And is there any evidence that Yates' appeal to the producers wasn't his essentially no-name status and likely little desire to assert his will upon the material?

Not in HBP, but for certain in Deathly Hollows part 2 and the scene has little impact as the character was never really developed on screen and I'm sure plenty viewers wondered who she was…

Upvoted for reminding me that Luna deserves a film detailing all the wacky post-Hogwarts shenanigans that surely ensued in her life

Agreed that this was a great episode but I disagree with the notion that Chris handled the conversation with Molly poorly. It was, at worst, not the best choice of words, but Molly needed to hear what he said, and IMO he was not treating her as a stereotype unless you also believe the show is treating Molly as a…

There seems to be an obsessive need to prove just how much smarter they are than the shows they are reviewing

The A.V. Club

He made that quite clear on multiple occasions this episode

After the ridiculous first sentence of last week's review I knew there was no need to read anymore and to simply enjoy the discussions brought up in the comments week to week. Clearly he thinks we should be more interested in him than the show itself

And why would he have died when the ship suffered no apparent damage? Not to mention I doubt putting Heatwave in stasis would have kept him alive if the bomb was powerful enough to kill Rip twenty feet away

I loved him calling them the greatest team a captain could hope to have… after complaining all through last season and into this one about how they never follow his orders and are constantly screwing things up

No you didn't. The producers made it clear Snart will be back on multiple shows including this one

But with this season's stark improvement maybe they could fix Carter and Kendra…

To be fair to Ray I'd like to think there are few to no circumstances wherein I could actual make myself sieg heil, and I thought Routh's performance in that moment was a well done bit of comedy

My favorite basketball player name of all time is Gad Shammgad

I'm just trying to wrap my head around how you think it was blurred in any way different than any other body part that's been blurred before… and I can't

And it can't come soon enough

I'm actually disappointed in myself for loathing Taylor so much but god damn it that guy rubs me the wrong way, maybe it has to do with seeming to be more interested in hooking up that actually winning

Because in Survivor betrayal, or burning someone, is almost always equivalent to "you didn't vote the way I wanted you too," irrespective of circumstance or context

If Ken was actually devious he would certainly be plotting to get rid of Jessica as soon as is possible

That's assuming that they don't want the comments to peter out until they can finally just drop Survivor coverage, and Carrie, altogether.