The problem with Bonnie now is that, according to the rules of CW teen dramas, parental and older authority figures simply cannot be allowed to air legitimate concerns in a reasonable way, unless of course they die or otherwise abandon their ward swiftly and tragically, leaving them wounded and adrift. Even if her…

Every murder in Mystic Falls is sacrificial fuel for town-wide phone upgrades. Now THAT's a decent contract!

Her pre-turning speech was pretty intense. What about having and raising your own biological non-vampire children in a non-vampire household with non-vampire values? That's not an option anymore, and that was mentioned explicitly.

This show, after many hideous missteps in the pilot, has managed to make the Watson character fresh and interesting in a way that Moffat didn't even seem to bother trying to do. It seemed like he just got Martin Freeman and said "well ok, we have Martin Freeman; fuck it, we're done."

Drek. Emotional moments don't work for me when there's nothing underpinning them. This is space robots talking about the power of love and hate, straight out of a terrible 50's B-movie. Lots of fan service, but I prefer that the fans actually be given a compelling story that manages to address the themes without…

Gravity suspension is often a means to an end, unless it's a McGuffin. In order for a disruption of causality to merely be a means to an end, the piece of art needs to seriously stake out a non-plot-oriented center. Fringe has great character work and character-oriented themes, but, like most sci-fi that jumps the…

If the Observers are, as has been repeatedly and forcefully suggested, able to travel through time both vertically and horizontally, then it's highly questionable whether the events "never happened." The characters we were following had no memory of them, but that distinction, as we saw again tonight, doesn't mean a…

This is a bunch of hot malarkey. While traditional paradoxes could be sidestepped by the Observers' apparent ability to travel through, and comprehend, probabilityspacetime rather than mere spacetime, new questions are raised that aren't answered, despite the embarrassing barrage of arch-sci-fi-cliche dialogue dumping…

Well she's all set for a guest spot on Peep Show.

Well she's all set for a guest spot on Peep Show.

That's pretty much how I imagine most references to both will go, with the forehead-rubbing and the moaning and whatnot.

That's pretty much how I imagine most references to both will go, with the forehead-rubbing and the moaning and whatnot.

Truly, people will speak of Nate's successful newspaper in the same breath as the trains in the movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged.

Truly, people will speak of Nate's successful newspaper in the same breath as the trains in the movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged.

I usually have at least a few small things to add to the review, but not this time. Point-by-point, I'm right there with the reviewer, all the way down.

I usually have at least a few small things to add to the review, but not this time. Point-by-point, I'm right there with the reviewer, all the way down.

As a general rule, art cannot respond to tragedy swiftly without seeming - and usually being - crass.

As a general rule, art cannot respond to tragedy swiftly without seeming - and usually being - crass.

Liu's great, but I'm not sure she could've done much with the pilot's version of Watson. She was being set up as a lazy foil for a (admittedly well-acted) House knockoff.

Liu's great, but I'm not sure she could've done much with the pilot's version of Watson. She was being set up as a lazy foil for a (admittedly well-acted) House knockoff.