The darkroom setup was nice, but I was amused to see that they totally skipped over the part where you expose the print; I don't think they even had an enlarger. I mean, whatever, storytelling efficiency and all, but I'm guessing that had more to do with logistical issues - like they just didn't have time to track…

I can cut the guy some slack on the over-certainty thing given what a strange situation he's in. With the other family abuse scenarios he mentioned, he would have had more options to try to get the victims out of harm's way; at the very least he'd have been able to consult with other clergy who would've encountered…

I think it's both. Paige still thinks Pastor Tim might have a point about her being fucked up by all this… she feels fucked up. But when she told her parents the short version of what he wrote, they totally blew it off. If she wants to get them to take her concerns more seriously, but doesn't think a direct approach…

Elizabeth's goal is for Evgheniya to give up on the U.S. and move back to Russia with Pasha; if she's comforting in too effective a way, so that Ev. really believes things will get better, that works against the goal. But she's still trying to hold onto her role as a trusted friend, who would be expected to at least…

I don't think I've ever laughed harder at an inside joke for comic nerds, once I realized where they were going with that. The scene is still fine even if you don't know that that's Krypton's sun, but what a great way to embrace the sentimental melodrama of that origin story by making the cliché-ness of it into an…

The novella is a classic of its kind, I think. If you don't remember the plot it's probably because there wasn't a hell of a lot of plot— there's a slight mystery about what is haunting the ship, and a couple of "maybe these characters will manage to get out of the… whoops, no" twists, but still mostly pretty…

Keep on trollin'

Oh for crying out loud. I had a thought, it wasn't that deep a thought and I don't have anything else to say about it. If this is a debate society for you, have fun with that.

All through the beginning of that scene, I was distracted by wondering why the hell the other agents hadn't realized that locking Fitz in the same cell with her was a terrible idea. Seems like the answer was "because people will enjoy seeing her yell 'WHAT?!?!?!' in his face"… I'm OK with that.

Whatever. That's not how the line sounded to me at all, but I don't care about arguing about it.

Not only is it a hilarious idea in itself, but they went the extra mile with the sight gag of his head being sliced at just the right angle to leave two big goggly glowing eye-spots looking very surprised.

Everyone else has already covered most of the ways that Mallory Jensen's performance is great, but here's one more that I liked a lot: her wide-eyed, sentimental wonder at how great it is to be alive, which is totally sweet and believable despite also being super annoying. I mean, there's no ironic distance there— I…

What Sadiki said above - I think that might be what they were hinting at with the Superior's line about how maybe Ophelia is now one of those life forms from another dimension that the Darkhold is all about, i.e. she hasn't created a spirit from scratch but instead conjured one up from somewhere else.

Yoyo's "video game" line was in reference to what she said right before that: "knock him out, break his legs" - the point being that Daisy could've used any amount of force on Mack short of killing him, and it wouldn't have harmed him once he was back in the real world. Yoyo was right about that, she just didn't know…

"…it could be superficial to the point of actually supporting the perma-war"

Eh, so monster movies just aren't his thing, whatever. Describing something as an "Aliens rip-off", when the only things it has in common with Aliens are 1. there are alien monsters and 2. a bunch of human characters get killed one at a time, is pretty much what I'd expect someone to do if they just aren't really into…

Haven't seen the movie, but in the book it's clear that Lao's accent is a put-on to fit the expectations of racist rubes.

Always nice to see a Craig J. Clark byline around here, even if it's not about werewolves.

I don't know the actor but I really like the performance - like besides being a smart-ass, he kind of ain't right, not so much The Joker as just some guy who's been kicked in the head by a few horses. I'm familiar with the book (& also with a similar character Gaiman's written before), but I think this is a little bit…

Maybe you know more about web media than I do (that wouldn't be hard), but I don't think it has anything to do with "princely sums." Publishers of any kind of ad-driven thing can be pretty nickel-and-dimey; instead of thinking "this writer is pretty cheap, why not keep publishing him," they're more likely to think…