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I like Angel more than Buffy, though I didn't when I was a teenager and both shows were still airing. It holds up better over time, and I appreciate (most of) it more now.

I didn't even think about it until I saw the picture of Tyrion on the boat, so I'm not too far ahead of the curve! I'm actually enjoying the third party storylines being given to main characters; it streamlines the story a lot and it's nice to have some surprises in store!

Okay, so I'm confused about something guys. Damon wanted to take the cure too, but it's a one dose, right? So he would drink Elena's blood and it would cure him as well? Or is he supposed to drain her entirely like Silas did to Kat (which wouldn't be bad since she's been a vamp for like six months)? So if he can drink a little bit of her blood and get the cure and she's still human and he's human and they both have the cure running through their veins (as Stefan said), couldn't they cure other vampires? Or does the amount in your blood get more diluted every time? TL;DR: how the hell is Damon supposed to take the cure too?

Tyler: "Caroline, why am I here?" Me: "You know, I was wondering that too!"

So I dunno if this is in the right place (there are so many topics!) but I saw this link with pictures for the next episode: http://watchersonthewall.com/photos-released-from-game-of-thrones-season-5-episode-5-kill-the-boy/ (nothing too spoilery) and I have some spec that only works with book knowledge: I think they'll do the stone men storyline with Tyrion and Jorah while Jorah brings him back to Dany. I think Jorah will be the one affected by Greyscale after pulling Tyrion out of the river and will replace much or all of Jon Connington's storyline in the book, minus Aegon obviously.

I dunno, they've been hiding everything from Iris, so a life or death situation for Barry or Joe is nothing to Iris if she has no idea it's going on. And yeah, Barry's secret is his to tell at his discretion, but once it involved her father and her fiance, it just made sense to give her a heads up. They all wanted to protect her but she is a grown woman and should have all the knowledge at her disposal to decide what to do. She investigated on her own and discovered the threads that tied the metahumans to STAR and the accelerator explosion and when she told Barry, he just sort of brushed her off. She knows that Eddie has been hiding things from her and her father seems to block every turn she has at growing and evolving outside of his acceptable boundaries. I think that Iris should get a few more episodes to settle into this new world that everyone else is already used to. She'll see a bigger picture and be more helpful and (hopefully) have more agency as a character.

I loved their reasoning behind finding Grodd. "Grodd and Wells are like father and son, Wells is using Grodd as a distraction, we need to find Eddie, if we find Grodd we find Wells!" Like, just agree that a giant intelligent gorilla is a better mission than finding Eddie and his mussed up hair. I did love Wells this episode. He doesn't have to hide any longer, so the glasses are gone and that combined with the lighting gave his face a super creepy vibe. I could believe that he was a whole different person, and Cavanagh is knocking it out of the park. I think that in this episode Iris' anger was justified and well reasoned, and I hope it plays out for he next episode and into next season a bit (barring any timeline resets). She can still love Barry and Joe and also be angry with them and have trust issues. Just because they had a heart to heart in the hospital doesn't mean that everything should be forgiven, and she should definitely discover the extent to which Joe has been trying to control her choices and options. Now that she actually knows what is going on and doesn't have to piece everything together (which I think she did admirably, if a little slowly), she can protect herself and help the team as well. The only part that I disliked was the team Flash meeting at the end where they sort of tacitly agreed that Iris passed her trial and can be part of the team now. Your club is not that exclusive, dicks.

Dude, I wondered that too. Like, when he's buzzing Eddie out of there, is he phasing straight through walls? Is he taking Eddie with him because Eddie is with him when he goes all speed force, or is he just opening doors fast? These questions need answers!

Man, Cisco and Joe are two for two when it comes to finding new stuff at years old crime scenes. They need to open some sort of cold case business on the side. I also loved the picture of Cisco and the Canary. She looks so serious and he's losing his shit and grinning like a fool. Never change, Cisco.

I mean, he has to legitimately own one or more businesses in the Kitchen, even if they are fronts for something else. He's got enough clean money to buy that big ass penthouse and pay off the cops and stick his fingers in everyone's pies. So perhaps he gave the press conference as a businessman/developer interested in revitalizing Hell's Kitchen who has no ulterior motives and will be taking more visible steps to change the neighborhood and by the way, don't trust the guy living in the shadows, he's got something to hide. It's kind of brilliant, actually, turning Matt's neighborhood against him.

So now we have two men, Murdock and Fisk, who were shaped so strongly by their fathers, struggling for control of Hell's Kitchen. Fisk's backstory was incredibly sad, and he wanted to escape his father's influence, so much so that he had to murder the man with a hammer. I thought the wall's resemblance to the painting was so poignant and it recalls to mind what he said about the picture: "it makes me feel alone." This episode made me super uncomfortable but it was so necessary to see the man behind the curtain and try to understand that Fisk is certainly a monster but he's also a human being. Just some lovely characterization.

I've seen this episode twice now (my buddy fell asleep the first time so we rewatched it) and I think (so far) that it's my favorite behind Cut Man. Matt's scenes in the condemned building felt like a one act play, and the conversation between him and Fisk was amazing. So far it hasn't been expressed much if Murdock believes that he is impacting a change on this neighborhood, and Fisk letting him know that he'll simply die as a criminal and no one will believe in what he's done was so sad. It's funny, I think Charlie Cox is doing very well expressing Matt's frustration and pain with only the lower half of his face and I dig the current mask a lot. Usually, masked men have eye holes and the lower half of the face uncovered, so you can kind of piece together who the hero might be; but with Murdock, the lips and chin could be literally anyone. The stakes are raised so much higher in this episode and I'm excited to see what comes next (I'm watching with my husband and my friend, so I have to wait for everyone to be in the same place before we can keep going).

I think RF and the Flash may have ended up there accidentally. The last episode showed them popping in while fighting, so my personal theory is that they were having a huge knock down drag out fight that pushed both of them into the past by accident. We haven't actually seen Barry's mom get murdered yet, so the idea that Eobard went back expressly to murder her (or that he succeeded only to find himself trapped) is still up in the air. My personal perverse theory is that Henry really did stab Nora and he's an even bigger sociopath than Wells.

Eobard came back in time as the Reverse Flash, his knowledge of Barry's powers is leaps and bounds above anyone else plus he has Gideon plus he knew enough to target the real Wells and move up the accelerator's timetable. I believe he's manipulated his current team of Cisco and Caitlin into position as well as Ronnie and Grodd. Like Joe said, he's been patient. Even if he had to absorb Wells' knowledge he still had to methodically plan the next 15 years so his intelligence/knowledge of the future must be extremely high. ETA: I also believe he's been playing some stuff as it happens, like working with Eiling, and separating Ronnie/Stein, so that is also points in favor of his intelligence in my opinion.

Amen, sister friend. The show was really at its peak in season 3, and if it had somehow ended in that season, I think it would have been considered even more of a classic than it is now. Joyce's death was heartbreaking and awful, but I sort of dimmed in my enthusiasm for the show after that. I didn't want to see Buffy struggle to be a parent when she didn't really have any practical real world skills, and it got even worse when she came back from the dead. They could have made her a cop or an underworld enforcer or something, or even had her Dad show up and take Dawn, but no. It had to be the most depressing storyline possible in a show that always had some levity to it. The first few seasons used their monsters as metaphors for life's issues, but the later seasons shoved those issues in your face. I got really tired of Buffy's serious grimace, is what I'm trying to say. However, there are enough bright spots in the latter seasons to save them from being totally bad. Episodes like Once More.. and Conversations With Dead People were really good, and made the show bearable. I do wish that Oz would have stayed, even though I loved Willow and Tara's relationship.