Don't forget Jenna. She was lied to and kept in the dark forever, until she wasn't. And then what happened to her? Yeah. It's a weird rule.

I in no way mean to imply that this could have been turned into a good show without a rewrite and reshoot, but…

Xander's role was to be human and he was… good at it?

It's worth noting that the majority of TVD's guardian/ward relationships were also based upon lies and manipulation. They were not functional in the least. Those types of relationships are apparently the default, and are perfectly fine to prolong indefinitely according to the aforementioned rule.

If you can find the good parts on youtube, then no, it isn't. Michael Hall's accent was egregious, even though I enjoyed a lot of the quirky character beats they gave him throughout.

This scene also cast a different light on their scene from a few episodes back, where Faye was warning Melissa away from Nick. It retroactively illustrated to the audience that, despite Faye insisting that she was giving Melissa tough love for her own good, it was actually all about Faye and Nick's brother. Because…

There appears to be a rule within the sub-sub-genre of sexy teen supernatural hour drama shows, which states that any stable, meaningful, functional relationship between a younger (human) person and an older (human) person must be cashed in as quickly as possible - via death or betrayal or something similar - for a…

…but we're still kinda slow!

Now if only it described all of us too. I mean, we've definitely got the sloppy part down, but…

I think we're going to continue to witness a bizarre hybrid of cleverness and stupidity from all of the characters, because they're not actually characters.

Dry sarcasm just doesn't sound the same coming from a guy dangling from his own pitard.

I often find myself saying something similar about all of our 18-22 year old soldiers over in Afghanistan. If I hear or read about even one of those smug fuckers being jaded or cynical or snarky, I'm going to fucking flip my shit. I mean, what the fuck? They're in the prime of their lives, they're in peak physical…

So… is it your job to murder subtlety with hydrogen bombs, or is that more of a hobby?

No, but ask me again in Soviet Russian.

Knowing next to nothing about what has actually been done in comics (except to vaguely suspect that it's close to "everything,") I would imagine that the Punisher would work best as a secondary antagonist for another vigilante superhero.

It doesn't take a witch-werewolf-vampire-ghost hybrid to see that turning Bonnie into a witch-werewolf-vampire-ghost hybrid would not solve the underlying deficiencies of her character.

If this show ever becomes terrible, I hope someone in the writer's room will suggest that, as a grand stroke of comic genius in the final season, it is revealed that vervain (sp?) causes all sorts of intense hallucinations.

Right now the "rules," as we can understand them, don't bother me from an inconsistency standpoint. A ghost needs to have a strong, two-way connection with a human being who has also died or nearly-died and then come back. A ghost thus summoned can, with focus and will, affect the physical world in minor/spooky ways.…

Your criticisms are valid.

Now would probably be an extremely impolitic time to ask (smarmily and cheekily, of course) why hunters don't bone up on witchcraft.