It's the most romantic tale of Stockholm Syndrome yet!

Imagine it's James Spader instead of Tom Hanks as Joe Fox… and actually it'd be a ridiculously creepy movie, now that I think about it.

I said it below as well, but yeah… I'd love to see what happened later when she realized how long he's known who she was, and STILL put her out of business even after knowing, and then proceeded to use their online relationship to his advantage to manipulate her into loving him.

Yeah, when she stops and thinks about all the ways he manipulated her into "realizing" she loved him via his AOL alter-ego, she might have some second thoughts. I wonder how she reacted upon learning that he knew who his online special friend really was and THEN proceeded to put her out of business anyway, and THEN…

Honestly, I would have been cool with her winding up with NEITHER of them.

Except for Martin Freeman's small arc, as that one, while shown only briefly in snippets, actually showed he and his love interest talking and getting to know one another… albeit while nude.

The "resolution" of that arc left me really uncomfortable.

Plus, she doesn't intentionally, actively decide to deceive the family - she saves Peter Gallagher's life and gets him to the hospital, and wants to stay with him to make sure he's alright, and if I'm not mistaken, a nurse misinterprets something she says and things snowball out of control from there. Now, she should…

Not surprising. A few years back, Daniel O'Brien at Cracked wrote a satirical "how to" guide to kidnap the president's daughter, and the secret service showed up to interrogate him about it. The article, not surprisingly, was taken down, and DOB has written a little about "that time the secret service interrogated…

He was just being patriotic and forgot to attach the quote attribution. "Fuck BABY DRIVER" - Thomas Jefferson

Agreed. It was fantastic.

Underrated Bash moment: how genuinely happy he is when Carmen wins her match. It, in turn, makes me so damn happy.

Shame, too. I like Garfield. He could have been a solid Spider-Man, but was stuck with some awful screenplays.

I completely forgot about that line, but man… that's a clever bit of foreshadowing (I'm assuming the writers planted it, coming from Sam, for this exact reason).

I think my favorite thing about it is that they have set it up so that it could go either way (and so, too, could Bash)… but it doesn't matter, either. It's completely independent of the character, his motivations, etc, so when or if they reveal it, I expect it'll play similarly to the abortion thing, where it's just…

I could not sympathize more with Sam in this episode with the revelation that someone else got your idea out there before you could. When I was in college, I came up with a story idea (this was back when I wanted to be a screenwriter) about superhero witness protection, and about what superheroes are like when they're…

Agreed. She looks… hardened. I mean, I don't think I've seen her in like 10 years in anything but man, she really does look so much like her dad these days it's almost disconcerting.

Oh, and also: the Sam/Ruth friendship makes so much sense, too. They're both film/drama nerds who think they're vastly better at what they do than they actually are, so naturally they'd come to appreciate each other since they're the only two among the ensemble who can really connect on that level.

The Sam/Ruth friendship is 100% my favorite thing on this show. That, and the fact that among the main cast, outside of Melrose (I don't consider Mark "main cast"), everyone is more or less a decent person, despite any of their flaws. It's a big part of what makes this such a good-natured show that's pretty much…

Agreed. He could have been such a stereotype of a character (the coked up 80s pretty boy narcissist rich kid) but he's such a genuinely good dude. It's such a pleasant surprise, and not just because I was Team Piz during the final season of Veronica Mars.