Well, they feinted towards a friendship with Pam early in the season. Then they dropped that, as the Jim/Pam soap opera heated up, and they gave Nelly that holiday hook-up with Toby. About which, what happened? And last night, she had less lines than Creed.

Have any of the character arcs been handled well this season? The failure of Andy's was obvious. Jim and Pam's story flirted with some uncomfortable material, but blew it all off with a hug and a montage. Dwight and Angela we saw coming, but they deliberately stretched out their story. Erin and Pete? Daryl and Val?

I just want to express my anger at how Daniels and Co. are wasting time with worthless Andy subplots, even at this late date. Why couldn't they just be content to let him fade into the background, like Catherine Tate has?

Well, how do I approach this? First of all, I wonder if Todd wasn't a little hard on this episode. The past few weeks, I'd been smacking my head at some of the inane events on the show, only to see Todd give them semi-favorable reviews. Now here's an episode that's not really that much worse than we've seen, and he…

Well, I agree with what you say, but that revelation did make the relationship of Rohm's character with previous DA, Dianne Wiest, a little suspect. Because Rohm was too limp a prosecutor to get advanced by merit alone.

Those seasons really were the worst of Law & Order. You had Elisabeth Rohm weakly voicing a left-wing perspective from the prosecutors' office, Fred Thompson shouting her down with his post-9/11 conservatism, and Sam Waterston basically doing whatever was expedient.

I'm just glad that Robinson's getting a chance to star in a movie of his own. Because, frankly, if he was waiting for Apatow to do it, I hope he wasn't holding his breath.

It wasn't until I saw a TV commercial for this movie last week, that I realized that it was a Tyler Perry "presentation." Talk about trailers spoiling the movie…

Hey, reviewer! You're, you're that guy from that thing!

I'll go so far as to say that line is the most intriguing thing Barrowman has said or done in that role. Whatever it ends up meaning, it speaks volumes for a character who has planned such devastation, and has unmasked what he thinks is his sole remaining foe.

It appears to me that Felicity has been overlooked and under-appreciated for quite some time, and is only now spreading her wings, if you will. Initially, she had said that she was only in this to help Oliver retrieve Walter. But given the fact that Walter has returned, and she's still rolling with Team A, it's…

When the drippy middle-management type boards the elevator with Ollie and Felicity, and Ollie baldly smacks the guy's folders out of the elevator so he has to chase them, I laughed out loud. That's a first for this show.

I think the Oliver/Laurel romance is one thing left over from the original conception of the show that the writers have yet to accept that they've outgrown. With most other regular characters (Walter, Thea, Moira, Diggle, etc.), at least the effort has been made to give them some different shadings. Laurel is still…

Although I think it was unfortunate that the movies surrounding his work rarely attained the level of excitement, and spirit of fun that Harryhausen brought to his sequences, he will remain an enduring figure in fantasy films for years to come.

About the Mandarin, I'll admit to feeling I had them figured out, but being fooled. At first, I thought the Mandarin was an LMD, or a video construct, until he walked onto Killian's set. Then it became apparent to me he was real, until the actor reveal near the end.

Mark Millar is devoted to a certain kind of material, isn't he? To the point of sameness.

I'd attribute this lapse to crazy, as well. Lauryn Hill has displayed a very pronounced persecution complex, and the people that she surrounded herself with (including Wyclef Jean, her baby daddy, and whatever bootleg "spiritual advisor" was guiding her) never seemed to place her interests above theirs.

My one bone of contention with GOT at this point, is the slow unfolding of some of the plot strands. The Bran/Rikon scene this week was good to set up the relationships between the Stark Bros. and their current traveling companions, but nothing really came of it. We didn't even get to hear a "Hodor," did we?
 
I think…

Ya know, if Theon ever gets out of that dungeon, he can really give Petyr Baelish some competition for the nickname, "Littlefinger."

Ah, but funny hats were in abundance.