I liked the latter half of Lost a lot more once I assumed that Jack was the villain.

I'm going with actual nonsense, but if we pretend they are anagrams—or otherwise a secret code—it's more fun.

Wow, that's a beautifully done fight.

Going solely on her killing his parents. This is the rare case where 'it's all a tightly plotted conspiracy' is more dramatically satisfying than 'it's all a bunch of random fortuitous accidents to which everyone is adapting on the fly.'

This is my favorite Trump quote, because it really distills how he sees everything through the lens of ratings. So much of his weird rambling becomes clear if you grasp that this is all he cares about or believes anyone else cares about. Being seen to have won is far more important than winning.

The argument I've seen is that many people would be pretty happy with either:
a) Cast a skilled martial artist so the fights are great, count on writing and the other actors to pull up the talking parts.
b) Cast a great actor so the not-fighting parts are great, give them a reason to wear a mask* and count on the…

One thing that's really striking in Legion is that the writers appear to know when they've introduced something off or ambiguous, and know how to signal that they're aware of that. Whether by providing an explanation (within a few scenes, not half a dozen episodes later) or otherwise somehow nodding 'yes, that was…

Which is part of the problem. This is no Hostages, diving so far below F that you hit an A and then start grading the episode against species of rhododendron.

Which makes the decision not to bother screen testing him with Luke Cage's actor all the more mysterious.

Evil Overlord Checklist, #12:
One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.

So Madame Gao arranged for the plane crash to drop Danny on K'un Lun's doorstep? Knowing that he would be taken in and decide "I do SO want to be Iron Fist" and attain that title and immediately abandon the city unguarded, all so that she could strike in 15 years? Because I have to admire that kind of long-range…

Count on it, no.

They are the consistent guys. As part of the Republican opposition they held firm in ensuring that Congress did nothing. Now that they they have the opportunity to pass stuff… they hold firm in ensuring that Congress does nothing.

But wouldn't everyone on The Flash decide to keep the new order length secret from each other?

Is the cluster even statistically anomalous, or within normal variation?

See, I think this gets to a problem with pacing—not nearly enough answers are given right after raising the question about whether a development is stupid. We rewatch Legion or The Good Place because they were great the first time and we know we will spot so many great bits of groundwork now that we know what's going…

Hee. The Hand will finally be destroyed by a Victorian door knocker in the shape of an iron fist.

What if "only the Iron Fist can destroy the Hand" is just Hand propaganda? Like "You aren't even the Iron Fist, magical destiny says you must give up" and then "You are the Iron Fist, you ought to be able to beat us just by throwing down a few aphorisms. Yeah, totally prophecied and stuff."

Semaphore.

That's her invoking the Jedi stuff. "I am not going home." *waves hand mysteriously*