They're comprehensible but not consistent or believable.

Why are you so invested in defending bad writing on a mediocre show?

Literally any other time would have been preferable to attack. Why didn't they just wait outside and shoot Zoebelle when he exited the church? They certainly have the skills and weapons required to do so, even from a distance.

I can't believe how readily you people swallow this contrived bullshit.

Moronic
"I feel like we're walking into a trap," Jax says for the millionth time. What does that MEAN? WHAT trap? The Sons have in the past killed whomever the pleased (including protected witnesses), had shootouts with automatic weapons, &c. without any real consequences. What is stopping them from killing…

Rita isn't especially bothersome to me, but that's only because she is mild in comparison to the rest of Dexter's supporting characters, which are, universally, outrageously awful. That's the problem with building a show on a series of books narrated in the first person by a character without any emotions or interest…

I think it's worth remembering that while Fringe finished its first season on a really strong run of episodes, the show's average quality was a good deal lower. This episode would not have seemed such a great deviation in quality had it aired midway through season one.

Part of the problem is that with the majority of AVClub reviewers giving A's to every block of TV that isn't dead air, the scale is way off. The D+ though, is unwarranted, to be sure.

D+
Pretty harsh grade for an episode that struck me as more of a regression to the mean than particularly bad, although I certainly agree that some parts did not come together well.

Gunrunning
I have to imagine that there are better ways to transport illegal firearms than in an outlaw motorcycle convoy. May seem minor, but it seems representative of the increasingly crazy stunts the Sons are pulling, and how unlikely it seems that they could get away with all of them.

Given the insular culture of the demon hunters, it's not unreasonable to expect that you'd have one race or another predominating. And since I assume it's been going on for a while, it would make sense that many of the hunters are descendants of the original (white) settlers, or some group soon after anyway.

My God. I said that True Blood's average ratings would have gotten it kicked off of the USA Network, which is categorically true. It would not have stuck around long enough to climb up to 5 or 6 million or whatever. It's insane that you are able not only to misunderstand this statement, but actually write some…

You mean True Blood gets nearly as many viewers as Burn Notice?

Attitude would be excusable if he made any sense, but his mind is so filled with petty "GOTCHAS!" that he can't maintain coherency for more than a few lines. Even then—it's thin.

SlowMo: Why do YOU reply or even read these threads?

The problem is that SlowMo clearly doesn't expect anything from this—or, I imagine, any other show—so there's no level of incompetence that will actually displease him.

Nomore: I also wondered about the Maryanne conclusion, why could she only be killed when she believed the god was coming? They couldn't just rip out her heart to begin with? (By the way, if I were a vampire with super strength etc, I would not try to kill dangerous things by poking relatively small holes in their…

If I didn't watch the show I would be deprived of the satisfaction I get from irritating stupid people who can't follow their own advice with my pithy reviews.

And sorry again, obviously I mean vampire=gay, human=straight.

You are a fool. Apologies for two typos that most literate people would simply ignore.