"How is Capheus killing half a dozen gang members better than killing Kabaka, a man who chopped off another's hands right in front of him?" In a bunch of ways, really. For starters, the people he's killing are the ones that wanted to kill a little girl in cold blood in front of her father and film it, whereas as…

Man. From a rocket launcher pulled out of a trunk to Lito's confrontation with Joachim to techno-laced fireworks and lesbian sex to extended graphic childbirth sequence all in one episode. <3

I continue to be really happy with the direction they've been taking Daniella through this episode (and hopefully going forward). While I've been a pretty easy laugh throughout Leto's storyline, I did have some concerns that her insistent butting into his life early on was going to develop into some sort of horrible…

I just thought she had a thing for Ray, but I suppose there could be more sinister things at work.

Good ol' Joey Pants.

JMS isn't returning to TV after nearly two decades. It's been just over one decade since he did a two season show called Jeremiah. It was on Showtime and starred Luke Perry (of Beverly Hills 90210) and Malcolm Jamal-Warner (of the Cosby Show), of all people. This turned out to be surprisingly great casting, and the…

Wait, there are weird sci-fi elements in Treme? I need to get back to that one!

It doesn't really excel at setting up a mystery, though. It's most of an hour following an assortment of people doing things that don't really mean much to us and whose bearing if any on the mystery we assume is coming is unknown since, y'know, it hasn't been presented yet. None of whom interact at all except Frank…

Or more likely, it could be coming to PC. I mean, they've brought FFXIII and XIII-2 to PC recently. Also the DS FFIII remake. And a couple other entries in the series, IIRC. And let's face it, PC is the ur-platform at the moment.

Yes, it turns out later that the two of them were colluding. But I'm talking about viewers, not the characters in the show.

I don't know if this was what the writers intended, but given that Hoffman was being reserved by Owlsley as the leverage to keep him alive, and Owlsley certainly knew all that stuff, it's possible that he filled Hoffman in in order to make him sufficiently dangerous.

Look, she may have trusted Urich quite a bit (and Nelson and Murdock, for that matter), but having shot a man to death is kind of a really big thing to drop on someone you've known for, what, a few weeks? To say nothing of making them an accessory if it ever gets prosecuted.

So, two observations from someone who hasn't seen any further than this episode:
1) I feel like this episode reinforces my original impression of Urich's editor as not being the stock antagonist/impediment that this reviewer believes him to be. Instead, there's a clear fondness between the two, and a sense of history,…

I thought the origin scene was really, even cringe-inducingly, cheesy. But then, Daredevil's origin is pretty goofy, really. Not the show's fault, and thankfully it doesn't linger there. The rest of the episode was fantastic.

Yeah, I don't think he'd actually be a great fit for the series. But he did manage to pull off a reasonably satisfying close to the Wheel of Time, which was a pretty tall order between the general difficulty of replicating another author's work well enough to continue it (something which very rarely works out in my…

I would contend that signing over Arlo's house wasn't the act of a man that doesn't give a shit anymore (although he doesn't, much), but a genuine attempt to do right by someone he and his family had used unkindly. Albeit by getting rid of something he'd just as soon be quit of. (Remember, he briefly attempted to give…

And they can always have Brandon Sanderson fill in at the end.

Well, yes. There's absolutely a pleasure to experiencing many a good book, movie, TV show, game or whatever even when you already know what's going to happen in broad or exactingly minute detail. That's the pleasure of the revisit. I enjoy it regularly. There's also a very different pleasure to finding out what's…

That wasn't a knife, dangit. That was a pair of scissors. I don't think any of the infected people used knives, actually.

He was, he'd just slumped forwards, presumably as the wasps poured out of his body.