"But shouldn't someone who is a fan of the show as it is, not someone
who could possibly be a fan of the show he hopes it may become, be
reviewing it?"

I'm officially shipping Morgan and Duncan. How cute are they? You know, minus the possibility that Duncan might be a little developmentally disabled (anyone else get that vibe too?), and Morgan is pretty much a 10 year old. So assuming I don't think about those 2 elements and it doesn't get too creepy, I'm shipping…

I thought it was another strong episode for the show thus far. I like the cuts back to 2077 giving us more background and utilizing what I assume to be most of the show's budget. A friend and I were talking about the first episode and she had concerns about how well rendered the future was in the first episode. She…

And I get that, and I do trust you on that point; if you say they don't go any deeper in the next 3 hours of the show, then I believe you. My only point is that I was looking for the review of the first episode to be a review of the first episode instead of being colored by the events of the first 4 as a whole. I…

I'm so torn after reading the review. On the one hand I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of what was said. I do think that the networks continue to make this mistake when trying to replicate what cable is doing, and I did think that the episode was fairly surface level in what it was doing. With that being said,…

1) I don't recall that line at all.

Indeed, it’s great and deft character work on their part, and what I constantly say to my friends who refuse to watch Revenge is that they have better characters than just about any show on TV. The writers understand Emily and Nolan, and the others as well, so well that they know better than to write in the scene we…

"But then one of Thomas' recurring characteristics is that he thinks he's so smart and savvy and one step ahead of everybody else, and always winds up the fool."

We shall see. It could go either way and I'd be ok with it. I will say that whether everyone knows or not, I'd bet money that Thomas didn't tell them and that he doesn't know that they know. I just don't know how comfortable Carson or his Lordship would be with the guy helping to dress and undress him being gay. But…

Can I just say that this is why I love Raisler so much: she understands that her expectations don't dictate the show's success or failure. Something some other reviewers (I'm looking at you Ryan McGee and that horrible review written for Blackwater last year) could stand to learn as well. I love that we get to…

I don't disagree with you by any means that those things were said, I'm just saying I do think it is more ambiguous than you took it. I only say this because I think the intentional ambiguity is a sign of the good writing. "He's not a ladies man" certainly sounds (to a 21st century audience) like "He's gay." But does…

So no more HOL reviews after this one? It's being discontinued wasn't made clear in the review itself. Because if I don't have an AVC review to read after the episode, I fail to see a reason to keep watching. lol

I asked the same question last week, no one seemed to have an answer for me. My assumption currently is that O'Brien doesn't know, or at least was never told, but she's starting to suspect. She's seen the way all of the staff has taken to Jimmy and she's smart enough to know why, so seeing him fall under the same…

I thought that too. I was wondering how O'Brien would use this to her advantage. I'm guessing she starts to find out about Thomas by way of Jimmy and uses her new knowledge as leverage over him. I could even see a situation in which Jimmy isn't gay, but he's more than willing to flirt with the Lord's Valet if he…

I agree with all of that, but if the Fiona storyline is as good as this one (minus the Jimmy crap), and that's what we're all really into, then doesn't that count for a lot? I liked this episode a lot more than last week's and I realized when it was over that that was because the Fiona stuff was working so well for…

I must say, I didn't love this episode very much at all. It was a bit boring for Downton, minus a healthy number of Violet zingers. And then I read this "review" for want of a better word, and now I actually kind of love it. At least it wasn't nearly as self indulgent as this.

You sure liked this episode a lot more than I did. Maybe I'm just jaded by the fact that I know the show won't be continuing, but I didn't find anything this week to be very compelling at all. I, for one, knew the Washington storyline wasn't going to play out, I knew Grace would come down on Marcus' side in the end,…

Faith is for shows that have earned it. Again, this isn't the reason that I'm giving up on this show, this is the most recent reason in a long line of reasons (a long line we'll call season 2) I'm giving up on this show. I have been patient and optimistic more than long enough, thank you very much.

I don't disagree that the show also has problems on the plot and dialogue level, I'm only ssying that the new problems on the premise level on top of all the other problems is the reason I doubt I'll be watching any longer. And sticking within the confines of the original premise doesn't mean that the show has to be…

And I'm done. Josh isn't a werewolf any more which means no more partial nudity from Sam H, and Sally isn't a ghost anymore, and it looks like the only way for Aiden to survive this plague is to stop drinking blood effectively making him no longer a vampire in a show pitched to be "A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost…