There were characters with motivations, and plans, and relationships that made sense. There were people I loved rooting for, and people I hated rooting for, and people I despised. There was weirdness, and terror, and humor.

Totally agree. Other than the side-trip to LA, I've found this season pretty muddling, forced, and just not that compelling. The first two seasons are among my favorite TV ever, but this one is just leaving me utterly cold.

Battery? Did Jimmie even touch Chuck? And B&E is typically a misdemeanor.

Getting out of what? Like Kim said, he told his mentally unstable brother a lie to help him out when he was having a breakdown. That's it. Being angry about the recording and destroying it changes nothing.

B&E? Sure, they could maybe ding him on that, but Chuck (and the show) are clearly implying more than a misdemeanor.

I still don't get how anything Jimmie did, previously or in this episode, is incriminating. His story is: His brother was having a breakdown, so he told him what he needed to hear, even though it wasn't true. Then he found out that that moment of compassion was recorded, he knew how it looked, was upset, and accused…

The "trash room" with air fresheners stuck haphazardly all over the walls absolutely killed me.

..and his mistress is going to take all his money, for a nice bit of double-comeuppance.

I'm not sure that's better though. So they're looking for Juliana because they're pretty sure she has an illegal film. Someone robs her, gets caught, and they find a filmreel in her handbag that wasn't the one they were looking for.

The shot of Hahnzee squatting and picking up the glass had all kinds of tilt-shift happening in the background. Just about everything was in focus, but the Waffle Hut.

I definitely read the scene as Sansa and Theon jumping into a snowbank. Certainly wasn't assuming them dead.

The whole "burning of Shireen" scene lost most of its oomph for me because the motivation behind it was so poorly conveyed. Yep, you've sacrificed her and…what exactly? They kept saying that he had to do it, but never explained why. So instead of it being an interesting, horrible, no-win situation where must make…

Quinn has a habit of stupidly waiting until someone gets killed before doing the thing he could have done ten seconds ago to prevent the death. See also: the ambush where he waited for homeboy to get dragged from the car before going "ok time to skedaddle" and hightailing it out of there.

There's definitely a ratio where it becomes unclear what the right decision is. 7,000,000,000 to 1 is nowhere near that point.

Of course, but weren't they, from the moon, looking at a completely-dark Earth? Then they tardis'ed down to a daytime portion of the Earth from which they could see the moon.

Also wasn't the moon facing the entirely-night-time earth?

Yeah, I'm with you there. The whole episode felt overwrought and absurd. I'm not sure my eyes could roll any harder. Stopped by here to see what terrible grade it got, and honestly I'm pretty shocked at the A. I thought this was the worst episode this season by a mile.

Man, the shot with Thackery and Elkins at her apartment, where he starts in silhouette and her lit by the lamp, him disappearing into darkness, then reappearing, with her going into complete silhouette and him lit. Just gorgeous.

I loved that, thinking through everything he went through himself, the thing he needed most at that moment in his past was something that was in his power to give.

Honestly, I'm kind of depressed to think that I probably won't have an event like that in my lifetime (born 1975). Seems like the Big Things have mostly been bad — 9/11, Challenger, etc. Berlin Wall coming down I guess? Doesn't really seem the same.