Just this once, I'll allow it.

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I've heard of them but there's a reason why I said renaissance and not second renaissance now …

You'd think by now, if this doesn't teach Sarah to double tap, nothing will.

Wasn't it also a dress rehearsal night as well? If so, I think it's typical to give at least cut price tickets. Even better value for money then, the final production may end up more polished but I doubt it'll be as dramatic (or stage-divey).

Sorry, I failed to make it clear that I meant just economically, though of course a lot of other things can flow on from that. If you have a predisposition for mental illness, having to also battle poverty at the same time can make it even worse.

I don't forget they're the same actress anymore. Well, not since I stuck that Post It note on my computer with that fact on it to repeatedly remind me that is.*

Glad to see from that phone call that it's possible they're heading towards my dream impersonation of Rachel by Alison. I think she'd be really good at it, she could definitely pull off that "I will cut you if you defy me." with just a look as well as Rachel, if not better.

It's been quite the bloodbath, hasn't it? I think as few as 4 people died in Season 1 for sure (and one of those was a suicide and another a freak accident).

Here, Matthew Bennett = Daniel Rosen. There = Doral.

Now that I think about it (and went back and read Wikipedia again), you can be both immortal and half-god, they're not necessarily referring to the same thing or mutually exclusive in themselves. So, that's unfair of me. Sorry about that Cosima.

Terrifyingly enough, I think she could pull it off, at least at the superficial level long enough to get through people's defences. She's already managed it a number of times and then she was barely even trying. She also seems a quick study and good with improvisation, so given enough time, she could end up being…

I think the show is an excellent demonstration of how, sad as it may seem, a major factor as to how we turn out is due to the random circumstances of our birth and the upbringing we have after that. If Helena had ended up in different circumstances, she would have been different.

A small bit of tangential trivia here, I was looking through Tatiana Maslany's Imdb listing to see if I'd ever seen her in anything before and found "Diary of the Dead". I didn't remember her from that at all but I had a look again. She looks exactly the same as her Sarah Manning version (even though it's about 7…

Dr Leekie also mentioned they have franchises in almost every country in the world (including Vatican City!). I'm sure this one is the Canadian Toronto branch though.

I think she just never got a break. This episode was just another reason to be mad at Amelia despite her good intentions. "You mean I could have had an apartment like this instead of a cage?!"

Now that I think about about it, that's a fair enough interpretation. I think what happens is that typically, when people got 50% of the god genome in mythology, they also got a lot of the benefits of being a full god like immortality and immortal youth for example, so I guess we often conflate the two. The term…

Especially considering her upbringing, Helena did turn out very polite, which I think is impressive. She says excuse me when belching and troubling emergency department staff with her minor (for her) flesh wounds.

Once we knew who was in that bed, the scene from the season trailer at the 48 to 49 second mark all but made it inevitable that was going down, I thought.

Yes, but you have to admit it's so much funnier when you say it as a tautology like that.