If there's a kind and loving deity out there.

Yeah, that's the long and the short of it. She's only interesting as one of the players in the ongoing mob war plot. The character's ridiculous at best in context. She's a nightmare out of it.

I'm pretty sure that the point of dragging out the Fish Mooney stuff is that if the show can convince audiences to like her, they'll find a way to work her into the comics. Whether it makes sense or not.

Yeah, but a) Joss was really thrilled over managing to get that line in the movie, and b) what does it add to Loki that he knows borderline-obscure gendered slurs? Is our understanding of the character enhanced in any way by that specific choice of words?

Has the show gotten any real mileage out of Nick's part-time zombification? It's been useful a couple of times, but we really still know nothing about how it works, what triggers it, and what the benefits are. I mean, when Nick's powers fully kicked in, I was a little annoyed to see him suddenly become a zombie for a…

Well, y'know, maybe Joss would find it more acceptable if a dinosaur called her a 'mewling quim.'

Am I the only one who doesn't particularly care about whether or not this show has a 'distinct' visual style? I see the constant moaning and bitching about that in these reviews and I'm like "is this something everyone worries about but me, is there something wrong with me and I'm just unaware?" Seriously, it's just…

Not trying to be a smartass, but this reads like someone who realized after the fact the show was terrible and had to come up with a convoluted way to explain why they can consider the time they spent with it to have been worthwhile.

I recognize that maybe I'm just not Uncle Grandpa's audience, but the only thing I liked about this episode was the declaration that it's not canon.

I just recently got caught up on Adventure Time, and to be honest I found this episode pretty disappointing. Finn dealing with his father would be a lot interesting if the episode did more than recycle the beats of "Finn's father's a lying asshole and Finn would be better off without him." Because really, that's all…

I'm so glad we have Jay Levey dedicating so much energy to breaking up the flow of the stories by shitting on the producers a half-dozen paragraphs at a time. So glad, you guys.

Ah, I'd missed that. Interesting.

It's more of a cameo appearance than a guest-starring role, but there's also the time Serena Williams appeared on Avatar: The Last Airbender.

I was talking to a friend of mine about Oswald, and an observation I made seems to be holding true: Oswald thinks he's Saruman, but he's not. He's Wormtongue. When the big battles start, his place won't be leading the armies and serving as the face of evil, but as a pathetic whispering voice in an old man's ear.

I think the only thing that could have improved this was Barry's cyborg skeleton getting up and declaring that "Barry" is dead and "Other Barry" is in charge now.

Honestly, I thought between the plot with The Man and the bounty on John's life/soul/whatever, this was an overly busy episode. It feels like they were like "Okay, we've got 13 episodes, but there are like 14 or 15 stories on the table. Can we combine any of these?" It's a bit weak to leave off on, but it's also…

Between Malcolm's lecture about what killing does to you and Oliver's reaction earlier this season to Laurel training with Wildcat, sometimes I honestly wonder if the show's writers hope beyond hope that we'll forget that Oliver's already killed lots and lots of people.

I enjoyed the episode, but I can't help think that Richie might have landed a little better, characterization-wise, if this wasn't the first time he's been involved since the pilot. I'm not saying he needs to be a regular, and I get that part of the point Manny tries to make is that John neglects his living friends,…

Right. I was responding to something from the review, which when pasted into the message box looked like it would show up like a quote but in the end it didn't. I've edited it to clarify.

"The police think Dr. Henri Toussaint is missing, but Jules (Jeff Clarke), Cassie’s colleague at the CDC, knows he was shot while collecting medicine in Haiti. For a moment, I thought the discrepancy was the result of time travel, but Cole hasn’t yet traveled to Haiti in 2014 when those conversations take place."