I've heard a lot of people are down on the season for having a virus as the big bad (at least for episodes 1-5), but frankly, that's the only convincing multi-episode plot that the show's pulled off yet, and it caps off with a genuinely tense, scary episode. The change in showrunner has made a lot of difference. I'm…

Co-sign everything here. I'm glad I didn't give up in the first half of the season, although I was sorely tempted to. Not everything came together for me, but what did was great, and they've re-earned a lot of goodwill from me as a viewer.

Well, Bumi's talked about the cannibals before, so I don't know if that's really random. I was willing to buy it because the conceit (a madness-inducing fog) was pretty strong.

Yeah: "10,000 years of worldwide darkness and chaos" is kind of a big threat. Whatever follows can't help but seem like a comedown, stakes-wise.

Naga's fake arms deserve an Oscar.

Eh… It's something to do while they were standing around waiting, though. Better a wall that might fall than no wall at all.

Yeah, I won't pretend we weren't shouting at the television: Build a damned wall, fer chrissakes!

She's got a lot of killing to do.

For me: Hands down, Unalaq vs. Tonraq was the best action sequence in this season, short as that sequence was. It was smaller but much more creative than the others.

SEASON 3: BOOK OF GENOCIDE

It's been quite a week for heroines screwed over by principle: it's Leslie Knope's filibuster all over again.

TIMBER.
WOODCHIPS.
PULP.
PAPER.

Emily, I assume the battleship was necessary for a reason established back in ATLA: the sky bison are awesome, but even they get sleepy and can't cross a lot of territory in one flight.

That's what I thought, too: it's Varrick's party, and of course he'd name everything after himself.

I enjoyed most of it, but I can't deny it's got a whole pack of dei ex machina in there, to the point that I started caring less about plot and just enjoyed the visuals.

That's how I read the scene, too.

I would watch this show.

Agreed. A total knockout for me, all around.

Oh look, someone on the internet is mad!

Really minor actual spoiler, since I won't be here to discuss the finale next week.