Dragon Glass, i.e. White Walker kryptonite, is such a snooze. I really hope there's more to this than plot-cleaving weapons that reduce what once seemed like a mythic struggle to the kind of generic large scale medieval battle we've seen a million times.

Yeah, but we know that Jimmy is pressed for money in the short term because he's been hustling to keep up with his half of the office rent for several episodes now.

I think we first learn that Howard might be decent when it's revealed that it was Chuck, and not Howard, who blocked Jimmy from a position at HHM.

> That's not linguistically possible.

She's Indian. Her maiden name is Bhattacharya, and her backstory with Saul is that they met while he was working in Mumbai. (The actress who portrays her half is Indian and half English.)

The point about the forms is fine, but I don't really expect that to satisfy someone who finds the fight disappointingly brief. Surely you can have a fight which shows that Obi-Wan has surpassed Maul, or alludes to the fight with Qui-Gon, but which is also more than 2 seconds long. Those seem to me two separate issues.

Given the reveal about Dar's relationship to Quinn from the prior episode, I guess it could suggest some combination of both parental and romantic/sexual love. I'm not sure I'd read that much into it though.

So why does Quinn smear Astrid's blood on his upper lip anyway?

I always assumed that Dar acts in the interests of the United States, the difference being that he's a lot more cynical in his approach than Saul. But now it seems clear that Dar knows Iran isn't really cheating on the deal, so I wonder what his motivation is supposed to be. I guess he could just believe (as Israel…

I assumed that's because Peter revealed that he was on to the scheme when he tried (and failed) to go after Dar's man at the motel.

Its Metacritic score is 75, and AVClub gave it a C+; aren't those two perfectly in line? Hell, in my experience C+ requires slightly better than a 75, which would make this review marginally more positive than average.

>he doesn't actually have passion for the show

Yeah, it's not really clear to me why Ford had to die. Does that do anything besides create a kind of poetic symmetry with Arnold?

Yeah, I wonder how differently the show would seem to me had I not been reading fan theories all along. Maybe that explains why I feel a little underwhelmed. But then part of me thinks that even outright spoilers can't tarnish a truly good story. And maybe the fan theories all turned out to be correct precisely…

So is Dolores the only host to find the center of the maze, i.e. achieve true sentience? We know that Bernard isn't quite there: Ford tells him he still has to suffer more. And Maeve isn't either: we learn that her entire escape attempt has been pre-programmed, presumably as part of Ford's plot to slaughter the Delos…

I feel the same way. The fugue of flashbacks and memories (some of which are apparently false, as in Teddy's case—I thought that was really cheap btw) isn't clever or mysterious or satisfying to me. After a while it just seems wishy washy.

So is the maze just the hosts' journey to sentience? That seems to have been it for Dolores, and it also would explain why Talulah Riley's character says to MiB that "The maze isn't meant for you" (since MiB is not a host). But then what exactly is MiB supposed to be questing for?

Not only would this be incredibly contrived on its face, but we know from this most recent episode that Maeve is able to recognize (and control) hosts like Bernard. So why wouldn't she do the same for Felix and Sylvester?

I'm curious as to what people here would actually consider plagiarism, then. Is the suggestion that plagiarism basically just doesn't exist in fiction or art?

I don't think most of us were surprised by Ginsberg's break in the sense of being unaware of prior signs of his mental illness. Rather, it's surprising as a plot point. I don't see how this is supposed to add to the story—it seems to simply remove Ginsberg without actually developing anything in the process. A few…