I'm not sure how much influence Byzantium had over Italy at that time, since Charlemagne had just conquered the Lombards a few years back.

Oh…. it got SOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo much worse after those 4 episodes that your making fun probably felt more like praise.

Well, you know what Cole thinks about making plans.

The virus wasn't deployed as soon as the case was opened. It took a few seconds. I think the reasoning was that as soon as people see money they will congregate around the briefcase and then it can launch the virus and infect the most people.

I was actually a little disappointed to see that and the implicit conclusion that the army of the 12 monkeys is really a thing. I had hoped that it was misinformation, since it just sounds so silly. And that they would reveal that the army of the 12 monkeys was the name Jennifer gave as a child to the baboons that her…

Last episode, I couldn't see any way in which Cole would not be a carrier but, after seeing the virus in action, it just spreads too fast and kills too fast for Cole to be a carrier. Cassie and everyone at the museum would have lasted only a few hours.

In the words of the immortal Sweetie Belle, "Oh, come on!"

The President mentioned that his father built the missile silo. So there must have been originally more than 1. Lexa also mentioned that the last time the MM launched a missile was when she was a child, so it sounds like there were other launches before those two.

No, given this episode's final scene, on that day was born SuperDolphin, the plucky porpoise!

Oliver Queen survived being run through with a sword!

Good point, but could a surprise nuclear state amass the kinds of stockpiles that would be needed for something like this and launch a coordinated attack in 3 continents? I don't think even Pakistan and India combined could stop all communications and space traffic all around the world or cover the entire planet with…

I'm not sure if he was following her trail or following the trail of her plan, since S-ELG convinced her to find the other rebel immortal.

It seems that the Mystic Falls general policy is not to blame the vampires for any of the atrocities they do while they have their humanity switch turned off.

Didn't they have any uncles?

That's because instead of twisting the neck until it snapped, like a normal person, she squeezed and crushed it.

It wasn't that she was putting Damon above her friends. That was not about whom she liked most. She went to Damon first to thank him. For the map. That set her free. To say, "it worked, thanks!" with a pancake.

What? The sheriff was practically the only citizen of Mystic Falls who did not get killed!

Aaron Marker (as opposed to Aaron Stanford [I hadn't noticed that coincidence until now]).
He has the kind of street smarts you learn by watching 80s TV shows and is so delightfully bewildered when they don't work in his "real world."

Yes, Julia was the head of Ilaria when Alan was in Paris, so those scenes must have been from before the end of season1.

In the case of 12 monkeys, the reason to save them is that the population was not just diminished, but on its way to total extinction, according to Jones. In the case of Helix, the culling went wrong and everyone, including the immortals is going to die. And humans in general are treated as important because they…