Among my favorite TV trope hates is when one character asks another a question, an answer to which we all want to hear, and the questionee responds by a glare and walking away. To which the questioner responds with … nada. Total waste of screen time.

Did Cat do any research on the mesmerizing properties of the vampiric voice?

From the comments below, I take it the episode had a lot of Easter eggs for the comics fans, but as somebody who hasn't read them - my housebuddy guide to this universe was gone for the evening - my reaction was much the same as the reviewer's.

Ditto! I wanted to see Septon Swearengen and The Hound walk off into the sunset together. The beginning of a beautiful friendship. What a waste of a terrific actor!

I know, but in the absence of animals (haven't they eaten them all?), they are of omnivorous human stock after all. But let's give them that. Who planted all that stuff to begin with? Not to mention clearing the land, etc. Even scifi has to make a little bit of sense. No?

My main question is - they didn't seem very sure they could get the harvest in - how the hell did they plant all that stuff in the first place and see it through? Abbies don't eat veggies?

Good thinking. I plead a stuffy head and continual coughing for my inability to think it through. Except for missing Eve and not looking forward to Juliette, I almost feel better.

The shard of the true cross, i.e., magic splinter, very likely has the power to remove Wesen abilities. It's the only thing that would make losing "Eve" bearable - they have a weapon that doesn't kill - it transforms. Which yeah, could mean The End of Wesenkind. The End of Grimm.

Philip's answer to Paige when she asks if he thinks what they're doing is helping. "I don't know." Perfect.

Once in the long ago when I didn't have a car, I borrowed a friend's Lincoln Towncar - felt like I was driving an aircraft carrier.

The comments section has some pretty good writers. SHIELD sit up and take notice. :)

So true. I'm not easily disturbed by TV images, but I've been having to make decisions about when to watch PD. First one this season, I watched *before* Gotham (yeah, can't think of a really good excuse for that one), and that didn't work out. After PD, Gotham was more comic book, in a bad way, than ever. Nothing at…

I have been recommending Penny Dreadful to all my friends and relatives, especially as a soul-cleanser if they have been inadvertently exposed to the latest political bilge.

Clare knows just enough history to think that Mary must bear Jack Randall's child. That child could be Alex's, and still pass on the lookalike genes to Frank. She doesn't know enough to be certain that Alex survives the marriage (that cough?) - perhaps then Jack marries her to bring up his brother's child? Probably…

The (self-diagnosed) OCD will make me watch the end of the season, and then it comes off the DVR. At 73, I have finally grown up enough to realize that I should be very careful about anything on the CW. Or from DC comics. Marvel is a tinge more for grownups.

I know. But they might be able to make use of her to embarrass the U.S. Or threaten to. It just seems that The Americans wouldn't just leave Martha out there on the way to Prague. Most likely scenario is they just off her, and Phillip finds out, which puts him in the same boat as Oleg.

And will the show follow Martha's further adventures in the USSR? Will they tout her as a high-level defector? Will she be detained in Cuba? Will she be patient 0 for the dead rat?

Michael Chiklis should have asked himself WWVMD?

I made the big mistake of watching Penny Dreadful before catching up on Gotham. Gotham isn't that impressive to begin with, but with PD as an intro, it just looks like a comic book.

I'm just happy Jon didn't wake up with blue eyes. And Ramsay, who could put an end to Fat Walda and his brother himself, chooses to use the dogs. I had the feeling he was challenging himself to watch without turning a hair. Giving himself exercises in evility.