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I'm just catching up, so I'm late to the comment party for the episode. I'm not sure what else I can say about this episode, but I decided that I'm just going to go along for the ride for the remainder of the series, since I know that if the original cast members are gradually leaving the show for whatever reason, new characters have to take their places. I like Maggie okay so far. I did love the return of 'original' Bailey. I hope she's here to stay. I loved her few scenes. (paraphrasing, I think) 'I'm sorry. They caught me, so I threw you under the bus'.

I saw one of my favorites this weekend, 'Dinner at eight'. That's where Andy ends up eating three different spaghetti dinners in one night. That one always makes me want to fix some spaghetti. ('The secret ingredient is oregano'.) The one nitpick I have is why didn't Andy just explain to Helen why he hadn't come over for dinner yet? (I always figured that he was a little scared of her.)

Thanks for the recap of the last few minutes, AD35. My station cut out for a severe weather report too. I know that's important information, but I think he could have told us what we needed to know in less than 8 minutes (I timed him). I'll have to catch what I missed online.

That did sound weird, but I totally agree. I wasn't happy with the Garcia subplot. I think if they wanted to make a point about the death penalty, they could have thought up a plot where Garcia went to see the execution of a person she was convinced was innocent, but couldn't prove (and couldn't get the rest of the gang to help her with). I have no sympathy with the guy who had no family present for his execution (poor, poor me) and it made no sense for Garcia to feel so sorry for him when he was an admitted killer. I usually like Garcia okay, but not in this case. I would be fine if she would take an extended vacation and let Kevin take her place for a while. I like him. On the other hand, I would totally watch something called 'Chocolate Mousse and Baby Girl' (maybe it could be a series on Cartoon Network or something?).

Either it's because I'm a total newbie to 'Game of Thrones' (I'm only up to episode three in season two) or maybe I don't watch as much TV or as many movies as I thought, but I only recognized a few people from other roles they've played before or since their GoT appearances. I know I've seen Peter Dinklage, Sean Bean, Charles Dance and Julian Glover in other roles (although I would have never known that was Glover if I hadn't looked him up to see who he was playing), but the others were unknown to me. I did keep wondering where I'd seen Harry Lloyd (Viserys) from, and realized later that I knew him as 'Son-of-Mine' from the Doctor Who eps 'Human nature/Family of blood'.

I know! When I heard him say that, I thought 'whoa, that was cold'. (great minds?) I enjoyed the episode mainly because there was a lot of the 'old gang' and very little of Finn (although I can see that with this arc, there will be Finn-centric episodes coming up soon). I didn't get the twist of the wife being guilty, although I wasn't exactly sure who it was going to be.

It was a pretty good episode. I thought that one of the funniest scenes was when 'Hans Gruber' fell off of the building and they used the backdrop to give the clever illusion of him falling to his death, followed by the cheesy effect of the doll being lowered from the building cutout by being tied to a string. The song during the end credits (with Carly Simon singing along, no less!) was pretty good, too.

Do hairstyles count as fashion? I've been catching up on 'Castle' via TNT recently, since I didn't watch the show until this past season (I don't know why, it's great!). Anyway, I haven't really paid too much attention to the clothes (but I will from now on). I'm up to the beginning of the fourth season and today I watched 'Demons', the one where they try to solve the murder of the ghost hunter in the old mansion. I didn't notice the clothes, but I loved Beckett's hair in the last part of the episode. Castle had gone to get her at her apartment so that they could look for a hidden room, and she was wearing her hair in kind of a semi-messy braid that was hanging over her left shoulder. She wore it that way for the rest of the episode, even back at the precinct. It looked really good on her. As I said, I'm just catching up--has she ever worn it in the braid in other episodes (or maybe just when she's working out or something)?

I don't know if this commercial annoys or outrages me, but I don't like the new 'Toys R Us' commercials. I think that the part with the little girl drawing a dolphin on the floor and then the dolphin comes to life and swims away in the air is cute, and so its the part where the other little girl is on a scooter (or something like that) and everything changes to look like she's 'flying' away in space. Cute. But every time that saleswoman starts to cross the aisle and the gate comes down and then the freight train rushes past and nearly hits her, makes me jump! Every time! It just looks too scary to me to be in a commercial for a toy store.

Rats! I was watching a 'Castle' re-run on TNT and forgot to change the channel. I missed the first five minutes. Did they explain why Penny cut her hair? I think it looks great. I also missed half-naked Sheldon, so I'll have to try to catch the episode online (whenever CBS makes it available--if they even do).

I saw on the news this morning that Richard Kiel died. Most remember him as 'Jaws' in two James Bond films, but he also played the alien Kanamit on the classic TZ episode 'To serve man'. He was extra tall and creepy in that one.

Hello! I've been posting on other threads, but this is my first for 'Castle'. I only started watching this past season. Other than that, I've only seen random episodes on TNT. However, since I've now caught up on all of the 'Bones' episodes I missed (via TNT reruns on weekdays), I'm now recording 'Castle' from the beginning so that I can catch up (after I catch up with 'Castle', 'Hawaii 5-O' will probably be next). I might still read the old 'Castle' thread that is available on archive.org as I watch each episode, but I look forward to watching the next season with all of you and posting.

I didn't realize that they would leave the identity of the killer until they start up with new episodes again. Is that supposed to mean that there will be something special about this one? I hope it won't be a story arc that'll take up most of the season. I like it when they don't drag out cases. No real surprises in this one. I knew that the kid would be a lot like Maura (although it was definitely not Maura's place to allow the girl to wear even a little makeup when her mother had said no), so no surprise. From the promos, I knew that Jane would end up in the water somehow and I was definitely not wondering whether or not she will survive (it is the Rizzoli-with-sometimes-Isles show, after all). I was interested in the way that Korsak was looking at the bar/grill and making notes. I'm assuming that he's going to buy it and turn it into a sports bar or something? Maybe his 'life coach' (or whatever she's called) has advised him to start thinking about other options after retirement or something?

I don't even know who that is (I don't usually watch FXX), but after seeing commercials for it countless times during the marathon, I have no desire to ever see it again. Nor commercials for 'The League'. I've enjoyed what I've seen of the marathon, since I was never a regular Simpsons watcher, but would catch it now and then. I'll probably do like others have said and change the channel to FXX and catch episodes when I don't have anything in particular to watch. (I missed about four days of the marathon because for some reason my 'main' TV wouldn't pick up the channel after the first day. I kept getting a message that told me that the channel would be available soon, but then nothing. I found out after a couple of days that I could get the channel okay on the other TV in the other room, but I had missed lots by that time. Then, the channel mysteriously appeared on the main TV again. Weird! I had missed a lot, but I guess it was more important that I actually go to work instead!)

When Maggie reached down to pull Ben up to the bus roof (and later when they both were trying to rescue Hal), all I could think of was the earlier episode where Maggie didn't know her own strength and beaned Mira Sorvino's character (Sarah?) with the debris. If I were Ben (or Hal) I would be worrying about being torn apart when they yanked. (On the other hand, did anyone else get a vision of Hal being catapulted off into the horizon like a pebble from a slingshot when Maggie and Ben pulled on the fire hose? I would have watched that again and again.)

For some reason, my DVR cut in and out while recording last night and I found out this morning when I sat down to watch that the second part was interrupted five times. So, I had to watch in bits and pieces, but I don't feel like I missed much in that minute or two that I missed on each 'part'. I had already figured out that either Lexi would sacrifice herself or would magically be turned back into a little baby by the end, so there were no real surprises there. I did think that at least one of the 'regular' characters would be lost, so it was a pleasant surprise when none of them died (I thought for sure that Weaver was a goner). I plan to watch the final season next summer just to finish out the series, but I have to say that IMO the show was much better when it was just the humans fighting the skitters and cool Mechs (the first gen Mechs--not the new bad-CGI super-Mechs). The Volm aren't too bad, but except for the first scary glimpse we got of them, I don't care for the Espheni much.

When I first started watching this show, I thought that both Stahma and Datak were really creepy and didn't like either of them very much. I still think they are a little creepy, but they've become two of my favorite characters. They are really complex characters--lots of layers. I loved their shouting match when they were chained in the silo. Speed marriage counseling! Loved Doc Yewll's cap with flaps.

I like Angela okay and thinks she's kind of funny, but only in small doses. I noticed the product placement as well, especially auto.com (or whatever) and Rosetta Stone. I had forgotten how annoying that can be until I recently caught up on 'Bones' by watching four episodes each weekday. For at least one full season, they were really pushing the 'let's stop discussing the murder so I can describe what cool thing my car can do today' (Prius?)routine for a while. I never noticed it to be a problem on 'Rizzoli & Isles' until last night.

I didn't realize until well into the episode that the reason they had no A/C at the station was because of the power drain due to the heat wave (rolling brownouts?). I kept wondering how they could keep working at a place that had no A/C. They looked realistic though, all sweaty and uncomfortable. It made me appreciate my nice air-conditioned home (and might keep me from griping for a little while about my high electric bill during the hot, humid summer). Sipowitz was cute, but he reminded me of Joe Friday and Maura's tortoise (I forget his name). Whatever happened to them? I assume that the killer used the ice to keep the body from being discovered too soon (like they mentioned), but it only worked halfway, since half the body was above the water. I guess that the killer didn't realize that when the ice melted the body would float?

Without Warning, an early Predator-type film (1980). It starred Jack Palance, Martin Landau, and--in a small role as a doomed 'teenage'--David Caruso (in knee high athletic socks and really short jogging shorts). A blue alien comes to earth and starts picking off people one by one in the woods. It used a type of deadly jellyfish-like Frisbee thing to kill people. I remember this movie scaring me as a young'un, but I watched the whole thing recently on youtube and it was kind of lame. Ah, to be young and naïve again! French Postcards, from 1979. A movie about teenage American students studying in France for a year. I mainly remember Blanche Baker's character wanting to see everything (museums, etc.) and finding love at the end of the movie with one of the other American students (who had fallen at first for a French girl). It starred Blanche Baker, Miles Chapin, and Mandy Patinkin. A Little Romance (1979), starring Laurence Olivier, some French kid whose name I forget, and Diane Lane (in her film debut). Lane is an American girl who falls in love with a French boy and they run away (with Olivier's help) to kiss under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice (because if they do, they will stay in love forever). Kind of sappy, but cute.

Mine didn't either, so I'm glad I checked and set it to get the repeat. I had noticed that the future recordings on my DVR showed two episodes of 'Defiance' scheduled to record last night, both listed as 'new'. It didn't record any 'Defiance' anywhere and I saw that 'Spartacus' was being aired. I guess it got confused, but I'll be sure and check next week, since there are two scheduled to air. It might goof up again (although since the previews specifically said that there would be two back-to-back (both new, right?) episodes next week, maybe it'll work okay. It was Rafe's son at the end. I'm glad he and Rafe had that little scene where Quentin reported on visiting his mom. I had totally forgotten about that plot and had been wondering where he had gone.

I've been having a little marathon of episodes for the last several weeks (4 episodes a day on TNT) and loved this exchange from an episode on Wednesday. It was when Vincent Nigel-Murray (RIP) was having to make amends to everyone he had wronged as part of his 12-step program. Nigel-Murray (to Brennan): 'One night I borrowed your iguana and wore it as a hat--to a party.' She doesn't seem to care, but laughs at him when he further admits to making up stories to his friends about them having a passionate affair. Then: Brennan (still smiling): 'I must say I'm impressed that you were able to keep my iguana on top of your head.' Nigel-Murray (quietly): 'I'm clever with ribbons.'

I loved a line of Poppy's during the Nashville episode, but I'm not sure when I could actually use it in real life: 'I've never oiled a man in a coffin before'. (It was when Georgie was fussing about how long it was taking her to get ready for filming- they were making the music video, but I'm not sure if she said it in the actual episode or in the 'making of' extended segment on the BBC site. Either way, it was funny.)

I think everyone else has covered most of what I would have commented on, but I do have questions about their strategy for this battle. Weaver said that there were three battalions headed their way. However, it looked like they used up all of their booby-traps on the first group (the Chinese lantern fire bombs, the explosive charges, etc.). How were they planning taking out the other two? Was this addressed at all?

Blanche: 'Well, way to go, Rose. You've talked her into doing exactly the opposite of what we wanted her to do.' Rose: 'I guess that's why they took me off the suicide hotline at work.'