I remember someone putting that in the comments! But I had totally forgotten about that, and I certainly wouldn't have pegged it as Michael (I think my guess there was Petra, who teeters on being a loose end on this show as the relationships between her and Raf and Raf and Jane get more distant).

I do know what you mean - it's kind of frustrating that the show's got rid of its (since mid-season 2 at least) most stable relationship. Buuuuut I trust the writers to know what they're doing. It may not be what we wanted, but they've done brilliantly so far, and I'm sure they'll continue to do so going forward. Jane…

Okay, now that I've calmed down I do have a few thoughts.

There were actually several moments in the episode where I thought, flippantly, 'Oh, this is the kind of thing they'd do if they were doing something drastic', with the memory stuff and the carnival scene, even getting specific with the lightbulb moment before Michael left as 'They'd do this if that was the last time…

FUCK.

Also at work, and made totally the wrong decision to watch it (a decision I in no way regret).

Kind of. Maybe. That at least seemed to be what they were going to do with LAD, but I guess they figured it would defuse the tension so just kept the gap until near the end (the time jump in LAD was only about ten minutes from the end of the last episode, so it functioned as a kind of epilogue to the show, with the…

They might do what they did with Live Another Day and have a 12 hour time jump so it's still mostly in real time but does cover 24 hours. They could even possibly have several smaller jumps - I know when 24:LAD was in development they were saying there might be essentially some dropped episodes/hours where nothing…

I enjoyed this. It was the perfect 24 mix of dumb and smart storytelling. Of course, I'm pretty sure I enjoyed the premiere of season 6; with a show like this the cracks don't tend to show fully until a few episodes in.

Eww, I hadn't even thought about that aspect. Ew.

I get that, and my thoughts have been with him. It was still a shame to not have him around with no in-show mention of him between his previous appearance two years ago and the half-toast a few episodes back.

I concur with Loopychew, but to be honest the majority of 'crossovers' don't actually matter, and are often difficult to actually match up in consistency. The important things to note are:
-Episodes 8 of Flash and Arrow in season 4/2 are one after the other (as they were the previous year), so be caught up with on both…

I was very pleased Lily and Ray had good chemistry and seem poised somewhat to go down a romantic route. Before I was thinking she had quite good chemistry with Jax, but a relationship with him could get supremely weird when he merges with her dad. No such problem with Ray, plus they can nerd out.

You could be right (I've seen each episode at least once, most of them twice, but nothing really sticks out). It certainly doesn't feel like that's defined him in the way that Wesley seemed defined by his relationship to his father, and not in the way they were trying to spin it here. It's not a huge gripe, as I did…

I never really thought of him as being Wesley-ish, but I did feel the comparison in this episode; specifically I was thinking it was a shame this was the first real nod to his father issues. With Wesley it was implied very early on through his manners and then more explicitly a couple of times near the end of the…

I loved their appearance here, but that might be because it felt like I had been waiting for a return of the Koenigs for ages (partly because it's Patton Oswalt and partly because they'd otherwise just sort of faded from the series). I'll always take more Patton Oswalt, but if this is their last appearance then at…

Well, it's hard to argue with a detailed counterpoint like that ;)

Really? But so many of Bloom's lyrics are just the same joke repeated multiple times (the Sexy Getting Ready Song being the most obvious example), without a real understanding of lyricism or metre, and absolutely no interesting rhyme schemes. The songs in La La Land all had interesting structures and a varied…

It's interesting that they've seemingly got different composers for each song - while it's nice to have the kind of variety that can inspire, it could make for some real inconsistency.

Could well be the case. It just felt like for a movie so enthusiastically musical (in multiple ways) the singing was… well, not.