Snow was sooo much tougher in the fairybacks in season 1. I had thought that she and the Prince, for all their virtue, still had shown enough realpoltik to actually be effective leaders. What was Snow thinking giving up the dagger???? And why wasn't she ready to kill Cora already?

I would expect another important issue is that Kathryn now has a hearing kid at Carlton, and any attack on the hearing program is an attack on Bay.  I find that quite sufficient motivation for Kathryn to get defensive.

"Bringing in hearing kids thus brings in more money; however, since
Carlton is too small to be fully funded by even the addition of a few
hearing students, the immediate effect for the school is less money PER
student to operate with…."

I thought the Pierce and Shirley plot worked very well, in that it set up two great moments: Shirley apologizing to Abed about how she had tried—which was a funny enough end to that bit—and the very amusing end, when we see the show that came out of Pierce's feedback.

I dislike the child molestation plot twist in August, mainly because it seems like too easy a motivation for Gaiman to give Augustus. I would much rather have seen Augustus contemplating the two possible futures and deciding it would be better for Rome to be (relatively) short-lived for some reason, or even pulling a…

I dislike the child molestation plot twist in August, mainly because it seems like too easy a motivation for Gaiman to give Augustus. I would much rather have seen Augustus contemplating the two possible futures and deciding it would be better for Rome to be (relatively) short-lived for some reason, or even pulling a…

I'm glad that, in this episode, we see the team facing actual consequences of their high-mindedness.

I'm glad that, in this episode, we see the team facing actual consequences of their high-mindedness.

I'm so glad to see so many commenters defending the grammaticaland stylistic correctness of starting a sentence with a coordinating conjunction: and, or, for, nor, but, yet, so.

I'm so glad to see so many commenters defending the grammaticaland stylistic correctness of starting a sentence with a coordinating conjunction: and, or, for, nor, but, yet, so.