Well, dismantling the nation's public education system is certainly paying off.

The progression of shipping on Arrow fandom is actually quite interesting. Originally, the show had no intention of making Felicity a love interest to Oliver, much less his One True Love. You can tell by the way she's styled in S1, and the way the show plays her crush on Oliver for laughs. But their chemistry was…

So they have hotlines specifically for alerting the authorities to terrorist concerns, but they won't investigate adults who have been reported to the hotlines for fear of looking "racist"? That doesn't make any sense.

Agreed that it didn't feel like much of a season finale, more like a semi-random stopping point. And I think it's not a great statement on the show that I'm more annoyed by not getting to see Salim and the Jinn again than I am interested in the Shadow/Wednesday stuff. Or even the Laura/Mad Sweeney plotline, which is…

Oh, and a couple of temporary exhibits that I saw when I was in the city in March that I think are still running:

Yes, excellent addition. Aside from a really interesting collection, it's got all these neat details like how Holbein's portrait of Thomas Cromwell sits opposite the one of Thomas More, whose execution Cromwell orchestrated.

He wasn't a main castmember, though. I mean, a lot of people worked on that show and surely more than six of them have died overall, but I was looking at the people in the main credits (of which there were also quite a lot).

Huh. I was sure I'd read somewhere that he died too. My bad.

That's never been my understanding. He seems to have gotten a little dissipated, but nothing that I think we're meant to read as sinister.

That's Londo. Vir ends up becoming Emperor after Londo kills the keeper and himself. When you see him in the twenty-years-later flash-forward, he seems to be doing pretty well.

I watched St. Elsewhere religiously as a kid, but I guess I must have missed the later seasons because this is the first I've heard that Elliot died. That does sound excessively cruel.

Meanwhile, the one castmember who was also on the original Star Trek is alive and kicking at 81 (knock wood, obviously).

By my count, seven of the main castmembers have died in the less-than-twenty-years since the show went off the air - Furst, Richard Biggs, Andreas Kastulas, Peter Jurasik, Jerry Doyle, Jeff Conaway, and Michael O'Hare. That's not a good ratio by any stretch of the imagination.

That's particularly sad because apparently the original script gave almost all the passengers interesting personalities and backstories, and you can read interviews with the actors, most of whom were used to getting one-line background roles, about how excited they were to get to play more complex characters. Then…

I found it weird but engaging the first few episodes, but after last week I think I'm totally in the tank. I can't really put my finger on why, but I find myself more engaged with these characters and this world than almost anything else I'm watching right now.

There are a ton of great museums in NY if that's of interest to you. The Metropolitan, obviously, shouldn't be missed, and the Ellis Island museum is really interesting (in fairness, I haven't been there since 2001, but it was very interesting then and surely it's only gotten better). A couple of other, less famous…

In both the Manchester and Westminster Bridge attacks, the neighbors and relatives of the attackers (that is, Muslim people) repeatedly alerted the authorities that these people had become dangerously radicalized and might engage in violence. For whatever reason - budget cuts, incompetence, the actual purpose of…

The issue isn't "once you get to episode 22, is this the right thing for our characters to do?" It's "why did you write a season that was supposedly all about immigration and refugeeism, and then make the bad guys refugees and the only way to defeat them a literalization of a classic piece of anti-immigrant rhetoric?"

As established in S1, Kryptonian leadership ignored repeated warnings that their energy-producing methods were destabilizing the planet and would eventually lead to its explosion. That leadership included Kara's mother, who even jailed her aunt for attempting a terrorist attack intended to call attention to this…

I like how Reign, a show about a Scottish queen who was, by both heritage and upbringing, French, and is here played by an Australian actress doing a dodgy English accent, and surrounded by Americans and Canadians, caters to Anglophilia.