I'm going to start by saying I've loved this season and these last few episodes, they've been great and I'm excited/worried about next week. With that being said, if I've had a problem with this season, it's been this: "but this is very much an episode about putting pieces in place for the
finale, giving greater…

I think that's totally possible, but I think a number of things are totally possible as explanations to his actions. My problem being that I don't think we know him at all well enough to be sure one way or the other.

I agree that portions of the episode (namely most of what took place in the hospital, and some of the stuff with Gabriel which felt a bit like the show falling back onto season 2 mistakes) didn't work out as well. But I can't agree with the points being made about Beth's death. Yes people are going to die on this…

I mean to say in which episode were we told he retired? I missed some bit of dialogue somewhere to confirm this. As of last season (3 years ago in the show's time line) he was still firelord. So what happened in those 3 years off camera to change that. I simply don't recall it being mentioned.

I like to think that on a better more trusting network, the Avatar series could be more like Doctor Who. The Avatar simply reincarnates (ie regenerates) with each death, in that sense the series could just keep going and going with each new Avatar facing new and unique challenges and having special personalities. The…

That's what I'm guessing as well. I think it's more glaring in the span of these episodes which I've found entertaining, but not really advancing of any plots. That would be one easy way to push things forward and it bugs me that they aren't taking it.

In which case, i think it's placement at the end of the first episode was the wrong way to go. Place it at the end of the winter finale, allow it to be a kind of cliffhanger leading into hiatus, and then you don't set up the expectation for this to be something that gains resolution by the end of this first leg of the…

I feel like ever since the group split up this time around most of the episodes have been more about table setting than actually pushing story forward. Or at least about pushing story forward in an interesting way. I think Self Help is more or less the only exception. All the other episodes have felt like long…

"I get it; these characters are selfish. But shouldn’t their group involvement in a murder make them act a little more human?"

"I miss pro-bending scenes. That arena is where I fell in love with this show."

So we can't grade anything anymore?

3 episodes without Matt and they actually have the chance to kill Bonnie for good and they don't take it? I'm so done with this show! Couple this with The Originals not taking the chance to kill Tyler when they could and I'm just fed up with this entire universe right now!

The thing I'd like the show to ditch in the future is Redemption Island after the merge. I thought it was used well at the beginning of this season when there were still loved ones around and the pain of watching your loved one out there and the possibility of a switch was still present. Now it's just pointless and…

Can I just say, Rowan, that I might kiss you for the Tyler/Jermey point you made. I swear I've been making it over and over again on the TVD boards and in real life and people tend to just look at me like I'm a crazy shipper or something. No, I don't ship them, but it made perfect sense and the show was totally…

There's a serious part of me that thinks the show doesn't even know anymore. They just need something for her to do and making her almost as big of a bitch as her mother seemed like a good idea at the time.

I think she purposefully doesn't mention missing Jack only because she's talking to Aiden and can't afford to give him more evidence that she still has feelings for Jack or else he might go out of his way to kill him in jealousy.

There's a part of me that thinks Jack's grave-side scene might have been more about him saying goodbye to the *real* Amanda and not the chick in the grave. Or at least that's what I want to believe. I haven't bought the show's insistence on him being angry at Emily instead of the woman he actually married under false…

"and really, the series can’t go wrong by giving Dobrev more to do."

"The overall mood is lighter and more agreeable than anything Eminem’s released in ages. […] and on the requisite track about his mother, “Headlights,” he extends
her an olive branch, apologizing for years of character assassination"

"where Tyler said he was going to get revenge on Klaus, which means it shouldn’t be too long until we see Tyler pop up on The Originals"