Perfect Xero

Is sober less than a year, single cop Mike really a good candidate to foster?

The thing that gets me about original Jason is the completely different personality that came with the recasting, he was such a driven preppy type compared to the button down druggy with huge memory gaps that he became. Obviously Jason is a Time Lord who went through a regeneration off screen.

First I want to say that I really enjoyed most of this episode, it might have been the funniest episode of the series. That said ... the dorm room conversation really bugged me. The girls threatening to tell everyone that he belonged to Maya was just out of line. The thing that bugged most, however, was the other guy in the room who went from, "Middle school girls? Out out out!" to asking Josh "What's wrong with you!?" once Maya explained her reasons for liking him. As if it suddenly didn't matter that Maya is in middle school because she thinks the way he interacts with his nephew and brother is cute and knows that he's the sort of guy who's not going to let two middle school girls walk home alone in NYC at night. It almost felt like they were saying that Josh is in the wrong because he's hung up on a 3 year age difference, and needs to become "smarter" and realize what an awesome, brave girl Maya is. I was half expecting the scene to conclude with the college kids telling Josh that, even though she's in 8th grade, Maya is special and he's a good guy, so it would be okay to go ahead and date her.

Did Ali's car run out of gas? I assumed that A just did his/her hacker magic and shut the car down remotely. For some reason I find it funny that Jason was in the episode for no reason other than showing up with takeout and having Toby point a gun at him.

On this show? Stef will find out about Lena and the principal, Callie will make out with Brandon at the funeral after finding out about a new snag in her adoption, Marianna will have to deal with new dance drama, someone from Girls United will make a self destructive decision, Mike will start drinking again, and they'll all be busy dealing with other issues after one or two episodes of mourning.

When Nick killed Kenny with his spring loaded wrist knife thingy I muttered, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

I thought the scene between Lucas and the bully was laughably bad, I mean, the acting was okay, but casting wise. The actor playing the bully was so clearly older, taller, and thicker than Peyton/Lucas that the idea of him actually being overpowered and intimidated was just beyond ridiculous to me.

That ... sounds exactly like Spike actually.

Prediction: At some point Jim made a deposit at a sperm bank in case something happened to him in the line of duty. Psycho!Barbara gets hold of it and ...

Honestly, I think that a good lawyer could get Barbara off and she's rich so she can hire some really good lawyers. The only evidence they have that Barbara attacked first is Lee's word. Barbara is the one who ended up eating most of the damage in the confrontation. Her lawyer could spin the story that Lee attacked Barbara out of jealousy and made up the story about Barbara attacking her when Gordon and Bullock walked in on her. It could very well be enough to build reasonable doubt in a jury.

This was the sort of finale that I'd expect from a show that had been suddenly cancelled mid-season and had to wrap up all their ongoing plot lines in one episode. In the span of one episode Selina meets Fish and becomes her pet to the point that she's hunting down Gordon so Fish can murder him. Nygma has a psychotic break and goes full on Riddler. Barbara reveals that she's become a serial killer, but is beat down and caught by Lee. Penguin takes out both Maroni and Fish and declares himself king of Gotham. Falcone goes from feared mob boss ready to take on any challenge to his power to deciding to retire and symbolically turns the city over to Gordon. And Bruce discovers the Batcave. This show had a full first season pickup and got renewed for Season 2 early, there's no reason that all these character arcs should have been so rushed.

I don't see the issue? Nolan and Rico are 16, playing high school sophomores. They're basically the same age as their characters.

Gordon shot the Ogre when Bullock distracted him.

It says "Aria's Mail" in the top left over Inbox, so unless whoever took the screenshot photoshopped it, it's Aria's.

I guess she did technically dump him via letter immediately before she started sleeping with Montoya again ...

He didn't, he realized that the thing the Ogre said to him on the phone about believing his press as a "rising star" was from an article that included an old picture of Gordon and Barbara at a charity gala together, so he realized the Ogre was targeting Barbara.

I guess they wrote that episode description off an early version of the script or something ...

Lizzy Weiss took to twitter today to tease the upcoming summer episodes, the big reveal being that the family has to deal with an unexpected pregnancy. So there's that. I just hope that it's not some twisted who's the father drama with Bay, Emmett, and Tank.

Well, yeah, that's the issue I have with how they played it, a large kid is still a kid, you shouldn't treat an 11 year old boy like a "man" even if he looks like he's 23, just like it shouldn't be okay for Louis to hit on someone that is an 11 year old girl even if the actress playing her was special guest star Kate Upton. I just don't like the implication I was getting from the show that it was okay to go after these kids like they're adults simply because they look more developed than one might usually expect for their age. I've seen too many bad situations in real life where jackass adults want to treat kids like the age they think they "look" rather than the age they are.

I understand that we're not supposed to take it seriously because it was so over the top, but still ... The difference is that in those movies (and it really doesn't come to the over the top tactics until the sequel) the villainous team in black jerseys is shown blatantly playing dirty and putting illegal hits on the undersized heroes while the refs inexplicably let them get away with it as Emilio screams at them to call a penalty, prompting the Ducks to fight back and use Lassos and whatnot. In this episode the other player was just much better than them, prompting team Huang to decide that if they couldn't win, they'd just hurt him. Maybe the joke was supposed to be that Louis and Eddie are actually the villains of the story, but I didn't get the sense that the show was aiming for that.

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Have to say, I didn't enjoy this one ... Louis broke an 11 year boy's arms because he was better than him at basketball, then Eddie and his friends assaulted another 11 year old for no reason other than him being better than them at basketball ... Yay for being thugs? If this was IASIP or a similar show where the entire joke is what despicable people the characters are that would be one thing, but I don't think that we're supposed to view the Huangs as awful human beings deserving of contempt and hate, so it doesn't really work here, IMO.

Maybe it's a case of when you're in your mid-30s (though I suspect that Jim and Lee are supposed to be closer to 30 than 40 on the show) you really, really want to believe that someone in their early to mid 20s is "around the same age" as you. Though, the reading of the "monster" line just seemed odd to me. Not because of them treating it like it was worse than a normal killing, but Lee sounds more ... reverent than righteous or disgusted by this person being a monster who killed a woman. Her reaction to maybe!young!Joker was similarly off to me.

After Feeney I'm guessing that the entire concept of a teacher not following his favorite students through every grade is completely alien to Cory. They might have an episode or two where Riley gets a new teacher and she and/or Cory freak out about it, but then they'll have the teacher move to another state or retire early so Cory can step back in.

The thing with that episode is that in all other episodes Farkle is basically a giant nerd power fantasy, he's basically king of the entire city (or at least the school). He has a collection of female admirers, he takes over class at a whim, he can interrupt the school play and demand that Juliette kiss him instead of Romeo to thunderous applause from parents and students alike and have the entire crowd pressuring Maya to go up on stage and kiss him when he demands it, ect ... You can't have a character run roughshod over everyone on the show in every episode and then suddenly go, "Oh, yeah, he's a nerdy guy, so he'll have a bully and he'll be completely powerless against him!" The improbably popular and beloved by all Farkle that we see in every other episode of the series would have responded to bullying by dressing up like a South American dictator and whipping up an army of frenzied followers who would have hunted his bully down on his behalf.