Tarantino fans: notable for their close attention to what the police union thinks they should watch.

why do I only get one upvote. (by which i mean, for clarity, i wish i could upvote tulse more.)

SHE's a cop. HE's a librarian with a twisted sense of humor and a lack of oversight. Together…

I could go for second-in-command-guy. They *did* make a big deal of him being sent away before the truck ride, while the beat of 'it could be anyone!' to Price appearing behind the curtain was just *too* obvious. (but I guess you'd have to go back and check if there's anything in the first few episodes which makes it…

Agent Homesick For Shield

for the love of God, no-one show this to Chase Utley.

Oh sure - I thought she was both a better character, and better acted, in the earlier seasons, when there was a clearly defined purpose for the character.

Yes and yes!

hey, as as a gay guy you people certainly are educating me as to why this terribleness is being perpetrated.

and thus AV Club harmony was restored!

while I can't claim even the potential to understand your interests, can we agree at least on Alexis-NOT-in-a-bikini plotlines being undesirable?

also, "let's have more Alexis plotlines this season!" - said absolutely no Castle fan, ever. and why yes, I do spend entirely too much time watching terrible network crime shows.

Bones aired in Canada tonight, and is notable for its spooky resemblance to the Castle series opener. Seriously, GJI needs to run some kind of Bones/Castle mashup tomorrow. let's call it Cones.

"the last days of the linen suit"

yeah, in fact it pretty much seems to be a general law of network TV drama: there must be *some* kind of vague potential for all expressed-gender-preference-compatible romantic combinations that are not disqualified by law and/or ickiness.

"I'm more interested in gay metal melter Inhuman than Lincoln at this
point, is that guy sticking around long term? Mack could do with
storyline, though that would rely on AoS writers committing to the vague
hints about him."

"There’s the mystery of Rosalind Price and the organization she’s working
for, which may be connected to the Advanced Threat Containment Unit the
president announces in a press conference about the growing alien
threat."

On the other hand, at least you could fast-forward through the fucking piracy messages and trailers reliably.

Sure, it tidies things up (you don't need to answer the question 'why doesn't he just go home?' at various points when he's up against it) and makes it easy to invoke FEELS when convenient.

Yeah. There's nothing Disney-specific about this, it's a well-known fictional trope in just about any kind of medium aimed vaguely at kids (and even various media which aren't). If you're not writing specifically about parent/child relationships, parents have a tendency to get in the way of a lot of stories; hell, one…