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Thank you. Not as good as a TWoP-length recap, but I'll take it.

Finally got to watch. About the silly rise of Queen stock: Don'cha all know? The rich always get richer. It was a little eye rolly that Thea says she's a penniless, homeless orphan, and then is able to stylishly dress the part. No heels for her, but no doubt leaving town in several hundred dollar booties, leggings, and tunic-y top by Famous Designer. Sorry. That's what it looked like to me. Other shows, alphabet agencies, and evil doers everywhere, take note of the only torture that really works: Siphon the bank accounts of the greedy into charity organizations. Seriously. I believe it. I am so tired of the torture porn as depicted on shows like The 100, Revolution, and the like, because it's not just a fictional technique like flying with a cape, and featuring it on shows as a means of extracting information is a toxic waste washing over humanity's conscience. Writers everywhere, take note of the Felicity way of interrogation: Bitch with WiFi. Yes. Question: If John Barrowman wasn't busy with the ABC Sing Your Face Off (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/189674-ABCs-Sing-Your-Face-Off-Hosted-by-John-Barrowman-Sets-May-Premiere-Date-Celebrity-Contestants-Announced), which, I get it, is totally in his wheelhouse, wouldn't it have made a lot more sense to have every one of Laurel's actions performed by Malcom Merlyn, showing up to save his biological daughter? : Hah. Okay, wasn't this the name of a band back in the day?

Sam Anderson was also the hopeful-but-despondent Bernard on Lost: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Bernard_Nadler

Big Bang Theory Sheldon: "Sarcasm?"

Eveytime I see something about this show I get a flashback to the final scene in the movie, Supernova, in which James Spader's and Angela Bassett's characters had to share the only available escape pod, and, when they landed, their DNA had intermingled such that they each had one blue eye and one brown eye, and she, who had previously been unable to conceive, was now pregnant. I keep wondering if the creators of this show were consciously or subconsciously or by the collective consciousness influenced by that scene.

Maybe Grounder and Octavia share a great great grandmother, whose picture she looks like.

Argh. I desperately need a TWoP-level recap. So confused. Maybe I'm too old for time travel. :( I did love Travis' line to the red haired talk show host about her being a puppet of...what was it? And Kellogg's remark about seeing double. I probably just need to rewatch.

Is Nick saying to Juliette (about Trubel), "She's going to get herself killed," supposed to be foreshadowing?

I really liked that for once in 40 years of female crime fighters, finally one took off her noisy heels while stalking killers. Okay, so she said it was because of how ridiculously high the heels were. And likely it was really because she didn't want to ruin her ridiculously high-priced designer shoes. Still, I was fanwanking that Jo was in her socks too.

If/when we could Like parts of posts (like separate footnotes), I would have liked this part. Just a few bars of Paint it Black for us oldsters would have been nice.

If they cut Grounder with the poisoned knife, he might have chosen to die with his secret. Torture is so stupid. Everyone knows it doesn't work. The only reason it persists is because of sickos who enjoy doing it and/or watching it. If this show is going to continue to feature stupid torture scenes, I'm done. That's why I quit Revolution too. </end rant>

Seriously? *Looks it up* Wow he does. But whoever is Dorothy looks more like him than his fraternal twin sister, who it seems does not act.

Love your screen name, Ghost of TWOP Past! I agree that the show is floundering plot-wise, but no sharks have been jumped yet. Did you not include Lost in your post above because mentioning it has become a kind of Godwin's law in television discussion?

This may be my favorite BBT episode ever, and I've watched almost every one live and many in reruns. Maybe it's because I watch relatively little comedy and so don't need to laugh too much (or at all) if the show has other redeeming qualities. I loved Bob Newhart in this episode. He's a lot like my elderly father. Both will no doubt not live very many more years. I thought it was very bold for everyone involved to do this plot given that reality. Both Bob Newhart and my over-90 father still love a good joke too, so I appreciate why he would do it. Lots of other bits in the episode were great too: The first spherical cake rolling on the floor and Amy's reaction line. The resolution of the marriage proposal discussion. I suspect the cast and writers knew this could be Bob Newhart's last gig, and they wanted to do their best to honor a comedian who had inspired them growing up, just as Professor Proton inspired Sheldon and Leonard and others to be scientists.

Ditto on both. The following orders line has potential for being a classic clip, but I'm not sure it can stand alone without backstory on Deathlok. I was slightly tensing up, expecting the requisite torture bit, but was pleasantly surprised they didn't go there with Skye, although giving Ward a heart attack actually was torture, so: fail.

If they wrote it that they played strip Scrabble, it would at least be plausible, and it would perhaps fix the boring couple a bit, but I'd rather have boring couple than a triangle any day.

After Fringe's colored multiverses? Or not related?

I find this a lot more tolerable than a Ward/Skye twu wuv scenario. I honestly don't know if it's the casting of Chloe Bennet, or the writing and directing for Skye, or the hair and styling, but she comes off as a kid, and Ward is a nearly middle-aged man, so the romance angle is just weird to me. I could accept her having a crush on him, which Ward is using for his dastardly purposes, but anything more than that seems wrong. They would've been 21 and 31 respectively when this was shot, and they make her look no more than 19 and act more like 16, whereas he seems more mid-thirties, with his tough, world-weary persona. At this point, it seems the best out for the writers is if he delivers some soul-crushing line to her about how he doesn't go for kids or something when he admits he was using her.

I didn't think the audience was supposed to think for one minute that Ward's declarations of love for Skye in the restaurant were sincere. I assumed he was still trying to play her, and that was why she wanted to vomit, because she recognized it too.

Yes, but the devices could probably be reached via another network. No? Well, if they continue the Christ allegory, Lucas would be James. But then, maybe he's Luke, who is referred to as a doctor, which would be more like Jedikiah.

Since the network was down, Flounder wasn't able to turn off the kill switches--so they're still on, right? Hopefully Mean Blond Girl will do some new stupid thing and get herself shut off, but preferable not before Russell tells her to shut up.

Yes, but Arcadia was his home. And I think someone else posted the theory that likely his body had been brought back to Arcadia. Arcadia with a river. IDK. Maybe it's the frickin River Styx. Jacob waking up in China seems to be the anomaly.

Which should be the plot moving forward. I mean, this should give Alicia enough nightmares for her to forget Will even walked the earth. But they might drop it for awhile, because, you know, lawyers are too busy to mull. I do think Alicia was drugged, even though we're joking about the wine. Maybe Sweeney even hired Sweeney look-alikes for the party.

Yeah, I was annoyed at this too, but I watch so many procedurals where they do stupid stuff to make a point about something else, that I figuratively closed my eyes, covered my ears, and sang "la la la la laa, I can't hear you," until they moved on from that scene. Or what lucindabelle said.

Best episode in years, IMO. Why do shows always get good after they are canceled? Okay. Possible explanation. This was written and shot after they were canceled, right? So this is sort of like they're all auditioning either for themselves or on behalf of those involved with the show who don't have new gigs yet. The Sister Act singing duet, for instance, is ready to go on the road. And Aaron Ashmore is ready to take the lead in a comedy involving lots of physical stuff. And the emotional side of Saul Rubinek. And they also shared the stage with whoever played the Gypsy grandmother. Great job. Don't know who she is, but I wouldn't be surprised to read in the future that someone saw her here and used her in a similar role--hopefully more than a cameo one-off. Did love the pawn one liner. I thought the princess sounded more like the character of Janice from Friends than Fran Drescher.