Donny Ketchum

And to think I thought Caesar was supposed to appear this season, unless they're saving him for the fifth (should there be one). But yeah, for a Stinkmeaner episode, this was not good. The one about the Hateocracy should've been the conclusion of his saga. There was just no point to this one at all. And I can't believe Ed would do that to Robert. I thought they were old friends from the war. Like, Korea or Vietnam?

What gets me about this show is that sometimes they pretty much let you know who the perp is from the beginning or at least in the middle of the episode. Others, they keep you guessing like other L&O shows to the end. I don't get that format. What is the point of letting us know who it is sometimes? Doesn't that rid us of the suspense?

The F3 is looking like Adam & Bethany, Amy & Maya, and Misti & Jim. Brooke & Robbie were more than likely the final team eliminated. Huzzah! A women's team made it to the end! Now I hope they can pull off the win and give us our third winning women's team! . . . Though true to typical TAR fashion, watch it be totally predictable and come down to the two couples, Adam & Bethany and Misti & Jim. This makes the projected elimination order: 11th: Lisa & Michelle. 10th: Dennis & Isabelle. 9th: Michael & Scott. 8th: Shelley & Nici. 7th: Keith & Whitney. 6th: Tim & Te Jay. 5th: Kym & Alli. 4th: Brooke & Robbie. F3: Adam & Bethany, Amy & Maya, and Misti & Jim.

Yeah, I never even saw Charlotte Ross's Eve. But Kassie dePaiva's Southern accent makes it hard to buy her as Eve.

Rusun, that's the boot order I'm thinking, too. I'm hoping that Amy & Maya reach the F3 to rep it for the women's teams. But a sighting for them in Manila with Maya apparently crying over being in last doesn't make things look good. Granted, it was on the antepenultimate leg, which they didn't seem to know was an NEL (or maybe they did), but still, staying in the same city on the following leg usually means no bunching, so if they got a Speed Bump, I can't see them catching back up unless at least one of Misti & Jim, Adam & Bethany, or Brooke & Robbie really screws up.

Race appeared in Denmark for a time, as well as Morocco, Malta, and Singapore. Suspected F4 is leaving Singapore and might be heading for the Philippines: Adam & Bethany (surfer couple) Misti & Jim (dentist couple) Amy & Maya (white/black food scientists) Brooke & Robbie (wrestlers) Not surprised that both men's teams got booted before this point, as well as the mother/daughter team, Shelley & Nici. I'm sad about them, though, because I was really rooting for another mother/daughter team since we haven't had one in eight seasons (or sixteen if you count TAR9's Wanda & Desiree as the last true mother/daughter team and not TAR17's Andie & Jenna). Really surprised, though, that Keith & Whitney didn't make it this far.

Meh. I liked Wheeler enough that I could watch Nichols's episodes. Though I hate how she went from an almost equal partner with Logan, actually actively helping to solve the crimes, to basically relegated to sidekick duty with Nichols. I get Jeff's a fantastic actor, but come on! He wasn't the only one on the team!

I still think it's B.S. that Goren didn't take her out and that someone else totally unrelated to the whole thing did instead. And even worse, we couldn't even see it!

I meant what about the story in that episode made Logan, not Noth, want to retire.

Really pissed me off that Eric defended Nicole. What does Sami being with E.J. have to do with what Nicole did? Not that I care about Daniel and Jennifer, but I find it crappy that Daniel wanted to end things with Jennifer over some very true things she said about him over the Nicole situation.

You know, I only saw his last appearance in "Last Rites" about a month ago. And I have to wonder -- what was it about what Driver did to him and Wheeler that made him feel compelled to retire? On the L&O shows, cops get screwed over by DAs all the time, but keep plugging along. Logan just . . . quit as a result of what happened.

And I remain positive that that's not gonna happen. Ramsay only complimented Rochelle on her palate. He didn't say a word about Scott's. Or if he did, we certainly weren't shown it.

Rochelle would totally crush him based on the sheer fact that Ramsay sees something from her and absolutely nothing in Scott.

Oh, she did? Okay. I was actually just Web-surfing at the time and listening to it in the background while my boyfriend watched, so I had no idea. In that case, I'm okay with him killing her now. Who killed his mom, though?

I really think he should've killed the leader. You know, the one who killed both his parents and told him to his face that he was going to eat them. Instead, it seems the fat guy killed him.

Absolutely. Eames was a good cop. In fact, despite being less experienced than Goren, I still felt that there were times that she showed herself as an even better cop than he was. She deserved some moments of glory. Especially since there were numerous times where she put the final piece in the puzzle, but still had to play in the background to Goren. I think this is why I always looked forward to the episodes with the "second" or "alternative" pairs more. Say what you will about Logan's pairings with Barek, Wheeler, and even Falacci. In all of those cases, they busted their perps together. There was almost never a case of one of them overshadowing the other in doing so like Goren did with Eames.

Even so, I guess Ramsay didn't see her bungles as major since he certainly didn't call her up himself and allowed Scott's nomination to stand.

I liked Eames a lot, but I wish she'd taken the lead in busting more of the perps. It seemed that each episode was about Goren making the big bust at the end. I mean, did Eames ever lead the busting of any criminal? Even when she found her husband's real killer, it was still made about Goren!

What made me filled with rage was that the main perp, even after Logan and Falacci caught him, was so unapologetic and unrepentant for what he'd done. At least his flunkies had remorse for it. Honestly . . . I'm one of few who was probably never a fan of Goren. But this season's finale, which finally saw the end of the overused Nicole, kind of made me angry that Goren wasn't the one to finish her off. And that we didn't even see her get sent off the mortal plane. His old mentor had to be the one to do it? WTF?!

Problem is, who else could there have been? Joy was the only one on the team who hadn't made any errors during service, and Kashia only made the mistake with braising the salmon. Scott and Anton were the two who'd messed up the most.

It was a Logan and Wheeler episode. And I liked that episode if only for the awkward faces on Logan, Wheeler, and Meena's father as Wheeler was used as the prop for how Meena got killed. Speaking of the latter, this season also saw the departure of Barek and the introduction of Wheeler as her replacement. Honestly . . . I don't know why everyone is so down on her. Most places I go, people liked her, for the most part. I mean, yeah, her youthful look made her come off as less experienced than she was, and she seemed a bit too low-key. But it says something to me that the writers took more care to flesh out her character's background and personality than they did with Barek. Plus, I think Julianne herself was pretty low-key in her acting, hence why Wheeler might've come off as such. Plus, Wheeler appearing so young did help them quite a few times, like when she "played young" in "Maltese Cross" and was picked to speak to the "kidnappers" in "Weeping Willow" (which had one of the moments she showed a larger amount of personality -- her complete reluctance to make the public announcement when Logan and Ross both looked to her to do it). On the whole, despite the complaints about Wheeler, she'd always been my favorite of the Logan partners. I thought she was a decent fit for him as a partner, and it seemed like season six was partly about them coming together and respecting each other as partners.

My favorite Barek moment, like, ever came in part one of that -- when Goren, Eames, and Logan are trying to figure out the club in which the missing girl was last seen based on the description, and Barek pretty much comes up with the name in just seconds. This brought some GLORIOUS WTF?! looks from Goren and Eames, prompting Barek to explain that she had favors there, followed by Logan trying not to laugh at their surprise.

"Bishop being annoying?" Meh. I liked Bishop for the short time we had her and didn't find her annoying at all. I thought she had a great partner vibe with Goren. Sure, she was no Eames, but she didn't have to be, IMO. She was fine to me.

I liked Stevens and wished we'd gotten to learn more about her. And I liked the episode in which Nichols and Stevens busted that college dance student who killed one girl out of desperation for the friendship of another. But that's about it. My main interest in this show died after Logan left. (Unlike many viewers, Goren and Eames weren't my main reason to watch. Logan and his various partners were.)

At least Rafe tried for as legal of a cover as possible. Kate and Sami, not so much.