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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 11:27 pm 
Snoops, I didn't get the LUNDY.. in our zoom chat today at the end Mame and I chatted a bit about the finale and she mentioned the LUNDY. I saw the dad cup and the painting. I missed the Terrible Towel but read about that.
But at the very end (and I have not read Color's three links yet) when Rebecca went into the caboose to the room with the bed.. I say that room was the same room that was the motel room where Jack and Rebecca stayed when they drove to Hollywood on their third date.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 12:41 am
Glad he is ok with this... I am still not ok.
https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/this-is-us-season-6-episode-17-ending-explained-jon-huertas
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 6:43 am
I read an analysis of the show talking about why Miguel was not more prominent on the train. It had to do with the impact of Alzheimer’s disease. With Alzheimer’s, your past memories are stronger than current. So, the Miguel portion of Rebecca’s memory may have been gone by the time she died. When you look at Rebecca’s age on the train, she was the age of when she was with Jack.
I wish I could find the article again.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 6:49 am
I found it!
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a40034247/this-is-us-season-6-train-episode-rebecca-miguel-fan-reaction/
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 7:18 am
one thing missing that could have made it perfect - if Jack had the baby with him....
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 9:28 am
Legal, that would have been a true gut-punch. Not enough tissues in the world...
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Snoopsmom
Member
02-18-2003
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 10:00 am
Legal, that would have been perfect. Would have closed the circle. Now that you've mentioned it, I'm surprised the writers didn't think of it.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 4:37 pm
That would have been the time -- on the train. Maybe somehow on Tuesday??
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 4:42 pm
Excellent point Legal!! Can’t believe the loss of the baby was never a bigger storyline. I know it was in one of the earlier storylines, but you’d think both Rebecca and Jack (and maybe the big 3) would think about that baby from time to time.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Friday, May 20, 2022 - 8:14 pm
I disagree, I think adding the lost babe to the mix, especially this late in the game would have been a bad idea.
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 3:31 am
I think it's too late for the baby storyline.
But I want to think of it this way:
All the people on the train were there to greet Rebecca and send her on their way. Jack was the last person and he was going to take her to her final destination where the baby and all the others in the past are waiting for her!
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 7:41 am
If Kyle hadn’t died in the pilot we wouldn’t have Randall in the family…the baby and his death has always been part of the storyline even if not always mentioned.
My aunt lost one of her twins, Toby, at age 5 due to complications in surgery. I was only one year old at the time…over 45 years ago. I don’t think Toby’s name has been said 10 times in all my life. But he has always been “there”…looking at his twin, my cousin David, or being around my other cousin Marco who was born years later and never knew Toby….he never has been forgotten even if never mentioned.
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 8:16 am
My aunt lost a child, Charmaine, who was just a baby, too. I think less than one years old. Never was that baby mentioned to us kids.
We all knew Charmaine existed as we had seen pictures of her. Interestingly, she looked exactly like the next baby in the same family. When looking back at baby pictures, you couldn't even tell who you were looking at.
It's all so sad, but rarely do you even see mothers mentioning their lost child. It's so painful.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 9:06 am
Stratty, I love they way you thought out how the storyline would go. It's perfect!
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 10:11 am
 Pamy.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 11:23 am
Still haven't watched the last two episodes yet (I recorded them). Think I'm gonna wait and binge the last three. I'm in denial about this show being over. 😭
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 10:15 pm
I have watched the past two episodes and will watch this Tuesday. There's been a couple streaming series I waited quite a while to watch the last episode. Series never ended until I did. Nothing as special in the way This Is Us is -- just really liked them. One was Treme.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 7:55 pm
Treme was a good one. I didn't want Parenthood to end. Heck, I didn't want Northern Exposure to end. I agree that this show has been extra special.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 8:05 pm
I am glad that Good Housekeeping agreed with me
I posted on May 18
quote:Me too.. But I guess at her age on the train it was going to be Jack.
And sadly with some Alzheimer's situations the memories left are the older ones, leaving some really important people unrecognised.
I guess that is why she saw a younger Miguel?
But that still would be sad for Miguel and everyone who is forgotten in that way.
And they also showed recently that Rebecca would at times think Kevin was Jack, so she was living back and forth in past and present.
She also saw others as younger, while on the train . The doctor, pretty much everyone. And Miguel looked to be the age he was when Jack and Rebecca met and married. He did look great!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 8:12 pm
And I repeat, but when Rebecca entered that room it looked to me like the motel room where she and Jack stayed on their third date roadtrip to Hollywood, so she was seeing Jack as he was before they got married, even.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Monday, May 23, 2022 - 12:48 pm
Plus she was seeing herself as young too.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, May 23, 2022 - 1:59 pm
I hope I can be younger when I am in heaven!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 23, 2022 - 4:00 pm
Not uncommon. People will become agitated and say they have to get to work. Or to school. Best to just reflect, "Oh, it is Saturday; you have the day off. Let's go for a walk."
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - 2:30 pm
I was reading on a Dementia website on Facebook, where they were complaining that This Is Us glossed over a lot of the Alz stuff. Not telling even half of what caregivers go through. Duh. I knew they wouldn't show all of the nitty gritty bad stuff.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - 3:47 pm
The story really wasn’t about the caregivers. It’s about Rebecca. Also, Kevin had resources available that most caregivers would not have available to them. So, it would be apples and oranges.
As someone who helped care for my dad during his decline into dementia, I knew this going in that it was different. I never thought they would show the diapers and poop everywhere that might occur during the decline, as it happened in my dads case.
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