Engineering disasters are totally fascinating. Two nights ago, I spent an embarrassingly long time watching every video I could find of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge twisting in the fucking wind and falling into the Sound, thinking, "Whoo boy, those engineers really screwed the pooch on this one!"

Is anyone else getting a subtle mansplaining vibe from all this? Isn't there a whiff of men trying to diminish her efficacy as an agent because her emotional blindness (i.e. she's a chick) toward her husband caused her to miss his true agenda?

I'm always in favor of any Benjamin Bratt character getting eliminated. That guy plays the same guy in everything he's ever done. He's no Tony Almeida, dammit!

Rings so false that a British Prime Minister is going to just wordlessly consent to an American strike team operating independently on British soil, to storm a British private residence with NO MI-6, British military, or British police involved. That is complete nonsense on a show that usually embeds some realism in…

What Peggy ought to do is call the hot handyman forthwith! She needs to start breaking shit around her apartment. I foresee the rugged, blue-collar, plaid-shirted Nick as a way to extend Peggy's Burger King success and mojo enhancement from her professional life into her personal life. As much as I'm a fan of Stan's…

It wasn't just relief when Peggy nailed the pitch. He puffed up his chest, tilted his chin (the better to look down at the Burger Chef guy seated next to him), and adopted an extremely smug expression, as if to take credit for her skills. Pete (actually Vincent Kartheiser) is MVP in so many ways. His body language…

Teenagerhood is the absolute worst time, I would think, to follow any kind of authority, be any kind of different from their friends, or be any kind of disciplined. Has Moscow met teenagers? Did the Jared fiasco teach them nothing? They sent a hot older woman to mess with him, got him all horny and righteous and, bam,…

Pardon if this has already been said but, setting aside Martha's Ladysmith, Paige is the real Chekhov's gun now. I'm sure that, having set up the possibility of her being made aware of her parents' (and her) identity, it will absolutely happen. I don't know what this means for Henry, who seems too beautiful for the…

Thanks for the info - I hadn't seen the interview. Just speculating…

There was AVC talk of this possibility all the way back to the conveniently simpatico teenager on the bus with Paige, cluing her into that church in the first place. I would say it was more likely now that we've learned of Moscow's long game in regard to the Jennings' oldest.

She was no doubt planning to get Clark drunk and fuck him senseless without a condom. Stealth baby-making, bitches.

John Shaft.

What's a rogue demon?

Well, if you were, you're not any more!

I think you're right - we learned from Crowley that the Mark only has
the power it does over Dean because Dean's body isn't made to contain
that kind of power. As a demon, he can survive it, maybe harness it
(Super Dean!), and control it. And, since he's a human NOT being possessed by a demon, he might be a different,…

Good point. This makes sense and makes me realize that Sam probably figured he needed to call on the entity with the most juice right then, and that's Crowley.

Even more impressive is that he did it with that tired old Bush-era canard about, "they hate us for our freedom" line of crap.

Exactly. For Kate to be believable - and to be a worthy ally to Bauer - she had to come off like a lion in that scene, protecting Jack with her body, or it would've looked like the Marines simply backed down because 'bitches be crazy' or some shit. This way, Kate continues her logical arc of being the only CTU agent…

OK, that makes sense. It's just very disconcerting after so many protracted fight scenes over the years to see Sam drop like a stone.

I was bothered by the fact that he called Crowley for help instead of Cas, although another finale with Cas giving the ol' two-fingered resurrection to someone might've been too much.