Thoughts on S3:
IS it season three? Are they doing a thirty episode season again?

I really, really liked the idea of summer coming to a close here (lights going off at Maui was a nice effect especially) - it's an example of how well the compact half-season can work for ABCF. The flip side is that we don't get to see the immediate aftermath, which especially in Toby and Daphne's cases would be…

Last night's episode (especially Nikki's voicemail) brought out for me that so much of this season has been about the fathers. It's a shame it hasn't been more cohesive, but Angelo's baby, Cameron's CI, John's heart attack and AU episode, and even Nikki's issues - I don't recall the dads ever being this prominent…

Basically, the kids acted like they were friends with each other. How hard was that, SAB?
(Loved Toby's "You just want to just copy off me?" line, too.)
I really don't want Ty to have cheated on Bay, but I definitely got that vibe from the previews, like she had found another girl's underwear at his place (would also…

Yeah, Daphne doesn't have to admit to anything, does she? She doesn't have to admit to the text, the angry message was Nikki's, not hers, and her knowledge of the whole situation can be traced to her spa day with Kathryn. Looks like she'll confess anyway, but she's not in as much trouble as the episode makes out.

Wilke AND Simone. I miss them so much!

Is the Rory/Jess kiss in "Can't Get Started" the best kiss of the show? Discuss.
(My vote is yes, and I think it beats the Luke/Lorelai first kiss by a mile.)

I found it interesting that when Bay was listing reasons to delay Ty's deployment, she mentioned PTSD and then immediately dismissed it. Foreshadowing? Or is the show really writing that plotline out?
I loved the moms being moms, especially Kathryn with Daphne and Toby. (You could just see her going "He's cancelling…

They might kill him off, but this episode I was getting the feeling he'd beat up Emmett in a jealous rage and/or Bay would think that his PTSD is too much for her to handle. But I can't tell if we've dropped the PTSD storyline.

Back when Jace was first introduced as a super-signer, it looked like that after the Carlton plotline the show was going to make the integration of the deaf and hearing worlds seamless - and it's true that deafness has not been the focus of these episodes the way it was in the first ten of the season. But in this…

Gosh, yes. The vanishing consequences of that plotline really bothered me, and there were much more direct ways to reach "Bay and Emmett watch themselves kiss onscreen" than auction sniping and Spankenstein.

After all, he flosses.

Maybe he'll break out of jail and finish the job?

I love Brad. Among the minor recurring guest stars, he may be my favorite.

IIRC, Dave Rygalski is Helen Pai's husband - and Helen Pai was the basis for Lane. (So Lane and Dave end up together after all and the world is a just and decent place! Not a Zach fan over here.) Dave's name thus appears in the show before Adam Brody's character does.
(Also, the name of Lane's band, Hep Alien, is an…

This seems like an opportune time to point out that Paris refers to Richard as Dick in S4. I can't do anything creative with that information, but I'm sure someone else can.

Okay, so plotlines that need to be wrapped up/addressed by season's end:
Nikki/Toby wedding
Nikki's dad's killer (originally typed "Nikki's killer"…if only, if only)
unraveling of KS senate scandal
Angelo's baby
Angelo's restaurant
Angelo/Regina/design lady web of lies
Ty's PTSD

Jace and Daphne are in way over their heads, and I think it will come back to bite them. The show's not going to conclude that plot three episodes before the end of the season, so there are more hijinks on the way, I'm sure. I hope Parker calls out both of them for using her personal life to blackmail Coto (which, on…

Yeah, Regina's take on the situation could definitely have been fleshed out a little more.

It's especially weird given that neither girl was shown with her adoptive parents this episode (right?). Bay's perspective makes some sense (though it's definitely a reversal of her earlier opinion) given John's recent heart attack, but there's nothing in the episode itself that shows her bond with John and Kathryn.