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Re: #1—ugh, seriously. Deb/Connor McManus was one of the few things I was really genuinely enjoying this season, so of course they had to turn him into a Nice Guy douchebag. Who actually calls himself a "nice guy" while calling her a fucking bitch. Girl, bye.

Uh, that's best friend forever, not "former classmate." Just because stupid Steve Kloves turned Ron into a total Butt Monkey just to fuel his Harry/Hermione fanboy shipping fervor does not mean Harry and Ron weren't legit bros for life. Get with it, man.

Well, no, if that were true there'd be a lot more Chevy instead of less. But otherwise, yes, that melting troll doll is staring into our souls right now.

Motherflippers think everything's a motherflipping joke.

I completely agree; I was sitting there going "so…why are you English, again??" this week in particular. And I said that as a diehard Britanophile. Is this gonna end with some wacky deportation plot?? Because otherwise it just doesn't make sense (nor does his magical ability to instantly learn ASL).

He seemed nice otherwise, but I cringed very hard at his casual offer to give Emmett a CI—if he works in the field and his dad's Deaf, he should know it's not a casual thing at all and just talking about it upsets some people.

I did really like the part where she refused to apologize for or be ashamed of her wild past, saying she'd changed because she decided to and all, but other than that, yeah, it's a little tired, and her instant rejection of faith was a little exasperatingly simplified. But I guess it's more interesting than her

Yeah, exactly. I thought his transformation from addicted killer to kind-of vigilante, especially when he became a dad, was really interesting, since it's usually the other way around ("do-gooder" vengeance guy gets a taste for blood, etc). But now he's just petulant and kinda only keeping to the Code when it suits

Yep, I had the same exact reaction to Maggie's thing—I was expecting some kind of rape storyline, or at the very least some horrible white-savior bullshit, so the fact that it was just an adorable kid getting killed was kind of a relief. Which is not a sentence I ever thought I'd type, but that's what this show has

I quite agree that they can't decide about Dexter's sexuality—I always kind of got the impression that they were okay with him being asexual until they saw Michael C. Hall with his shirt off, and then they remembered that this is Showtime and they can get away with that shit. It made sense with Rita, but ever since

Remember on Friends when Rachel bought that freaky hairless sphinx cat, and every time she called it a cat Joey would pipe up "IT'S NOT A CAT!"? That's me this season, both with Vogel calling Dexter "perfect" and a "psychopath" every five minutes (in my view he is neither), and now with Quinn; every time someone says

Let's be real, at this point we should all just be grateful that he didn't say "I can't tell her…that I dispose of bodies on that boat, because I'm a serial killer" in voiceover.

That method of body-disposal needed a little more Walter White and a little less Dexter Morgan, amirite?

If I live a thousand years I will never be over "you know I care more about her than I do myself." Oh, man. We didn't get a ton of adorably paternal Luke/Rory moments (I guess we did once he was almost her stepfather, but the show was off the rails by then and Rory was kinda the worst), but that has to be my favorite.

Oh, definitely. I mean, they put that in there for a reason—I love that she just sort of mentioned it casually and it's not a huge deal, but I definitely think they're going somewhere with that. Hopefully.

The delivery of "he got scurvy" is one of my favorite things in the world—and it makes a weird kind of sense! Dude doesn't get a lot of sunlight!

Ugh, Jace. Every time I see him I can't help but think of that time Kurt on Glee told that guy he didn't like his "smirky little meerkat face." And more than that, it's super-annoying that they pulled that whole "I'm going to magically learn ASL in a month!" thing just as a way of speeding up his romance with Daphne

Wasn't that a Heat shout-out? That made my day.

Heh, exactly. I've noticed a lot of those moments this season, where Batista essentially tells the cops how to do their jobs in the most basic ways ever. At every crime scene he's like "let's get some fingerprints from this, the crime scene, where a person was killed, and then take them back to the lab to analyze