Perhaps it’s a regional definition difference, but I think one can be a good breadwinner and still be a dink. I agree, though, that the man supported his wife in a nice house and seemed upbeat about it.  Single-earner was sort of the way, back then.

My take on this is that Quick Healing comes with the load out of any superhero character. In any medium......Unless plot, of course.

......Baratheon  ·Lannister Twins. 

Damn. That’s a good point. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that, even though I’ve been focused on that RPG the whole season. I mean, one could come up with some fan theory to wave it away. But that’s the show’s job.

I agree that, without explanation, it’s irksome. However my take is that Lila doesn’t absorb just powers, but talents and skills. That’s why I think the dance number I mentioned is important. That’s not a power, it’s a learned skill. She can (in my hypothesis) absorb his learning.

We clearly have a different reading on how Carl acts. He has floated, already, Harlan getting professional help. He accedes to his wife’s wishes more than once this season. Now, he’s finally had enough. I also don’t see where he treated his wife like shit. He lied to her about going out and drinking. Yep. He, being a…

Yeah. The show didn’t really help themselves on the ghosts-shouldn’t-age thing with their casting. I suppose we can postulate that all those 43 babies are somehow inextricably tied together, and they all age up together, so Dead Ben is getting dragged along with his siblings.

The ending here reminded me a little of the ending of (the terrible) GLASS from last year. The show set up a big Dealey Plaza showdown, and ended in a field somewhere. It also seemed to crib from Looper, The Abyss and The Green Mile. Also 5 proves he’s tougher than the Baratheon Twins.

The blocking, and Diego’s reaction, make me confident  that it’s Diego doing this.  Great stress, in these kinds of stories, often brings out powers that they didn’t know they possessed.  Luther leapt skyscrapers in a single bound and took an RPG hit without a scratch earlier.  Ghost Ben discovered he had possession…

At about mid way thru ep 2 I said to myself, “Self,” I sez, “We gotta get this soundtrack.” Then I got S1's soundtrack to tide me over.  There’s nary a bad cut through the whole season in S2

Spectre of the Gun was a sad piece of filmmaking.  I guess they got shutdown on their idea of shooting on the Western backlot, so came up with it.  Personally, I think the Halloween one was their worst.  Catseye?  Catspaw?  Something like that.

I clicked without a picture and was imagining *looks it up* Victor “Graboids!” Wong. Still, Hong has been in everything since I was a child, so sure. let’s get him a star. I ain’t paying for it, though. It costs 50k to re tile one piece of sidewalk?  Can we shop around?

It would make sense that Five isn’t evolving. I think you are the person you are basically going to be when you’re 60. And here’s a man so lonely for most of his life that he will actively risk his life to protect PART of a mannequin he fell in love with, so having single-minded dedication to his family (whether he…

I agree that the relationship problems seemed to have more depth at the beginning. The show might have bitten off more than it could chew in that respect, because tertiary characters are NEVER gonna get enough time to flesh out a decent plotline. Certainly not on a halfway comedy show about inept superheroes. I give…

I liked the Handler far more last season, where she had a unique fashion sense, but was basically sane and dedicated to the job. This wacky megalonmaniacal kook is easily my least favourite part of the season. I recognize that that I might be in a minority of one here. I don’t mind that the show is filled with largely…

Thanks for that. At least I know that I can still read comics properly. I’ll look up the wiki and see if I can parse it somehow.

So. I re read the 18 books. Nothing about usefulness numbering. I know that there are a couple of two or three page in-canon things out there that I don’t have access to. I guess it might be in there. His most definitive thoughts on the subject in the main books, though, are on page one book one. He’d have to have…

10 and 11 is l’il kids fo’ sho’.  ( I have an apostrophe addiction.)

Yeah. They sure made a choice to dumb him down. There’s even a scene where he agrees to a plan and in the next breath goes into vapour lock until someone jogs his brain to get moving. It’s the Big and Dumb trope.  Luther is my fave, but I hope they don’t dumb him down any more.

Herb is truly the Herb I’m looking for.