No-one's arguing (in this thread at least) that she's behind all of it, just that she made a single targeted strike against this one independent town.

Viola Davis might be able to get away with murder, but she's not going to get away with wearing that wig.

Younger sister. Though, for bonus points, she did kill herself immediately after being introduced.

I'm pretty sure it's a Bonnie / husband thing.

Yaay! Homophobia!

Thought you were trying to be serious and gritty WB?

the gritty backdrop of a brewing gang war in Gotham City

I disagree on the camp factor — Lilli Taylor's character was almost entirely camp, and wonderfully so, and then there was that bottomless sewer shaft — but there's nothing wrong with camp existing in a space that's as arbitrarily dark and rank as Gotham City is. In fact, camp thrives amongst the macabre, since it's…

And Bruce must be remarkably sheltered.

Where oh where is this mythical paradise? I want to go to there.

Well, sure. I'm just clarifying the idea that Whedon was completely hands-off, not suggesting that he's all up in SHIELD's (panini) grill.

Progressive storytelling, minus the wink wink bullshit we're getting here.

I thought it was a clever way to suggest a change in the status quo, but each to their own.

I always heard that she was cast, but never for multiple episodes. I think people just assumed — which played into the twist that she so quickly died.

More frustratingly, in one of the stray observations Sava says he's only going to spoil stuff from the third episode trailer, and then proceeds to spoil stuff from episode five. Nice going mate.

He's heavily involved in breaking the season structure, I think.

I don't know what I think about Litmus. Is Hadrian out on a witch hunt, like Adama claims, or is Adama's blindspot playing up again? I think the accepted reading is that it's a witch hunt, but that's not something I've ever found believable.

Completely agree, and I was coming here to post something along these lines. It's a really bad episode, and it's probably the episode that most effectively torpedoed Michael as tolerable, convincing human being. (Though Sawyer isn't much better, tbh, and I can't remember anyone caring too much about Jinn "dying").

Yeah, that was the intention. That, and a Claire episode that would have expanded on the hints in The Shape Of Things To Come (the last episode produced before the shortened season order was announced) that would have expanded on her subplot in Cabin Fever.

I don't believe the writer's strike did. I think it's pretty damaging to season 4 all told, and removed a flashback episode for the Freighter, and another for Claire.