I actually think the weird way Original on (regular) Vampire compulsion works has been outlined in previous seasons. One of the first times any vampire was compelled was Elijah compelling that cafe owner back in season 2 to get info about Rose and Damon, and in that scene the guy actually realized he was being…

7. I feel sorry for Rebekah if Jeremy can expand his mark by daggering an Original. Cause we all know she's going to be the one who gets repeatedly killed.

Candice Accola could definitely pull off Buffy, but now I'm imagining her making out with Paul Wesley as Angel and that makes me think about Steroline (is that their shipper name?) which is fairly disgusting. And all of this makes no sense to you, but I just wanted you to know you made me simultaneously very happy and…

To be fair, if the past two years are any indication, she's spent 90% of her 1000 years locked in a coffin with a dagger in her heart…

This interview looks dope.

I actually wasn't all that annoyed by Amelia this episode. Normally she's at a "560 bajillion" on the "Leo Houston scale of Annoyance", but this episode she was a mere 6 or 7. The Dean/Benny subtext continues to amuse and I really hope Benny doesn't become one of those characters that's big for a season but is then…

I was wondering what he said there too, but I'm guessing his accent just obscured the phrase "There's an Angel tablet!" since Naomi mentioned this was the big secret Alfie let out of the bag later.

Does it say B+? Tough to prove.

Kind of both— they begin to merge the CoTW with the series main arc more substantially and this gives real stakes to the procedural aspects as well as allows us to learn more about the "bad" guys.

So…. What are the actual problems with the episode? I know I enjoyed season 2 substantially more than most people here, but I think this episode, serving as kind of a reboot, did a lot to progress the narrative. Everybody gets what they want, right? Aidan is free from the Vampire caste system, Sally is alive and Josh…

Watched the season back when it first aired in Canada and hated the first few episodes so I would probably give the premiere a C- at best. But I am glad I stuck with it as it starts to flesh out the characters in pleasantly unexpected and non-stereotypical ways. It also helps that Rachel Nichols learns how to do more…

So I caught up on this series in the interim of last season finale and the premiere, probably around June or so, but I remember going back and reading the reviews that were already published and marveling at how much I disagreed with them. I didn't love Clyde and Doug, and I still don't, but this mostly has to do with…

Vest? I thought this episode was good, sweater than the last one, but I wouldn't go that far.

"How do you know that?!"
"I don't know how I know half the things I know!"

It's not "10=funny AND likable it's "10=funny OR likable". For example, nothing Marnie said this episode was laugh out loud hilarious (Shoshanna actually had better lines), but her storyline made her much more enjoyable because she wasn't being a spoiled brat like last season. So yeah, general enjoyment of the…

Good episode. I was slightly annoyed at the fact that Mulan blatantly disregarded her own assessment of Belle after a half hour, first thinking Belle got lucky and then agreeing Belle's more skilled at tracking the Yaoguai than her with no intervening explanation, but that's about the only thing that made me stop…

Something interesting happened as I was sitting down to watch the premiere. Somehow, I found myself actually looking forward to it about 30 minutes out. And when I saw Lena Dunham appear on my screen I realized I actually kind of missed her, despite thinking the show was more or less an enjoyable, but forgettable…

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I agree with your analysis, but I'm liking your post because you are quite possibly the kindest person ever to go to such lengths to avoid spoiling the show for others as to actually encrypt a paragraph.

Did you watch this live? I'm not sure if you would have seen the post episode segment I'm talking about, but I wasn't referring to the preview for episode two (agreed there—that looked lame) but to that interview with the creator (?) and the leads where they showed glimpses of what was coming up, including a flashback…

Castle's conspiracy has become ridiculous for the same reason Monk's conspiracy became ridiculous— it was clear no one thought out any farther ahead than the current serialized episode. That and the beginning of each conspiracy was the murder of, essentially, some random woman that the show then tried to backstep into…