I've pretty much always been #TeamMichael (in terms of who Jane should end up with), but I like Rafael a lot, and I think they've done a great job showing his flaws along with his virtues. I'm really looking forward to when we get the two former suitors in the same room again; with the new dynamic (particularly if…

http://www.theonion.com/vid… Replace Palin with Trump, still works.

We'll give three cheers and one cheer more.

I don't recall being particularly annoyed by that episode's direction, though I wasn't wowed by it either. I'll probably rewatch it before too long, I'll see what I think of it then. It'd be nice to just have some more consistent quality on that side of things, particularly as the writing has been quite strong so far…

I was totally willing to go with this show right up until the two detectives noticed Todd acting suspiciously, COMMENTED on him acting suspiciously, and then walked away without asking any more questions. Overflowing weirdness doesn't cover logical missteps like that. It's a pity, because there's some nice ideas in…

No, but yes, worth sticking around.

So AoS DOES have some great directors. Good to know. Can Kate Woods direct every episode? (Maybe alternate with Kevin Tanchaoren?)

Jimmy Smits is the traitor this time. Gotta be.

Ah, that's true, they do know Rose is involved (but they may not know how, and they may not know that she was actually Susannah). Hmm, still might be an interesting reveal later in the season.

Aardman have a terrific record. Even at their weakest (Flushed Away?) they're still pretty entertaining, and at their best they are the modern masters of visual humour.

I had the same thing with Hugh Grant in 'The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists!'

So as well as forgetting that Jimmy Olsen is awkward, nerdy and earnest, they've now also forgotten that he's a PHOTOGRAPHER?

Also, when Michael started welling up after the 'you didn't deserve this' line, it broke me. This show, man.

I like that they're (for the moment) following through with the notion that Susannah was just a traitor, and no-one yet knows she was Rose. I suspect there'll be some beautiful fallout when that's revealed.

(On that last note, there's a similar situation in the UK where soaps or practically-soaps like Doctors and Casualty get a lot of criticism because of the quality of the storytelling, but they have a tremendous output - in the case of Doctors, about 200 episodes per year - and are incredibly good at providing for the…

I was in it at school, and while I still have a lot of fondness for the music (especially Bless The Lord and All For The Best) and would take it over Lloyd Webber any day, the story and structure itself is incredibly weak. You can kind of get away with it on stage because of that cobbled together 'Yeah, we just wanted…

Thanks for the link, that's a brill essay.

I'm wary of how I feel in the moment, and my opinion might change in a few years (particularly if the quality drops off in the future), but at this moment I'm inclined to call it my favourite show of all time. I'm not sure there's another show that I find as consistently entertaining and affecting. When the majority…

It's where the show's credibility went.

Well supposedly there's going to be several smaller villains rather than trying to find a new Kilgrave-level antagonist, which might mean the season gets broken up into smaller, tighter arcs. I could see that working for Jessica Jones.