BioShock Infinite totally ruined patriotic bunting for me, which wasn't really an issue until this weekend.

This is increasingly going to be a problem for Marvel characters, but Scarlett Johansen was born in 1984. When, exactly, is she supposed to have served in the KGB? I mean, at some point, it's going to make no sense for Magneto to have been a Holocaust survivor.

My mom has some pretty horrific stories of the nuns at her elementary school (60 years ago in a Third World country) using fire ant hills as punishment.

I dunno why, but Lady Grantham's flustered talk-to-the-hand when Tom takes that heavy basket of cloth from her and Edith made me laugh out loud.

I didn't realize that Shia LeBeouf was a divorced royal duchess.

As soon as he mentioned Germany, I wondered if they were gonna go all Mitford-sisters this season. Maybe they'll run into the Duke of Windsor and Wallace Simpson!

A lot of people killed people in this episode!

After some diligent Wikipediaing, I think I have figured out the series' endgame should it ever get to the point where Mary is supposed to pick up, leave France, and marry her cousin. *obligatory history spoiler tag* I'm guessing Bash (or Francis, after some kind of faked death) turns up in Scotland disguised as one…

I will always think of it as the fortress of solitude song, plus it gets bonus points for using the word "fractals."

I vote for before, because then it can tie into the whole Coulson mystery, so that when the power behind Coulson's tahitian resurrecreation goes all squiggly and explodes, you get the maximum chain reactions of interpersonal emotional confusion.

Not presently, but having just finished a marathon holiday weekend of shot-gunning October Daye novels, Avengers Arena might be up next. Thanks for reminding me to put it in for the fam's holiday gift round robin.

Oh, yes please. That would make them so much more interesting.

There had better be a good reason why objectively attractive super-geniuses Fitz and Simmons have not already slept together besides the fact that they're nerds and nerds don't boink. Like, I hope he dated her dead sister.

After shot-gunning two seasons of The Borgias, it has started to annoy me that Mary doesn't refer to herself with the royal we.

"The only way to make a threat to US military/intelligence credible these days is an alien invasion"

yes

I've found the first two episodes to be mildly entertaining, usually when Clark Gregg is talking, but otherwise kinda flat, and I think it's because SHIELD the organization is just too powerful.  So far, the villains have been an amorphous, politically-edged group of hackers and the government of a Third World…

Damn, this show pulls no punches.  On another show, Joe would tearfully monologue the events leading up to the murder, and then have him trail off as he gets to the final deed, but Broadchurch makes us look into his eyes and listen to him scream at the child he is choking.  Another show would have shown Hardy breaking…

Maybe Callie gave her ring to a fellow street kid, who was then killed by Skinner, and then Callie got adopted by the Larsens.  Actually, "got adopted by the Larsens" is going to be my equivalent of "went to live on a farm" for missing and presumed dead children on television from now on.

Yeah, as soon as it was clear Skinner was the Piper, I thought about the parallel TV show that had apparently started before season one and crossed over with increasing frequency until the big, two-hour crossover event finale.