What if I think it's both an abusive relationship. and also an incredibly boring and nonsensical one that regularly requires both participants and everyone around them to act like idiots to progress the plot?

Other people have brought up that this ignores that a lot of the complaints about the way the book depicts the central relationship is both abusive and nonsensical. But also, the "assurances" that it isn't just sex scenes to me just reminds me of the blatant documentation in This Film is Not Yet Rated of how female…

Why would there be a spark between a woman and the man she broke up with
who responded with throwing acid at her face, which hit her mother?

I definitely felt it just had a lot more energy than the last few, which was one of the things I liked about season one—it had this mad dash quality that made it easier for me not to care as much about plot holes, because it was fun. (And I have to say, I think it being almost Katrina-less had a lot to do with…

Yes, just from a story-telling perspective, I think the tension from journalism/secrecy issues would be more interesting than roguish mysterious artifact dealer. But then, I always like it when a supernatural show gives nods to the people outside the Chosen circle, especially if it doesn't treat them solely as…

My favorite reruns are the ones where they are just learning to use the internet. So crazy and newfangled.

"Plans are plans. I'm a badass, not an anarchist."

I was more concerned about how many guns they have around—at first I thought he was going to bail and then as Mickey was sitting on the bed I really was bracing myself for a gunshot. He obviously wasn't going to go quietly, but I was almost relieved he "only" took the kid.

The scene at the playground was totally cliche, in terms of getting mistaken for a pedophile, but he definitely sold it 100%.

As soon as Ian said he was taking a shower, it was obvious he was lying, but considering how many guns they have around, I was almost relieved that he "only" ran off with the baby.

Yes, definitely, I think the lack of emotion is a big drawback from me—because I don't feel he or the show are conveying that it's a conscious choice, that maybe his role in his crazy family is to be the level-headed one because he has to be, even when it's really hard. Like, looking at his interactions with Petra,…

haha, whenever I get an upvote I look if it's from you! We seem to have similar sensibilities. I enjoy the other elements enough that I'll keep watching, but the "fairy tale romance" is just not landing for me. Admittedly, I'm not a super-shippy person in general, especially for "passion!!!"—my favorite couples are…

Uh. . .it's not a real baby.

I really wish the show would let Rafael and Jane have actual conversations about significant differences between them—like Jane's attitude about family and forgiveness vs. Rafael's, and the class/money stuff of the previous two episodes. It's part of the reason I have so little investment in Rafael; there's nothing…

Ugh, I really do not like plots around "there really WERE witches in Salem." Is it entirely consistent that I find it icky when it goes there and not around Jefferson and Washington whooping it up with the witchcraft? Maybe not, but the Salem dynamics and characters are so very particular (and yes, I was mildly…

People think Amanda is not dramatic? Really? She's always come off to me as someone who is highly melodramatic, openly manipulative (which seems paradoxical but is not), and gets a big kick out of "slumming" with Lip, being able to buy him stuff, and annoying her parents. I'm frankly expecting her to dump him…

omg, I was just coming to post about that.

I also find it kind of off-putting that Rafael has no conflicted feelings about Petra at all. Not that he should still want to be with her, but something about how he was so wrong about her in the first place, or her nursing him through cancer, or something. He doesn't even seem really passionately angry with her,…

Scenes of people falling asleep at the wheel make me INCREDIBLY tense.

This. I find Rafael just incredibly dull and . . .empty. I mean, he's had all this dramatic (and bizarre) stuff happen around him or to him in his backstory and ongoing, but I have no sense of it actually shaping him or affecting him. I have no idea what the character's inner life is besides "Jane pretty. I can haz…