It's not about her LOOKS, it's about her general horribleness as a character.  Seriously, how many times has her entire contribution to the plot of the episode been a pouty confused face?  TOO MANY TIMES.

Every time I see Laurel and Oliver together, I think to myself…  "Her?"

I guess that's the negative of having some of the show be pre-ordained in the comics- the story structure can be stronger, the characters can be stronger, but you're stuck with a meh character and a meh actress (although Laurel has mastered that pouty confused face really well).

SHHHH DO NOT LET BASIC COMMON SENSE RUIN THE AWESOME….

Although if Merlyn Sr. is somehow alive, his return will be… EPIC!  I'd watch that.  I mean, if Ollie can walk around after taking an arrow to the heart, why can't Merlyn?

Me too,  @avclub-24f6f7a488efc0455e1cb95aea962bed:disqus   Me too.

I saw it as kind of symbolic of their relationship, and how much I don't care for Laurel.

I agree.  Letting the undertaking happen was a real surprise, and I want to find out what's next, as opposed to if everything was just wrapped up in a neat little bow with some new Big Bad lurking around the periphery.  That would have been so lame and predictable, and I'm really impressed they didn't take that route.…

I feel like the writers of Mad Men didn't want to write a show with nice, awesome people, because nice people are, well, boring, so they never included any,  then they wrote Ted as a perfect foil for Don, then they found themselves falling in love with Ted, then they decided "What the hell, let's just screw with Don…

I thought of pregnancy too, and then when she was hurling into the trash bin and said it only hurt on one side, I thought- "Hey!  That's just like what my ovarian cyst was!"  I can say from experience that when they're that painful it's terrifying- I, too, was sweating and barely able to walk and convinced that…

Bob Benson strikes me as a hapless brown-noser.  Has no one else worked with a guy like that?  I certainly have. Oh, and I definitely agree with @Girard - I went to college with those people too.

Oh, come on, Republicans don't actually care about any of that shit.  They'd just use "Christian family values" to forgive him, like with Sarah Palin's kid's illegitimate baby, or Mark "hiking the Appalachian trail" Sanford style.  Victoria refused to have an abortion!  They'd love that.  And you have to hand it to…

Ok, I am glad that I was not the only one who was not totally confused about why Declan, of all people, was near Grayson Global and *just happened to be the only person killed in the bombing.*  While I have been patiently awaiting Declan's demise… for the entire run of the show, this just felt so, so… cheap.

That IS better.  Whatever it was, it was ridiculously awesome.

I'm reserving my final judgment until the whole season is over.  This new huggy-kissy-lean-on-me stuff could get real old REAL FAST.  They were having angrysex like, 15 minutes ago.

"Hello Paul, how was your day?  I went to work and shopping."   *blows kisses*

I *guess* that makes some sense, but weren't Finch and Nathan totally anonymous when they were "killed?"  No one seems to have known Finch other than his fiance and Nathan.  I mean, couldn't their deaths have been staged as a mugging gone bad or something like that?

Ok… thinking about it just now, I have some issues with the government killing Nathan via a terrorist attack… it's just so… inefficient!  We have seen Hirsch steal police cars in broad daylight, we saw snipers quickly take out another government engineer in a freaking park *during the episode*, but for Nathan and…

Aww, Will, if I were in high school with you, I would have gone with you to prom, if only you'd asked!  And I was NOTHING like Weird Ashley in high school, I swear.  Not at all.  No sirree…  Except maybe for the frizzy hair… and the penchant for dark colors… and a couple of other things.  But otherwise, totally normal.

You would think someone as secretive as Oliver would refrain from having sex in front of an open window…