Although I agree with you, maddow can sometimes cheer lead for the dems and also war. or at least she has a reverence for the military that can sometimes seem cheerleadery. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:  "It is sweet and right to die for your country"

Er what about that woman who always shouts and called the morning after pill an abortion pill? She's always on, always shouting, and grimacing, and being visibly perturbed by anything anyone ever has to say, without making any salient arguments against those who perturb her. Even when  I agree with her I wonder what…

I agree with ALL of this^

Chris Hayes was on tbtl recently, a Seattle born podcast-mostly pop cultural talk show. He made it clear several times the differences between a weekend show and a daily show. And how the step up from weekend to daily will be challenging. And Although I haven't loved this new primetime format as much as up. I can…

err, how good is this show? Should I watch? Is it gritty and joyless?

um, why did Tim ok that  heart? *Cough* producers *Cough*

Just a theory:

IT would be great if she was in fact playing them all so she can go back to Silas and back to the plan. However I don't trust the writers these days so I assume it's a get out of jail free card for bonnie which as others have said makes her less interesting.

Very clever but almost too clever. Vampires are just magic, although that magic has certain rules. In order for them to survive they need blood because blood is life etc. It's mystical logic but logic nonetheless. Maybe a comparison to the psychopath makes more sense. They switch off their empathy and not their…

Well if she outright kills Klaus she too dies, however, If she gives him the cure its a work around for that dumb rule the writers made and later regretted. x

Yeah that emotion switch makes nooo sense. Really the writers need to address some of their mythology because it often makes no sense. And saying it's "magic" makes no sense either. Why would there even be a switch? What does that even mean. HAven't they in the past said there's no such thing as a switch? Maybe they…

Agreed. I also think Katherine has a lot more flair and sassiness than emoless Elena  Emoless Elena plays with the perception others have of her previous self, she's seemingly sweeter in affect than ketherine but that sweetness is an act. In a way I can see stark differences between her and Katherine. And I think the…

THIS^

Well dean was weirded out that she is sometimes a dog and not that she  has to do what he says if he says it. Although when he tells her to go away she comes back anyway.

It feels like they're rebooting the series and creating a new mythology. I do hope they seal heaven and hell off for now so the show can explore, if it hangs round. new horizons. Even the idea that witchcraft can tax your system feels like a new thing to me.

me too, right now.

Has it lost impact? This comment section begs to differ.

Yes but a naked man on television is different to a naked woman on television. That comparison I think has limits. In the context of the society we live in men are not objectified the way women are. It is exhibitionism but I think it serves a purpose maybe not in the episode itself but when seen in the context of…

In a world where women on screen are scrutinized and expected to look a certain way. And female nudity is common, when it's a certain type of female. an uncommonly fit and attractive type. And you're a woman whose body wildly veers from that Hollywood standard, into a muddy field where most of the rest of the female…

I think the nudity in this episode served more of a purpose than other episodes. It made her look vulnerable and at times defiant. It also made it clear how unlikely this match was. I don't like seeing her naked, but I don't think I'm supposed to.