It's a little depressing when you hit the point in the episode where you realize the theme that will occupy the episode, and they take no steps to surprise you. Didn't we all know she would leave a note on the chair? Didn't we know Ben would shoot into the harness-slosh-tank? I'm all for eliminating the sappy family…

I would LOVE to see a penis pop out of Ben's chest and skate off knocking over the cereal.

I would LOVE to see a penis pop out of Ben's chest and skate off knocking over the cereal.

Dear Falling Skies,

Dear Falling Skies,

The "worst season" piling-on mystifies me. This show has been just like this for a long time. The irritating narration has been there from day one. Strange decisions from the characters, particularly LaGuerta - day one. Implausible situations? Seasons two and three were full of them.

Even though I knew everything Gemma was going to say to Jax, that scene of the two of them sitting at the club table, Gemma spilling the story, was masterful on several levels.

In the first two seasons of SOA, every episode delivered. That's why I liked it so much. Then, in season three, the deliveries stopped. Turns out, all deliveries get saved up to one big delivery in the finale, and it's very potent as a result. Almost Godfatherian.

In true Walking Dead season two fashion, a two-minute zombie scene makes up for 50 minutes of inane writing. The ratio is horrible. The ratio is worse if those two minutes are stacked up against the whole season. Man, I sat through a lot of crap the last two months to get to those two minutes.

Even if you forgive the many other problems of this show, the remaining problem of season two is that the zombie scenes are - as you've pointed out - a HUGE problem. And I think you've identified a large part of the reason - in season one, we didn't know who would survive an attack. In season two we've learned that no…

Indeed… "well, we searched from 9 to 11 this morning, we're gonna take a break and maybe start up again tomorrow, ok?"

You've hit upon the formula

Can you imagine if this show was just those six people? It would be so much fun to watch every week!

Maybe just me, but this episode gets a "D" from me. Most boring episode since "Bloodletting."

It ABSOLUTELY IS the most distracting thing. I haven't heard a single comment he's made, 'cause whenever that unibrow shows up, I just keep staring at it, trying to see the exact spot where it joins (it's kind of like a puzzle - it dips down a little for the join…see, there I go…what did he say? what did he say?)

Man ass has been in very short supply. Every time I see the warnings "Sexual Situations" and/or "Nudity" I get my hopes up that some man ass might actually be coming…but no.

Maybe I missed something, but many episodes ago I seem to recall Worst Shrink calling up Tate's "mom" telling her he couldn't treat her son anymore…he called Constance?

Actually, the info dump began to cause me some anxiety. Racing towards a conclusion way too fast. Where the hell do you go once all the back stories are on the table?

Um, and didn't Tate reply, "Yeah" ? I thought I head that…

Definitely from "The Changeling", that was the first horror film to use that device. It has been ripped off many times since.