I find the timing very convenient. Because nothing wins you fans in this country like throwing missiles from a safe distance. He's been looking for an opportunity to look tough and turn those numbers around.

This time was also the Golden Age of Unintentional (I guess) Homoerotic Lyrics, usually delivered by rappers overdosed on testosterone. My favorite was the line from Pharell on NERD's first single: "I dare a motherfucker to come in my face."

Woo. Those were the days. I have been trying to come up with a term to describe Wyclef's solo music, and corny seems to cover it. But where Clef could occasionally stumble onto a good line, Pras was dropping strictly lyrical cinder blocks.

These hard and fast Time Rules are violated so often and so cavilierly, I don't even pay attention anymore.

I didn't really like the idea of them leaving her village's fate to chance. Hope she won't regret that later.

Judging from season 1, it could have held a status quo for another season, but they blew up the show quite a bit in season 2, and the stakes are considerably higher. In other words, it's more entertaining than, say, Falling Skies.

I don't think that Fey is patronizing them that much. Sure, the HGTV thing is a little slam, but what she's asking these educated white women to do is be informed and aware of what's going on with Trump.

Oh, jeez, take a breath.

I realize that this episode already was a budget buster, with all the added extras and weapons and stuff, but wouldn't all that automatic weapons fire have attracted just a shitload of walkers to Alexandria?

The Sasha/Abraham scenes just brought home what a good idea it was to nip that relationship in the bud early. They were painful, but not for the reasons intended.

I was entertained for a brief moment by the thought that the tiger should have jumped on Kohrl and mauled him, instead of some random Savior. But there was some really egregious padding here.

One thing I approve of that they've done recently is scheduling event crossover issues outside of a book's continuity. So, for this recent Monsters Unleashed crossover, a Doctor Strange crossover was numbered #1-MU, or something, so I could ignore it completely.

Not surprising, Renner joined the IMF mostly because he thought Cruise was gonna pass him the lead-actor baton. But Cruise never let the damn thing go.

It's like that with nearly every Marvel character that's been around over, say, twenty years. Look at the changes Carol Danvers has been through over the years. Or even a fairly straightforward character, like Wolverine. Who the fuck is Romulus?

Yeah, the Avengers were hilariously bad back then. Team jackets, everybody! Gilgamesh and Doctor Druid!

I'm actually looking on X-Men Prime as a jumping-off point. I've suffered through years of lackluster X-Men books at this point, and, absent a compelling reason to continue, I'm taking my money elsewhere.

That would be a shame. They brought Dinah in too abruptly, and haven't done much with her since she joined the group (at this point in the season, the focus is nearly all Oliver).

Well, of course, this fight isn't over. But when hubris, arrogance, and ignorance takes a loss, especially from this crew, we deserve the right to celebrate. For a while.

Add to that, she is apparently the Right's version of Gloria Allred, unable to resist any camera pointed in her direction. She was prominently featured in HBO's Jinx docuseries last year, and she almost made me feel sympathy for Robert Durst.

As for the poorly blocked fight scenes in this episode, I find it vaguely comforting that Kevin Smith is bringing his vaunted visual ineptitude to his TV directing career.