More like an, "I'm a steady, self-possessed person and it takes more than beasts to shake me up."

I think at least part of the fairytale is playing with the reality of the time through fantastical elements. Women didn't have power in relationships at all. The only power they had was to not love - you can make me do anything but you can't make me love you. The Beast can only escape from his curse if she loves…

I liked her in this. She's portraying a woman who keeps her cool while living with a beast and magic cutlery, so that restraint worked well against all the crazy around her.

I thought the point was that she didn't know it was the room where her mother died. Because her dad didn't tell her what happened. It was just her old home, until she figured out the whole plague thing.

Does someone like Selena Gomez really have enough pull to boss Vogue around though? Is that how the world works? Especially when it's a matter of taste (as opposed to someone saying something scurrilous about her)?

What does her security team have to do with critiquing a tacky and overwritten bit of journalism?

He wasn't dictating his article to her during the interview was he?

Celebrities are, apparently, a font of down-to-earth recipes using surprisingly not-snooty ingredients.

Well the bit about her "tiny waist" wasn't exactly in response to a question though. Could she refuse to have him write tacky overheated prose about her?

I mean the article contains this sentence:

It just seems weird that we've seen him teleport people repeatedly and move something around with TK repeatedly, only to have Dr. Byrd die because he's a doofus. I mean, honestly, with these writers, I'm sure they can make any number of preposterous things work, but it doesn't immediately appeal to me as the end.

Well accuracy isn't really necessary. Teleporting himself in the MRI machine wasn't exactly clear-mindedly done or accurate, but it was effective.

David said the voices didn't want him to kill himself and the doctor said there was no rope. I suppose it depends on how Lenny relates to the other voices we see in David (in conflict with them? Working with them? Neutral?).

I'm not particularly interested in her being a "thematic echo" to Hannah, I just think that, based on what we've seen here, she's staggeringly selfish. And I don't think writing an intensely selfish mother is any more honest or real than writing some sort of angel-in-the-house selfabnegating one. Both are so extreme…

For me, it showed that she was honestly and really a mind-bogglingly selfish person, but I wasn't sure what that was supposed to say. Except to maybe explain Hannah's own failings? Act as a negative example for Hannah if she goes through with the pregnancy?

Sure, but putting characters over vowels by its very nature takes it out of common English phonetics.

I think Chinese is challenging because it doesn't map as naturally into English phonetics. I know the Anglacized versions of Chinese names seem to have different spelling every decade.

I thought it was just that the parasite was maintaining the new Clockworks using David's memories. Hence the repetitions. We know it exists because David's sister goes there to look for him.

Well she's destroyed D3 and imprisoned the Summerland people and been controlling David his entire life. So I can't imagine this season could come up with a bigger bad than that.

Why would he pronounce it like a German though? He doesn't seem to speak German.