I mean, she's playing a lesbian on this show, meaning Ryan Murphy is inherently uninterested,

Though in retrospect it would explain why there's only been one Christmas Special.

B+,

I enjoyed that — very funny episode — but I wonder if there weren't a number of continuity issues regarding Finn and Greg the Social Worker? I thought Greg had made the implicit agreement not to hit on Finn any more, back in Episode Three, and yet there's the scene quoted in the image above. And Finn running around…

That's not true. They kept most of their original writers, they just doubled the writer's room.

That's partially due to this season's change in format, and through burning through all the classic fantasy characters that everyone was there for.

Yeah, I think it's interesting that this is the third time the show's deliberately avoided telling a straight origin story. It's archetypal cornerstone of heroic mythology, but is also, if we're honest, something of a cliché. Who was it who said that the only superhero stories that Hollywood can tell are origin…

*washes the fresh blood of virgins from his sacrificial knife*

He is pretty unlikable in Cassanova, but I found it to be an arresting performance. Like a lot of RTD's supporting characters he plays it large, but he's really strong in the England plot, where he reveals a startlingly brittle personality.He's certainly much better than the similar sort of character he played on Spook…

Fair enough, I got it wrong. :)

Surely he's some sort of engineer though? He worked at a particle accelerator where he used a wrench and wore overalls as part of his job, and enough knowledge to do minor damage to the machinery — but not enough to not do serious damage by accident.

The intention of the monologues was probably to cut through the bullshit, given their trajectory from overblown nonsense to stripped down facts. I mean, that's the inevitability of the horror story, isn't it? You start mythological, and ultimately it ends up being a guy in a suit. It's the kind of thing Stephen King…

He's clearly not playing with the full deck — I assume the intention was to somehow open the cell his beloved was in, and he either fucked up badly or panicked. And he had run of that ship for ages.

You should check it out. It's great. Hilarious and terrifying and great.

I'm so late to this party I wonder if anyone - ANYONE - thought that TOBIAS being able to rip out some RANDOM CABLES caused the ship to, not run on alternate generator power (because why would a multibillion-dollar super spy airbus have that?) but to actually crash - was absolute bullshit?!

Why can't the Cavalry monologues be both? This episode was clearly going for a horror/ghost story narrative. The villain's manifests like a supernatural creature, he claims to have come from Hell, he haunts the characters, ect. ect. Oral accounts are a natural facet of this kind of narrative. Perhaps a cut-away from…

I ended up throwing in Fringe during its disappointing fourth season, but I came back for the fifth. In retrospect, I think it was a bad idea of the show to jettison so many of its ongoing plots — a lot of the choices made that season ended up feeling artificial and arbitrary.

What did you think of Penry-Jones in Cassanova?

I'm not a big fan of the third one, but the other two are tops. The Cypress storyline really drags, unfortunately. Great pay-off though.

That's Julia Davis's new show, right? She's tops.