dmarkam

I don't want to derail the conversation, however: in the screengrab from the top of the page am I seeing three grown men sitting on the ARMS of chairs rather than IN the chairs like weirdos? I just want to make sure I'm not losing my mind. Sorry. As you were.

I still love the show, but... boy, the writers have a real bad habit of developing a character or storyline just to abruptly drop it off a cliff with no pay off. This is the fourth time where the writers give a villain a sudden death kind of out of left field when they still had some juice in them to move the plot along (cue “In Memorium” sequence for Daniel, Tomas, and Olivier… okay maybe not Tomas). There could have been more story in Dr. Leekie on the run -- maybe begrudgingly joining up with the Clone Club to take down Rachel? -- rather than death by oops ("I am Donnie, destroyer of worlds"). It reminds me of Sarah’s time as Beth. Once Art and Det. McEyebrows (or Det. DeAngelis. … I had to look up her name) started to work out the Sarah-Beth-Katja connection, Sarah couldn’t really stay on the force -- I get that, I do -- but, her decision to have Beth resign was made over the course of what felt like a third of a scene. Over and over, there were advantages (and, admittedly, drawbacks) to her having access to police information. Whereas if the writers had found a way to keep Sarah/Beth around it would have given Art something to do (‘cause… he doesn’t really have anything to do now, but God love the writers for pretending otherwise), and Det. McEyebrows would still have a purpose (‘cause if she’s anything like me she periodically forgets why she’s on Alison’s case, too). Despite all that, though, I swear I do still love the show.