Yes but Sworn to the Sword is perfect and I won't hear a word against it.

Dude, they literally disappeared to Netflix and chill for days at a time after Rose died, what do you think that meant? I thought the episode was pretty clear that they had a self-destructive, unhappy, torrid affair that lasted until they hated each other more than they hated themselves and then barely spoke for years…

I feel like this show has really buried the lede with the evil Kryptonians. Remember how Superman's only thing is that he's from Krypton? Like it's not like he has any alien knowhow or particular skillset - he's a farmboy turned reporter who just happens to be an unstoppable demigod.

Rose also hints at skeletons in her closet in We Need To Talk. That could, of course, just be all the deaths she was responsible for in the rebellion, but I imagine it also gets back to whatever prompted her to split with the homeworld. My guess would be that Earth wasn't the first project she oversaw - for all we…

January's often pretty good for temping, too, since people are taking time off, getting sick, all that. I had no more than I'd say acceptable office/admin skills and lived off it for a couple years in Vancouver in 2005-07. Rarely fun but never especially unpleasant work, often you're just filling a seat and fielding…

I seriously expected him to unhinge his jaw and consume the Interpol officer whole in his last scene here.

Obviously that's fair, it's not going to be everybody's cup of tea. I just get defensive when Jupiter Ascending gets singled out as somehow uniquely bad - like it's worse to be an idiosyncratic experiment that doesn't quite succeed than the piles of actual garbage that are continuously released.

Me too! It actually kinda bugs me how much people shit on it when, e.g., Michael Bay is still allowed to make movies. I'll take a big strange joyful mess over a dull, chauvinist, explosion-fest any day.

Agreed, I think McIver is mostly great at all the personality switches, but this one was a little tough sometimes.

Hey now, ibogaine is a real thing. Not a real thing that Muskie was on, could have been on, or could even plausibly even have heard of, but a real thing nonetheless. Lots of people say it can help you kick heroin. By all accounts one of the most thoroughly unpleasant experiences a human can put themselves through.

They filmed on my campus last summer. Got some pretty amazing reactions out of people who would, say, turn a corner to be unexpectedly confronted with a graceful tree-lined boulevard just drenched in nazi regalia. Lotta extras too, made the line at the coffee shop up the street much more colourful.

For sure, it sounds like a deeply messed up situation regardless, and not having read the decision I can't really comment on why it was decided the way it was. Hopefully it came down to questions of identity mixed with gender rather than gender alone.

With respect, you don't know what you're talking about. Martin is closer, but is maybe casting the net a little wide.

I think you're underestimating how central this question has been to the series so far. I mean, Heroes' overall incompetence is such that obviously anything is possible. But this is a question their lead character has asked repeatedly, in every episode. And here they had two easy outs (the darkness power, the back of…

I have to say I don't get the bellyaching about how Claire's death doesn't make sense. The show has never pretended it was anything but strange, and it's something memory-wiped Noah Bennett was clearly supposed to be struggling with. Just as he does in this episode when confronted with it directly. Claire shouldn't be…

I'd like to think that it's not too much to hope for that actual trans actors might get a shot at playing trans roles too.

'Forensic graphics firm' is a wonderful phrase. I don't think we have those in Canada. At least not in criminal law. Except maybe Marie Henein.

I know I'll just be disappointed even if they end up doing exactly what I hope they do, because this is Heroes, but I'm still kinda tickled at the idea that she might be a character from a video game and it's her "father"/creator who has the superpower.

Learning to be alone when you've never had to be is really positive, in my opinion. Even if you kinda find out that you hate it (I did) I feel like you learn a lot about yourself when you're finally responsible for nobody's happiness but your own. Problem is that breakups frequently land us in situations like yours -…

I think that's surely correct - it's been stated that Rose and the others spent a long time trying to figure out how to fix gems that have been shattered. And Monster Buddies implies that this might be something Steven can eventually do. So somehow healing the cluster seems like a possibility.