"The Equation"—great episode.

Whether or not the Nina we saw is a shapeshifter, there's at least one shapeshifter Nina running around Earth 2 right now. She escaped over there with Jones at the end of "The End of All Things." (She's the same one who was pretending to be real Nina in captivity with Olivia.)

But seriously, I didn't mean to offend anyone.

I was being facetious.

I knew Bass was gay before he officially came out, but that's because I saw him on the first season of Kathy Griffin's show. You hang with Kathy, you're probably a gay. And I bet he knows that; that was probably his way of leaking the news before officially breaking it.

I thought Trudy's outfit was crazy frumpy. Pete's right, she wouldn't have worn that two years ago.

I heard it, and was like, "Ralph Nader is old."

Isn't Roger older than that? Didn't he bum around Paris in the 20s and box with Hemingway? (As told to the dog food heiress?)

Pete does have a brother, I think older. And his parents are/were distant and disapproving. It seems clear to me that Pete's entire life has been about trying to figure out the secret formula that will make his parents proud of him. The bitter truth is that it doesn't exist.

Pete is the guy who makes all the "right" decisions in life, and things still don't work out quite right for him, and it makes him want to stamp! his! foot! like a kid throwing a tantrum. I totally relate to this.

Disagree! I like 'em round.

I don't know how many throats you have left to slit, @avclub-afa73512a045b8492d94152050b80273:disqus, but I still disagree. I've read all three, I know that the boys sniff around her the entire time, but I don't think the romantic subplot, as much of it as there is, is out of proportion to the actual plots of games…

@avclub-a3e80e62340f85e584f072b212415d32:disqus She's not from here.

Yes, it is.

EverLastAll: well, the book doesn't really do that. The publicity for the book does that.

Also, everyone leave Norm Son-of-a-Gunderson alone. What you heard is not what he said.

There's a difference between horribly written and written in a simplified style for a primarily teenage demographic. It is simplified, and the print is also larger than you might be used to seeing. It's a YA book. But I don't think it's horribly written. It is occasionally too expository, and yes, there are corners to…

I get what you're saying, but I think Katniss—because she is, all said and done, a 16-year-old—lacks the symbolic power to execute such a strategy until the end of the first book, when she does it perfectly. Until then, she watches how Haymitch and Cinna work within these evil structures to give that subtle middle…

I disagree just because I think Katniss IS majorly compromised. Her character in the second book and especially in the third has become shell-shocked and basically dead inside.

It would have been a great movie if they excised 85% of that Sorkin Vomit dialogue.