Well, they resemble plants. That doesn't mean they actually function via the same processes as plants on Earth.

What, pray tell, is that supposed to mean? Please, elaborate.

I agree wholeheartedly. I was so primed for this one, but it's the first time I've ever truly been disappointed with an episode. (I know, I know, most people had that experience within the first couple of episodes of the series.) I felt like it squandered so much of its empowering-survival-drama potential on an easy…

Is my 76-year-old mother a neckbearded loser for being disappointed that they took the thoroughly predictable Stranded Romance approach and for feeling bad for Fitz that even when he succeeds he still loses?

Well, thank you. I do appreciate that. And I do realize that it's a decidedly minority opinion. Though I actually did like the episode overall. I just felt little to no emotional connection to what was happening.

You're right, there really isn't any nice way to say that. But thanks for going out of your way to make me feel like shit for expressing an opinion. Have a good night!

This was a remarkably well-made episode with several excellent scenes, but I felt pretty much no emotional engagement to anything that was happening. (Which is really saying something, as it doesn't take much for me to get emotionally invested in stuff.) It's like watching helmeted clone troopers fighting faceless…

I don't disagree. But she was objectively correct that in that particular crisis, her going inside would have just made things more dangerous for Maggie and the others.

Was Saul/Allison really supposed to be a "gut punch"? I didn't really get that impression, but I suppose that could be the problem.

And it seems like she agrees with that *now*. But she doesn't know how yet. As she noted, she would just have been a liability.

I thought that until Eugene made reference to a hematoma. So now it feels like they'd be too on the nose if they actually follow through on giving her a stroke or something.

But her reasoning was perfectly sound. Do we expect the head of state to go after potential assassins personally? No, we expect them to be kept as safe and removed from danger as possible and that people better able to deal with the situation will do so.

Right. And I assumed she didn't finish the statement because that would be directly acknowledging what the two of the did while outside Alexandria.

I thought she was talking about how she and Carl were able to get in and out without being spotted.

The first thing I thought was "and that's how Enid got salmonella."

I generally try not to comment on shows I don't watch simply to talk about how I don't watch said show, but I just *can't* watch this show. Even the commercials for it trip my social anxiety alarm so much that I have to mute the TV when they come on.

Isn't that Orlando Jones? And does anyone remember the live music review show Sound FX that he co-hosted?

Given how harsh he actually - and, at least to me, inexplicably - is in describing the first four seasons, I'm not sure how much nostalgia is really involved.

This is the first time this show has gone so implausibly far over the top that I felt completely disconnected from what was happening. This one simply left me rolling my eyes and thinking, "Oh, come on…" a few too many times.

Loved that so much. I actually shouted expletives at Rick in that scene… Because, dammit, I wanted one of those Zelda 3DSes that scalpers snatched up in about 30 seconds.