The Brigadier will always be my first favorite companion. And Pertwee my first favorite Doctor. (Never a chance they were going to kiss!) Followed as favorites, chronologically, by Davison and Tennant. For my other favorite companions, chronologically, Sarah Jane of course and Amy+Rory.

I'm glad Daniel isn't going to just be able to repeat his teenaged surrender. Like Janet suggested, he's barely had a chance to start to grow up since he got out, so the same kind of coercion (but with somewhat less lying on the senator's side about what he gets for it) got the same result.

It had never occurred to me that Trey might not be lying to some degree or another about what happened with him and George and Hannah Dean. And at first when Daniel was confessing I thought he was just repeating what Trey said with no memory of it, or with a false memory planted by Trey during that long drunken night.

Teddy's revenge, getting Daniel charged with the assault, will take the plea offer off the table. The senator wants more. He was pissed off with the new confession anyway, and pissed off Daniel wouldn't confess to rape.

Of course he didn't. It was the same damn coercion all over again, with the same damn coercer, but this time he also forced Daniel to say he wasn't being coerced. Like making your victim say they asked for it. All for his damn ego and political career.

I'm sorry for what you and he are going through.

When Teddy says Daniel's taken "everything" from him, Janet is certainly a part of that. He's thought of her as his mother for more than half his life, and he seems to have had very few moments like that since she's been concentrating on Daniel. Not Daniel's fault, or hers, but it's there.

It was especially misty in San Francisco yesterday. Shows up nice on camera.

George is the one who was being funny.

The star of David Brie's wearing in the still makes me wonder if a buck or two weren't owed to the estate of the late George Alec Effinger. In the early 80s—well before Buffy—he started a series of short-story pastiches, most of them collected in 1993 in Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson.

She is going to be on the hook for his failed rim-rental business as much as he is, if things continue the way they're going. He pushed her into signing the papers, since her name was also on the house he—remortgaged? used as collatoral? It's going to destroy her credit rating as much as his.

Possibly, but he blames her just as hard for having mixed feelings about the miscarriage as if she'd caused it herself, the same way he blames her for being drawn to Daniel the same as if she'd actually slept with him.

And it is the county Georgia uses for banishment deals. It borders Florida, has only a few thousand residents, its county seat isn't even an incorporated city or town—and, according to Wikipedia, few people offered the deal end up settling there, finding it easier to just move out of the state.

I'm not slamming the show in any way. I just noticed how conveniently packed the exposition was right there. I still would have put this episode in the A range rather than B+, so we're not as different as you may think.

Oh, she was extra flat. There was a wall up.

Adelaide Clemens, Tatiana Maslany. Two very different, beautiful performances Emmy has just not noticed.

They were never right for each other. Teddy is too desperate and controlling, poor guy (why?), and Tawney's only response is to pretend she doesn't see it.

Just for a moment it was an episode of Law & Order, when the sheriff was talking to George's father. That compact bit of exposition about the day of the arrest, the fathers not called, George never right afterwards—surely that was in tidy weirdly unforced narrative response to a L&O cop.

Tawney's defenses are in stillness and a gentle, calm exterior. I don't think I would have believed any other initial response from her.

But some of us watch it, and some of us know how you feel.