It's shocking to me how much I buy Ted and the Mother as a couple. Maybe it's because we're seeing their first date after we've seen them become an old married couple, but they really felt like they belonged together this episode. I cheered at that kiss.

That was the only reason I was okay with Glover leaving - Annie/Abed plots have always been my favorite, and this (hopefully) opens them up to more of those.

I imagine that's how Whedon responds to most of SHIELD.

The "mystery" is obvious to anyone who has ever seen a movie before, but it's also the only real narrative aspect to what is essentially just a series of gags and disconnected bits. It's a pretty entertaining series of gags, but the movie is definitely slim on actual plot.

And it's consistent that he would throw himself into this, because it's something he cares about - even at his man-child-iest, he's still able to commit enough to being a good detective.

Meanwhile, NPH is calling up the How I Met Your Mother producers, going "You guys suuuuure you don't want to do another season? No…no reason, I just really need to be busy for a few months next year…"

I'm still waiting for him to realize he let Fred and Welsey have a happy ending and then attempt to recall every single DVD so that he can add a scene where Alexis Denisof is suddenly decapitated.

Exactly! All I cared about was that it was faithful to the characters, and in that regard, it was excellent. I wouldn't have wanted it to end any other way.

Maine Justice: The Prequel!

And then there was that nice note of the Doctor continuing to wear Amy's glasses throughout the season, followed by the restrained cameo in Time of the Doctor - just enough to show that he missed them, but not overwhelming the rest of the story.

I think you're probably giving him too much credit.

I think my problem is that I'm so in love with the idea of Amy as a character, and I love Karen Gillan's performance (and her chemistry with Matt Smith) so much that I've strategically repressed those parts of her character that, like you say, completely don't work. I think you could argue that, as far as the…

I think the idea of Amy is probably my favorite companion, but the execution leaves her somewhere around the middle. Karen Gillan was fantastic in the role, and I love the premise of a companion who covers up her abandonment issues and serious feelings of inadequacy with brashness, and then combines that with a great…

It took me a long time to warm to Donna after how obnoxious she was in this episode, and I honestly don't think I really even liked Catherine Tate until I saw her in the completely different Much Ado she did with David Tennant. Going back, it's possible to see the nuance she is able to bring to the character, but that…

Every time I think that show has been on forever, I get reminded that it only premiered in 2009.

English is just wacky that way.

They work so well with each other when they just stop thinking about it.

I think Jake works for me because, while he is a man-child, he's a totally self-aware man-child; that is to say, he knows exactly what he's doing. That's why moments where he shoots his guns upside down work so well - it's that little grimace before he does it that says, yes, I know this is ridiculous, but it's the…

Same, although yeah, I now realize that was a strange twist to the story at the end.

Was Olivia Munn ever actually fired? Or did we just collectively agree to pretend her time on the show never happened?