To be fair, it doesn't seem to have been a very effective reprogramming.

I hear you, but I would argue that Adalind was no less a villain than Spike, within the context of the show. There aren't really many if any William the Bloodies (Williams the Bloody?) in Grimm, the violence and the villains tend to be a little more small-scale and personal. If anything, she's had more screen time as…

The thing I love about it is that it's not just that it's important to the story of the show, in many ways it IS the story of the show at this point. How Clarke and Lexa interact, how they're fascinated with each other and maybe need each other and maybe hate each other, very much holds up a mirror to the sky…

Even if the "their deaths are on your hands" thing wasn't clear enough, as soon as he drew his swords it was obvious how that fight scene was going to play out. Sorry, mooks, you can't fight fuckin' Drizzt Do'Urden.

I don't love it but I'm giving the show the benefit of the doubt more than I have because I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to love it. I quipped to my partner that for once I was glad for the actor playing Nick's total lack of chemistry with anybody, but here I think it's deliberate? They're in a confusing,…

Why did he even have those? I wouldn't even know where to start if I suddenly wanted to roofie somebody. And even if I had a prescription medication or something that I happened to know would do the trick (without, like, seriously harming or killing someone), I wouldn't keep it in my fucking sideboard ready to be…

Basically Gandalf but SEXY Gandalf. Important.

One cute idea in the book is that the mooks in the LAPD organic damage unit resent and live in the shadow of the hotshot detectives over in data theft, ie. the people who deal with actually serious crimes.

For all that they rarely impact the central characters, the book gets a lot of mileage out of the impacts of this sort of technology on ordinary people. Little scenes like the protagonist watching a young family reconnecting outside of a prison, where the father has been released into the body of an old man and the…

Yeah, it's not like bodies just grow on trees. The specific victim here is rich and he'll be fine, but for most people you end up on a waiting list for years and eventually they give you some broken down old junkie's body even though you're 27 and you're just stuck with it unless and until you can afford to buy better.

The writing in this show hasn't exactly sparkled so far but "“the struggle was mutual and lasted about an hour” is a pretty good line.

I kinda have a soft spot for True Blood despite everything, but it's hard for me to feel bad when someone associated with it leaves a project I would like to actually be good.

It's been a while, but The End was a pretty magical experience for me.

Agreed. In my thoroughly unscientific observation and experience, Netflix has a lot of passive users. It's cheap enough to just keep around, and easy to forget you subscribe until something (say Jessica Jones) reminds you to log in. And then you realize that there's lots on there you're interested in and watch stuff…

Part of the fun of watching for us has been shouting "Sexy Gandalf!" at Manu Bennett whenever he appears on screen. Poor guy, he's doing a fine job with what's been given and probably doesn't deserve it, but there you go.

I mean, it's the actual name of the festival at the heart of this particular ideology. But I agree, if it was ever used seriously it hasn't been for a good long time.

I'm sympathetic to the instinct to protect your space and all that, but I think the real key with Michigan Womyn's and the handful of other steadfast anti-trans women's organizations I'm familiar with (in my corner of the world Vancouver Rape Relief is stealthily one of our municipal villains, despite also helping a…

I did too. Though I realized I'd seen her in Penny Dreadful.

I loved it. I hope the writing tightens up a bit but I've seen far worse in pilots for shows that ended up actually good.

The key to the theory is that the Diamond Authority symbol in the homeworld ship that Jasper and Peridot came in only had the white, blue and yellow emblems, no pink. The older sites have all four. To me that makes it pretty clear that Rose Quartz either is Pink Diamond or killed her.