The analogy wasn't apt anymore. Let Frank keep doing what he's doing. There will always be another storm.

(I know I'm late to the thread, but I have things I want to say damn it!)

And now I have the image of a shirtless Spacey covering himself in HFCS.

The entire Yates storyline befuddled the heck out of me insofar as I had no idea what either Frank or Yates was hoping to accomplish. Was I really supposed to believe that Frank would rather have a book written on his policy than himself? When he looked at the camera during the first Yates episode (the only time we…

That was the impression I got too, I just don't know if the show "got" it. If it had, I would have thought it would have been a bit more obvious about it - Frank only winning by pulling some truly nasty, underhanded stuff to UTTERLY destroy an opponent or the members of the DNC (you can't deny the person you are).His…

The Claire thing puzzled me too for all the reasons you mentioned. It was like they needed a reason for Frank to be popular in Iowa and that was the best they could come up with. They couldn't go domestic because the people that temporarily benefit from AmWorks were in DC, and foreign was a catastrophe. So Claire?

Phrasing!

I too blocked it out of my mind, but I remember when it happened, it was so over-the-top and out of place that I half expected all the lights to go down and a giant spotlight to focus on Ernesto.

"The True Skin Color of Santa Claus" - but you can thank him for giving you the idea for the next holiday hit.

Well thank you for something I'm going to waste my time thinking about all day, but my the first thought that came into my mind was Thrilling Adventure Hour's Frank Doyle.

This Summer Get Schwimmer'ed.

Was it just me or did the show seem to think we wanted Frank to win the nomination? I mean, we "wanted" him to win the nomination because he's the main character and we want to see him plot and scheme. But there were a lot of times when I felt as though they wanted us to be genuinely rooting for him, as though he…

I agree with this. And he's a pretty lousy president at that- his domestic and foreign policies both seemed to end up as duds. And whenever he tried to play on the higher levels of politics (especially for something for himself), he seemed to lose. He blinked when the hurricane was coming, Petrov outplayed him at…

I'd even argue in favor of keeping Nygma because he isn't a villain. He's a guy who works with him, and I like pretending that maybe he actually won't be The Riddler or he'll be more of an anti-hero Riddler. Maybe the show can show that with some minor changes on one's lifepath (appreciation at his job, a girlfriend,…

Honestly, giving Gordon anything to do would be a plus at this point. I guess they have him "trying to stop police corruption," but it's not working because there's no focus of his attention. He arrests one cop, he's warned against it by his boss and Bullock, and the show just moves on.

I actually agree with you. I wonder if Balloonman would have worked better later on when the show better figured out how to achieve its balance of 1930's gangster film campiness and noir. I thought the Red Hood episode managed to pull this off quite well. And it's that weird tone that it tries to hit, even if it can't…

But I don't consider it limited in that way. There's no reason why this just can't be a cop vs. criminal show that happens to be in Gotham. There's no set timeline, there's not even a set canon. Gordon finds the murderer- does that change anything (unless he kills him like he does all the villains)? Nygma doesn't have…

Even though I like this show (I know, I know, hate me for it), when I saw that there was 4 episodes left this season, it made me realize how little has actually gone on in this show. It has the appearance of being serialized (and I honestly think it looks visually fantastic), but it's not really. Nor is it entirely…

According to his statement, he's going to take the six months to go on a soul-searching hike through the Pacific Crest Trail, where he's going have a problem with his boots, think back to his dead mother, and overcome his heroin addiction.

She also shows up at places that aren't homes. So that's a plus.