One of the failings of season one was that we didn't understand until a very late in the day flashback what Carlos meant to Tulip and Jesse, and therefore what the stakes of that storyline were. Were we supposed to be rooting for him to go with her? Or to resist and stay with the town?
The season plays a lot better on…

My guess is turn him - just because I feel that will have more plot mileage to see out the rest of the season.

I think there is more to be revealed about John Custer.
However, i have given the benefit of the doubt before…

Yeah, I think my problem with that moment was how quickly Jesse brushes him off - he doesn't even really clarify what he means. I thought If he had reasoned it through and then decided not to do it, I could get it. But his friend asks him for help and he doesn't really properly engage with the possibilities.

I wasn't a huge fan of this episode, but the Tulip thing tracks for me - I think the point is that yes, Tulip has gone through a lot - so how bad must the touch of the Saint be that it has had this impact on her when other things haven't?

How are we all feeling about Jesse not even trying to use the Word to help Denis?
'Cos I didn't like that at all…
(related: interesting interview with Dominic Cooper at Den of Geek that refers to this very thing: https://twitter.com/denofge…

That was one of my favourite details.

Of Agents of SHIELD? Yeah, It was good. I should say that I meant the Netflix shows, mostly.
I have other problems with Agents of SHIELD - mainly that, for a spy show set in a comicbook universe, it's so GREY and lacking in fun- but they've hugely improved on that.

I think they also need to stop aping the aesthetic/structure of prestige shows (deliberate pacing, self-seriousness, season long plots) without having the skill to keep the individual episodes dramatically satisfying.
Agent Carter and Jessica Jones are for the most part the best series because they were able to make…

Yeah, they have a similar thing with Phoebe where they make her a lot more acerbic during the later stages of her pregnancy and then kept her that way.

I reckon it must mean that - and I reckon it's the part Seth Rogen will play.

There is a lot of scope for revelations during that storyline, and it could well reconfigure a lot about their relationship. Indeed, in the comic they don't get back together until that arc - and it may be they use Tulip's death and rebirth as a 'realising what they have' moment

I'm mostly enjoying the show, and it has captured the tone well - but the comic grounded the more 'out there' elements in the core trio's relationships. That was my favourite aspect of the comic, and the bit I was excited about sharing with a wider-audience of people who have not read them, such as yourself. Fingers…

Oh, yes - agreed. The character is better. But for me there has been a bit too much focus on all of the characters' bad sides, and not enough on their positives. This does seem to be balancing out a bit, though.

Yep! Starr told someone on the phone to prepare 'the invalid scientist'

Yes - all of this. Very well put!
There's an interview with Sam Catlin on the AMC website at the moment where he's explicitly asked whether the backstory changes harm the love story. The answer is not satisfactory….
http://www.amc.com/shows/pr…

It's the one change I can't (yet) see the reasoning for, either. I understood placing their history in the same town (to make sense of running in to each other again, rather than the more coincidental reunion of the comics) but the other changes, particularly the circumstances of their separation, haven't made sense…

It always makes me sad when I see people put off by the show's characters, as I found the comics characters VERY likable, and it shows a failing in the adaptation that's not been carried over.

I enjoyed this episode - I can't agree that it was filler, as it took time to take stock of where all the characters are after the last arc. All their subplots had forward momentum.
Starr's portrayal is probably the most faithful adaptation of a character so far, with lines lifted almost verbatim from the comic.

I'm going to get this theory down here before next week's episode - I have a suspicion that Jesse and Tulip's 'Until the End of the World' refrain is going to have a more literal resonance as the season/series goes on. This is due to the Jazz Cat saying the music was about ' the end of the world' at the end of…