They could just dedicate 30 seconds every episode to "Damon and Elena: fucking or fighting?" and then get on with it. Every once in awhile they'd get called up from the bench for some important task, and the other members of the ensemble would roll their eyes as either their fighting or their fucking caused…

Persistent versus on-use. Vampirism, hybridism, and lycanthropy are perpetual supernatural states - though vitally, lycanthropy was not created by witches and does not require having died, so I think that's all good in the hood. Daylight rings are a perpetual barrier against sunlight. If a witch doesn't cast a spell…

Laurel definitely could've been a lot smoother there, but I'm not sure better lines or better delivery would have helped the central absurdity. The approach was simply wrong.

You know, for as much as I respect Arrow for all the good decisions it makes, and how much even the weaker actors have improved, I had a lot of trouble getting past this. It's not just a plot hole; it's a central plot hole. And this isn't the first time it's been an issue. Oliver has been hyping these guys way too…

Supernatural has to be setting some kind of a record for the highest number of interesting ideas utterly wasted. A season focused primarily upon the mark - including lots more Omundson, a logical buildup from Dean's character progression last season (stupid ending notwithstanding,) and some concern from Sam that…

Well, just transpose that attitude over to your sex life. All problems solved.

His endgame is one of two things:

South Park's brilliant deconstruction of the inherent tension between unbelievable situations and believable characters aside, I think TVD's pendulum has swung way too far in the direction of "fuck it, everyone will go along with everything, drama drama drama."

…which I'm still having a problem understanding, because I can't remember a single instance of vampire mythology, across the best literature and the worst movies/tv shows, where vampires actually need to breathe air to "live," so to speak.

"What makes you think you have what it takes to be a porn star?"

"Better" is a vague term, and I'm not sure it has much bearing on career prospects. I think Radnor is in the most danger of being typecast into a role that no one will want to include in a TV show or movie for a long time, but then again, another TV role isn't the alpha and omega of still having a career.

I'll second that, although I would strongly recommend that novice GM's don't try to use multiple games within WoD to allow mixed parties right away. The other game books are great sources of inspiration for how to flesh out (pun, maybe?) the other types of supernaturals as antagonists or GM-controlled allies, but…

I was pro-Skye more as a template than an actual character. I think the writers submarined her pretty hard by having her actually warm up to the ideas that SHIELD represented. They had some opportunities to amp up the ambiguity of her "conversion" as just a long con to get out from under them again, but they took a…

J. August Richards has gotten a lot of good material in this series, proportionally to how often he's recurred, but he also fucking kills it every time. This was no exception.

…which frankly was a classic stupid TV move that makes no sense whatsoever.

This would have been a lot funnier (and meaner, admittedly) if it were more… what's the word I'm looking for? True? Yeah, that's the one.

Don't worry, they're just saving all the funny jokes for the show, and convincing you to watch it by dumping all the unfunny stuff into the commercials.

Good song there at the end, and well used. I don't think I've been this impressed with one of TVD's musical choices since they had that neat, upbeat little cover of "Runaway" way back in the first season.

Spot-on review. This was a classic case of a procedural repeatedly threatening to be interesting, provocative, and relevant, but always managing to avoid it. Phew!

Having a gun and being on the side with more guns was pretty instrumental in that easy victory.