Anybody else recognize the line "goodness had nothing to do with it"?

Great show! I love how it totally eschews the sentimental. That was why, I think, Elfman signed on. The "helping people" paradigm is a cliche' that is almost never why anybody does anything for a living. Helping somebody might be why you run into the burning building when you hear screams, but that's a one-time thing.…

And could that have been Lennie James walking down the track in that little glimpse of next week?

Something I've thought about too. This piece was a response to a show some of us loved to hate, Revolution, but it also references The Walking Dead. http://www.barbarasbookhous…

My first reaction when the Company shrink (that's what she was?) asked him about his feelings for Carrie was, Oh, NO! Deny, deny, deny. Because there were no prequels to this. They just threw it in there. I'd rather see it creep up - mission creep? - if it's going there. I understood the thing with Brody - two damaged…

Everybody's saying pretty much the same thing I would say about this episode - from the Laurel and Hardy act of Van Alden and Eli to the stoic demise of Chalky White, it didn't miss a beat for me. So the only thing I actually have to add (nobody's brought it up so far, and no wonder) is that Hiawatha is actually an…

And David Bamber (I knew that cheesy smile from somewhere - Mr. Collins, of Pride and Prejudice!) - and the voyage of the space train reminded me of the Hogwarts Express, minus English countryside.

As I watch what's been happening in Ferguson and in videos from around the country, those scenes are even more relevant in that, even when so much has changed, so much else has not. Especially expectations of one of us of the other. And how we continue to fulfill those expectations.

Haha! That's what I thought too!

I *knew* that was John Hodgman! And what does it say about me (except that I had an addict boyfriend once) that when Lucy asks for a little bit for sex, I'm thinking, no! Save it. You're gonna want that. And, great as this episode was, I am a little tired of the addiction theme and wish we could get back to more of…

"Because I don’t think it’s really that Alicia doesn’t believe in God; I
think she finds it easier to not distinguish between right and wrong." I really hope you don't mean what this reads like to me - as if not believing in God is somehow analogous to not distinguishing between right and wrong. As an atheist (who…

As he was walking down the street, I was peering hard at the screen to try to discover exactly what shade of dark red shirt he was wearing.

I'm reinvested, and mostly in a good way. I suspect that the wedding strike was done on purpose to mess the Americans up - although if Bachman was providing someone with info, who released his photo and why? And what's in the bag that Ayyan left with his girlfriend? On the baby drowning - I didn't buy it. The Carrie I…

Stupid Nora saying Zach has to come with. The writers made her say that.
What happened to Fet's folks? He hasn't even gone back to check on them. I think they should be in the Scooby Gang.
I also laughed out loud when Eph took that drink. You'd think he'd never seen a vampire before.
And that fight. Set has to waste time…

Ya know, you might have hit on just the thing there. In the meantime, we have a few seasons of Capaldi to enjoy, so that's what I'm gonna do.

I am so loving Peter Capaldi's doctor (and I was a David Tennant/Matt Smith fan as well - which was when I jumped back on board the Tardis) that I can't think how they will ever replace him. Now, I understand (and hope that) we're far, far from having to face that day, but his Doctor is so rich in age and depth (I'm…

I'm there, because I'd watch David Tennant do dishes, but the series makes me nervous. Everything so far is Broadchurch revisited - you say it changes tone just before the end? - but that's not primarily what makes me nervous. What has me biting my nails is the horrid thought that Fox has lured Tennant into a "real"…

Well, it seemed to be directly connected to the war in the Philippines and sunken ships. I'm sure they did their research - but I can't find a link to what it might have been.

Did I miss something here? I thought coca would only grow in the Andes - had it been exported to the Philippines? Googling it so far only produces stats on cocaine addiction in the Phillipines - current ones. I did find this - but how is the war in the Philippines affecting ships coming from the west coast of S.A.?…

One of my favorites too. I took that handle from a set list I was making after a show while we were running the tape (my boyfriend at the time was a taper) in the motel room. I was still a little "influenced," and didn't notice what I had written until I got home and copied it onto a J-card. Just like the Strain, we…