I'm an optimist at heart. I don't think anyone is born being a jerk; it may be how they learn to cope with the world's frustrations. Some people are more patient in the face of adversity, rejection, failure and others less mature because they have no proper coping mechanism. From the time he was young, Caleb probably…

That's good to know. I would hate to have my level of attractiveness rated by my chest size and I am sure many women probably feel the same way.

I'm not sure that everyone thinks he is gay. Elias does at first, but he is confused by Simon's ambivalent behavior. Does it mean he is not interested in Elias, or just not interested in men at all? Someone can have romantic feelings for another person of the same gender without it ever developing into a sexual…

Which part? About not being gay? Or that he he created a new persona to cope with his feelings about the horrors he faced and perpetuated when he served in the Israel Defense Force? If he couldn't face the fact that he had to take human lives in the course of his job in the IDF, why would he join the FBI? He's not gay…

Reminds me of the Christopher Nolan movie, "The Prestige" with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, who played magicians who each trying to outdo the other's illusions. It's a very interesting plot with a lot of twists and turns in it and throughout the movie, the audience is never sure what is reality and what is an…

I think the writers had a different intent in mind. First, they were partly aiming for a riff off Demi Moore's character of GI Jane as a "kickass" woman in a largely male field. Second, according to the Islamic Supreme Council of America, the actual meaning of jihad (before it became associated with those who use…

You forget that Shelby has seen a more vulnerable side of Caleb, which he is probably ashamed of showing her. Since he is in the field as an analyst, not a NAT, his "undercover" persona is to shield his vulnerability by irritating Shelby during the field exercise, like the guy in grade school who is constantly trying…

How would they be able to show identification or prove their identity? By custom the women are not supposed to expose any skin in public, especially around their face. None of them are carrying a purse or something that holds their ID. There would therefore be no way to match the face to the ID for one thing. Not to…

Quantico is beginning to look like a show from 2005 called Reunion with Will Estes (from Blue Bloods). It follows the lives of six friends who graduated from the same high school for a 20 year period. Just like Quantico, there is a flash forward to a scene where one of the characters is murdered and you are led to…

But when he is around the twin that he seems to be interested in, his mannerisms and his approach indicate his interest as that of a man for a woman which he could not convincingly pull off if he were actually gay.

My comment was more in response to your observation that "I also have another friend who's naturally very slender but has always had large breasts, so clearly the universe just isn't fair." I am not following the logic of that observation. Some women who are more generously endowed might actually feel it's a negative…

Youth has a lot to do with it as well. Have you seen pictures of Elizabeth Taylor (this was back in the 50s) until almost her late 30's before she started drinking excessively and overeating? Now that was one gorgeous woman- and she was considered strikingly beautiful as early as her teens-without makeup or styled…

I don't know that slender women are called stick figures unless they look extremely evacuated. Are you saying that as long as a woman is generously endowed in the chest department it compensates for her skinniness? Keira Knightley again would be just another regular girl without the makeup and the artfully styled…

By what metric is Mindy Kaling attractive? Yes she is on a popular show, she is curvy and knows how to artfully apply makeup, or her makeup artist does, to hide any scars or blemishes and she has access to good quality clothes. But her facial features are merely average. I admit she is a very hard worker and she has…

I am not up on the acronyms—what is OOT?

That would be too cliched I think and they seem to be trying for mystery, rather than what we expect to happen.Simon isn't sneaky, he's elusive, complicated, sharp and highly dangerous, though he appears not to be.

I suppose, since beauty depends a lot on packaging and if you know how to package yourself, people give you a lot more leeway than otherwise.

To me, the "right" way to make a film is a successful collaborative effort between producer, director, screenwriter, actors, costume and makeup artists, dialect coaches, etc. in short the entire cast and crew of a film who work together to take a good idea and make it interesting enough to develop into a film.…

Well, I suspect her acting may be held to a lower standard because the general male audience will focus more on her looks, and the general female audience on what she is wearing, at least in her home country. Of course the younger generation of women will also like the fact that she is not a pushover in her roles and…

Point conceded.