Yeah I put that badly. "His BS" was basically as you say being too focussed on his job to be relationship material with anyone less than a saint. Which reminds me of when Leo finds out Josh is breaking a date for work and points out that this sort of thing is the reason Leo's marriage ended.

I think the Josh romance history went about as it should. He and Amy had chemistry, but she wasn't willing to put up with his BS and forthrightly said she deserved more "these legs go all the way down to the floor!". He and Donna were a good match, but it was necessary for her to get away from him for a while (and not…

similar category: Arnie & Sharon Stone in Total Recall.

No good men to choose from because it's High School. Not a criticism of you or of Hughes, just perhaps of people who expect Andie to find the love of her life. (caveat: These people may just be figments of my imagination.)

I especially liked "my boyfriend" / "your ex-boyfriend"

Yeah, I was sort of hoping for this too before the first details started to leak out. Though I think Dum-Dum at least in stuck in the WW2 past with the Howling Commandoes. (Though I suppose they could use the infinity formula to have him age slowly, liked they did with pre-Ultimate Fury.)

I think the Bus is shipping them (not a sentence I ever thought I'd write). I think it would therefore be good writing for them to not end up together, or at least to have some major bumps on the road. Fitz straining against it is a good move.

I like your analysis. Another theory I have is that people like Skye have been assuming Fitz & Simmons would end up together for years, and I think there's a common negative reaction to having your path laid out for you like that. See also Room With A View, and many movies about arranged marriages (the ones where one…

I think they're managing to do this, slowly & unsteadily (much like everything else). Skye asking if this could be from one of the people on SHIELD's "list" was a nice acknowledgement that superpeople exist, and the fact that it wasn't justifies Coulson's attempt to find another explanation. If they can maintain a…

I liked "Eye Spy" better, but I agree with y'all that the show is taking (uneven) steps forward. I thought Skye was used very well, partly to stir the FitzSimmons pot (and be realistically clueless that she was doing so, since like everyone she just thinks of them as a unit). I thought for a moment that this was going…

I liked it too, and how it showed that having a drinking buddy was the real seduction for Russo. It also reminded me of the scene with the Trolls from The Hobbit (book).

Not a credit to his space race.

When I was first watching (and not paying as much attention) I thought for a while that Morn was just a fan-created name based on Norm. (Thought similarly about fans calling post head-trauma Leo Johnson on Twin Peaks "Leostein", because the ep where Bobby calls him that was pre-empted in my area.)

You have to listen the notes he DOESN'T play.

or Klingons

And I would say we have one last relatively-classic Dukat scene left, and that's the one where he basically tells Demar to suck it up and either be a villain or a hero. (And to quote the shopkeeper from True Grit, doesn't much care which.)

Glad you brought that up because it makes me feel slightly better about the many times I've confused the titles of those episodes.

*SPOILER*

Really good callbacks & analogies this week.

Reminded me a bit of when my partner (who had not seen the Lethal Weapon movies) watched Maverick, and afterwards said: "There was this weird moment when Mel Gibson and Danny Glover meet and just stare at each other for a long moment. I don't know what it was about but it really disrupted the movie." Except that in…