Even better, on Eli Stone Matt Letscher played Eli's brother Nate where their deceased father, seen only in flashbacks and other weirdness, was played by Tom Cavanagh.

Isn't that almost all of the CW contracts? It seems like once you're in the casting pool there you're in for good. Hell, I actually identified Eddie on The Flash just by mentally reviewing CW characters killed last season.

He's never really made much of an impact for me so I don't entirely get why he's so popular, but I've never gotten the impression he's a bad guy either. He's just sort of… there, and I don't have any particular attachment to the actor to fill in the gap.

I'm starting to wonder if Finn is just a terrible judge of character.

Interesting. I took it reinforcement of the bureaucracy and depersonalization of that side of the process, like in the first episode when Kalinda didn't notice Cary in the line of prisoners — the audience sees Cary but a PSO has been though this a million times. Likewise with asking the same questions of all three,…

"I'd lean more toward there isn't a good reason for Alicia to run."

That's assuming everyone there already sticks together. If the original F/A people split votes (it's not like Alicia and Cary have never disagreed) then suddenly Diane has a whole lot more power, be it to side with one or even push for an alternative.

Now I adore Diane Lockhart (and Christine Baranski) but I'm somewhat concerned by the way her move to the new firm is playing out. Wasn't a large part of why they broke off to start a new firm due to an excess of upper management? And yet apparently without mentioning it to anyone at the firm she's joining — even if…

Ambiguous almost seems too obvious, but my guess for now is on unintended consequences after talking about one thing without realizing at that moment how the information could be applied in a different situation. It would give Finn plenty of reason to believe he's guilty because that sort of ass-covering is *exactly*…

Finn also thought Jeffrey Grant was guilty. Believing Cary is would just mean this isn't personal from his point of view — he can be honest and wrong — and since vindictive intent from everyone involved is not a prerequisite for somebody getting screwed, all of these could be happening at once.

Okay, I give — what's wrong with his profile? Because I just spent what is in retrospect way more time than I'd like to admit trying to figure out what you're talking about, and I'm not seeing a problem.

There are plenty of theories that have been disproven eventually, and experts who've testified in good faith to things that turned out to be wrong. (Not the Dreyfus case; he had no business testifying as a handwriting expert. 'He disguised his writing to look like someone forging his handwriting'? That's just sad.)…

I wondered for a minute (especially since I'd already been watching CBS for an hour) but just as I was starting to worry #GoodWife popped up in the corner of the screen. Which is officially the only time I have ever found any use for those annoyances.

Yep. It's just that in the district where I went to school no parents would have started their child a year later than possible without a damn good reason, which is why that one super-introverted friend is the only one I know of and why I started kindergarten with a number of kids who were four year olds for the first…

Like 1derer, I think Halloween was the cutoff in my area. I had friends with September/October birthdays who were always the youngest, and according to my mother (first week of November) she was always the oldest in her class. (Something she was deeply bitter about, since she missed the cutoff by days.)

He never really bothered with being subtle about Holmes mocking Dupin. IIRC Dupin was mentioned twice — right off the bat in A Study in Scarlet and, appropriately enough, in "The Cardboard Box" — and both times Holmes calls that stunt showy and cheap. It's in the latter where he pulls it himself (and explains the…

I was thinking Canterbury: conveniently eastern, was a target for Danish raids, and carries significant Christian associations to give Athelstan something interesting.

That wasn't my intent! I just didn't want it to sound like the show had neglected the man, and then I remembered Holmes getting snitty about being called "the second highest" expert in Europe meaning the original Holmes had acknowledged him as well.

Alphonse Bertillon, who was discussed in the episode.

I think spending a lot of time around Holmes would make most people a bit paranoid. I was surprised that Joan was surprised he'd opened her mail — you'd think finding out she'd been unknowingly living with security cameras in "M." would have made her expect things like that. Other people's privacy has never been…