Smash's ego could be obnoxious, but whenever I see his picture I'm reminded of his oddly beautiful voice. And he has such beautiful cheekbones. And even the actor's name is beautiful….huh. I might have a crush on Gaius Charles.

I got a John Green Community notification for this?!

Yeah, one of the few annoyances about the show is how they keep Lyla in high school for three years when it seemed so heavily implied that she was the same age as Jason, or at least only a year behind him, in season one. Same with Riggins.

In light of the show's emphasis on gendered violence, as the reviewer points out, I would really love it if Grace became an ally for Helena after realizing how f***ed up her family's beliefs and actions are. She already objects to their plan for misguided reasons; hopefully her father's statement that Helena has a…

*salutes* Major Burn

Yeah, I love Delphine's arc in this episode. From surprise at Cosima's advance, to hesitantly trying to act the part, to keeping Kira a secret and putting in a good word for Cosima with Leekie. I wasn't surprised that she ended up saying she was falling for Cosima—she obviously wasn't prepared to use sex as a…

My interpretation of Cosima's stupidity was that she was initially so sure Delphine was her monitor, she thought Delphine was seducing her, and she was willing to go along with it but presumably would have been more careful than to leave her alone in the apartment. Once Delphine rejected her advance though, she…

For a minute there, I got David Sims confused with David Simon and was all kinds of confused.

And the blacksmith's daughter sobbing "No! No! No!" in computer-modulated descending tones. So freaking hilarious.

Yeah, in fact I'm pretty sure the dialogue from the scene they were watching was even from a scene earlier in the episode—you can hear Lesley Nicol saying "chamomile" and "master of the house." Probably their way of referencing Downton Abbey without having to pay for actual audio from the show.

Thanks for this, Todd. I'm still trying to process the finale and it helps to see that other people feel the exact same way about it that I do.

I loved that both Diane and Peter's first reaction was "Are you SERIOUS?" before realizing that yes, he's thinking of this so I don't have to, which is pretty selfless. Though in David Lee's case it's also probably how he handles his grief.

Poor Bonnie doesn't even have a story outside of dating Jeremy. Training a newbie witch (and failing to notice that she's not really a newbie) doesn't count.

I could have sworn he lost his hunter status when he came back from the dead, otherwise HOW IN THE HELL DID DAMON AND ENZO GET THE BETTER OF HIM?

I laughed out loud when Elena's phone showed the appointment reminder for the parent-teacher conference. Both at the idea that Jeremy is still going to school, and that Elena is in any way still trying to act as his guardian. Though the counselor telling her that she needs to provide a more stable home life was…

As annoying as Liv is, she best expressed how I feel about this show right now: "Just kill me already." At least Damon and Elena finally broke up for good (hopefully). Good riddance.

I'd forgotten about them trapping David in rat form. This series truly wasn't afraid to go dark.

Also, I like how they made Rachel not just a natural fighter, but someone who was good at fighting because she was driven by anger. I may not be remembering her characterization 100% correctly, and I don't recall if they ever made an explicit feminist interpretation of it, but I seem to have the impression that she…

Yes! There was the book where Cassie gets into a discussion with a Yeerk-controlled little girl about whether the Andalites had a right to prevent the Yeerks from space travel, whether the Yeerks were at all justified in wanting to see the universe at the expense of other creatures' autonomy, etc. It ended with…

Reminds me of this classic from the New Yorker: