Yes, thank you, sir. It's going to be a zaney week at my place of employment. Opening this up this morning was a treat. I'm looking forward to the next installment to pull me through.

If they can give her the depth that it's taken 3 years to give Ava, I say go for it. If she's going to just be two-demensional hot Super Woman, then no.

I immediately wondered if he has to stuff it in the pig's ass to get it in there. I guess there's a problem with the willing suspension of disbelief if my mind is wandering like that.

I see Raylan- in the wake of the Arlo thing- going through a period of "how can I possibly be a good father". Perhaps that will be the vehicle for them backing off Winona and thus letting Natalie Zea have her freedom. I think Raylan is the kind who will want to be with his baby, but be constantly dogged with worry…

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"Poor Arlo…not sure what's going on in his head."
I want to toss something out about that, and this seems like as good a place as any. I'm not sure what meds Arlo is on (or off), but I do have waaaay too much experience with psychopharacology, and a lot of those sorts of meds take some time to build up in one's system…

The shameless waving around of Devil's good name made up for it, though.

I didn't like the VO. It reminded me of the The Waltons. When the scene shifted and he was actually in a room speaking to somebody- anybody, then it was okay. The VO was totally John Boy, though.

I totally agree that we're working up to Ava being the arch villian. She's still working out her "people have underestimated me too long" issues.

I don't get betting odds at all, but if we can just vote- I vote Quarles and Arlo. I got to like Quarles as a villian, but I'm ready to be done with him. There have just been too many clues laid around about Arlo, which is a bummer because I think he's a wonderful character.
Limehouse lives. Johnny must live, as must…

It always kind of peeves me when they do that with male actors though. We get to see McDonough's very real body, but all the women have to be built like Winona, Ava, and Lindsay. It's a bummer double standard, especially since I have no problem with a man being built like McDonough (although he's a little…uh…white for…

As much as I loved the character of Helen and thought the actress totally ruled, the appearance of Ghost Helen was a little weird for me. I'd have been satisfied with Arlo alone talking to the wall like they did the first time.

I think I agree. I took a while for it to dawn on me that someone off-screen must have done it, and Arlo's the one who's MIA and pissed (and off his meds).
At first, I thought Johnny must've done it, but he's got his hands in the air already.

He probably just sits and plots the quickest route to the nearest 31 Flavors. Mmmmm…ice cream….

I think Johnny has a bag to piss in. I'm pretty sure he informed Boyd of that once. And we have seen Johnny beat a man down with a bat from his wheelchair.
Leaving Johnny with Dickie and Errol was not the most implausible thing that happened this episode.

Tim shot him from his hiding place in another episode.

I was expecting them to be involved in some kind of shoot-out/hostage/other crazy situation in Nobles Hollar since- in Coalition- it looked like they were about to strike out by themselves to check out the church.
Maybe it will still come to be. The possibility is there for them to be real danger in the finale, but…

Please tell him to not make that happen. :P God, that woman is beautiful, but I did not see the point in bringing her in other than the inside joke that she was once Karen Cisco.

Agreed. I do love them both as characters, and I love episodes when they appear, but I don't really miss them when they're gone either. As much as I like Rachel as a character (and there are a lot of possibilities for her), I thought her stand-alone episodes have been weak. I'm not a huge fan of stand-alone episodes…

I know I complained last week about Lindsay the bartender being too LA-scrawny. I'll reclaim my cred by saying that even I thought the sandwich girl was fine.