They said in the premier that Willoughby had only a handful of able-bodied men, and about half-a-dozen guns. Given that they'd already lost two of those men (and their guns) in episodes 2 and 3, I'm willing to accept that the town is severely understaffed.

It's a reference to a classic episode of The Twilight Zone, not The Walking Dead.

"I guess white men have no rights."

I thought "Do you want to be my slave tonight?" was more wtf crazy.

Paulson though?

Hilariously, Ryan Murphy has either gotten his characters confused, or he doesn't know the difference between telekinesis and clairvoyance.

It was there last week, in the cold-open.

Yeah, they're a rip-off of the X-men, but they're the original X-men rip-off, hailing from the salad days of 1973. You're right to suspect their re-emergence as derivative (though what in genre television isn't derivative?) but there's some real peculiarities to the original material, which tended towards being a…

Say that again when straight and white aren't the hegemonic default.

There was a lot of poor (and poorly delivered) dialogue, yeah. TV, particularly genre tv, doesn't have to have particularly strong dialogue, but it'd be a boone to the show if the writers could manage it more often.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I've been laying the blame at the editor's door. Yourself?

Partially derived from the strong reactions to the female characters from seasons 2 through 4 (both the Rubies, Alona Tal and Bella), no doubt. The only well recieved women have been the ones who aren't positioned as potential love interests for the two male leads (e.g. Charlie) — something often attributed to an…

Yeah, that was jarring. I hate it when characters within a universe universally adopt a piece of localised slang that wouldn't have had a chance to be transmitted — beyond the way that fandom and the writers room would bounce ideas back and forth. It destroys some of the internal consistency of the setting.

Did you catch the way the show had an entire minute of dialogue at the top of each act in order to catch viewers up to speed on what was happening? Someone's giving the writers notes to be more explicit with what they're saying. Trusting an audience isn't something that's happening any time soon.

I loved that, though I missed the whining noise that the machine would make into her earpiece — from back in the second season finale, remember?

I kid, I kid.

Jokes on you.

Supernatural is pretty clearly a successor to the X-Files in many, many ways. Including the going on for a ridiculous amount of time part. Perhaps not in tone, but structurally they're both very, very similar.

10 to 1, one of those Leviathan living in Cas's gut ate Jimmy.

I think people overestimate how thought provoking Fringe ever was — particularly at its inception. (Though if you're willing to suggest it was, Jed Whedon worked on Fringe at that point).