Whether or not Blaine is evil at any particular moment, he is always reckless and arrogant. That's what gets him in trouble more often than not. He knows that Don-E is stupid and impulsive, and yet he entrusts him with potentially dangerous mind-altering materials. And he's currently spending a large portion of his…

When Baracus made the point about taking the win, I really wanted Peyton to point out that the "win" in this case was the suspect committing suicide in his cell, shortly after a really suspicious change in his representation.

Agreed. There's a definite shift in tone and focus around the third and fourth seasons, and the later, war-focused stories are what most people remember the show for. But the early seasons, though different, were still excellent, and some of the best storytelling in the Trek universe.

Eh. Shakespeare himself took the story for Romeo and Juliet from someone else, as he did with so many of his plays. And in general, one of the things that has kept his work vital is the willingness of new artists to approach it without reverence and do new things with it. I have no idea if Still Star-Crossed will…

There's a whole new Shondaland show starting this evening. I mean, it looks awful, and has unsurprisingly gotten a terrible review, but surely it still deserves to at least be mentioned on WOT?

Pretty sure, yeah. I mean, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, TNG. Even Farscape has a first season of mostly standalones before seriously leveling up in S2. I actually think it's the phenomenon of shows starting out perfectly formed that is more uncommon, but a lot of those shows lose steam in later seasons.

I mean, in fairness, both Gore and Clinton won the popular votes, so you can't say that the country didn't want to keep moving in the direction the Democrats were going. It just didn't want it in a wide enough margin to overcome the way the electoral college skews the results.

You know, you didn't need to go into all this detail. The information that Trump, an American child of immigrants, felt the need to create a coat of arms for his family, already tells us so much about him (mostly stuff we already knew, but still) that the rest is just gravy.

That already gets into the problem of nicknames. I can believe in a teenager in 2017 whose name is Richard, but they probably wouldn't choose Dick as their nickname. Ditto Wally on The Flash.

She's the daughter of an idiot and a woman selected for her looks, and she's probably never had to exert herself for one moment in her life. It would be genuinely surprising if she was smart. What she is is polished, which with enough wealth and pedigree can look like smarts, but as we're learning with Kushner,…

In fairness, his adoptive father is totally in the tank for the near-incest, even going so far as to sabotage his daughter's relationship with another man who wasn't her relative. So… actually, I'm not sure how that makes it better. Everyone on that show is terrible, is my point, I guess.

Unfashionable names are an under-discussed problem in superhero stories. A lot of the big-ticket heroes right now have names that are evergreen - Steve, Tony, Bruce, Peter - but you also get situations like The Flash, where I'm expected to believe in a twenty-something guy named Barry. Sometimes you can get around…

The fact that Blaine seems to have come full circle - back to being evil, back to being a zombie - really makes me wonder why we needed to have the entire runaround with his supposed amnesia/moral awakening in the first place. I'm almost wondering whether the first few episodes this season weren't an attempt to…

Hey, you know what might have prevented the Manchester bombing? If the repeated alerts sounded by the bomber's friends, neighbors, and imam had not gone unheeded. They did exactly what they were supposed to do, behaved exactly like the "good Muslims" the right keeps telling us don't exist are supposed to behave. …

I haven't seen it, but it's Romola Garai and Diego Luna. That's a very different caliber of actors to what we're getting here. Hell, even in comparison to the original movie, I'd choose Garai over Grey any day.

How many of these same people have turned a blind eye to Alex Jones's insistence that Sandy Hook was a fake, including harassing grieving parents with the claims that their children never existed? I can't imagine there's more public opprobrium in this case then there was there, but maybe it's different when the NRA…

Dear show: please keep Luisa a villain next season. No bullshit, "we both did bad things" reconciliation between her and Rafael. She's such an awful person, and unlike Petra she seems incapable of understanding how her own actions have been hurtful to others, and how what she's experiencing now are the consequences…

Luisa knew that Rafael wasn't her biological brother and that he could be disinherited, but she didn't have a copy of the addition to the will. Plus, she didn't want to disinherit him when they were still close. Now both of those things have changed.

I also don't get why it was such a huge request to ask a driver at the end of his line to get you a little closer to your destination when you're in the middle of a hurricane.

Considering that Luisa now has control over Mateo's finances, I wouldn't be surprised if she and Jane were thrown together. And yes, it is high time for Jane to acknowledge the fact that all the chaos in her life stems from Luisa. When Petra stood by her mother after Alba's injury, Jane quite rightly put her foot…