**bump back, fists explode like they was Semtex**

Series favorite? All time favorite, Hersh. "I can do it…"

That's a wonderful, true thing.

I had taken a year off from the AVC through S2 and into 3, and then started a whole new account, so I'm unsure if there were any comments in the very early days. As far as I can tell, it's this from "Beta":

I'm going to be patient and give it a few years (ideally while introducing it to someone), but I'm excited to rewatch the series again knowing all I know.

You were watched.

I've got to give a special shoutout to "Firewall", as it's the episode that really hooked me on this show - back in 2012, I had absolutely no idea who Amy Acker was, so the reveal genuinely surprised me. (In my defense, I had only watched about five episodes up til then, and "the victim is the perpetrator" was not yet…

This list is excellent.

I've got to admit - after "The Day the World Went Away" I spent over two hours looking at Root/Shaw fanart, and getting emotional - and I never, ever do stuff like that. Despite what one might assume, the vast, vast majority of it is centered around love and happiness. Those two together really meant something to…

Bless this episode if only for the two long shots - you might call them "no reaction shots" - where the camera just sits still on her face, trying to read the unreadable.

And who can challenge - certainly no hacker - a perfect, immortal Machine?

And now, I think for lunch I'll have a pastrami sandwich with spicy yellow mustard, a shitton of pepperoncinis, and absolutely NO MAYO.

Nope - "Alethia" is definitely one of my very favorite episodes of the whole show, and it features some of the best writing in any of them.

In the end, it is The Machine that really stuck inside me, echoed with me, and brought up things that I'll think about even years from now. And that TFS still managed to surprise me with Her, one last time - I can feel it working inside me still.
I've had problems with some of the choices regarding The Machine over…

Yeah, I always really liked the way they interacted - their respective energies were so different, yet somehow they teased out an odd chemistry that Iris was able to use to finally penetrate the armor and dig into Reese a bit. I do feel like they were rushed into a romantic relationship, though - I would have vastly…

It's a beautifully recursive end for The Machine that perfectly mirrors Her birth.

Me, I'd like to know what happened to Stacy512.

What both Cabin and Behind the Mask do is take the "rules" and recontextualize them within an outside schema for there being rules at all. Cabin does it by making audiences' very need for the thrill and catharsis of not just slashers, but all scary movies, amd the ritualised nature of the rules, into something…

Oooh, that wasn't on the list I looked at. That's as deserving of inclusion as several of the above.

Totally. It's an extremely satisfying inversion of the Final Girl - "what if she was the most dangerous person in the movie?" - to the point where one could argue that she's not a FG at all, as while frightened and desperate, never experiences the abject terror that transforms a Final Girl into someone with the…