It's evil either way. The only question is whether it is self-serving sadism or just sadism for its own sake.

Totally agree about Mount Weather. I will say, as a mom, there is no scenario that I can imagine in which I could be rational about putting my daughter in a tank where I believe she will die. I can't entirely grok how my perspective would change in a world with stakes like theirs, of course. But I can't help but cut…

I was sort of hoping they'd find a way to incorporate Kate the werewolf but I guess that might overstuffed the episode.

This season has been rather surprisingly good. The whole British Men of Letters thing did not get off to a strong start, but the characters have grown a bit more interesting (and distinguishable) and I liked how they integrated Mama Supernatural. There have been a handful of episodes this year that have been extremely…

Right, I'm talking about the real bunker.

That's not fair. Clarke went with Jaha to check out the Second Dawn bunker, and she tried the best she could to get the fuel to Raven for the outerspace Nightblood solution. She has worked and worked to solve this insane, world-ending problem in a way that will maximize lives saved and minimize lives lost.

Man, Clarke better get a beach vacation out of this apocalypse.

There's pretty much no situation in which testing a likely deadly scenario out on unwiilling human subjects isn't a terrible, terrible thing. But it's not exactly like Mount Weather because in this case, without Abby and Co.'s work, that guy and everyone he knows will die horribly in 10 days.

I really enjoyed this one. I have some quibbles, but in general it was exciting and had that fun sense of history and mystery that the 100 occasionally nails. Richard Harmon was fantastic (no surprise).

Happy Valentimes!

Only one of Elfman and Thomas Gibson can have a TV show at any one time. That is the covenant. Now we are ready for Elfman Ascendant!

I wouldn't go that far but they were annoyingly repetitive (do you think David might have some sort of mind parasite?) and pointlessly over the top (there's not much to this scene so let's stretch it interminably with some silent movie nonsense). It all makes me think they realized there wasn't enough story so they…

There's also a strong element of "how much do I put up with to seem polite" that I think anyone can relate to.

Wasn't there a guy who did this for himself? He tried to set up a community in the woods in the UK somewhere, with the intention of figuring out how people would deal with a sort of post-apocalyptic scenario. And then he left and had to check himself into a mental hospital for a few months? I swear they talked about…

Onion did it.

I've been thinking the story of this whole thing will need to be a miniseries, there's too much for a movie. But maybe there's a whole show in it, just a really, really unpleasant version of West Wing.

It goes hand-in-hand with the headlines about Trump blaming the Dems for the bill's defeat. That's like blaming the other team when you lose the Superbowl.

If anything, I could see that scenario deepening the divide between Trump and the Rs. It sounds like a win-win (that'll never happen).

Yeah, the premise, from what's described here, bugs me. Did any of these people get cast in anything? Did any of them get paid? Did they realize what they were really there for?

I like the idea that a young man can literally transform into a dog-creature in front of them, and people will roll with it if it helps a high school sports team win.