Oh man…I didn't know that, but I'd be totally okay with this being the way the series ended — that "FIN" on the last title card was awesome.

I know it's not technically "cinema", but any best presidents in media list that doesn't include Jed Bartlet is criminal.

That Les Mis sequence bumps it up at least a half-letter grade in my book.

The rare instance? That would ALWAYS improve the scene.

I got the feeling the man in the mask was Jay, especially in that shot where you see the back of his head, which looks like the back of Jay's head. (I mean, insofar as I can recognize the back of people's heads.)

WAIT — in all the frustration with the Bellamy plotline, I forgot to note that WE SAW MILLER'S BOYFRIEND

This just about sums up my complicated feelings on this plotline — I appreciate how timely it is that a character like Pike could essentially gain immense support through fearmongering, just like certain GOP candidates who shall go unnamed, but everything they're doing with Bellamy is really frustrating and rushed.…

Earth-2 Cisco was rocking that eyeliner. Props to him on keeping up proper bad-guy appearances.

I don't think they need to or should establish Rebecca as someone who cuts — there are multiple methods of self-harm, and her constant self-sabotage can be seen as one. This show already puts forth such a layered and complex depiction of mental illness that I wouldn't want them to go to what's considered the standard…

a Greek Chorus, in its simplest form, is basically just a character (or characters) that comments on the action and isn't really involved in it (so the Chorus in Shakespeare's plays would be a non-Greek example — at the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, the Chorus basically outlines the entire plot)

Can we have a quick tally here? Textmergency, or Textastrophe?

I love how this show doesn't fully indulge Rebecca by having all the characters completely revolve around her — when Greg sees Josh's name on the bag, he doesn't selflessly cast aside his own feelings and go to console Rebecca, he (rightfully) points out that he can't continue on as a substitute for whatever she feels…

Since everyone else has already pointed out how great everything with Clarke and Lexa was this episode, can we talk about how great that scene showing the daily life/marketplace feel of Polis was? And how far Kane has come as a character, to go from that sense of utter rigidity to being able to adapt the customs of…

I will suspend my disbelief as far as it can possibly be suspended for West Wing references.

Missed opportunity not getting Laura Benanti to host.

South Asian is generally meant and understood as the Indian subcontinent and some of the surrounding territory. Vietnam is Southeast Asia, if anything. Not the same.

I loved this episode, if for no other reason than Jessica and Louis really get it, waving at the lone Chinese guy from the bus.

NO

((and fwiw i wouldn't have it any other way. it hurts, but it's so emotionally satisfying, and it works so well for the character))

I have a lot of thoughts about this episode and I'd like to express them all but i CAN'T because every scene involving Bellamy BROKE MY HEART