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I think Liz Torres was too ill to appear more than she did, leaning against a doorframe or sitting behind a table.

Sting? "Little Wing" is totally a Stevie Ray Vaughan song!

Yes, but when will we get the new song lyrics used as a dialogue conversation in the script? That moment between Paula and her husband was probably the biggest laugh (for me) of the entire first season.

Logged in just to congratulate Katie on that truly excellent opening metaphor.

New Girl

This could be just a temporary status - lots of happy people have times when they have to deal with stuff.

Just like what Marvel did with Wolverine.

Hey, I saw this film in a college class too! Were you in "Science Fiction Film", sometime 1998 or 1999?

I think that I was in the live audience for that sketch with Key and Peele doing Shakespeare. Huh.

Any article that reminds me to go back and re-read that amazing Mullally-Offerman Valentine's column is a winner in my book.

No, it's 1, 2, 3

I for one would love to have seen Fred and Illyria hook up.

A LOT of Saudi oil goes through the Suez to Europe and the Americas.

Moving equipment, where's the equipment?

Did anyone else think that Thompson's "white flag" story was a step too far? He had already admitted to Peggy and the HC that he felt guilty that his Navy Cross award was undeserved, coming from shooting enemy soldiers in the back after falling asleep on duty. Why double down (not to mention basically repeating the

The writers laid a little pipe for this earlier, though, by showing that Thompson isn't married nor sleeping around, but is instead dedicated to his job and emotionally damaged by the war (as opposed to "wife-and-mistress agent"). Agreed that there wasn't really a crush before, though.

I think that the show has gone a long way to show that many men of the 1940s considered their attitude toward women as protective, rather than just dismissive. Not to say that they weren't dismissive and sexist, just that they thought they were helping. Although the writers went a little too far last night with the

Until now anyway…

More Torchwood?

And did you solve the case?