I'm sorry you think I was being passive aggressive. You made a comment that said "Anyway, there's a reason they would want to eliminate Quinn," which is a reason that I'd already brought up. I'm all for divergent opinions and an enjoyable discussion, but if you're just going to ignore what I've said and then get angry…

Hope for the best, expect the worst; that's pretty much how I approach all television these days.

Exactly. The writers have gotten into the habit of using even the most well-defined characters (see Saul's somewhat incongruous behavior this season) to make the story turn, and it's causing a cognitive breakdown for anybody paying close attention (i.e., most recappers and commenters). I can understand why people…

I'm sure that's what the writers intend by way of justification . . . save for the fact that they sent a known SVR to kill Quinn, another known CIA asset, as well as taking out not only Korzney but his girlfriend (the latter of which they didn't even deign to dispose of the body).

That's possible, but given how diligent she's been in all of her other research, this seems like an odd thing for her *not* to check, considering she had the location of the dead drop and could've easily figured out who Saul was in contact with (as easily, at least, as she was able to later identify and attempt to…

I think you missed what I said above: if Quinn gets gunned down right outside of the dead drop, do you really think that Saul wouldn't assume that his operation had been compromised? I'm also curious as to how Saul didn't already *know* that the operation had been compromised, or did this just conveniently happen to…

So she trusts Quinn enough to kill Carrie, but not enough to leave him alive after doing so, even though his very public assassination would make it fairly obvious to anybody paying attention that the dead drop had been compromised?

Is Miranda Otto doing a hell of a job as Allison? It's really impossible to tell, because the writers have shown us next to nothing about her. Look at "The Americans" or at how Brody was handled in the first season of "Homeland"—look at how much information we get about their day-to-day life outside being a double…

Plausible to some extent, given that Carrie hasn't had any contact with Quinn over two years, but less so if Allison's really been a mole with the agency for as long as Ivan says she has. It's just one of the many things that don't add up about Allison. "The Americans" this ain't.

That last scene was straight out of Heroes, man, straight down to the musical cues.

I don't recall them. But a season filled with people like Keith who were just making things up as they go, being all unpredictable and shit, seems like it would be entertaining to us. Maybe compromise by going with a "Guts vs. Glory" season in which half of the contestants don't know much about the game and act on…

I would actually kill for a retro season of Survivor, in which the only competitors were those who hadn't really seen the show before. It'd be nice to have the game feel fresh again, instead of being played at its current meta level.

If Keith and Natalie had both been in the finale, I think Natalie still would've won, given that the slant of the jury seemed to be that they respected gameplay and didn't have bitterness toward those who blindsided them.

Reed pretty clearly stated that he had no problems with Missy as a person. He had issues with her as a *character* in the game. And look, I don't know what she's like in the real world either. But she was super defensive of her daughter, and that's just in the edit we saw. And she did give her daughter special…

Yeah, I too was wondering where "The Bleep" came from. Pre-screener name that got changed in post?

Can't eat you — you have gluten.

I can't have been the only person to think that when Jamie was "saving" his brother, he was actually putting him into the hands of an even worse Cersei-schemed punishment, especially after she'd just come to him with her wiles. I still think that, given the look on Varys's face and my general distrust of good things…

I rarely see this complaint about people who spend an entire post openly gushing for a show that they're clearly obsessed with. Either viewpoint is fine, so long as the writer isn't hiding some sort of agenda.

The US version of Shameless has a killer opening that perfectly catches the attitude and character of the show; this is what a day in the life is like. Also, it's hard not to get energized by that beat, even if it's showcasing a bunch of drunks ;)

Just like on Parks and Recreation, with the accountant humor.