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Oh don't get me wrong: Josh Segarra did a fantastic job with the role as it was written. The problem was with, you know, how it was written. :)

To be honest, he was interesting… right up to the point where the 'Omnipotent Villain' trope kicked in about 1/2 way through the season and then he couldn't die fast enough as far as i was concerned. Apart from him 'always being 10 steps ahead' even there was no conceivable means to acquiring THAT much info about

Melissa's delivery of that "YES!" line was so unrestrained and happy that I wonder if the prop department decided on ice cream cones at the last minute.
So much FUN in this episode. Remember kids: It's possible to do Superhero shows and NOT have them be dour, depressing things.

It's kind of funny, actually.
By any measure, Lazenby was the worst actor to portray Bond, but I honestly don't know if OHMSS works as well, if at all, with any of the others in that movie instead.

This.
It became REALLY obvious after a while that the plot was stalling for time and the "no flights, no tights" rule was acting like a tourniquet wrapped around the neck of the show.
It was one of those situations where the popularity of the show (and the refusal of the showrunners to let it evolve) really worked

This.
The parts of Man of Steel that actually worked were the ones that focused on Clark. It lost me the second it went all loud and smashy.

The two big challenges I have with Octopussy:
- It is slooooooooow. It's like once the producers decided they wanted the bulk of the story to take place in India, they thought "now what"?
- Roger Moore, at this point, was signing on from film to film. And he was an OLD 53 at this point, which meant anything more

Growing up, Moore was my Bond. But as an adult? Most of my least favourite Bond movies star Moore.

That blimp was all stealthy and such!
And at least Stacey didn't have her ass kicked by a 3'10" man.

Tanya's right up there as a solid #2, but Britt Ekland bows to no Bond girl for the title of 'worst ever'.

The tone in S1 was least somewhat consistent. After Deborah Joy Levine left as showrunner, you literally didn't know what you were getting from the show from week to week (much behind-the-scenes interference). IMO, the show always worked best when it didn't indulge the camp elements.

Sorry, Nope.

So HBO wants to do the exact thing to GoT that they made David Chase do to The Sopranos (ie. add more unnecessary seasons and destroy any sort of narrative cohesion?)