I can’t believe I didn’t immediately piece together that David and Liza are married, given they’re both named Zayas and that’d be a hell of a coincidence to cast them as a fictional married couple. When he popped up this season the only thing I was thinking was, “Hey, Angel is here, I love that dude!”

the audience for broadcast TV is OLD. CW was a youth-oriented network and youth audiences are completely gone.

For the last two decades and change the CW (and the WB before it) was the best place to go for genre, soapy, teen-to-young-adult dramas that gave us a number of infinite classic shows (Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Buffy, Angel, Dawson’s Creek, Charmed, Supernatural, Smallville, Vampire Diaries, all of Arrowverse, The…

I liked the CW because it had so much more genre content than the other networks. Like the network equivalent of sci-fi b-movies that occasionally strayed into something more.

Except that the CW’s 58-year-old audience was watching the CW!  Clearly they (we) liked that programming, even if it was ostensibly targeted at a younger audience.  Rather than stick with what drew us to the network, they’re going to give us the same crap we could have watched elsewhere if we had wanted to.

I absolutely get where you’re coming from. After it was over, I said to my wife, “That was basically a 40-minute montage” but I still loved it. Like I said, I get where you’re coming from but it got to a point where I was just in awe of the audacity and confidence in the creative team to keep up that conceit the…

i know you cant please all of the people all of the time. but this episode...

...rocked.

i found myself wanting absolutely NO dialogue, but then it started creeping in and i warmed to it. who hasnt gone through a mental breakdown of “everything that has led to this moment” before? you jump around from incident to…

I dug it.

Bonus Olivia Colman?

After three seasons on His Dark Materials (which I thought she was great in), I can’t blame Dafne Keen for maybe not wanting to immediately get back into another FX-heavy franchise series. Coming in for half the season and going out in a lightsaber battle is about the ideal outcome here.

Two Jedi Knights just stop fighting and stand helpless just because their light sabers aren’t working... ok...

Also.  CORTOSIS!  Wasn’t expecting an actual Cortosis metal vs. Saber reaction.  Nicely done!

Or how they felt about having to be quiet about what was about to happen.

It felt like natural end point for the episode to me with a nice setup for the narrative to shift directions. Mae swapped places with Osha and is with Sol, Qimir survived and has found Osha who’s been seriously injured and is seemingly going to look after her while she heals, and they even had Bazil finding and…

Right? The biggest shock for me was absolutely Mannys massive hulk smash arms. 

YES

Now I know why he was always in baggy clothes because HIS ARMS! Sweet baby Jesus, his arms. ::drool:: Also, this episode ruled.

Even though I trusted The Bear’s writers to not go down that romance road, I still let out a sigh of relief. The quality they put out for two seasons was damn good so I figured they were smart enough to not do it, but you still never know, especially if execs somewhere start meddling.

Thank fuck.

Releasing a big-budget horror film on Christmas day is... a choice.