What. The. Fuck. Okay, so say it's hypothetically possible for somebody to tie her own feet, then tie her own hands behind her back, gag herself, and hang herself from a balcony, who the hell commits suicide like that? I mean, why wouldn't she just, you know, do the last bit and skip the bizarre bits? There is…

1. It is ridiculously adorable that she called him "Little Ethan". Seriously, I about died.

Hooooooorrrrrsss! Everyone knows a true lady would never refer to... that... at all!

Okay, that I would drink. That I would drink the hell out of.

Hahah, ouch—that's why I tried it with an empty cup. Anything else would only have led to disaster: I can barely drink tea while not contorting myself into bizarre sexy-pose.

And cut off and sort of set down next to her as she crouches. I think. God damn, comic artists. I'm all: Anatomy, motherfucker! Do you study it?

Aaaah, god, what happened to her leg?!?

Oh man—there's always one, right? The thing is that it might be physically possible to sit like that, and I don't think any of us are claiming otherwise. What we are claiming, and I just verified this for myself by getting into this pose, is that nobody would actually sit like this, because it's fucking ridiculous and…

Yeah, I'm pretty sure if you guys can't get it together soon, the British are going to repossess your house (though they seem to be having their own clusterfuck issues these days, so I think you've got some extra time).

I would like to see a Scottish Terrier smoking a pipe! And a wombat dressed to go to a ball! Hurray, I'm so psyched for this!

The trouble that I have is that the writers have been quite inept when it comes to getting pieces where they want them for the finale. They've obviously got some big thing planned for Danes, but they've got to find a way to make it work that doesn't make the heroes look like bloody idiots. Very frustrating. Gwen…

You and me both! I didn't even realize how genuinely freaked I was until I climbed into bed and turned out the light and was immediately like "Holy crap, freaky doll-puppet-monster things!" Of course, I have long standing doll fear, which probably added to it.

I know! I mean, I get that they (the writers) want to get him to Shanghai so he can look into the big abyss and have the dramatic moment, but they need to stop giving Our Heroes chances to kill him and having them not follow through. At this point whenever I see his smirk onscreen I start shouting "Just. Fucking. Shoot…

That was really, thoroughly enjoyable. One thing: am I the only person who, confronted with Danes promising me info in return for whatever, would have promised not to kill him, to help him with whatever, yadda yadda yadda, and then gotten the information and shot him in the head anyway? Does that make me a sociopath?…

Ah. Right. Well, I've heard worse. But yeah, not a marvellous singer.

WTF? I don't really feel qualified to comment on her singing voice after this, as I don't feel she actually sang here.

Fair enough, I guess, but I don't feel like they should be given a pass just because they screw up like this all the time. We may not call them on it every single time, because that would be impossible, but I think it's better to call them on egregious fuck-ups whenever possible, so maybe they'll start paying a little…

Yeah, that's the thing: I'd probably believe that they were honestly that dumb, but it doesn't really lessen my disgust (on some level, it may even make it worse, since it implies such complete ignorance of the historical implications of this sort of thing and fashion is so often all about historical allusions and…

But the thing is that given the historical context, I don't think they have much in the way of an excuse for their obliviousness. I'm willing to accept that they didn't mean it "that way", but I'm not going to say that makes it okay.

Yeah, that's the thing—we could tie ourselves in knots trying to find a reason this isn't offensive/racist (in fact, I've been chatting with somebody a few threads up who's determined to do just that), but the fact is that in this context it's pretty obviously obliviousness and stupidity at best.