Her approach silhouetted in the doorway, that very martial-artsy way she wielded the pole (dang, there's no 'non-dirty' way to say that), and her epic takedown of the Dirty 30 (hey!) was fantastic - my favorite aspect of that scene was the heroic fanfare in the musical score. Seriously, that kind of heft and uplift is…

They are definitely more fun than the 5 years or so of Nazi dreams I had in and around my undergrad years. All that running and hiding was exhausting! (I think dreams of closets and stuff - at least in my case - is just a longing to live in a domicile with some damn storage space!)

I was thinking about this demon cure - and agree that the simplicity seems a bit suspect. As Crowley was either getting his soul back or messing with Sam and pretending like he was starting to feel remorse, it looked like a cumulative thing, right? So if the ritual is incomplete, doesn't it seem possible that the…

K.Thrace - I like the Cardassians, too! The whole Nazi/Holocaust theme with them and the Bajorans in DS9 was powerful (although the spiritual crap with the latter got a bit overdone as time went on, kind of ruining the essential badassity that could've been Avery Brooks/Benjamin Sisko - especially after his cool turn…

I totally get your point @avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus . I really tried to like Khan, I did, but Montalban just kept taking me out of the movie - even though the story itself is really compelling. I saw it after growing up with Fantasy Island and I could just not get past the silly long hair and the…

I'm with you on the Alpha vamp. LOVED that guy! Now that [SPOILER] his character on Person of Interest has been killed off, the actor might be available.

Nope. Despite the dips in quality since season 5, I wouldn't skip hanging out with these characters even to avoid the occasional sub-par story arc or misfire. There have been enough long arcs and stand-alones that not only worked but were genuinely creative that it's been totally worth it. I suck at remembering…

Death did make Dean a Reaper and he did OK at the job for the first life he had to take and then rapidly bagan sucking at the job big time. Dean's OK with the black-and-white but falters in the grey and, once he had to reap the innocent along with the guilty, it was clear he didn't have the Reaper gene.

Holy shit, the laugh track in that scene made me think I was having some kind of brain disorder . It was screeching and canned-sounding in a way I couldn't remember ever noticing to that extent. I was terrified that it was going to sound that insistent throughout the episode and that I wouldn't be able to tune it out.

I know this is blasphemy but I never liked Khan and was never keen on Abrams rebooting him. The Trekverse is vast and there are many other avenues he could've taken. I'm not old-school TOS, although I like most of the movies, but there's never been a better Trek bigscreen release than First Contact. And the Borg are a…

It'll be a while before I can get past him taking out Mrs. Tran. That was very unsporting.

I maintain that there is no one better in all of our vast mediaverse at the amusing reaction-shot than Jensen Ackles. He kills it every time.

Pete knows about it because Peggy informed him that she'd had, and then given away, his child.

Makes sense. So it's deferred until next season. Marshall definitely needs a bit of a comeuppance on this one. In real life, I would always tell somebody that, if they have a chance to live in another country for a while, GO. I don't care what shit is going on with your job or your relationships. Just go - there is no…

No omnibuses out on the farm. There was, however, a lot of trouble distinguishing "supper" from "dinner" when I was growing up — these were two different things, apparently. But hot corn on the cob, freshly picked, with real butter melting into it? Good for supper. And good for dinner.

I don't know if anyone's still lingering here but, with all the talk of Ted's wavering levels of maturity, was anybody but me really pissed at Marshall for his amazingly dickish immaturity in this episode? First, he's too chickenshit to tell his mommy he's moving to Rome and then he puts his own career ambitions ahead…

I come from dairy farmers and I've seen them, to this day, pick up that little dish of margarine at the pancake house and hand it to the waitress before she even brings the water, and ask for "real butter" to be brought over before resuming the ordering ritual. Margarine isn't food - and they call it "oleo." Which…

It's going to exponentially more difficult to do the same thing with margarine that Brando did with that stick of butter.

Also amusing…

@Eshuster:disqus  and @avclub-0bba551b5f78d9e7647cd7bc006578fe:disqus  — oops, you guys beat me to it. I just left that same comment up above. The plane ride was wonderful, though, giving us that Kennedy reference while also letting Don look like he was about to hurl in a most unmanly way. Ted, on the other hand, was…