I had the same thoughts (and worries)! And I liked the sci-fi ending. Showing that the alien monsters were a relative piece of cake to overcome after managing to escape from Howard was thematically effective, and MEW has the steel-jawed acting chops to pull it off.

I agree on the memory issue. I thought for a moment that it was going to be this incredible out-of-left-field metaphor for Alzheimer's, and/or that they might go with the idea that even without his memories Stan is still the same person they loved. Shades of the "Chuck" finale… I guess they already covered that…

yeah, wait, what? Can I get a wiki link on that or something?

"[…]the theory that Bruce Wayne had the potential to turn into quite a villain if he didn’t have his parents’ deaths to keep him on the path of righteousness."

I don't think that's a reach on your part. "Abuser" may or may not be the correct term behaviorally, but on a storytelling level: if Hogarth wasn't intentionally a foil/thematic parallel to Kilgrave, then it's one heck of a coincidence.

Right? "I've got the blues" is the name of the dang episode! Plus- and I haven't finished watching the series as I type this, I'm going through episode by episode- I was (and am) sorta figuring Patsy was going to keep the chemicals. "Hellcat Begins" by way of DC's Hourman (golden age).

Oh, and regarding the Who connection, wasn't this the episode where Jessica tells him "you're not Ten anymore"?

This episode brought to my mind the discussion between Hogarth and Jessica in around ep 4, of whether Kilgrave's powers- divorced from their monstrous weilder- could be used for good or whether their very nature of mind-enslaving makes any use of those powers inherently evil. "AKA WWJD?" seems to suggest that the…

Simmons letting Lash loose was kind of a harsh moral event horizon for her to cross, since doing so effectively slaughtered the dozen-odd helpless Inhumans around them (not to mention the Hydra goons but eh, hydra goons). I hope they come back to that issue and don't pull a Xander on it- a May and Simmons shouting…

Damn, you beat me to it. I hope he uses the creepy ceramic mask from the Animated Series!

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I was more impressed with Bottomless Pit for storytelling— and "No, that's the normal amount (of green lightning)" still cracks me up.

I dunno, this one was kind of a miss for me- better than Golf War, if only for joke density, but not as interesting character-wise as Soos & the Real Girl. Gravity Falls is already a "spooky" show, so having an episode self-consciously go "tonight we're going to be EXTRA SPOOKY" felt a little up-in-the-face. Little…

I hadn't even thought about the gender-political implications until I read this review, which I suppose shows the problem right there. I liked this more than Golf War, just because "golf ball imps" was more towards the wacky end of things than I care for. I thought this episode suffered from the Grunkle Stan sub-plot…