That bothered me the WHOLE episode, I was like, "Where have I heard this exact accent before?" Everything makes sense now.

I haven't watched it yet, but I definitely need to check it out for those great Phantom of the Opera references!

I *think* they said Eileen would get more to do this season at Comic-Con, maybe? Or maybe I just want it so badly that I'm desperate to believe. In a special like this, though, it's almost always about the boys.

I thought it was really revealing how the characters telling the stories positioned themselves—Rigby is obviously the victim AND the hero, Muscle Man is the last one standing but brutally murdered, and Benson is the smart guy in the horror movie who gives the warning and hightails it out of there.

It'll be interesting to see exactly how Vaatu is re-emerging, since he is absolutely locked away in his "physical" form. My brother and I were theorizing that some scrap of his essence was able to get free and influence human minds (Unalaq), or that he actually somehow bonded a minuscule scrap of himself to the…

I think this was my favorite episode to date, mostly because I prefer a bonkers historical mystery (this episode was very reminiscent of a Doctor Who plot) than a modern crime perpetrated by a demon. It's just more my speed, and I wish the show would utilize more Americana legends instead of focusing on its hodgepodge…

I'm not sure how much the Friday night rule applies to animation or cable content, really. Disney airs all its new episodes on Fridays and does just fine. I think the advertising is mostly to blame, and Nickelodeon has just been such a mess in terms of … everything recently.

I was always baffled by Zuko's plot specifically because he had a whole season of slow, sure character development, and then the writers still felt like it wouldn't be believable unless they gave it an almost supernatural twist? Okay. If you must.

I was kind of all about this episode, in that same kind of "Whatever!" mentality Emily brought up. An amnesia plot may be lazy writing, but remember when Zuko woke up from a fever that expunged all the evil angst from his heart? This series has a history with weird reset buttons. At this point, if it actually allows…

Thaaaaank you. The fact that so many people equate character development WITH sweaty boners is so weird to me. There are a million more interesting directions they could have gone with his character that wouldn't have felt so out-of-place. It really took up way too much screentime and had little forward momentum.…

The Eska/Bolin stuff was REALLY hard to watch, especially in last week's episode. It made me so uncomfortable that we're expected to laugh at what was actual, legit domestic abuse? I'm not here for that. Bolin was absolutely terrified.

The treason question made me think, too, especially since this is such a new republic that probably doesn't actually have the chain of command that hammered out yet. Just insubordination, then, but still troubling. I like the explanation of nepotism/privilege fueling the command positions, though, and this generation…

I was getting bad vibes from Varrick from episode 3, so I would love if he ended up being the main villain of the series. This series has always excelled at drawing convincing, psychologically complex villains, and I would love if Unalaq and Varrick represented fundamentally different ideologies that are equally Bad…

It seems like it's very easy for Korra to externalize those consequences, though, and it wouldn't be surprising to me if Mako ended up shouldering most of the guilt for causing her to flee, even though he had every right to end the relationship the way he did. I don't want comeuppance on a grand, physical scale if we…

This was primarily the problem I had with the first season, too, that everything Korra suspected turned out to be right, and she was never really held accountable for rushing headlong into things. Just throwing her for a loop every now and then would balance out the storytelling and make it CLEAR to the viewers that…

It's not just that all of the show's premise was revealed up front, but I felt the mysterious MOOD that's necessary for horror like this was just really lacking for me. I wanted to be scared by the beast-in-the-mirror or the four trees, for instance, but because everything is so explicitly categorized right away, I'm…

I'll probably watch another episode or two to see if the pace settles down at all—I feel like it might work as a procedural, monster-of-the-week kind of thing because then they could focus more on that delicious horror vibe, but they killed as much ~mystery as they could in 40 minutes. I don't know … why they would do…

"The Book of Revelations" made me roll my eyes so hard, and I think the whole show just lost me after that. Yeah, THAT was my breaking point.

There's something about all of Craig McCracken's shows that just flows so well—the sense of timing is just perfect. Lord Hater is already a gem, I can't wait to see more of him.

That's how I've felt about a lot of AT episodes lately. Sure, it's all about character development, but it's not really of the rewarding kind, somehow. It's like everyone's kind of sliding backwards, which is less interesting than even full-blown corruption arcs. I don't know. I liked this episode much more than the…