"The idea of a man with Hannibal's cooking skills, love of music and fine clothing being imprisoned seems criminal."

That "Oh, he shouldn't have done that" might be the first peek we've seen of the Hannibal we'll see once he's in prison and doesn't have to hide his nature from anyone.

Aside from Winston, all the other dogs now have the taste for human flesh.

Coulson V.O.: Next season, on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD:

Great points. Peggy's got good reasons to be bitter—she's stuck living with the decisions of the various men in her life. Abe wanted to live on the Upper West Side, so now she's stuck living in a dump, answering to tenants she never wanted whenever their toilets back up. Don and Ted wanted to merge their firms, and…

That scene's the 24 litmus test. You're either scandalized by the extrajudicial killing of a fictional child molester—in which case, just stop right there, flip the channel to MSNBC, no hard feelings—or you laugh and spend the next week saying "I'm gonna need a hacksaw!"

Nitpick: she was a Sandinista spy, not a Contra (the Contras were the guys the US was supporting).

The New York Times reported in February that his raise for Thor 2 was a flat $500,000. Here's the URL:

This did not take an expert to determine.

Do you have any facts behind that "I'm sure," or just blind faith that Marvel will loosen the purse strings for a guy they already have under contract?

I appreciate your point, and see how it might be a selling point to more established actors like RDJ and even Chris Evans, but Hemsworth has just started his career as a lead actor, and by all reports, he hasn't been paid like one yet. So it would make absolutely no sense for him to quit the boiled chicken and rice…

"We could talk, a lot, about the right / legality / legitimacy / ethics of what Coulson and his team did."

"firm's continued existence didn't depend on Jaguar. It was an account they wanted, but it was never presented as something Joan saved the company by helping them get it."

"No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for money. It's a job—that didn't come out right."

Hemsworth's complaints could be a negotiating ploy. Apparently, his contract is a mega-bargain (and was advertised to the world as such in the pages of the New York Times) because he was an unknown when he signed.

I suppose that while I'm drinking my double Stoli on the rocks, he's pulling up to the drive-thru at White Castle, making sure to eat first.

Jordan, I don't know how to respond to so many arguments I didn't make. I don't think my description of Joan was all that flattering, and I certainly didn't claim she's a feminist icon or say anything fetishistic about her boots.

Respectfully disagree. Your description of Joan's relationship with Roger at the beginning of the series is accurate, but it's important to remember that their affair started long before that, going back before Don joined the firm. I can't track it down the line (I think it might have been in S3?) but it was suggested…

Cutler only claims to speak for Ted. Roger claims to speak for Pete, although that's a little more dubious given how upset Pete was about having to hand over the Chevy dealer's association account to Bob Benson. The show could have really used both characters weighing in on Don's return, even if it was on the…

Wow, that's an incredibly judgmental take on it. Initially, Joan wasn't trying to screw her way up the corporate ladder. She was trying to circumvent the corporate ladder by marrying well and being an upper-class housewife—the 1950s traditional Betty Draper path through life. Once marrying Dr. Rapist didn't work out…