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The Jon & Kate Plus 8 broadcast break is finally over, and it seems Kate had custody of us this week. I guess this is how the show is going to work now -- each parent switching off entire episodes, depending on who has custody? Jon was hardly in both episodes that aired last night, even though the first one was technically before their official separation (though clearly, they'd given up by then). And you know what? Without their bickering, it turns out this show is really, really boring.
The kids are still funny and everything, but without the frequent opportunities to judge and feel superior to their parents' dysfunctional relationship, it was pretty much just kitchen remodeling and cumbersome campfires up in here. (Ten minutes were devoted to cabinet organization. How much more agonizing can it get?)
I was kind of proud of Kate for being almost nag free in the new episodes, letting the kids do what they want at the beach, allowing them to stuff themselves full of S'mores they made themselves and jumping in to tackle things she'd ordinarily berate Jon into reluctantly doing for her, but I don't see that as a permanent change. She's trying, and I've always been secretly Team Kate in private and Team Neither of Them online, but someone like Kate just doesn't change, in my experience. Off-camera, I'd bet she's still the same nagging, emasculating control freak she always was. And honestly, I'd much rather see that.
I was kind of proud of Kate for being almost nag free in the new episodes, letting the kids do what they want at the beach, allowing them to stuff themselves full of S'mores they made themselves and jumping in to tackle things she'd ordinarily berate Jon into reluctantly doing for her, but I don't see that as a permanent change. She's trying, and I've always been secretly Team Kate in private and Team Neither of Them online, but someone like Kate just doesn't change, in my experience. Off-camera, I'd bet she's still the same nagging, emasculating control freak she always was. And honestly, I'd much rather see that.
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This Jon and Kate thing is getting tiring. Here's a funny story I read about what will happen when Kate's show gets canned and she has to go to work like a real person:
http://tvmanonline.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/houston-tv-production-company-tvman-inc-bans-selling-stuff-for-your-kids/
The whole thing is phoney and people are falling for it. The crew put up the big tent - not Kate. Have a feeling the crew does lots of behind the scenes stuff for her. SO HYPOCRITICAL
Why does't John quit the show with all his complaining about lack of privacy.
Sticks with it for the cash.
Go back to your IT job if you don't like the cameras
LOVE YOUR WEB TV MAN.
I disagree that the newer show, the campfire episode was boring. I think that show was more like the previous seasons which were focused around the kids, doing normal things. We saw less fighting and bickering and I felt that was a good thing. It might have been what people who don't normally watch the show were looking for since the divorce, but for the long-time fans of the show probably won't be nearly as disappointed. You see the children (at least the girls) give interviews, and all of the children talking more to the camera, and about what's going on. Kate never really nagged at the children, and it seems to me that she's almost lightened up a bit and is trying to be a little less celebrity and more mom.
I think it is also hypocritical for TWOP to continue to have stories on this show when they chose to shut down the forums on it some time ago. For what? The sake of the kids? Then why continue to report on it?
While we r wasting our tim waching, reading and typing, J&K r snikering at us 'gocha' all the way to the bank.
Don't get it why everyone is feeling so sorry for them.
I haven't seen this show since the second season but I used to love it then. It's been really disheartening to see everything come crashing around.
But I do want to say something about Kate. While anyone has to admit that she is controlling...I think that sometimes it isn't a bad thing. When you have eight kids to take care of, being overly in control of the situation may be the only way to actually get things done. Also, from what I've heard she also does keep strict control over the crew and filming schedules and all that, which probably is the best way to have things going on and minimize the disruption (for example, I believe filming is only done two days a week).
Anyway, that's my two cents. Yes, she's controlling, but it can be a stength as well as a weakness (and I don't have much sympathy for Jon because he knew this before he married her).
Can somone send Kate elastics for the girls' hair so they don't have to play in all the heat with the hair in their eyes and dragging over their sweating bodies? Pin the hair up or put it into braids, Kate.
Get it the h### out of ther eyes, all these years.
Do you not remember many of the stupid, hurtful things Kate said to the kids in the past. Think about it, PEOPLE.
Naoin.... I noticed the hair in their eyes all the time in all the previous seasons. What the h### Kate's No surprise. Wish I had a dime for every time Kate pushes that mop or hair back over her ear.
I totally agree with Angie & Vicki. The show use to be about the kids and I hope it now is going back to being about the kids. With sextuplets & twins I would be controlling to. You would have to be to survice. And I dont think Jon should be on any of the episodes. He complained about not having any privacy. He calls going home to his kids, going back to work. He should just go get another job. As for Kate, people say she should get a job. OK, if she went back to nursing she would probably be working day and night. At least now she gets to stay home with her kids. I dont think the show is hurting the kids. I think that Jon is hurting the kids with his mid-life crisis/ childish behaviour, wanting his youth back. He wants to have his cake and eat it to.
Hey Heather, I agree. We are being made fools of while they laugh all the way to the bank.
Carol, you mean like when the kids were yelled at that they will never step into Mom and Dad's room. Their faces looked so hurt.
I'm sure the reason they shut down the J&K forums is because nothing new ever gets said in them: it's Kate sux!, Jon sux!, They're both selling out their children!, or Won't somebody please think of the children!!!! This show is so polarizing that reasonable discourse is now almost impossible. But, I can enjoy the sleep of the just everynight, knowing that Kate Gosselin will burn in the everlasting fires of damnation...
RE Kate: I'd fuck her.
With your dick, maybe.
"I'm sure the reason they shut down the J&K forums is because nothing new ever gets said in them: it's Kate sux!, Jon sux!, They're both selling out their children!, or Won't somebody please think of the children!!!!"
I don't really agree with this statement. TWOP moderators seem to be petty and arbitrary about what they deem people can or cannot say about a show. I've seen worse off topic and redundant comments in other TWOP forums.
They shut down the thread because it was one big bastion of crazy that was constantly getting finked on in the finker threads. Most seemed to be poor debaters who were using finking as a means to make their own point, only to get finked on themselves later.
It was a good thread to read for a laugh though. Bunch of loony tunes in there and the only sane people edged out of the thread in disgust.
Mouse, what's "finking"?
I've run afoul of the TWOP mods in the past; in their minds, they tend to become All-Powerful Dictators of the Tiny Realms of Their Threadoms.
However, any thread about Jon and Kate+The Cutest Golden Horde You Ever Saw devolves into pretty much what you described. The posts from the devout Christians are the best as far as producing the most yuks.
I agree and I disagree with Mindy. I agree that watching an episode (or two, apparently) about the kitchen reorganization is terribly boring. I don't agree that the solution is getting to watch them fight and be horrible people. I wish this should could be "8 Minus Jon and Kate." I'm not interested in the adults or their shenanigans at all. I don't watch the adults do anything--not fight, not date (PLEASE!), not shop for clothes, not renovate their house, not get plastic surgery, anything. I just watch it for the adorable children. I agree it's just not the same as it used to be, but I can't help myself because I almost feel like a vicarious uncle to the kids!
I too have been a victim of the Napoleonic moderators once because I had the gall to use this ..... too much but I agree that the forum continually devolved into "who will think of the children?" and that's just boring.
People who have no experience with nurses or nursing always believe it was the arrival of the sextuplets that made Kate into a control freak. That's bs. ALL good nurses are born control freaks that maintain incredibly high organizational skills throughout their lives. The addition of children just put those traits to the forefront.
She was a freak to start with but she was a happy, loving and openly affectionate freak when they first starting dating and when their twins were born. Jon was thrilled with his life according to every comment he has ever made and the videos and pictures made before the arrival of the sextuplets.
He was a happy guy but she wouldn't accept that he didn't want anymore children. He liked his job and liked that she worked part time to release her control freak tendencies. They were happy.
Kate chose to change that. Not only did she choose to have another child but she refused to have reduction when it was discovered that seven embryos had successfully implanted.
She forced this guy into a corner and she kept pushing him harder and harder for four years while belittling and insulting him when he couldn't meet her standards. Hell, no one alive could meet her standards, she can't even maintain those standards.
The really sad thing was she seemed completely aware of what she was doing and it obviously upset her but she just couldn't seem to stop her behaviour. You could see him distancing himself further and further away from her and you could see she knew it was happening but she just couldn't shut her mouth.
She was so self destructive but it came from fear, control freaks are almost always children raised in chaos and conflict and this need to control is a defensive skill developed for surviving.
Kate needed therapy years ago when she first started showing worsening signs of anxiety and needing to control the uncontrollable. Unfortunately her behaviour made the only person who wanted to help so pissed off at her he needed therapy himself.
I do not think Jon's a bad guy, everyone has their breaking point and she broke him. He is a bit crazy right now because Kate has always been his rock and he is as adrift as she is.
It's all just sad.
Hopefully someone has arranged for therapy for all the kids so they have a safe place to talk about how they feel. The older girls have witnessed their mother going after their father for years and this will affect how they view both of them and how they will interact with men themselves as they grow up. God forbid they grow up thinking what their mother said and did to their dad was ok or what their father did when he finally left was ok. The younger kids are at huge risk of believing they are at fault for the end of their parents marriage and that needs to be acknowledged and corrected early and often.
finking = reporting posts in the Troll Patrol or FTC. There's a lot of people who use those threads and more than a few who abuse them.
When the JK8 thread was open it was constantly being reported by the same handful of regular posters from the thread, who were usually reporting each other. It was hilarious. The constant diagnosing of Kate had me in tears laughing. Oh the irony.
Well. Reading the responses to this article it is pretty obvious why the JK8 thread got closed. This show really is the perfect Rorsharch test on personal attitudes toward American family life. And there is always the occasional poster who feels perfectly free to make barely hidden racist comments about the color of the children. Golden Horde? You should be ashamed. Anyway, it's all fascinating. Some of the posters seem more dysfunctional than J&K they complain so loudly about. As for the new episodes, I don't find them boring. All right, kitchen remodeling was a little much. But I love watching those little kids grow up, especially Aedan. They are such funny little people together.
I thought the thread was closed when a poster revealed how much the Gosselin's were getting paid and all hell broke loose on the thread?
What the poster claimed later became public knowledge but the thread had already been shut down for sometime. I assumed there were probably some peeps pretty unhappy about that little zinger the Gosselin's had managed to keep hidden. But yes, the thread was full of a bunck of nutters.
Regarding the tent... I thought Kate said somewhere she put up one and te production folks put up another?
Good post, thanks
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