It says something that I had no idea what episode he was talking about until five paragraphs in. There a lot of shows in TV Club Classic where I don't know the titles, but I can usually pick up on what episode is being reviewed fairly quickly. The first half of the review was just vague and non-specific.

Consistency is a terrible reason to decide to do an episode. I'd rather they just went with the most entertaining plot ideas they have rather than try and achieve some kind of equal-time mandate.

@avclub-ec97b3455d25310a00e49c9abf0633a1:disqus I thought he was a Robert Stack guy.

Yeah, the cowardly move would have been to be a Keith or Rick and just docilely go along with the Tribe celebrity. I was really unsure if Cochran had the balls to make the move, and the fact that he did was the first time he impressed me all game.

Contrary to his own opinion of himself, Coach's word is less than meaningless. He was lying in the form of prayer last week. I think he would have little trouble rationalizing breaking his word with anyone.

@avclub-7e83722522e8aeb7512b7075311316b7:disqus He couldn't have flipped earlier. Part of what he had to offer his new alliance was knowing that the immunity idol was going to Whitney. If he had openly flipped, then Savaii could have played it on someone else. Upolo would be back to guessing where to throw their…

Yeah, but Cochran's problem isn't just lack of physicality. He also gets really flustered, like in the rope handling debacle. While I think he is probably smart enough to handle a puzzle, I'm not sure he could do it when under pressure. I really doubt he would have won the key challenge last night.

Rick pretty much showed his colors on the Mikaela vs. Edna vote, were he sided with Coach against Albert. Rick seems pretty set on not saying much and doing what Coach say for the rest of the game.

What made Dawn's flip-flopping so ugly was how self-serving it all was. When Ozzy was on RI and Keith was the tribes alpha male, she was helping him dogpile Cochran mercilessly, just like she was last week.

Yeah, Keith pretty much guaranteed Cochan's flip. Considering the whole tribe went along with voting Ozzy off, blaming Cochran for it was stupid. Keith went along with it just like everyone else did. And it should be noted that Dawn was nodding eagerly along with Keith the whole time.

That would be highly entertaining, but Ozzy revealing himself as secret mastermind would be the most unlikely thing ever. It's entirely possible that Cochran will get let his small amount of power go to his head an paint himself as a villain all by himself.

Yes, this is the ridiculous part of Ozzy's plan. Christine will vote against her own tribe out of pure spite if she gets back, so even if Ozzy wins, and the merge comes, he gains nothing from this. Ozzy is pretty stupid, so I'm not surprised he didn't think if this, but the fact that not one person on his tribe…

No, @avclub-848b604d9298ecc330c3bcd600d80c15:disqus , you wouldn't count any of the time they spent at 5:02. The 200 year time thing came up at the picnic by the lake, which was before River came out of the lake and failed to kill the Doctor, creating a paradox. It was just a really long farewell tour.

@avclub-b7ee6f5f9aa5cd17ca1aea43ce848496:disqus Isn't It really its own sequel, with the whole parallel story?

The finale wasn't that good in the first place, but the way it was aired after a huge block of highlight clips hurt it even more.The centerpiece of the episode was the trial where we get to revisit all these guest characters. Of course, by the time we get through the hour of clips to the actual episode, we were…

I also get really tired if hearing Tolkien invented fantasy. Dunsany, Lovecraft and Howard were all dead before Lord of the Rings came out. Lieber had already gotten his style down. Vance already had The Dying Earth in print.

I feel the same way, especially if you throw Vance onto that list. Once you have reached the fifth book of explaining a fantasy world, there isn't a lot left that feels fantastical to me. My real preference in SF/Fantasy these days is for short story anthologies. I love picking up a book and getting something new…

I like this meme, but I have a couple of issues with it. Having the subject of the article always be the twist ending undercuts the humor a little. Maybe I should just click Harvey's profile and read them out of context. That might improve them.

The best part of the press realease
Is this:

That's an interesting theory, Rowan. You could also go with the idea that Veronica's flashbacks are a little unreliable and she has a romantic notion of how innocent she used to be before all this happened. Teenagers are both simultaneously wrong about how mature they are and wrong about how innocent they used to be.