Hey, back in the first season it still looked as if Cobie Smulders would come in as a main or recurring character after How I Met Your Mother ended. I even remember everyone being pissed that S9 of HIMYM happened because it stopped Smulders from being on the show from day one.

In fairness, Hannibal's production values were fucking magic. I'm pretty sure Bryan Fuller sold his soul to make the show look as good as it did on the budget it had.

Marvel talks a big game about the interconnectedness of its universe, but you don't have to scratch very far beneath the surface to see that that's mostly talk. Even between the movies, the continuity is only skin-deep. The Tony Stark of Iron Man 3 is not the Tony Stark of Age of Ultron. Steve Rogers's personality…

I'm pretty sure the planned endgame for the show (if it lives that long) is for Daisy to take over as director of SHIELD, which is what happens in the comics. But certainly nothing I've heard of the character convinces me that it would be a plausible development.

Eh. Just because the show hasn't made her a movie star doesn't mean it hasn't been good for her. She's got a lot more visibility now, and if she's smart she's made connections that could get her other roles. To be honest, for most of the young cast I imagine the best move for their career would be AoS being…

Also, if Jessica ever found out about SHIELD's existence, she'd spend her entire guest episode beating Coulson to a bloody pulp for never doing anything about Kilgrave.

I still feel like there was a lot that could have been done with the original concept of Skye, if only the show wasn't afraid of letting any criticism of SHIELD stick. She's introduced as someone who's spying on SHIELD from the inside, but that's quickly done away with. If it hadn't been, the show might have told an …

I wonder how much the cast plays into the budget, though. AoS has a ridiculously bloated cast list, especially for a show whose writing isn't particularly skilled. Hell, they pared four characters off the show this season just to bring themselves back to the original roster of six.

I'm guessing that this is an off-the-cuff remark that is being blown out of proportion, but nevertheless: lady, your show is only on its third season and already pulling fractional ratings. You should be grateful you're even still on the air.

In fairness, having read about her storyline in the season finale, I don't blame her for needing to vent.

I haven't been watching for a while, but from what I recall, the parts where the camera was on Clark Gregg were pretty iffy as well. Some people just aren't meant to be lead actors, and Coulson in particular is just not a character who does well in the spotlight.

OK, but let's not act like creating a 22-episode season of an action-adventure show is an impossible feat. Hell, the guy who is nominally the creator of AoS did it for 12 cumulative seasons with Buffy and Angel.

But this isn't some teen. This is Xiomara, who for two seasons has been established as fun-loving, irresponsible, and a little self-absorbed. There would have to be a reason why a person like that would feel that they wanted a baby, especially at a time in their lives when no one would expect them to have one, and…

I definitely got a Whedon vibe off this episode, and particularly Angel, a show that is a major component of Person of Interest's DNA. That wasn't necessarily a good thing, because almost as soon as Shaw broke out of her hospital room, I said "Oh, they're doing 'Awakening'", and then I spent the rest of the episode…

I think the setup for Root/Shaw suffered a great deal from TV's tendency to treat sexual harassment as funny and sexy when it's done by women. If Root were a man, the way she treated Shaw in their early interactions would be pretty obviously creepy and abusive (even if you ignore the fact that when they first met…

I thought the professor ended up being one of the season's bum notes. It is perfectly possible to be a feminist who is dubious about the institution of marriage and still recognize that it means a lot to some people and that weddings are a big deal. What sort of person is so unpleasant about their disdain for…

The question of why Xo chose to keep Jane is one of those mysteries that the show keeps teasing and edging around, but still hasn't fully revealed. My guess has always been that it had to do with the death of Mateo Sr. (who is, obviously, another one of those mysteries) - that Xo's certainty that she wanted to have a…

OK, but clearly Susanna wasn't always Rose, because they confronted each other at the hospital where Rose supposedly died, and Rose even shot Susanna. At what point did the switch happen, and where is Susanna?

It's also unfortunately the case that when men on TV shows are duped/tricked/drugged into having sex with someone, it's treated much more lightly than when the same thing happens to women. If Jane had been tricked into having sex with Michael's evil twin, it would absolutely be treated as a violation (so much so that…

I thought the reveal of what happened to Adam was pretty weak stuff. I can believe that Ben - especially in his messed-up, traumatized state - would feel great guilt and shame over failing to help his only friend. So if he were resistant to talking about the exact circumstances of what happened to Adam, or even…