of the death of Peter Jennings the show has been delayed for a week so they should have plenty of time for accurate updates.

Don’t worry Jada I’ll be your friend.

From the Six Feet Under Site

OBITUARIES

Ruth O'Connor Fisher

Ruth Fisher was born in Pasadena in 1946 and died at Good Samaritan Hospital of Glendale on Wednesday. She graduated from Pasadena High School in 1963 and stayed home to raise three children before opening the Four Paws Pet Retreat in Topanga Canyon twenty years ago.

She is survived by her loving companion George Sibley, her sister Sarah O'Connor, her son David Fisher of Los Angeles and her daughter Claire Fisher of New York City. Ruth will also be missed by her four cherished grandchildren - Maya Fisher, Willa Chenowith, and Anthony and Durrell Charles-Fisher.

Viewing will be held on Saturday, March 15th at 2 p.m. at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home at 2302 W. 25th Street in Los Angeles. Private burial to follow.

Keith Dwayne Charles


Keith Charles, founder of Charles Security Company, was born in 1968 in San Diego. He died suddenly at work on Tuesday morning.

Keith attended West Point Military Academy, graduating with a degree in Criminology in 1989. He served the city of Los Angeles as a member of the LAPD for nine years before joining the security industry. He leaves behind his devoted husband David Fisher and loving sons Durrell and Anthony Charles-Fisher, his grandson Matthew, his sister Karla Charles and his niece Taylor Benoit of Carlsbad. Keith is pre-deceased by his parents Roderick and Lucille Charles of San Diego. Memorial service will be held on Sunday, February 18th at 2 p.m. at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home at 2302 W. 25th Street in Los Angeles.

David James Fisher


Born January 20, 1969. Died at the age of 75 in Echo Park. He was proud owner and operator of Fisher & Sons Funeral Home of Los Angeles for over forty years. After retiring in 2034, he went on to perform in dozens of local theater productions, including Weill and Brecht's "Threepenny Opera," Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," and as Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." David leaves behind his partner Raoul Martinez, his beloved sons Durrell and Anthony Charles-Fisher, his sister Claire Fisher and his three precious grandchildren Matthew, Keith, and Katie. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Southern California Opera Association

Hector Federico Diaz


Died at the age of 75 while vacationing with his wife in Puerto Rico. Federico graduated from Cyprus College in 1997 with a degree in Mortuary Science. He worked as a restorative artist for several years before becoming part owner of Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home on 25th Street. In 2005, Federico opened the Diaz Family Mortuary on DeLongpre Avenue in Hollywood, where he served the community for 35 years before retiring.

Pre-deceased by his parents Mauricio and Lilia Diaz of Los Angeles. He was married to his beloved wife Vanessa for 54 years and leaves behind his cherished sons Julio and Augusto and his three grandchildren: Emily, Celestina and Vincent.

Memorial service will be held at Diaz Family Mortuary on Saturday, February 16th at 11:00 a.m. Funeral mass will be held at 9:30 a.m. the following day at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Atwater Village.

Brenda Chenowith


Brenda Chenowith was born July 19, 1969 and died at the age of 82 at home. She earned her Masters Degree in Social Work at California State University of Los Angeles and a PhD in Theories of Human Behavior at University of Southern California.

Brenda wrote several books about the role of the gifted child in family development. She is considered to be one of the most distinguished scholars in that field of study, adding several courses to the Social Work curriculum at USC. She developed research methodologies to conclusively prove the link between deviant human behavior and fetal alcohol exposure. As a child, Brenda was the subject of the book "Charlotte Light and Dark" by Gareth Feinberg, PhD.

Brenda will be dearly missed by her beloved children Maya Fisher, Willa Chenowith, and Forrest Nathanson, her loving husband Daniel Nathanson, and her brother William Chenowith of Malibu. Private services will be held Wednesday March 9th at Deep Creek Nature Preserve. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of your choice.

Claire Simone Fisher
1983 - 2085

Born March 13, 1983. Died February 11, 2085 in Manhattan. Claire grew up in Los Angeles and studied art at LAC-Arts College. She worked as an advertising and fashion photographer and photojournalist for nearly fifty years, creating several memorable covers for Washington Post magazine, W, and The Face. Claire often exhibited her work in New York and London art galleries and in a time when nearly everyone else in her field had turned to digital scanning and computer-driven imaging, she continued to use a silver-based photographic process. Claire began teaching photography as a faculty member at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2018, earning tenure in 2028. She's pre-deceased by her beloved husband Ted Fairwell.

Every word above came from http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/obituary/episode63.shtml
the official website. Alan Ball and the creators of the site are geniuses.


In the obits Brenda is buried in a park just like Nate.
Once I finish my college stuff I'll compare the episode to the obits to see what else pops out.

Update#3: Continued from yesterday Claire had a crow on her t-shirt when she said goodbye.

Six Feet Under: Everyone's Waiting

2 updates on hidden messages/scenes below.

Best series finale in years!
It starts with Brenda giving birth to a preemie with Ruth holding her hand. We then see

WILLA FISHER CHENOWITH
2005 –

Claire is not answering her phone until Ted makes a joke and she decides to call back. David is moving out because he still is having problems sleeping and dealing with his new family. The boys are worried.
Claire feels better after doing Ted and we see his naked backside, unfortunately the series is over and Claire never got naked.
Rico and Vanessa are making plans for their share of the business.
Ruth is so depressed she watching Just Shoot Me, twice, and doesn’t know why.
While visiting Maya Billy creeped out Ted.
Dead Nate is feeding into Brenda’s baby fears.
Then a turning point in the show, David confronts his demon which is Nate. Claire and Ruth patch things up as Claire goes to NYC. Nate Sr., Nate Jr. and Brenda also meet and settle things over their love for baby Willa.
Claire loses her New Image photo job but Nate encourages her to go to NYC anyway.
By the time Claire leaves it is December and Rico and Brenda were bought out by Keith and David. Kathy Baker’s character said the house looks great and such a gay kitchen. They transformed the ugly house into a home.
The day of Claire chose to leave we see a video of Nate singing. After an emotional goodbye Claire takes her new car to NYC driving through deserts. We see a montage of their lives in the future.
Ruth gets a dog-sitting business. David is teaching one of his sons the family business. Willa celebrates her first birthday with Brenda. David and Keith get married in the wedding we see Brenda holding some guys hand with her two daughters and pregnant again.
The deaths follow.
Ruth dies in a hospital with her family and George by her side.

RUTH O’CONNOR FISHER
1946-2025

Keith gets shot to death by two criminals while unloading an armored car.

KEITH DWAYNE CHARLES
1968-2029

Ted and Claire get married in her wedding David is alone and his two foster boys one has a son and a pregnant non-black wife and the other is holding another an Asian mans hand lovingly, Benda is there with her husband and Rico still looks young.
David dies at a family picnic next to an old man.

DAVID JAMES FISHER
1969-2044

Rico dies on a cruise ship while walking away from his wife.

HECTOR FEDERICO DIAZ
1974-2049

Brenda dies while talking to Billy.

BRENDA CHENOWITH
1969-2051

Claire dies at home with a nurse surrounded by photos and blind.

CLAIRE SIMONE FISHER
1983-2085

They through in a lot of extras in those flash forwards. The only question they left hanging was that Maggie was at the doctors and we never find out why.
Great episode the ending was perfect. Watch it in slow motion for the little extras tell me if you spot more.


Update: I'm asking if anyone else saw that David's two kids grew up and one is gay and the other has a biracial kid. Rico was young until he died and Brenda got remarried to a man that I've seen before, but I can't recall from where. I was hoping someone could clarify this for me.

The name of the song was "Breathe Me" I think this is it on MP3.com

Update2: Mark Rabinowitz said...
Actually, Eric a., the armored car company was Charles Security. Keith's last name is Charles. I am guessing it was his company and wasn't ready to retire!

I just rewound and noticed that I knew Keith wouldn't be reduced to a wage-slave job thanks Mark.
That is the kind of hidden stuff I meant.

Anonymous said...
If I remember correctly, Maggie worked for a pharmaceutical company before she ever came into the Fisher's lives.

This could be why Maggie was in the clinic. True but I like to think it's an abortion clinic.

Here is a quote from Alan Ball in the Aug 22, 2005 New York magazine.
"I hope the audience finds the ending as gratifying as it ws for us to create it." He also used birds to help usher death.

100th Post

I thought my 100^th would be about the Six Feet Under Finale but I just saw the most ridiculous thing on the CBS New York nightly news. The Doppler 2 million, yes that 2,000,000. I've heard of the Doppler 2,000 and 4,000 but these guys just skipped all the thousands. Here's the link. There should be a video about it on the right close to the bottom.

What makes this Doppler so special well they claim it's live. No delay and it can zoom in within feet yet it encompasses most of the Northeast.

I just think it's funny.

TV Guide: Aug 21-27

House Fox’s best new show in a long time is on the cover, specifically Hugh Laurie & Sela Ward with the title House Exclusive! The accompanying article is 7-pages long. Sela Ward has been hired for the next thirteen episodes of season 2, yes I know she’s a show killer but let’s hold out hope. The producers vow not to turn the drama into a soap opera but they want more sex. LL Cool J appears in the first episode as a dying criminal.
Hugh Laurie is happy to be in a California studio after his last movie “Flight of the Phoenix” that was filmed in an African desert. He did dread an auditioning process called “putting yourself on tape”; it requires an actor to commit a few pages on tape with only hope that whoever watches it is in a good mood. A few months later he gets a call back and auditions for Bryan Singer, weeks after that he gets the job.
During the pilot Laurie brought his own unique cane and broke it two days later, he also walked into a glass door. Everyone loved the pilot and the show was picked up for thirteen more then a full season worth of episodes. Season 1 House DVD is out and Hugh Laurie also has a novel called The Gun Seller.
Good Things To Read Inside:

• Friday will have a Monk flashback episode to his youth.
  
• Series Finale of Six Feet Under.
  
• Kelly Martin is back in another Hallmark Mystery Woman
• On the set of a Sopranos wedding.
  
• David Boreanaz had an attitude about Angel with the producers of Bones, is Amy Grant fat I can’t tell because the picture is small not that I care if she is, the set of Two and a Half Men is full of farts, ex-General Hospital star Sarah Brown joins the cast of Cold Case, Greg Grunberg of Alias is quitting.
  
• Susan Sarandon plays pranks on people in front of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in NYC.
  
• More 9/11 documentaries, good!
• Top ten scene stealers.
  
• Top twenty catchphrases, No. 1 is wrong another show made it famous before Seinfeld, No. 6 is just dumb.
  
• The women of Battlestar Galactica, dammit Grace Park is married.
  
• Soap spoilers All My Children will have Julia kidnapped by Dragon and Di, Dixie’s half-sister coming to the rescue. In General Hospital Lucas is gay.

Next weeks TV Guide comes with a season 2 Lost CD-Rom that will have previews.

Sci-Fi Friday

I got it! It’s Stargate Atlantis that drains the energy out of me faster than a hungry Wraith. So I fall asleep during Atlantis and wake up all disoriented for the other Sci-Fi Channel shows. Once again I’ll keep it short and pass over any details.

Stargate SG-1: Beachhead

The Ori sent a Prior to bring the word to some Jaffa, they refuse and so the Prior starts a force field to transform the planet. Soon the Jaffa are all dead and the bubble is growing. SG-1 brings Samantha Carter back to help she and a Goa’uld suggest a nuke. They use it against Vala’s wishes and the bubble takes over the entire planet.
The Goa’uld betrays them and a huge Stargate is about to be formed bringing an army to our galaxy but Vala takes a ship and uses it to prevent the gate from activating and disappears when the gate is destroyed. Dr. Jackson doesn’t die so they believe that Vala may be alive in the Ori galaxy.

Stragate Atlantis: Trinity
Oh so sleepy. From what I saw coward-McKay finds a big power source in a dead Ancient city and wants to use it. He tries twice the first time kills a red-shirt and the second blows the entire planet up. If your counting it’s the second planet explosion in the last hour.
Meanwhile Tyr Ronon finds not all his people died so he meets up with his old commander and kills him. There was some logic and thin excuse he gave but I guess they are trying to establish his character as unpredictable or honor bound, cough, Warf, cough…cough.

Battlestar Galactica: Home Part 1
Starbuck, Helo and Sharon II, who is now pregnant, are all back in the President’s fleet. Sharon II saved her fine ass by sharing her knowledge of the Tomb they are searching for on Kobol.Zarek and Meier are planning a hostile take over.
On the Galactica, Adama is still mad and making poor hiring decisions which has the position of CAG (Commander, Air Group) and the squadron in shambles. Adama gets some advice from the private and decides to reunite the fleet and heal the wounds.

Firefly: Shindig
There’s an Australian party and Kaylee gets to dress like a girl. River acts crazy in a new and creative way. The captain wins and no one dies. Short enough for my satisfaction.

Brat Camp: Graduation 1

It’s day 37 only 5 days before Christmas and the brats still need to confront their personal demons before moving on. The show does a little recap of each brat. We learn that Heathers mom overdosed on heroin and that’s why she’s adopted. The majority of these kids are adopted or missing a parent, bringing up my theory that the worse than abortion is adoption.
Lauren calls Isaiah and Frank fakes, which in Isaiah’s case we know is true.
The staff sets up two chairs, one for the brat and the other empty. Four campers will confront a person who did them wrong by talking to the empty chair.
Shawn goes first and he talks to his birth mom who gave him up for adoption when he was a baby. He’s mad because she doesn’t call him.
Lauren is next she speaks to her dead dad who died six years earlier.
Heather the most emotionally closed off talks to her mom in a drug overdosed coma.
Lexie talks last and of course confronts her molester she was in seventh grade and it happened on her couch when the crime happened.
The staff then tells each kid why they will stay or go home for Christmas. Heather and Lexie will both be graduating and then shipped off to boarding school. It’s bad enough that Lexie has weak parents but their going to take a victim and put her in a strange place with strange men miles from home and alone, good job mom & dad. Way to support your kids.
Day 40 is and it’s graduation for some. Nick is still unsure whether or not he’ll be going home. He has to do a book report before he leaves.
The parents of Heather and Lexie arrive and there is lots of crying. Lexie’s mom is greatful to have her daughter back safe under her roof and will soon throw her away. Nick does his report and gets to go home when his parents arrive.
One more episode and hopefully an update special but I’ve heard nothing about one.

Wonderfalls: Wound-Up Penguin

The animal objects are singing 100 bottles of beer on the wall. Driving Jaye to drink at her favorite bar, which is what they wanted. She goes to the bar and meets bartender guy and learns more about his life when they find a woman living in the barrel in the middle of the bar. A wind-up penguin tells her to “Bring her back” and she convinces bartender guy to help.
While tracking the lady down they find out she is also being tracked by a man in black, kind of an Irish Johnny Cash. He appears in the gift shop and hands her a flyer with Katrina/mystery lady on it. Jaye jumps to the conclusion that he is a pimp and Katrina is a hooker. The two follow Katrina and the pimp to a motel.
They hear yelling and bartender guy is about to pound the pimp when he realizes the guy is a priest then they find out Katrina is a nun. Jaye then believes the priest “Agnesed of God her” but he didn’t.
The sister left because of cheese, “Bring her back to him” is heard by one of the animals. Sister sees the miracle of life in cheese until one day she had a big fat doubt. Jaye does all she can to bring Katrina back to the fold. She tells of the talking animals and it convinces Katrina that Jaye needs an exorcism.
Bartender guy gets some therapy from the priest. Jaye is about to get filleted by Katrina but the police come in and save the day. At the station crazy nun apologizes and Jaye accepts and they see the priest who just found out he is a father, no a real daddy. That’s what the penguin meant by “Bring her back to him”, they wanted the priest to meet his daughter. The nun has her faith restored and all is right.
This was a episode that brought bartender guy and Jaye closer together. What happened to black friend?

This was done with the new Word/Blogger publishing tool. Not bad.
I like the new Word tool but it seems to be slowing down my computer a bit, I'll check over the next couple of days.

As for Wonderfalls each episode gets better and it's a shame I didn't support it the first time.

Sci-Fi Sunday

Yeah I'm late I've got college this will happen more and more. So I'll just give the Cliffs Notes version.
Dead Zone: Babble On
Johnny Smith has a bad HDTV set. He see a man with no face, it's his father. Along with new TV Smith is also getting his house refloored and the dust is causing visions. He learns his dad was a psychic/psycho. his dad and then later Johnny saw a vision of a building exploding. The explosion was one of the coolest I've seen in a while. As usual Smith saves the day and the last scene shows a little Johnny telling his dad of a psychic dream he had, it leaves you wondering did his dad have vision or was he just trying to protect little Johnny.

The 4400: Lockdown
Starts July 28 5:38pm and Tom & Diane in a face-off. Then ten hours earlier the story begins with Maia getting a mystery illness and four returnees waiting for their forced check up. Tom gets a threatening email soon all male-hell is breaking loose. At the NTAC all the guys start going Palmeiro on everybody. They shoot the boss and a lockdown occurs. The new strike team lead by 24 alum Roger Cross goes the most psycho. The agents realize they're under attack and by an angry 4400 in the building. The attacker is doing it in memory of Jordan Collier. One of the geeks counters the effects only after some death and destruction, the young Asian female attacker vanishes in the chaos. Maia is still very sick and Isabelle and Shawn are showing symptoms. We learn that Isabelle can psychically communicate with her parents and does it for each of them at different times upsetting them when they are not talked to. Crazy Kyle beds another hottie.
Two more episodes before the season finale.

Six Feet Under: Static

It starts with a triple amputee killing himself with an injection and his sister.
We learn that six weeks has passed and David is on edge having nightmares. David is also having hand cramps and yelling for no reason. The whole episode is very tense every one is still very depressed.
Ruth and George are seemingly back together, not sure when that happened or what happen to his next wife.
Dead Nate was joking with Brenda about her doing Billy. He even pointed out how Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are really brother and sisters. Brenda goes on to have a horny-wrong dream about her brother, it was hot.
Rico and Vanessa are scouting other funeral homes and their roles in the business. They both step up when David abandons work.
I wasn't expecting anyone to die even while Claire got into a car accident. She did sell her famous green hearse for parts at $950.
Brenda fights with Ruth over Maya and this brings on an early labor. The last scene is Brenda squatting in front of the doctor cursing while giving birth.
Oh the Static had to do with some crap Nate was telling Claire about life.

The gave a 2 part special on Aug 15 called Six Feet Under 2001-2005 In Memoriam. It featured Alan Ball, the creator, talking with cast and regulars about the last 5 seasons. Ball did the pilot in memory of his sister who died the same way as Nathaniel Fisher Sr. He made the entire series so that people learn to deal with death. The only other cool thing was that Rico was written for Freddy Rodriguez.

One more episode and it will be 75 minutes long, at least TiVo fans beware you may need to pad if they do interviews after the show.