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Well, isn’t it cool to have a fake-face-guy as your Checkov’s gun? Twice in the same episode, no less. Even Flash did it just once in one episode (in the same season!)

Drummer is such a boss.

I had an observation this episode. My love for Babylon 5 is somewhat known and if you remove the hard edge from Chrisjen you get Ambassador Delenn.

Try The Expanse. It’s really much better than this show. In my opinion it’s better than BSG as well. As much as I like BSG, that show really went off the rails in its final season. Except for the mutiny, that was dope.

What makes the show interesting isn’t the fact that it’s aliens necessarily, it’s the structures the aliens have put in place — and the fact that we don’t understand everything about them is one of the core mysteries. Everytime we and the characters learn something else, it’s significant. And it’s a smart tactic on…

What I like abut this show is the fact that the supposed “bad guys” are not really evil, they have no choice. This is like the French invasion by the Nazis, if the Nazis were 1000 times more advanced than everyone else. They really have no choice since there has not been anyway shown to “beat” the aliens. The…

The restaurant breakup is a cliche that needs to die a horrible screaming death. There are exactly two reasons people do it:

If I had to choose between being dumped over text or at a restaurant I’d choose the former every time. Like what, I’m supposed to try not to cry and/or get snot everywhere while having to deal with paying for (and presumably boxing up) some meal I don’t really want anymore?

Dear It’s Over in Orlando:

This column should be renamed “Letters From Idiots.”

Yeah, it kind of boggles my mind that anyone would think breaking up with someone in public over dinner is for the benefit of the person being broken up with.

Your suggestion that more time might have been “bought” by Carrie ditching her wig wouldn’t work with the plot line. The idea was to allow Saul to get out of the country with Simone, if Carrie were to break cover running as Simone, i.e. ditching the wig the game would be up, wouldn’t it?

I’m sure we all hated Errinwright and Strickland already but the show makes sure we really, really know how awful they are. Even Jules-Pierre Mao has some empathy and semblance of conscience. These two deserver the to be eaten by the storms they sow.

I’ve said this before, but I’ve advocated for a Stargate-style season structure. In SG-1 and Atlantis, about half the episodes could be considered “filler” yet they were still fun and enjoyable because of the character interactions and development. And there were times that those filler episodes ended up tying into…

Did DeVoe really claim he cross-dimensionally predicted an Earth-X banshee sneaking through a portal by happenstance? Do the writers really expect me to roll with that?

DeVoe was thrown off because Barry was moping. Little did we know the most annoying thing about The Flash was his true hidden superpower.

This whole season was a mess, but what bothered me most in the finale was Fiona being Gary 2.0. I just wanted her to tell Madison “That’s not how I do things.” It put a damper on the whole “girl power” message they were trying to tell, at least for me.

Or Armistice for that matter. I hope she survived.

This show is so gung-ho with its intellectual exercise that it neglects perhaps the most important component of television: the fundamental quality of entertainment. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy this show, but I can see the puppet strings. Westworld is watched by an audience that tends to forget that writers…