On item 1. If Veronica is 16 then she's still a minor and it was actually perfectly legal (if somewhat slimy) for one of her parents to sign in her place. Crap like that is one of the reasons you see child actors suing for emancipation. If you think about it a little deeper, that may be why her father made Veronica…

When I read the book my presumption was that the ritual was set up by Reynard so that he could mess with magicians who were getting too nosy.

My advice. Lightly toast the bread first, just enough to dry out the surface. Brush one side of each slice with a mixture of liquefied butted and minced garlic. Then lightly sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Cook in pre-heated cast iron on medium-low heat.

My first thought on seeing the picture at the top of the article was "Dang, I want Natalie Portman to play Dr. Girlfriend on a live action version of "The Venture Brothers" :)

My preference would be for her to show up at Lux drinking tea and waiting for Lucifer to notice her. They talk for a bit. Lucifer comes to realize that other people at the bar can see her too and it dawns on him what that means . . . just prior to some catastrophe hitting the place.

Two murderous psychopaths with a history of awful personal relationships become friends (and in one instance an unrequited lover.) What could possibly go wrong?

He should show up as half of a Rick and Morty cosplay duo

Hey, networking is everything when you are job-hunting. You never know who might know someone who knows someone . . .

I think the basic reasoning was that he wanted a computer that wouldn't trace back to him in anyway. That, and he is still trying to stay "off grid" sorta.

Was I the only one who had a Hannibal flashback when they showed the stag on the cuckoo clock?

Apropos of nothing, but I wonder if 5 9 isn't just a date but a reference to the Five Nines (99.999%) reliability standard that the telephone companies used to advertise.

or they used their pointy fingernails. Is it a brand or a scar?

Impossible? No.

This kind of gets to the point that Roy Smith makes down thread, that the show is all the writer's view of some sort of symbolic New Age-y struggle with the abbies representing capitol 'N' Nature's revolt against evil human domination.

Unless they were all on a naked picnic, what I got from the scene was that they have communal living and perhaps hunting, but not agriculture or shelter.

Without tools or weapons it would be difficult for Abbies to hunt large animals very effectively.

True, but we get back to how quickly they could gather while continuously foraging for food.

Without tools and weapons, humans make kind of crappy apex predators and even with that idea, you don't see thousands of wolves gathering in a small area because the food supply won't support it.

I think we saw a little bit of abbie (normal) life last episode, or maybe the one before that. We saw a short scene with at a bunch of naked abbies near a stream including I think at least one mother with a child clinging to it.

I think Lucy Lawless sums it up best in her episode of the Simpsons: