They're just pacing the season, not "righting the plot". The show's got to have a climax each episode, something novel for each of the characters to do every two episodes, and a point of climax to each season for each arc. Makes sense that things would get shuffled around — otherwise you're left with what happened in…

Unlike. I feel like this was a waste of Roz.

For a show that's meant to be aimed at kids, Once Upon A Time has an awfully flexible idea about Stranger Danger. Don't run away with strangers, kids, but you can let them live inside your walls!

Oh god, Five Little Pigs is amazing. That entire season of Poirot (The Hollow, Five Little Pigs and Death On The Nile) was just better than anything else around it. I can only think of two (Murder On The Orient Express and After The Funeral) that got anywhere near them in terms of quality.

It's not an arc, it's all just stalling tactics. Any one episode could have supplied the same function as any other.

Also? Unless I'm very bad at remembering, Hilary Briss was Mark Gattiss.

I was wondering if he didn't manage to make it all the way back from the other side too… Though I don't know if they'll ever outright say that.

"May. May I have my prophylactic back."

She's been made to work fairly effectively and regularly with the Big Finish stuff she's done. Though they tend to take the flip side: as hard as it is to talk Tegan into something, it's harder to talk her out of it once her mind's set up. Plus she's incredibly devoted to Nyssa, so theoretically all the writer would…

I know a lot of people in this thread might disagree., but I love Alias's last two seasons a lot more than its earlier stuff. The highs and higher in the first two seasons, but I generally find most of the random episodes to be kind of mediocre.

That's her actual voice, which she was told to use.

Basically all the episodes written by former Mutant Enemy writers.

I really want to talk about the final episode, but there's no space for it. Jesus this story took some risks. I honestly can't think of another show that's ever come close.

The Raphael's are still my favourite example of their casting for their recurring stars. Particularly her, she was badass.

Eh. Seems like it was a nightmare brief. Do a big episode that moves all the guest star plots along, but hiring all those guest stars is _expensive_ so you can't have much in the way of cool SFX. Go!

Yeah, it's really strange for a Ben Edlund episode to be so structurally messy. He's normally at Whedon levels of clever structure, but I thought that this was kind of badly paced and had difficulty balancing, what was in effect, three separate A-plots.

I don't think Phillips acts anymore. She's not done much tv in years, and all her recent roles involved her sitting down a lot.

POLLY WALKER.

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