So, we are now two for two on Barry killing people like it's no big deal. But the thing is, it is a really big deal, and this show can't keep presenting itself as the lighthearted alternative to Arrow - to which the legitimacy of taking a life, even when you're trying to do good, has been a central plot point for…

My issue with Blaine's speech to the DA was the notion that rich, white, clean-cut drug dealers are in any way a new or different thing. I'm not exactly in that scene, but my understanding is that this is far from an aberration. Rich, white drug seekers go to dealers who look like them, and in the party scene in…

I think it's fairly clear that Major still loves Liv, even if he chooses not to be around her when he's sober. Whether that means they have a future is less clear - as you say, there's a lot of baggage here, including now from Major's direction. He's lying to Liv in the belief that that's what's best for her, just…

I think that, to make the dress move the way it did, you'd pretty much have to start with a fabric base and then cover it with tape. Which is something a costumer could do without a problem, but would be more of an issue for Liv since it would involve ruining an existing dress. I'm willing to let it slide, though,…

Saul told him that he'd get money along with the names of his victims, but how much money could that possibly be? Is he still on the payroll at the CIA? What about his benefits and pension?

After I posted my comment I started wondering if I was being accurate. I knew, vaguely, that we're born with both sets of teeth, but clearly a newborn doesn't have room in their skull for a full set of adult teeth.

A lot depends, though, on whether you think staying on as Ford's apprentice actually is a good opportunity for Dipper. Leaving aside the whole "dropping out of school at 13" business, and the fact that he'd basically be committing to a life path that he wouldn't easily be able to step off of, it probably wouldn't be…

Babies are born with both sets of teeth, so Jane would have had her adult teeth as a baby. No idea if that makes anything that Patterson said plausible, but that part of it tracks.

Oh, I definitely don't think it's going to be a character-based show. But I like most of the characters, and I felt like the show did a good job of establishing them as distinct people with impressive speed.

They could just start casting established white characters with non-white actors, a la Iris West on The Flash and Jimmy Olsen on Supergirl.

It is pretty generic - as much as I enjoyed the first two episodes, there's not much there there. But it's extremely well made and I already like and am interested in most of the characters. Sometimes a show doesn't have to do more than tell its story well.

I think one of the things that modern audiences have trouble grasping is that distances used to be a lot greater, and populations used to be a lot smaller. When you can only rule the land you can police and protect (and when communication is slowed by the terrain and the fact that most people can't read), you end up…

I actually think that last bit is very plausible, since Saul told Quinn last week that he's an off-book operative.

I don't know: I thought the fact that Holt was able to recognize what was wrong about his approach, and seemed genuinely willing to engage with criticisms of the department, was still pretty pie-in-the-sky, optimistic fantasy world stuff.

I think it was Astrid who last season told Carrie that Quinn goes through episodes of deciding to quit but inevitably goes back. I want to feel sorry for him for being so damaged that he can't take that step, but at some point it becomes his responsibility, doesn't it? Hell, if Carrie Mathison can learn how to make…

If you really want to, you can take the scene where Laura is making substantive (if, yes, incredibly smug) accusations against the German government and the CIA and Alison's only response is to accuse her of careerism as a criticism of the CIA's tunnel vision - they genuinely can't conceive that their strategy and…

Honestly, my anxiety during the scenes where Quinn was following her was whether he'd save the girls. As for killing the target, it was never made clear why she couldn't just be arrested - especially in an episode where another character points out that they can hold people for 18 months without even charging them.

I see what you're saying, but also I think that Quinn has been so thoroughly dehumanized by this point that I can almost accept that Saul and Dar Adal would believe he'd be willing to carry out this task. Not entirely, because, as you say, anyone watching the show knows he's not going to do it, and it therefore makes…

Well, I'm not sure why you felt the need to drag me into that, not once but, like, half a dozen times, but OK.

I'm really struggling to understand the point you're trying to make. You're saying that there is no objective truth whatsoever to be found in the show - every narrative we see is fully the invention of the person telling it, and we can't trust basic facts, even if they've been corroborated by three different point of…