Mycroft needed Eurus's help to stop all those terrorist attacks she could spot on Twitter. If she didn't get her five minutes unsupervised, she wouldn't help and thousands of people would be in danger. Hence, calculated risk.

It's not unusual for people on the spectrum (apparently especially women) to be quite intuitive about the feelings of others and thus be able to teach themselves to behave in an appropriate manner. It really depends on the person because where you are on the spectrum and what aspects of it you exhibit vary.

I think he started with Mycroft to spare John from having to do it.

I liked the framing in that shot with the parents sitting down in the middle and turning up towards their sons for support and guidance on both sides. Even their anger seemed impotent, like they were just bitching that not everything was to their liking but not willing to take the responsibility for fixing things. The…

The doctor in Sherringford said that Eurus was different after her "Christmas present", like she had awakened. Clearly Moriarty affected her as much as she affected him. I'd imagine the conversation went more like:
Eurus: So you're obsessed with my brother and want to battle wits with him to the death?
Moriarty: Yeah…

I thought it was great too! Honestly, I'm much more confused by the review and many of the comments than I was by the episode. Maybe there is something horribly, terribly wrong with me but it made perfect sense to me. Clamoring for consequences seems odd to me in an episode that was all about dealing with the…

My recollection of the first Hunger Games books was that it had pretty decent fifty-some pages about Katniss's life, followed by a hundred pages about hair, clothes and make-up. The rest was pretty boring with Katniss running around in the woods not killing anyone in a book about killing people.

The party on New Year's Eve is typically bigger than any celebration on the first of January. Just saying…

In the cross-over episode the team hung around a warehouse which was shock full of crates bearing the Star Labs logo. Unless they were old stock just left lying around, it would imply the Labs are still very much in business, shipping something out to the world.

The key question is, what is the story? The story of Die Hard is that of McClane saving a bunch of people from a bunch of robbers. A protagonist doesn't have to be a hero but s/he is the key actor of the story - the way McClane reacts to the events around him determines what the story is and how it goes. In general,…

A half-memory of Cisco and ray together kept itching enough that I was forced to Google it: They did work on the suit together in that episode where everyone was covered in bees.

There's a big difference between having a child die and not having had that particular child at all. I'd say this is more equivalent with being angry at the loss of all the sperms that didn't reach the egg, even though one did and grew to be his very real, very alive son. There was never a world where he had both a…

I don't watch the Arrow so all I could think of was: "shouldn't it be …my sister and me?"

Presumably Caitlin knows the daughter, since she knew Stein in the past in the previous timeline, and they are clearly still friends. She just didn't know that the daughter is a new thing in this timeline and when Stein said he "needs to go home", she figured he meant going home to his daughter. I guess Clarissa's…

I'm pretty sure Cisco and Ray worked together in Flash season 1? At least they seemed pretty familiar here and I seem to recall there was some history with Cisco helping Ray design the first suit.

Did she phase through him? I thought it was a speed mirage (if you will).

As someone who has worked in retail (how do you conjugate the word stupid? Stupid, stupider, a customer) believe me, I know your pain. Having said that, it happens all the time to me in the grocery store - the bar code doesn't work so the cashier just asks me if I remember how much it was. If I don't have a clue (I…

Never heard of this before (I live at the bottom of a well) but now I have to get it. Now, as in now! Thanks for the rec!

Not only is it incredibly annoying that Vada had to conform to be happy, it's also completely unnecessary. If the story is about how Vada is an unusual person in unusual circumstances, then why not show her be an unusual person and make her way in world as she is? Being the odd one out isn't a tragedy and it doesn't…

Late to the conversation but I wanted to add, didn't all his friends in season 1 tell Barry that they thought he should go back and save his mother? All of them not only gave their permission but actively encouraged him to create already then what later became the Flashpoint. Granted, they learned a bit more about the…