It'll be good practice for an HBO adaptation of the Silmarillion if they ever do one. Tolkien was forever outdoing himself on "tallest of the children of the world". (I think Luthien's father Thingol was the absolute tallest at somewhere between eight and nine feet, though no doubt the Valar then have to be taller…

Leaving aside the fact that it would be a risk for her and probably stopped (or at least strongly discouraged) by the KGB, I don't think Soviet payphones had international direct dial service in 1984. As of 1990, after substantial liberalization, there were only 2000-3000 international direct dialing lines in the…

It'd be an international crisis. But the fact that everyone just launched and lost all their nukes might paradoxically make it easier to climb back from the brink. The timeline for ramping up a conventional war is at least longer, while the sudden lack of nukes creates uncertainties for everyone. And the fact that…

Even Jessica Jones was a little longer than it really should have been, with consequent wheel spinning.

That sounds about right. Vigilantes are criminals and he accepts that's their entire reason for being, doing what the law can't. But that doesn't mean that it's okay for the government, which operates on a scale a lot bigger than an urban crimefighter.

Not that I'd sell Pasha life insurance. But I guess Tuan isn't actually anticipating his suicide or murder, since that would mess with the intended end goal.

I had the same thought.

Dan Harmon said in an interview for this site that you can't write payoff-based TV because the audience has become a "render farm,"

"And this is his sofa, is it?"

And that's just on the travel agency side!

Supergirl vs. Daxamites doesn't come down to "I have to get strong enough!". She already outclasses them physically. (For that matter, nether did Supergirl vs. Kryptonians last year, where the problem was that Kara was vastly outnumbered and, until Laura Benanti bailed on the show, conflicted over her family…

Gypsy is from Earth-19, which is also H.R.'s Earth. Jessie is from Earth-2 (like her dad and Zoom) and currently living on Earth-3, where the real Jay Garrick turned out to be from. (And Supergirl lives on Earth-38.) Simple!

Agreed. It beats being packed into a suitcase, but is probably a little worse than "family blown up by faked affair". But it's all gradations; no one comes away from P&E better off than they were before they knew them, to put it mildly.

In 1984?

It is, but it's hard to see how it (or Vietnam or Cambodia) is a viable option for an American exile in 1984. Martha's language problems would be redoubled, she wouldn't have a KGB stipend, and there wouldn't be the same opportunities for American expats that there are today at a time when Chinese privatization was…

You never know. The couple of people I went to college with who went to Choate and Miss Porter's School (both around Henry's age in 1984, as it happens) wound up pretty far left. I don't really see Henry going that way (even assuming his life isn't completely blown up or ended before the finale), but it's early days.

Not a lot of attractive destinations on that list. Maybe Andorra?

Sure, thus far Clark only ruined her life rather than destroying it, which puts her ahead of most of their other tools and targets. (And was a huge relief, considering— I'm still kind of shocked she's alive at this point.) But still well behind where she'd been before they met.

I've been hoping for him to go the Alex P. Keaton route since season one. This is really the icing on the cake.

IIRC, Oleg's mother indicated that people like her were put into the camps as hostages and/or punishment directed at the husbands/fathers. Whether or not his dad did anything other than manage to get on the wrong side of a power struggle or general purge, he may well blame himself for whatever perceived mistake led…