The problem with using the word "retarded" is that it has become an insult and a word that people with cognitive disabilities themselves reject as hurtful and demeaning. No one in the medical or teaching professions uses the word in a clinical sense anymore because they recognize that it is 1) no longer as effectively…

I actually thought that was a really clever way for the show to kick off Terregenapalooza without killing a few billion normals—which might otherwise complicate season 3 beyond the writers' ability to deal.

And I have to say—I found the scene where Cal admits to Coulson the real nature of his marriage a fantastic moment of character and emotion. And it worked so well in part because that's how abusers work IRL—they show their victims lots of love and affection in addition to abuse and manipulation.

I agree. The comparison between Cal and Jaiying is off. Cal literally does swing back and forth between two natures. What AoS did with Jaiying was more complicated. She didn't "transform" at all. Her coldness toward non-Inhumans, her willingness to use brutal measures to protect her people were traits that were always…

I vote for Bangkok.

Not a fan of The Librarians?

Great catch. That really helps to explain why Kelly didn't detect the ambush until it was too late.

After he had doused it with cheap vodka and set it on fire, of course.

I've been trying to decide what's behind Nick's amazing failure to change the locks. Denial that the relationship is over? Or resignation to the fact that Juliette will just hexenblast the doors open if her key doesn't work?

Agreed. I really wish they had gone the Grimm route, and built the character around the example Monroe found in the books, where Jack the Ripper was just one iteration of this hellspawn who keeps hitching rides into the mortal realm. It would have been more interesting and less wincingly cartoonish.

Hey, we all mix up our 'hensibles from time to time.

I really liked it too. But I think the focus was too cultural and the pacing too meditative for the BSG fans who tuned in to see space battles. Alas. Loved the polyamory, the virtual reality plot, the religious explorations. And the shirtless Roiz, of course!

As a fellow cord-cutter, agreed.

Annalise is projecting a ton of things about how she feels SHE'S perceived onto Merrin, and forces the interns to go at things through that lens.

And if you read her "apology," it's clear that she doesn't get what she did wrong. In her view, readers "overreacted" and "misunderstood" her point.

Collier's working with Greer. That's what those texts to Collier at the end of the last flashback were about. It was the same kind of approach Greer made to Kara Stanton after the CIA tried to kill her. Greer knew Collier was coming for him even though Samaritan was offline. And in the trial scene you can see…