This isn't correct. If you're not using vacutainers the lids can be removed to be filled directly from the syringe. In many places taking blood with a syringe and then piercing the tube top is not considered good practise.

People locked up in an alien Supermax may also have a little more resistance to brutality than most.

The 20+ thing kind of annoys me too. How many Kryptonians are there? Why haven't 100 of them ALREADY taken over the planet?
The DEO are also supposed to have the Fort Rozz records so wouldn't they know who was locked up and for what? Listing exactly what type of criminals they were facing would make the threat seem…

A mess is a nice way to describe this. It was like they had the emotional beats they wanted to hit but no idea how to get there, so they just did them anyway. She's mad at people here, sad there and determined over there. Max Lord makes a douchey speech that sounds like it was completely done in post for a different…

Haven't watched it all but best lines so far:
"A pirate died!"

Woah, great idea. I'd be perfectly fine if Ruby has resurrected/ reanimated Fisher as an unwilling sidekick for s2. There's a lot of horror in the thought of that alone.

The thing that's worked so well with Ash is that even as simple a goal as not facing missing Pablo/ Pedro probably ISN'T something he's thought through. Man runs on guts, not brains. Luckily the show does both.

They really saved the best till last and this episode worked on so many levels, from the story in it's own right to call backs to the rest of the franchise.

Hasn't he already been there? All the movies are part of the continuity of this series.

Damnit, I liked Fisher.
There were too many high points to the episodes for the low ones to drag it down and I love that the emotional tone never allows itself to get too bogged down by angst. Ash may be an over-compensatingly insensitive & shallow bastard but on a number of levels he's aware of it, he just doesn't…

She could be both. The title of the episode was Bound In Flesh and I think that referred as much to Ruby/ The Author as the book.

There's a difference between accepting people have to leave and herding them over the cliff.
The story played too much to the latter. River's teary speech wasn't about not seeing the love of her life again but it came across pretty strongly that it would pretty much lead directly to her actual death.
If the story had…

Joked about the Doctor essentially killing River by taking her to that Darrillium, but in the end that's the one major thing that bugged me about the story.
If they had to go there then it should've been River's choice, not his.

How do we KNOW? Stephen Fry was probably the first course.

If the episode had stayed a goofy romp it would have been a complete winner.
It proves yet again that Capaldi is at his best with other actors to work off.

not on the CW. For either point.

Freaked the hell out of me as a kid, so bubble-wrap blobs win.

MXYZPTLK! Good call.

Think that's pretty much been the approach since the 80s revamp so we're pretty much stuck with it.

The anger Kara feels is understandable. She's a refugee, possibly suffering from repressed survivor syndrome and all sorts of issues with her Aunt being an eco-terrorist and her mom's identical twin, who feels betrayed by the memory of her mother more than her surviving relative. Benoist is very good and the emotion…