Yeah, Ian's statement about not being that person anymore just seems weird. He was usually working a steady job while Mickey has a stable, albeit illegal, massage business and were both taking care of Mickey's kid. The show kinda suggests that Ian and Mickey had a Frank and Monica style relationship built on heists…

I think the writing works again Macy. The Frank subplots are almost always comedic about how horrible he is, but Macy does a good enough job to where Horrible Frank and the Frank mourning Bianca or Monica still feels like the same person.

Him being the choice for the Touring Hedwig hurts my heart. I do not understand his appeal.

I think the mix of that caring support from an older woman in addition to adding to Lip's pattern of having casual sex with a woman and then falling for them really screwed him up. And with the inclusion of the school board trying to sever the relationship, he can justify thinking that it's a salvageable relationship…

I'm guessing they did that so they could have a twist in their pocket to use whenever they wanted to upend things.

I think that the show does draw parallels to the relationships the characters have with the Frank/Monica relationship. I can see Lip falling into the trap of thinking that complications and dysfunction make the relationship "epic", much like how Frank sees his relationship with Monica.

Yeah, it was a odd way to handle the character. Fiona said no to running away with him, so there was no reason to add the additional wrinkle of him lying to her. So much work was done to make it so Steve wasn't that guy, so it's bizarre to just make him an asshole and nothing more.

I think it would have made sense for Mickey to be worried about Ian and have the thought process of "He needs me to take care of him" and the escape and taking him to Mexico would have worked.

Yeah, I think writing Steve off as a psychopath who really didn't care about Fiona was a poor choice too.

I can understand in the context that the life Mickey offering is crazy, since he's escaped from prison and is running away to Mexico. But I think the writers forgot that Ian dumped Mickey because he thought that Mickey wanted to change him by making him take his medication. And they also seem to forget that Ian and…

I think because liberals don't have the appeal to the more religious out there or those who see inclusiveness as anti-white.

Sandra is really good at being loyal but then switching to free agent once her allies are gone. So by the end of the game she hasn't actually screwed anyone over. It's like when Courtney reminded everyone at FTC, Sandra is a fierce ally, like lying to Russell to get Coach voted off in order to spare Courtney.

Yeah, you'd think an alien frat boy would be hard to watch, at least on paper.

I think they said that since it was also a mid season finale, they focused more on delivering a normal episode. Melissa Benoist filmed a lot of her cross over scenes during the filming of the episode where she was in a cage with Mon El for most of it.

I felt the intervention fell kinda flat. Annalise telling Wes what to do when Sam died was a big twist in S1. The show is retroactively making it so she didn't let them go to the police when they had already disposed of the body and S1 was filled with paranoia that one of them would go to the police.

I think the show loses its sense of progressiveness and social commentary when you realize a white guy got away with murdering a woman because she said something he didn't like.

Yeah, I think the same thing every episode. If the show didn't try to make some level of moral judgment towards people, like the blogger, they might be able to get away with that decision.

Why do you care? Why do you care enough to insist against someone's identity?

I'm not why you're finding it hard to understand respecting a person.

Well now you know.