Donny Ketchum

Damn. It's like this episode was gift-wrapped for us Josh haters. FOX might as well have been saying, "Here's two hours' worth of material to show you just how much Josh truly sucks!" And I LOVED it! It was almost worth seeing Alison go home before him (just almost), only because we got to see how little the others think of him and how much reason he gives them to think that of him for a second hour! Josh himself must be at home realizing now just how much not only the other contestants hated him, but even the show hated him! Well, I'm just glad that the two hours ended with Josh going home at all. I wouldn't have been pleased to see two more people go home before him. Alison was bad enough to see leave. I feared Michelle would go, too, when Josh was called first. Feared we'd have gone through all that footage of how much Josh sucks, only to see him still eke it out with a "back in line" from Ramsay. But in the end, Josh's drama had been milked, and he was finally sent packing! Not gonna miss you at all, Josh! For me, good two hours ONLY because one of them saw the end of Josh. If two non-Josh contestants had left . . . then we'd have had some problems.

Well, as long as Noah finished third, like he deserved to (well, really, he deserved to be nowhere near the finale), I was fine with the result. Congrats, Rumer & Val! Good on you for getting your first win, Val! :)

Thank God. Not that I wanna wish ill on Sean Blakemore, but Shawn had been ruined for years now. All that potential wasted to make him another mob worshipper. Not Sean's fault. He just played what he was given to play. But I do blame the writers for insisting on him doing this. I wonder if Jason's close to remembering now that Shawn's on the way out. Was his arrest his final episode? Or does he still have more episodes coming up before he goes?

Charts as of four hours after the show - http://www.lpb5.com/lpb1024.php?Region=143441&Albums=0&ref=lpb2&t=1432007963: 2. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Please" 4. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Old Man" 6. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "Change My Mind" 12. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "The Workingman's Hymn" 15. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "Bright Fire" 16. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "Hallelujah" 17. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "When a Man Loves a Woman" 29. Sawyer Fredericks and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "Summer Breeze" 36. Joshua Davis and Adam Levine - Team Adam - "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" 38. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" 101. Meghan Linsey and Blake Shelton - Team Blake - "Freeway of Love" 136. Koryn Hawthorne and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "We Can Work it Out" Koryn's fans are really rallying now because her songs are climbing.

Charts as of three hours after the show - http://www.lpb5.com/lpb1024.php?Region=143441&Albums=0&ref=lpb2&t=1432007963: 2. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Please" 4. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Old Man" 8. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "Change My Mind" 13. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "The Workingman's Hymn" 16. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "Hallelujah" 17. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "Bright Fire" 21. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "When a Man Loves a Woman" 31. Sawyer Fredericks and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "Summer Breeze" 37. Joshua Davis and Adam Levine - Team Adam - "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" 40. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" 108. Meghan Linsey and Blake Shelton - Team Blake - "Freeway of Love" 144. Koryn Hawthorne and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "We Can Work it Out" Koryn's fans are really rallying now because her songs are climbing.

Charts as of two hours after the show - http://www.lpb5.com/lpb1024.php?Region=143441&Albums=0&ref=lpb2&t=1432007963: 2. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Please" 4. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Old Man" 9. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "Change My Mind" 15. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "The Workingman's Hymn" 23. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "Hallelujah" 26. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "Bright Fire" 27. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "When a Man Loves a Woman" 37. Sawyer Fredericks and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "Summer Breeze" 43. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" 45. Joshua Davis and Adam Levine - Team Adam - "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" 122. Meghan Linsey and Blake Shelton - Team Blake - "Freeway of Love" 166. Koryn Hawthorne and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "We Can Work it Out"

Charts as of one hour after the show - http://www.lpb5.com/lpb1024.php?Region=143441&Albums=0&ref=lpb2&t=1432007963: 3. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Please" 7. Sawyer Fredericks - Team Pharrell - "Old Man" 11. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "Change My Mind" 21. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "The Workingman's Hymn" 28. Joshua Davis - Team Adam - "Hallelujah" 33. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "Bright Fire" 35. Meghan Linsey - Team Blake - "When a Man Loves a Woman" 42. Sawyer Fredericks and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "Summer Breeze" 49. Joshua Davis and Adam Levine - Team Adam - "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" 50. Koryn Hawthorne - Team Pharrell - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" 147. Meghan Linsey and Blake Shelton - Team Blake - "Freeway of Love" 186. Koryn Hawthorne and Pharrell Williams - Team Pharrell - "We Can Work it Out" These numbers . . . Sawyer's totally winning, and Koryn's totally going out in fourth. Meghan and Joshua are pretty much fighting for second and third. Assuming the duets count, too, though, then I think Joshua's taking second and Meghan third. If not, then Meghan's gonna take second and Joshua third.

As I watch: Team Adam Joshua: So he finally sings something with more of a beat to it. And at least I didn't fall asleep. That might've been his best one so far, which, unfortunately doesn't say a lot. Of course, "Hallelujah" goes right back to boring me. The duet with Adam wasn't much to write home about, either. Team Pharrell Koryn: Loved her first song, but she could've used fewer runs. Other than that, her vocals were great. I did love the beat of her song with Pharrell. They had great chemistry on stage together, and their voices went together quite well. She did fabulously well with Pharrell's song, too! Just beautiful! It really was perfectly written for Koryn and well-performed by her! Sawyer: I thought his voice and Pharrell's voice mixed well in their duet. It was nice to see him without his guitar, too. Oddly, Pharrell was the one who sounded pitchy at points, while Sawyer sounded dead-on. The original song was lovely. I was surprised with how well he controlled his voice in it. His last song sounded pretty damn good, too! He fought with the band at least once, though. And I kinda like how the guitars hanging behind him might've been a little way of making fun of him almost always having his. Team Christina No one left to perform a song. Team Blake Meghan: Her original song wasn't bad at all! Her vocals were beautiful, and she looked very lovely as she sang it. Her song with Blake was full of energy, and the vocals were decent. She pretty much cleaned up with her last song, though. She got the audience going, for sure! I still think this is Sawyer's to lose, but Koryn probably impressed me the most tonight, followed by Meghan.

Mike was flawed, made mistakes, was called on those mistakes, and he admitted to them himself. He never acted like he was perfect. Daniel is flawed and makes mistakes, but is rarely called on them except by the people we're supposed to "hate." Others treat him like he's perfect and never makes mistakes, which annoys many people. If Daniel had more self-awareness and admitted to his mistakes a lot more often and less people kissed his ass, there'd be less of a problem with him.

My guess for this is probably totally wrong, but what the hell? Here it is, anyway. Perhaps Merlin saw this darkness as the ultimate darkness and needed to create the ultimate light to dispatch it. But he didn't have the power yet, hence why, until he did have the power for it, he needed it tethered to someone for the time being until he was able to create a force of light powerful enough to douse this darkness. Hence the Dark One cycle starting. Otherwise, I don't know.

@TeeVee329, I found the scene on YouTube, excited about that, but honestly . . . it was a bit underwhelming. I thought they'd slam her over her part in Sonny's pardon (which everyone here, save for his fans, seems to really hate her for). But all they mentioned was that she slept with every high-class guy to improve her social status. I found that kind of weak.

At least Rowan finally went down for something. Sure, it was something that, for once, he didn't do, but given the long list of innocents who also did nothing, but still suffered because of him, it's almost poetic justice he suffered for something of which he was innocent.

I like Victor, but I can agree with this. I guess I let it go because he reads the right people for filth. Doesn't hurt that John Aniston is still a fantastic actor after all these years.

Daniel was, I think, Higley's creation, so yes. She was pro-Daniel. And even if he wasn't her creation (there's a chance that he might've been the last character created by Hogan Sheffer on his way out), she still had such a great time writing for him.

I tried that, but I kept getting taken to an American Crime video. Care to transcribe or give a YouTube or Hulu link?

Chad actually blackmailed Gabi first, immediately after he found out about her part in Melanie's kidnapping. He tried to make sure she stayed out of her life and force her to withdraw from being in her wedding, and even made her give up her modeling job with Sami and Kate. It wasn't till Melanie found out about Chad beating Nick to a pulp that Gabi told Melanie about the beating, confessed her part in the kidnapping to her, and Melanie subsequently realized from Chad's jumpiness that he'd known about the whole thing and had tried to control the whole situation. That was all that had led up to their breakup. After that, Chad went into a tailspin and was about to turn Gabi in to the cops for her part in the kidnapping. But that was when Nick blackmailed him over his beating.

And yet . . . he's about to go after S.H.I.E.L.D. because of what happened to Kara. Sounds pretty much like he loved her (or at least felt something for her) to me.

Everything about their interactions told me it was love. Or at least that things were moving that way. Kara did seem more into it than Ward, mind you, but Ward had been in the middle of setting up a life with her at the time Coulson, Hunter, and Fitz had found them, and they did seem happy together. In fact, they did from the moment they were first shown teaming up to track down that doctor. Add in Ward's reaction to realizing he'd accidentally killed her to having her picture, not Skye's, at that bar, and wanting to go after S.H.I.E.L.D. for her death, and I'd say it's a good enough indication. So yes. I think it was love, or at least getting there.

Soon after Lexie died, they spent about a year teasing it. When it didn't take with the audience, they went with Maxine. But with Stephen Nichols on his way back, that is likely doubly impossible.

Someone needed to tell Dre (and probably Charlie) that on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (second time I'm referencing that show on this show's forum, by the way), Will and the Bankses were a Republican family. Hell, Carlton even spent part of a summer at a Young Republicans' camp! So black Republicans aren't necessarily out of the question. Just uncommon. I'm from a black Democrat family, though, FWIW.

Two days late, but yes, that elimination was completely unfair. Randy wasn't gonna win. The last few weeks had shown that in spades. But he was on the winning team. He shouldn't have been eligible. Ramsay just gave Josh another reprieve to keep him for drama and drama alone. At this point, we'll never be rid of him if Ramsay continues making excuses for him. I was glad the women got their first win in a while, though. It was a win they needed. Honestly, as said above, if Ramsay had decided he was going to dump Randy, he should've just given the win to the red team. Alison, T, and Michelle all led their courses with no mistakes (save for a plating error for Michelle), while Josh floundered big-time on his. His was the only real mistake. But Randy made his plate-counting error and Nick used the rag. That should've cost them the win right there. As it was, I think this was only the second time Ramsay's booted someone from the winning team (with Raj from HK7 or HK8 as the first). I honestly hope Josh gets sent packing before the black jackets. But I'm thinking we're seeing a Nick or possibly even Michelle boot for that instead.

Why does Ward hate May so much that he wants to kill her? I know why she wants to kill Ward. But other than the damaged larynx, I don't see what Ward would have against May. Twenty-four. She mentioned two dozen agents, not one dozen.

They tried to help her twice. Both times, she refused their help. Not their fault.

I don't think it would've been possible since I don't think Ward knows where May used to live.

As long as Coulson gets to do something to him, too, I'm game for that! And while they're not among the originals, I think Bobbi and Hunter deserve their chance to do something, as well.