I think that the idea in the episode wasn't that the father was lying when he said she attacked her… just that he was lying when he said that strangling her to death was reasonable self defense.

I wonder if to the writer oxy is just this generic drug stand-in used in television shows that's convenient because of its versatility, and not something really real and that can therefore be an opiate and relate to the arc of Sherlock's relapse..

But he tried to sink the body in the water, it just came back up? Presumably too soon for the water to have destroyed everything with full certainty, according to the episode.

Well, at one point I kind of felt like they were implying that the whole impersonation thing had merged a little bit more than just Harrison Wells' appearance into the Reverse Flash, so that he was like not quite fully unlike Wells (hence the whole mentoring, "son I never had" kind of emotional stuff that the Reverse…

Kind of a Swamp Thing situation there!

Wells' betrayal plot was played great, but it doesn't help in that sense: Zoom was said to have stolen Jay Garrick's speed himself, and he's shown he can beat this Flash too, so to have him need someone else's help to sneakily do it makes it easy to forget the menace built up by that particular episode.

Crusty old Dean McTire

It is an… unnatural coupling.

Where did the W go?

Yeah, it made sense for them to believe she was dead, so shock makes sense. Like if they'd all went: "hmm, so Juliette isn't dead after all" that would also have rang false. It makes sense that they'd accepted her death as a fact.
But the repeating wall of disbelief was just a little much.

Hey, the Wesen world is being overturned, the Council is no more and the Black Claw is headed to overthrow the current order of the world by revealing themselves… but lets act like we still have the luxury of putting this super helpful Grimm we really need to the test.

I thought putting Bitsie Tulloch in the position of having to act super restrained was a big step back, because having her be the understated girlfriend who does nothing is what mired her character at the start of the series.

The silly thing is how everybody reacts in this episode like Juliette being dead was confirmed by more than her losing consciousness in Nick's arms after being shot with crossbow bolts.

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The best part of that show, I thought. Well, him and the opening sequence.

Well, I'd say that Jose Chung's tries to be about being human, too. But that theme is more diffuse in that one.

Well, like I said, the mean spiritedness mostly comes in the form of the jokier characters in this one. It's not for nothing that the review thinks it noteworthy that the episode didn't make an even bigger fool of Mulder. It still kind of did, but held back a bit compared to previous Darin Morgan episodes I guess, but…

It does stop and say: "Hey, *optimistic beat!*" but I think it's only genuinely more optimistic than Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, and that's an easy feat! Jose Chung's is just like "we can't really know the truth of anything, but what we're looking for is something else anyway" and it kind of shows us the various…

It's not that I don't like the episode, I do, but I hope it's not the best episode of the series, because despite its very real quality it's a little too much to be a kind of "ideal" X-Files episode for me. Too self referential, too unreal, a little too mean spirited with its jokey characters. I'm not saying too much…

This was creepier than any of his appearances in the original series but not as creepy as his crucial role on The Intruders.