The "I know what a sex basket looks like" follow-up made me laugh even harder. Of course Rogelio knows…

How much time would be enough to prove that Michael has changed? I'm not a shipper, just genuinely curious. Jane and Michael were apart for quite a while before they got back together. While Michael did behave selfishly at the beginning of the series, prompting the initial breakup, the show made it clear that he was…

He was chipped recently and it seems that the memory loss is more of a gradual thing. It took a while for Jaha to forget Wells and for Raven to forget Finn. The pain seems to disappear first and then the thing attached to it follows. It's also possible that ALIE keeps the information she removes from the chipped…

It's realistic, but it's also tedious to do the same thing again and again over the course of multiple seasons. People often do fight each other in the same ways, attacking the same weaknesses each time. But that doesn't make it entertaining for a viewer who will eventually want to move on to anything else. Jane and…

The darker blood was attributed to the remnants of the chip leaving Raven's body, but we haven't seen Raven bleed since then. If her blood is still black, then it may render Raven eligible to take the flame. The show has certainly positioned her as desperate enough to try, even if the likelihood of it killing her is…

As a structural matter, the show has established that its flashbacks tell a contained story in a single episode that has serious implications for whatever is going on in the present. Presenting this story in parts over several episodes would be unsatisfying on a per-episode basis, since viewers would wonder what the…

It is a fair and generous interpretation of what could be happening with Clarke as it regards Bellamy. I appreciate your comment for getting me to think more deeply about it, as opposed to simply rolling my eyes at the writers pandering to Bellarke shippers.

I think you've put forth the best defense I've seen for why Clarke isn't condemning Bellamy for his role in Pike's slaughter. It's plausible that Clarke's own grief and guilt, combined with a genuine need for an ally in Bellamy and the memory of when he truly was that for her, blinded her to the gravity not just of…

Just goes to show that power can bring out some horrible qualities in people. Pike's issues were already there, but he never had the kind of power on the Ark that he had on Earth and was thus limited in the damage he could wreak.

The flashbacks were about pre-Earth Pike, but more importantly about the relationship between Pike and Murphy. They have now found themselves in the same predicament and need to rely on each other and the others in the cell with them to get out of it. The flashbacks foreshadow the conflicts to come as they work…

Jane is far too protected at the hotel for anything that may happen there to have any kind of effect. Anezka knows this. Attacking Jane where she is most vulnerable makes sense. But the problems with Anezka's character stood out for me in this scene. She is likely more clever than she's held herself out to be, but to…

I saw that. I'm not yet convinced that he died intestate, especially given his close ties to the JWs. It's possible that his will has not been located yet or has been held back for some reason, perhaps until his death certificate is finalized. I understand why his sister filed the motion and why the judge reached the…

The THREE HOURS LATER thing didn't really work for me, especially when the end result were grammatically and syntactically perfect sentences. I think it could have worked for me if she had sentences that reflected the quirks of translating from one language to another. Or it could have worked if the scene revealed…

Well, if Rafael goes to jail for insider trading, that'll take care of the arguments regarding the raising of Mateo. I don't actually want this to happen, but Rafael is heading for a fall.

I'm with Jane on the 'custody' time issue. While she didn't love the idea of giving Rafael three days instead of two, she did recognize how insecure he felt about Michael's increased presence in Mateo's life, specifically how much Michael and Mateo have taken to each other, and agreed to that request with little…

Damon did save her, but let's not act like his motivations for doing so were altruistic in nature. He did it out of his own feelings for her (platonic ones do matter), as well as to avoid the wrath of his girlfriend should she wake up 60 years ahead of schedule to find out that her boyfriend let her best friend die…

I agree. I don't think Damon is as selfish as he wants others to believe, but it's not remotely shocking that Bonnie has come to believe what he put out there as truth. I also think that Bonnie's annoyance about not knowing about the coffee and flowers was a similar sort of put on. She mad that he left, but doesn't…

I cursed at my screen when that dude revealed he was Beau. For real, TVD? Now he gets lines? GTFOH…

The vampire souls that landed in dead humans would have expired in a couple of days without witches to transfer those souls into vampire bodies. What's crazy is that there apparently were all of these empty, or possibly weak-souled, supernatural bodies lying around ready to be reanimated or replaced with souls…

I was thinking he barely had a leg to stand on since he spent all that time acting out toward Stefan, claiming loyalty to Damon as a defense.