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I'm here with the other people that are worried about Aron's mental well-being. I'm legitimately concerned about him. No matter how good of friends he was with Alyssa, he's just not in the right head space right now.

Wow - 12 hours since it aired and NOTHING? Yikes. Guess it really shows how people feel about the changes this season. "Mouch struggles to maintain boundaries with a paramedicine client." Well, HE wasn't struggling to maintain the boundaries, the CLIENT was struggling. Trudy is awesome. That is all.

Gibson was announced as a new cast member, so I don't think they're going to immediately write him off for Kylie's sake. What I thought they were implying is that Mouch will get a lieutenant position, but not at 51. He's a more tenured character (= higher salary), so write him off the show, then have Kylie take his spot on Truck. Making a comment about one of the Darden boys sounding drunk? They're not even in college, they're still in high school. Wildly inappropriate suggestion for the show because it was totally unnecessary. The writing has really gone downhill this season. It's like they're trying to drive us viewers away so they can cancel it and say "See, nobody was watching anymore - that's why we cancelled it!"

They were talking about blaming the EMTs for not being able to use the defibrillator. Um, why did the EMTs have to ask them to get their external AED? Somebody should have IMMEDIATELY gotten the AED. It should have been sitting there when the EMTs arrived. That's a poor job by everybody on the scene. OF COURSE the EMTs defibrillator should have worked, but it's not their fault other people on the scene hadn't made other preparations.

Eh, I don't completely agree with the fact. The writers WERE actually smart enough to lampshade that Cruz is Sylvie's ex. Still, I don't think him OR Matt would hold such a grudge as to not invite him.

The show aired almost 12 hours ago and nobody's posted yet? That's not a great sign ... Boden apologizes to James for not being around more to help out with his mom. Is it normal for people to spend a lot of time with their ex-wives, especially after they have a new wife? Severide lets Stella know that he'll be coming home soon - "a week from tomorrow" after he had already been gone however long. I won't pretend to know anything how long arson cases take. Obviously more than a day or week. But he'll "finally" be coming home after a week - yay? Stella, when you find the kid in the middle of the raging fire, maybe you immediately get on the radio to tell everyone she's found so that they stop looking around the burning house for the kid? Because it's a little dangerous to be doing that. Before that, the mom tells Stella to let her take care of her daughter who's setting fires. "Are you a mom?" "No, but I have an ex-husband. I know how troublesome a divorce can be." Explain that to the mom! Big plot device about how Cruz isn't getting invited to Brett and Casey's wedding. It's brought up at least 3 times. Then at the end, it's something as simple as I placed the invite in the wrong locker? That's some craptastic dramatic writing - resolved in a single sentence. I started watching this show on episode 199, because I remember Casey was there and he was gone. By the end of season 10, everyone kept talking about how great the show USED to be. So over the last 2 years, I've gone back and rewatched from the start. I'm not sure that the show has really gone downhill that much over seasons 6-10, but it has fallen off a CLIFF this season. THE WRITING IS TERRIBLE, as you can see from my bullet points above. Unless they turn it around quick, I won't have to worry about whether they're going to renew it for season 13 - my last episode will be the upcoming wedding, and then I'm out.

It looks like our show. It kinda sounds like our show. It's not our show. Yes, I can see Ritter harassing Herrmann about seeing a doctor and Herrmann not wanting to go. But I think Hermann almost getting run over getting into his car would have spooked him to seeing a doctor, he would have gotten checked before ENDANGERING HIS COWORKERS. Cruz has worked with Severide too long to seriously consider doing an end-around about leaving without talking to him first. Throwing Violet and Carver together doesn't feel earned. They talked in S12E01 about them having sparks last season. Really? Carver only had eyes for Stella in S11, which has suddenly been dropped now that Severide is back. They magically run into Kylie? Yeah, she wants to make her own way, but Chicago is pretty big, the odds are that she wouldn't be working immediately next to them in the city. I still think that was more of the show's typical back-door way to introduce a new character - was his name Gibson? Brett WOULD say she wants a simple venue and still want it to be perfect. That's on point. I know I'll remember one or two more later, but that's what I get for writing this at 3am while staying up late.

I think I'm in the minority - there weren't really many teams that I'm rooting for. I'm also not rooting AGAINST anyone - I HATE rooting against people on the show. I like Liam and Yeremi as a pair of brothers who are veterans on the same team, Steve and Anna Leigh considering she FLEW across that rope, and Rob and Corey. Otherwise I'm pretty much meh on everyone else. Here's the other thing. I started watching season 7. How many times am I going to watch the show? The longer I watch the show, the more I have to be pulled in by the teams. I don't think TAR did a poor job casting (this seems like the original mix of casting without any stunt casting), but I'm just not that drawn in at this point. I'll give it another episode or two before deciding to pass on this season.

I've been frustrated now that a few times the "announcer" has called somebody out for "getting all their answers right, but not banking any money." Well, if you get all of your answers right, you SHOULDN'T BANK. The idea of the game is to build the chain, right? Sounds like the NEXT person should bank the accumulated money.

Only 7 people onboard the Enterprise-D ... and they still have the lights turned on throughout the ship. You can see all of the lit windows. Tsk, tsk - save some of that power for the battle in the finale! ;-)

Bad writing: when Date/Lore/B4/Lal is activated, they say "cognitive functions only", then Spiner is moving around. Or does that make it bad acting on Spiner's part? Dumb characters: everybody talks about how they've already lost Data twice, and they don't want to lose him a third time. So as soon as he told you what was stolen was Picard's body, TURN HIM OFF. DON'T LET LORE TAKE OVER. Lore ALWAYS manages to turn the tables, and yet these characters are too stupid, pining for Data. Ugh. You would have thought they would have learned by now. Easily the worst episode of the season. But this is still the best season of the show.

Dom admits that she can't read a map - SO SHE BETTER BE DRIVING. Otherwise, she is literally contributing NOTHING in self-driving parts of the race. Frankly, all she's done in 3 episodes is drive me nuts with cliche after cliche.

I think it was pretty obvious that Olivia PRETENDED Nicole had gone to Toronto to stay with relatives, but Nicole hadn't gone anywhere. Olivia said that just to protect Nicole and prevent her from having to go on the stand.

Sarah was insufferable. I previously liked here, but she was just so over the top here (or maybe it was just the editors going crazy). I finally had to fast-forward through 10 minutes of the drama - just tell me who she's going against. And now that she won the challenge, I'm sure she'll be even more bombastic. Great. Ugh. I've never watched The Challenge before - how many people run the final?

Sounded like Leo only wanted to let one person down (Alyssa) ... until he decided to let MANY people down (temporarily by staying in the race)? Although he's hoping in the end, he'll do more good by staying and winning the money? VERY confusing edit.