Reading further down, I see some others think so too, but reading What's Alan Watching? I see that it might stand for Wolves. I was just living for a moment in my own little world. Would love to see Lennie James come back.

W is an upside down M. Morgan. Living in my own little land of hopeless hope.

Also because the writers are convinced (or their bosses have convinced them) that conflict is good, if not for the soul, then for the ratings.

1. "Years ago, Col. Foster (Xander Berkeley) staged a coup, assassinating
the world’s military and political leaders when they proposed to abandon
medical research in favor of retreating to isolation." Why did he have to assassinate them, if they were abandoning the research anyway? It's not like they'd be much help…

And with everything else going on, they want to build a hotel *inside* a glacier? For their bright new future? I guess nobody told them about global warming yet?

Right now my DVR list is coming up a bit short, so it stays for now, probably a hate watch. Ditto on the ritual bath pollution/father-daughter/figure ick scene. And she gets all excited about the Ark of the Covenant without once referencing the fact that there is a group of Coptic Christians in Ethiopia who claim to…

Thanks. I didn't remember, knowing nothing of him until Vikings and googling Ragnar. I remembered Ubba, though, because Uhtred remembers him in almost every book. :) Apparently BBC (?) is making a series from those books.

This is set, as far as I can tell, two generations or so before Bernard Cornwell's saga of Uhtred of Bebbenburg. If you read those books, Uhtred's first great claim to fame is killing Ubba (one of Ragnar's sons). Ivar the Boneless doesn't, so far as I remember, figure in those books, but somehow he turned into a great…

Remember Eowyn, in Lord of the Rings? She didn't want to be sent with the women and children, even though Theoden put her in charge, during his absence. It was a high honor and a great responsibility, that wasn't good enough for a shield maiden. Which is how Porunn wants to see herself.

You're right. For Paige, Christianity has become her teenage rebellion. I was raised Christian - my teenage rebellion became atheism, which still makes the most sense to me. We saw her rejection of Philip's attempt to inoculate her against her mother's "grooming" (which she saw as warning her against her church). I…

I can't help but wonder why KGB is so anxious to recruit Paige - how do they think entrusting a teenager with a secret like this is going to be a good idea? What happens when she confides in her minister? What happens when she freaks out and calls the Fibs? And who's going to take her out when she does either one of…

I vote for upping the ante on Coulson, for a start. And it's not just because I'm an old lady. My daughter, a younger woman, and I were talking recently about how much we both love Coulson, and how weird that is, because Clark Gregg is not Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch or even (opera fan here), Jonas…

And Finn Polmar has time-traveled back to the England of 1924, passing himself off as Henry Talbot and making a play for Lady Mary. I hope that time machine works both ways.

So now I'm going to be watching for "A Chicken in Every Cobblepot."

I liked it. Probably because it was so very not a TV name. But I'm not sure I could see Alicia scribbling "Mrs. Polmar" in the margins of her legal pads. If she ever dumped Mr. Big for him, I suspect she'd keep little except his name. :)

Really? Is The Good Wife going to give Finn Polmar up to Lady Mary? (Took me half the episode to remember where I knew him from!)

I'm putting it in the Q! The housebuddy has seen it, and he's liking the show. I'm just saying that it doesn't seem to be following a formula that I've seen often enough that I can say lines ahead of time, although sometimes it's obvious when he's going to disappear. But not always. I'm glad he did it in front of…

Thanks. I probably will (the OCD seems to be kicking in). Oddly enough, a good friend of ours (my daughter's BFF and a surrogate daughter of mine) watches both this and Agents of Shield - and my daughter tells me that she doesn't see any humor in AoS at all, while she finds Arrow very funny. ???? :)

I didn't see the original movie, and I was thinking tonight (watching on DVR) that one of the reasons I'm enjoying this show so much is that I have no clue what's going to happen next. Usually (just ask my housebuddy) I'm either saying the next line or guessing the next move ahead of time. Sometimes that's all right,…

Yeah. I quit watching it about then, so now wondering if perhaps its worth revisiting at some point. My excuse at the time was that it made me cold just watching it, but now that I've kind of gotten into Fortitude, there goes that excuse. Have they had any polar bears?