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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 9:40 am
Is anybody else watching this season? It's on the TV Guide Network these days. I just love seeing the Hawaiian locations and imagining some of my friends being there for a reunion. Oh, the drama! The one guy who slept with his best friend's ex-wife needs to come to grips with the fact that he did a terrible thing and even if (big if) his friend can forgive him someday, he's broken a trust that can never be repaired. He's in big-time denial. Anybody else out there?
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:28 am
Yes, I am watching this show and am forcing my husband to watch, as well. He hates to admit it, but he does actually like reality TV--not as well as I like it, but he does like it. Glenn Pena just broke my heart when he realized how little the bullying incident meant to the bully--yet it's affected Glenn all his life. Makes me think of the two guys who raped me when we were 14. I have never gone to a class reunion because of that incident. Watching "High School Reunion" made me wish that such an intervention were possible with the two creeps I went to school with. One is our local funeral director (and boy, does that create problems for me when there is a death in the family or among friends), but I don't know what became of the other rapist.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:32 am
We had discussed this show in the general discussions thread before. I've been watching it all. It's been very interesting. I can't believe that Steve thought he could come waltzing in and say I'm sorry and he and Mike would be best friends again. Sia, that's is just horrible. I can't even imagine. I can understand never wanting to go to your reunions. There are some sick people in this world.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 11:32 am
Sia, I'm so sorry. Is there a statute of limitations on rape? I guess it would come down to your word vs. his word. That would be tough to live where you have to see that person all the time. It was good to see that the former Bully was truly sorry that he had affected Glenn's life that way, even though he didn't remember it. Makes me wonder how many stupid things we did without thinking in our younger days that really hurt someone without meaning to. It's good to see that they all accept Glenn as part of the group, even though he was an "outsider" in high school. That's been my experience with reunions, too. The petty cliques of high school are gone. Everybody seems to be glad to see each other at the reunions.
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Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 11:41 am
Sia, I'm terribly sorry to read that as well. I wanted to watch this show, since they graduated the same year as I did. But I missed the first few, so I can't really catch up.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Yankee, if you're in the US, you can watch full episodes on the TV Guide web site. 
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 6:19 pm
Thanks for your support. Babyjaxmom, do you really think the bully (I can't remember his name!) is truly sorry? I think he felt embarrassed at having been called on his former ways and what a jerk he was in the past. I feel like he would need to really remember that incident to be remorseful. I do think he understands that Glenn was affected throughout his entire life by his bullying, however. It's a start. I have no idea what the statue of limitations is. I couldn't prove the date; I don't even know the exact date it happened. The one guy admitted it to my first cousin and laughed it off in about 1992. He said, "We were young," (that's the funeral director, who, by the way, has never married), which came across to me as very dismissive. My cousin told him in no uncertain terms that I took the whole situation much more seriously than he has over the years. I don't attend my college reunions, either. I have changed, gained weight, really become unhealthy and don't want anyone to see me. I don't even attend family or school functions any more. I stay at home as much as possible.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 7:28 pm
{{{{Sia}}}} What an awful thing to go through. What's odd for me is, I was tormented all through school for being the "fat one," "the curly haired one," and "the one who wore glasses." But for the life of me I can't single out a solitary name of any tormentor. Of course, it pretty much happened from K-12, so maybe it was such a sea of names/faces, no particular one stands out for me. What does stand out in my waning years are the names of those I could call my friends. So I guess that's a pretty good thing! Yankee, if you can't find the show on TV Guide, its shown (in my area anyway) on TV Land. And, the episodes are aired over and over and over (insert 100 more "and over's" here). I think there's only been about 3 or 4 episodes. And the 2nd and 3rd one's keep showing up on my DVR still. HERE'S the website for the show on TV Land. If you can't find an airing for the first show, I'm sure you could watch it online. And, (with the TV Land shows anyway), they'll do a marathon from the first show on before they show the finale.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 7:52 pm
Thanks, everyone. Whoami, you are a beautiful woman. I mean that. I loved meeting you and look forward to spending time with you again sometime. Sia, I've never met you, but I'm giving you a big cyber-hug. (I don't mean that to seem trite, it's heartfelt.)
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Kellsma
Member
08-28-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 9:01 pm
I have been waiting for a thread for this. I love this show. Kind of like big brother but no eliminations, I really like it. I just wish it was on another network so it would be seen by more but I love it and look forward to it every week.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 9:16 pm
I've been watching and I'm so tired of hearing Mike say "he slept with my wife!" No, buddy, it was your EX-wife. You don't own her any longer. And it takes two to tango -- she was sleeping with him as well. I'd like to know why Mike and Lana originally divorced. Did she leave him? What concern is it of his who she's dating after they are divorced? No, I don't think it was cool at all for Steve to date his best friend's ex-wife, especially to sneak around behind his back. And Steve is not the smoothest guy or the most diplomatic -- seems he doesn't know when to shut his mouth. But if Lana and Steve had told mike "hey, we like each other, we want to date" do you think he would have responded any differently? She was his EX! He has no say so any longer. And when all the other guys in the house try to mettle in it, telling Mike he should never forgive him, it just makes me even more angry. Let Mike deal with it in his own way. It's seems high time for him to let it go, even if he doesn't want the friendship. Encouraging him to hate Steve is not beneficial. And men say that women mettle in other people's business! Yes, it's like high school all over again. Very irritating to watch. It's like a train wreck and I can't look away. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 11:44 pm
I just don't think that you go there period. He was living with Mike, why on earth would he even think of going with his ex-wife. I just think that friends avoid that situation. It's just not done. I don't know the reasons that they split but a best friend wouldn't sleep with her. She's as much to blame as well. Look at how jealous she is of Mike with the new girl though. There's a lot to the story that we just don't know.
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Hooters
Member
08-26-2006
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 9:24 am
ITA Mamie316, a lot more that we don't know, yet....maybe more info to come in upcoming episodes. I'm really enjoying this since I'm just about their age & live just south of Dallas.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 9:33 am
Mamie, I have to agree with you. You just don't go there. You just don't sleep with your best friend's wife, GF, ex or whatever. And yes, I agree, Lana is just as guilty. If they liked each other and decided to act on it, fine. Just don't expect Mike to be okay with it. It's kind of incestuous. She's the mother of his children! I hope Mike and Lana can reach some kind of peaceful co-existance, if only for the sake of their children. It's terrible to watch parents fight with each other. I do love this show!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 9:45 am
I always wonder what this does to the kids. They have to know how unhappy their parents are with each other. And didn't Lana say she's getting married again? When Mike asked her how long she's known the guy, she said "long enough". Don't know what that means but I do get that Lana does bring the drama.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 12:47 pm
<24> It's kind of sad that she's so upset about Mike hooking up with that Heather girl at the reunion, when Lana's already engaged herself. Does she think she owns him forever? Time to let go . . .
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 4:01 pm
I've just never bought into the "once I've slept with you I own you and no one that I know can ever have you" thing. But I know I'm in the minority on this one. I've dated someone who went out with a good friend, with her blessing. She basically set us up. I've also been friends with a woman who was involved with the same guy I was, not at the same time of course. But, yes, Steve and Lana obviously realized that Mike would be angry. So they both have to weigh if the romance is worth jeapardizing a friendship over. I think Steve would say it wasn't worth it. Both Lana and Mike have issues in that they can't seem to let go of each other. I hope they come to some kind of truce for their kid's sakes.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 4:41 pm
Brenda, I agree that you don't "own" a person once you've slept with them, but we're talking about a couple who was married for several years and had two children. For her to sleep with his best friend was a bad idea in so many ways. You have to wonder if part of the attraction was the fact they knew Mike would be upset. There's just some lines it's not better to cross, generally speaking.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 6:37 pm
I don't think it's a state of "owning" someone, it's just that there are too many emotions involved. It's just not something a good friend would do. Since she is supposedly the drama queen, maybe she was looking for someway to cause more drama.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 7:57 am
I was so glad that Lana and Mike had some alone time and could talk. I really hope that this is a start for them to be better together for their children.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 11:52 am
You'd think, that as parents, they would have sought out some kind of counselor to help them make peace for the sake of the kids. I've decided that watching HS Reunion when it was a 10 year reunion, and it was a bunch of 28 year olds acting like high schoolers again, is much more fun than watching a bunch of messed up 38 year olds acting like it's high school again. 
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Puppy21969
Member
10-04-2005
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 12:22 pm
The first thing my husband noticed was what a mess the house was...... it looked like high school students too. (and we are 87 grads)
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Onetimearound
Member
04-04-2008
| Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 3:01 pm
New poster here! I am a reality TV junkie and love reading these boards but this is my first post! I read about HSR here and went to the TV Land website and watched all 5 episodes this weekend! I am hooked! I am very close in age to these people so in some weird way I guess I can relate to them. My 20 year reunion is coming up in 2 years but I seriously doubt we would have quite the drama that these people have! I find it interesting that the producers set up the house with a large clique-ish group and a few outliers or odd balls who don't really fit in. Its like a car accident - its awful but I just can't help looking. LOL
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Dannysgirl
Member
08-09-2007
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 6:58 am
Did anyone catch the season finale last night? <76> All in all I enjoyed the show - hoping they'll have a "reunion" show of the the reunion!! haha I'd like to see what happened to a few of the couples.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 7:46 am
<76> I was happy to see the guys finally acting mature, letting Mike decide for himself and come to some kind of peace with Steve. I think they have a webcast of a "reunion". Not sure how long it was after the show though as I haven't watched it.
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