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We`re probably going to end the season with them both disappearing under a new name, and we see them introducing themselves as the Bates family...

I feel like when Wally gets on the Waverider, Sara will be like "Sure you can join us Wally, on one condition...you lose that thing on your head. We put up with a lot, but thats just too much". I know I've said this before, but I really do love how much time is spent with the characters on LoT, and how it can build a whole episode, like tonight's, around character development of its newest member, and the relationships between the characters, while also mixing up pairings. A lot of that is just showing the characters hanging out and doing normal people stuff (doing Laundry, drinking coffee, playing with whip cream) and talking, and just having fun with the characters, who are having fun with each other. Those weirdos, just, like, really love each other, you know? They have such feelings.

Loved the awkward dinner at the Isaacsons place. So many attempts at engaging mom, which seemed to be constantly shut down by a very silent mother. The theme of the episode seemed to be "mommy issues", which just about everyone seems to have on some level here. Sarah gets a win on Kreiszler, and Kreiszler actually gave her some props! I also enjoyed the whole scene where Sarah was talking to the Isaacson brothers about orgasms, in an awkward, Victorian kind of way. Moore is still not doing well, but he is really trying to keep it together. This case seems to be stirring up some old memories, which is probably just going to keep getting more and more prevalent. He looked super uncomfortable in his grandmas super pink, doily land, probably more uncomfortable than he did talking to a chained up child killer.

That turned out to be a bit of an emotional roller coaster, didn't it? It actually managed to hit quite a few of the Groundhog Day points of being caught in a time, in just an hour. We had the "what the heck is happening, am I crazy?" bit, followed by frustration, followed by "YOLO",followed by suicidal despair, followed by becoming a better person and helping people (including catching a falling person and learning a musical instrument) followed by a declaration of love that finally breaks the time loop. Platonic love this time, which honestly makes the whole thing even sweeter. I knew Zari would be fine, but I still got emotional when she gave her speech about how much she loves her team, and how she wants to save them. Really good episode for Zari, and her figuring out her place on the team. And while it was clearly a Zari episode, we had lots of great character moments between everyone, especially looking at everyone's relationships to each other. I love how much this show clearly likes its characters, and it gets how they would react to this weird situation, and how they allow them to be funny, as well as have serious moments. It also spends so much time on the gang just hanging out doing normal stuff, which is love. It makes the show seem more real and lived in. Lots of great character beats throughout. Mick uses a typewriters to write a sexy science fiction novel! Ray making tea for Sara in an attempt to keep her in a good mood, followed by him shoving tiny Zari out of the way when Sara was going to squish them. The gang has to become ABBA to stop Napoleon, who took Waterloo a bit too literally apparently. Oh, show... Nate and Zari hanging out was a lot of fun. I especially liked them eating tons of whipped cream together. And when Nate got his foot stuck in a bear trap. "OH MY GOD!!!" I really do like Nate when he isn't just in a romance plot with Amaya. Although, I actually didn't hate them this week. Probably because Zari said exactly what I was thinking. Stop having sex during missions! Also loved when they both used their powers together to try to save Zari. Sara and Zari talking at the end was really sweet. They have a lot in common, so I can see how they could but heads, but also how they would connect with each other. I wonder how many times Rip has started a sentence with "My name is Rip Hunter, and I need you to help me save the universe." or something. At least he asked, and didn't just kidnap his recruit this time. Gideon is an evil genius. "I thought it would be funny". The ending with Zari playing the violin was quite lovely.

The thing is, ignoring all the political and day to day stuff is normally ok in a fairy tale. I doubt most people left Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs thinking "that was cool and all, but I have some very unanswered questions about the Queens fiscal policy" because its a movie with a finite amount of time, and thats not what people usually go to fairy tales for. However, this is a television series that has lasted for several seasons now, where the politics and hierarchy of this world has been important to the plot and characters, so now this has become relevant to the show. You can feel that A&E were thinking "its a fairy tale, who cares about how this world works?", but thats ridiculous, because they keep bringing up how the political situations in this world, with wars and alliances and what not, are affecting the story, and they have SO MUCH time to tell it, why do they bring it up, if they dont wanna freaking talk about it? Its fine in a quick "Once Upon a Time" style story, or a movie that has other focuses, but when you have a whole tv show, and it keeps affecting the plot, you have time and reason, so why not get into it? Its kind of like another tangent I've gone on a few times, about how A&E seem to think they dont have to spend time world building, explain how their worlds rules work, or that we shouldn't think too hard about the magic stuff and its implications, because its a fantasy show. In reality, its literally the opposite. In any series/book/movie/whatever that involves fantasy or science fiction or anything like that, you NEED to explain how things work, or the audience will be totally confused and annoyed. Like, you dont need to explain everything about how the Presidency works when you write The West Wing, because you can assume your audience knows the basics or can quickly look things up, because its stuff that exists in the real world. We dont know how leadership or the line of succession works in this world, so you have to explain it to us. We dont know how magic works in this world because we dont have magic in our world, you have to explain it to us. If you dont world build, how can we care? Why are there any stakes when you can do anything, because you haven't established any rules? You dont need to explain everything in great detail or anything, you just have to give us the rules so we understand what can or cant happen, and why characters are doing what they're doing. We dont know how this world works, so you have to explain it at least a little bit to us so we can understand what everyone is fighting about, and why anyone is doing anything!

I figured we would get flashbacks to Kavacs time with the rebel alliance, and I really liked seeing how everything played out. It answered a decent amount of the questions I had (not everything, but a lot of things) and we got more of Will Yun Lee as Kovacs. I like both Kovacs, but he is definately my favorite. His stoicism seems more of a defense than how he actually is, considering his extremely messed up childhood AND adulthood. The Riker sleeve Kovacs seemed like he is kind of going through the motions, and his stoicness is more emotional deadness and detachment. I think they both work. I knew right away his sister would turn out to be trouble. She is way too fixated on her brother. I did like her and Kovacs teaming up to fight, and they do have a nice chemistry together, in both bodies. Again, maybe a little too much on her end... Putting kids in the bodies of soldiers and bringing them up in combat is a seriously brutal way to raise a child soldier. I do enjoy (well, maybe not enjoy, but find it fascinating) how many ways the show explores the way the skins and world they've created can be used. Quellcrist being the creator of the technology who feels guilty for whats been done with her tech wasn't something I saw coming, but I thought it was a cool twist. Now I want to get HER backstory! Prequel anyone? I assume she meant for this tech to be used to make anyone immortal who wanted to be, not create a new class of super rich immortals with all the best bodies, while normal or poor people get the leftovers (like the little girl in the first episode put in the body of an old woman because her parents couldn't afford anything else) and bodies are used to abuse sex workers and put child soldiers into adult bodies. Of course, whether immortality is good or not is a whole different issue, but it certainly leads to interesting debates.

From now on, Uncle Leopold shall be called "Lord Big Mouth" for his ability to say stupid stuff that accomplished nothing except making things worse. Or possibly, with his "maybe this was a bad idea...", he can be the Illustrious Duke of No Freaking Shit".

Matt Frewer as an underground murderous fight club announcer is basically why the guy started making movies in the first place. That scene was actually pretty kick ass, and while I still think the Ortega/Kovacs love affair thing is rushed, but I am enjoying their chemistry more the last few episodes, and they certainly make a good fighting team. Sister is back! Super excited to see her, and that was an awesome entrance for her. That will certainly be an interesting dynamic. How long has she been around? The guy who plays the dead skin head is a really good actor, he nails everyone who borrows his body, and I hope he becomes a running joke, where people just keep on jacking his body and he keeps getting hurt in comical ways. I still dig the Kovacs/Poe/Vernon interaction, although I wish Vernon would let Poe do his thing. I mean, what Poe is doing seems weird, but at least it seems more helpful than just leaving her in that weird cyerspace land. "I just met this guy". "Tell Vernon I am not speaking to him" "You can tell him yourself".

A&E are idea guys, and you can really tell that while watching Once, as well as some of their other works. They come up with interesting ideas, but then they either dont think about the actual follow through "Wouldn't it be cool if..." as story telling essentially. It’s sometimes a good idea, but it often doesn’t serve a point for the story or the characters. Or, they come up with lots of characters and concepts they think are interesting, then discard them immediately when they see the next shiny thing, and we dont get pay off from any of the formally shiny things that have been tossed away when A&E lose interest in the past. Thats why I think Lost went so much better, and why season 1 (and to a lesser extent, the Frozen arc) were so much more tightly written. They had people overseeing them who knew how to actually properly structure a story, beyond "Wouldn't it be awesome if..." then instantly moving to the next "awesome" thing, character, or moment. While Lost wasn't perfect, they at least tried to come up with actual reasons for things to exist beyond being weird. Not that idea people are bad to have around, but they normally arent show runners, because idea guys need more structured people to get beyond just an idea, and turn it into a story. They were good idea guys, but crappy show runners, especially without adult supervision.

I think with Home Office, they wanted to do a classic Science vs. Magic story, but then they realized that they totally dropped the ball with their shitty characters, lame fake spy speak, and terribly explained science bracelets, so they just tossed the whole plot out between seasons, and just said it was all Pan manipulating these two dunderheads. Then they could just forget about the whole thing. Which, yeah I was glad to be rid of that horribily done, half asses plot, but it also made the whole second half of season 2 pretty pointless.

Timeless is a show where you kind of have to watch for the episodes, and not the plot, if that makes sense. The Rittenhouse stuff is pretty boring conspiracy "guys in poorly lit rooms who sit around evilly cackling about how they rule the world and do vague things vaugly, and are evil because of...reasons", cliches but the Time Period of the Week adventures are a lot of fun. The cast is good and has nice chemistry, they have lots of really great guest actors to play famous people, and the sets and costume people do great work creating a new time period every week. I think the good stuff outweighs the bad, as long as you have patience for the boring Rittenhouse stuff. I always recommend Legends of Tomorrow to people who like Timeless (and to most everyone else, to be honest), as it has a rather similar premises, but with more of a superhero slant to it. It takes place in the same universe as most of the other CW superhero shows, and while a lot of the main characters are established characters from those shows, they do a good job of explaining things to newcomers, and you dont have to watch the other shows to enjoy this one. Its premise is basically "bunch of people with different powers, skills, and abilities are recruited to fight an evil immortal throughout time" and it follows the gang as they travel around different time periods and country's trying to stop the bad guy from causing trouble. Like in Timeless, the overall plot is kind of lame, but the episodic adventures and the character development and dynamics make up for it, and by the second season, the show realized it, and basically redid the plot to focus on what the show does well: put likable characters in interesting settings, and let them get into hijinks. Its in its third season right now.

I have to say, now that they actually seem happy to be around each other instead of engaging in boring ANGST, I actually like Mrs. Skerrett and Francatelli, and find them to be quite charming together. In general, I find the downstairs stuff this season a lot more interesting this season than last. It felt rather tacked on last season, but now the downstairs characters actually seem real, and more fleshed out, and, most importantly, they actually serve a narrative point more often than they did before.

I swear, Mr. Penge must be the worst person to invite to a party. Even when he isn't going on racist tirades and making teenagers cry, he wanders around reminding everyone that "the angel of death hovers around us each day" and such uplifting things during everyone's break. I do kind of agree with Albert that Lehzen has tried to get in between him and Victoria, but making Victoria ditch her was uncalled for. And normally I really like Albert and find his moodiness and pride to be understandable, if not always likable, but that was sad to watch. I mean, he wasn't really wrong about how she is, but still. Of course, not as sad as Drummond getting killed by of some random guy taking a shot at Peel. I saw online when I ended up on a Victoria Wiki hole that he was going to die, but I didn't realize it would be this soon! He and Lord Alfred never even got to first base! I knew that I would be heartbroken seeing Alfreds reaction, but Peels reaction was super affecting as well. When he started crying when he told Victoria and Albert what happened, I started tearing up. As much as I will miss him around, I can understand him not wanting to do the job anymore. And Albert was so sad to see him go! I liked their friendship a lot, and Peel really grew on me. It was nice to see the Duchess supporting Lord Alfred and helping him keep it together when she told him about Drummond. The Duchess might not be the most fun person to hang out with at a party, but she sure is a good person to have around during an emotional crisis.

I always wanted them to talk more about the various kingdoms of the Enchanted Forest world, and how they all worked with each other, or didn't. We got bits and pieces of it, with King George arranging the marriage with Abigail and King Midas as part of some kind of alliance, and Snow and Charming were apparently friends with Cinderella and her Prince, so we can assume their kingdoms got along, but what about the other places? We see there are other kingdoms around, like, as above posters said, Mulan and Auroras kingdoms, and Arendale and Erics kingdom seemed nearby too, so what was the situation in this world? Did they all fight in the Ogre War, that seemed to go on off and on for years? Did they work together, have trade agreements, rivalry's? I agree that it would have been cool to see Snow knowing Auroras or Mulans parents, and having that be a part of their adventures in season 2. It would continue to hit on how much things had changed since Snow was trapped in a time vortex. Things in both the Land Without Magic and the magic world had changed, and now she was meeting the adult kids of people she knew as young adults. We get a bit about the other kingdoms, like Erics kingdom seems like a seafaring nation, and Mulans is magic China, and Arendale is exactly like it was in the movie, but can we get a bit more? Or is everything just one giant, medieval forest? Or, what was it like in the time between Regina being dethroned, and the Dark Curse? What was it like to run a country filled with magic creatures and such? Snow was a princess so I assume she knew something about governing*, but Charming was just a random guy until pretty recently. Granted, he seemed to take to being a prince pretty well (mostly in being a leader), but I assume he would need some help. Maybe parallel that with him feeling overwhelmed in Storybrooke as the king in a magic less little town, like @Camera One suggested. I dont need the magical West Wing, but I think it could have been really interesting, and could have shown a lot of great world building and character growth. I feel like we still have no idea how this world works, and or anything happened, even though we`ve had plenty of time for it. See, when I hear "Disney mash up TV series" thats what I want to see! That sounds awesome! I dont think "a frequently crying Evil Queen bones Robin Hood next to corpses of her victims that no one cares about while his wife watches their kid."

I think the plot that I felt was most painfully excecuted and dropped was definately the Author stuff, because it was the supposed answer to questions that I always wanted to know since the first episode. How did people in our world learn about the stories of people in this other universe? Why are our versions of the story different than what we see here? Who the heck wrote Henry's book?!?! Then, it all turned out to be...just some loser guy. Henry's book didn't end up connecting to anything (nor did the other books we found) and the whole Author thing raised more questions then it answered, and not in a good way. So, does every single piece of fiction exist in some other, parallel universe, and is just recorded by these Author people? Or just some stories, and others are actually fictional? Can authors create whole people? Does that happen? How does the freaking Land Without Stories fit in? Why are they apparently stuck in stasis for ever, like in the Cruella episode? Because if thats true, we have been watching/ reading about the lives of poor sentient beings that are trapped in a fictional vortex with no means of escape, which is pretty freaking dark, and yet its never really talked about outside of that episode. Speaking of, where does the whole "different cultures, different stories" thing established this season come in? Are there different Authors for every country or culture? Where do they even come from? Whats their actual point in existing? How many of these weirdos are there, playing peeping to all over the fictional multiverse? Are there more like Isaac who mess with people? In fact, WHY do authors have these powers anyway? If they just watch stuff, they should just be able to jump worlds, right? Actually, why the hell are they even called authors then? They should be called, like, Observers or something. The idea of a massive fictional multiverse where all, or even most, fiction exist on parallel planes with the "real" world, has been an idea that the show has been kicking around since day 1, but they never really went there. They just kind of used the author to justify some stupid ret cons, and prop up Henry some more. Seriously, how does this world freaking work? I think we should be more concerned that countless sentient beings are, at best, being spied on and used as unwitting inspiration for a bunch of assholes with hipster writers utensils, and at worst, are the cosmic playthings of monsters who dont care about what happens to them, as long as it makes a "better story". There was so much that could have been done about the relationship between author and creation, Death of the Author, existential questions about existence, and the question of free will. But, NOPE. Just write some Regina fan fic and make Henry your self insert and call it a day I guess. I mean, I guess it doesn't all have to be Animal Man, where shit gets REAL meta when the concept of an author affecting the characters reality is brought up, and it turns into this whole exploration about the nature of fiction and how people treat their own characters, and what the authors owe them or dont owe them, but I wanted something a bit more interesting than millions of creepers running about the multiverse, who may or may not include the most famous authors of our time. Of course, then you can make your brain bleed by trying to figure out why the stories we see in the show in their "real" form are different than the ones we know, but I guess that means it was another author from another culture or from one of a million parallel worlds that all have their own creepers and oh dear now I've gone cross eyed.

I really liked this episode, and that elevator fight was freaking brutal. Ortega isn't the best detective ever (especially in such a corumpt city and police force) but she is a seriously tough hcick. That guy ripped out half her internal organs it looked like, and she still kept lunging at and even biting the creepy assasin guy. Sucks that it looks like her partner is gone. Or maybe not, its hard to tell in this universe. The Ortega/Kovacs hook up was rather out of the blue, but I did see them show some actual chemistry there, beyond Ortega being hung up on her boyfriend, and some of their banter was actually cute. "Well I did the talking Ryker mostly stood around looking angry" "I can do that" "Just cross your arms or something" *Kovacs awkwardly crosses his arms and tries to look EXTRA mean*. See, I can get behind that. If they held off on the hook up for an episode or two, I could have been alright with this hook up. I do appreciate that Ortega finally gets that Kovacs is an actual person who might be worth something, and not just some asshole riding around in the skin of her dead boyfriend. Matt Frewer arrives, and is weird and awesome, and thats exactly how you should use your Matt Frewer. Can he pop back up again for a few scenes?

I so knew that Ortega had some history with Kovacs`s sleeve, and that was why she was so obsessed with him, and touchy about her moms issues with sleeves. Alright, that isn't the only reason she gets annoyed with her mom, but I am sure it plays a part. He was probably her boyfriend or at least a friend or something. The torture stuff was nasty, but it could have been worse. Compared to other stuff I've seen, this was downright tasteful. And it lead to Kovacs finally showing off his badass credentials by killing that whole torture facility (and showing some solid bluffing skills), and we got more backstory on his time with his freedom fighters/terrorists, depending on who you ask. Loved Ortega and her grandma, in the body of the skinhead! This was a really good way to play with the ideas of sleeves, and taking something old and traditional like Dia de Los Muertos, and giving it a sci fi twist (dead relatives can be put in an unconscious body to come visit on the day of the dead) while also adding some good character moments for Ortega, which she REALLY needs. As of now, she is the least interesting main character, but I liked her scenes with her grandma, and some of the conflicts with her and her family have potential. I can see how religion would have issues with using science to create eternal life by essentially hijacking other bodies, and how that would be controversial, even after becoming a common part of life. I like how its being used so far.

I would love it is they call in John to help with what they originally thought was a demon or something...and it turns out to be an alien or lab experiment run amok or something science fiction based. It would be hilarious to see two genres literally coming to a head and trying to deal with each other.

You can run you can die @ParadoxLost but you cant escape this page! I think Snow was badass beyond being a bandit to survive, eventually leading an army with Charming to defeat Regina, retaking her kingdom, which she apparently ruled successfully for at least a little before the curse struck, then managed to find a loophole in the curse to save her family and her people. It was beyond "she has a sword so now she rocks! #feminism", she was shown to be a mature person and leader, who cared deeply for her friends, family, and her people, and, to me, that made her as much of a badass as when she was beating people up as bandit Snow. She could actually beat people up, and yeah that was cool, but she also grew as a person, and became a strong leader while she was on the run, then when she was fighting against Regina. It should have been a story about how a sweet, innocent princess went through horrible things, but became a stronger person who connected with her people in new ways, saw what horrible things were happening to them, and decided to fight both for her life, and for them. She learned to fight, but it could also be a story about learning to be a leader who could make tough choices and lead soldiers into the field, kicking ass and taking names, but also had great love for her people, and eventually, for the friends she made along the way, and her husband, who she learned to connect with on a deep level, and would do anything for. And thats what we got until the season two, especially in the later half. We got more of her toughness at first, but after she came back to Storeybrooke from the EH, and we got that shitty flashback where Snow didn't let Charming execute Regina, and basically sent her away with a slap on the wrist after she straight up tried to stab her right there, and then Snow in the main story became a limp noodle, crying about killing evil monster Cora, and being Regina's cheerleader. She had some good moments after that, and Lord knows Ginny tried for quite awhile (until even she gave up, more or less), but eventually she just became a shell of her former self. She didn't qualify as a badass in a sword wielding way, a leadership way, or in a person way anymore. She was just kind of...there.

@KingOfHearts I literally came here just to post about that song, thats hilarious! The whole time I was like "did A&E write this song?" throughout the whole thing? "Nothing is ever anyone's fault, we`re all victims of jerk parents...." or something, ending with Rebecca and Nathaniel saying that the Big Bang was to blame for everything because he was a bad dad to God. Except that show was being ironic, while Once would have been 100% earnest.

You know, I think the courtroom scene where Rebecca decides to be held responsible for her actions (call back!) would have been a lot more powerful if she was being arrested for something she actually did, and not trying to save someone from her crazy stalker. I mean, yeah it is her fault that she made up a fake boyfriend in one of her Josh related plots and that brought Trent into her life, but its still not fair to blame her for Trent becoming a psycho killer. Which, also, wow did that escalate quickly! Trent went from creepy to murderous in about a day or two, didst he? I like Trent as a mirror to Rebecca, and I guess that still works (she did order a hit on someone for a few minutes), but it kind of seemed contrived to get us to the courtroom scene. Where can this go now? Orange is the New Black, CW style? I did like the songs this week. "The Big Bang is the ultimate bad dad!"and other such things, and Paula is such a good singer, its always nice when she gets something, even if her songs are always weirdly gross. I think Nathaniel is fine as a character, but I dont really like him as Rebecca's main love interest. His character is just rather cliche (rich jerk with a heart of gold and daddy issues) and while that isn't a bad thing, exactly, he gets so much screen time, it doesn't seem as interesting as I think the show thinks he is. He works fine as a supporting character or temporary love interest, but he has kind of been pushed to Male Lead all of the sudden, and it just doesn't really work. I also laughed at Heather being like "I volunteered for this because I`m free spirited, but now that its happening, this might not have been a great idea" right before the birth. What I wanted to know throughout the plot was, if having a kid is so important to Darryl, and having his loved ones/main cast members around is so important, where was his daughter in all this? Doesn't she want to meet her sister? Doesn't Darryl want to be a parent to his current kid even as he has done so much to get a new kid? Did she even get a mention this week? I think my favorite scene was actually when Josh punched Nathaniel out for trying to deport his dad.

What the hell is happening in this show? I just...I have no clue. What is the point of this stupid cult? Why are we doing this "Juliette ditches her family and has to be saved when she fucks her life up" thing again? We`re done this story! Yeah now shes brainwashed, but I cant even feel that bad for her, because this is SUCH typical Juliette at this point, and she continued to not listen to her husbands excellent points before this even got worse. She gets engages in soul searching, ditches her family, blames Avery for existing, then comes back. At this point, as much as I used to Juliette/Avery, I just want the poor guy to get out of this. Even a new rape backstory and cult brainwashing cant get me behind them anymore, Speaking of "what the hell is happening?", how did they take my favorite subplot, the Avery/Gunnar/Will mutual bromance, and turn it into soap opera crap. Alanna is a good singer, but she has no point on this show besides becoming the Gwen Stefanni to the guys No Doubt. This whole thing is a contrived mess, and I cant stand it. Why is everyone drooling over this chick whos had three performances? Why the boring Gunnar romance drama? Why is poor Avery constantly stuck playing mom to everyone in his damn life (I swear, his baby daughter is the least needy person he knows)? Why the Will and the roid rage stuff? What is the POINT?!?! The one plot I do like is the Deacon plot, and, by extension, Daphne and Jessie. I loved Deacon talking to Jessie's son about his (odd) performance, both times he talked to him. He seemed so happy to have Deacon say he liked his music, even if it clearly isn't Deacons thing, and he doesn't really "get" it. Its a really nice plot, that actually involved music, and everyone is acting like an actual person. Plus, Daphne is a really good performer, and I liked her song. Maddies plot is...ok. I like Twig, but he seems too stable for Maddie. It isn't an awful plot, but it isn't super interesting. But at least it has something to do with freaking music, and not steroids and cults.

I can see how Andrew could pretty easily worm his way into peoples lives, and strike without warning. Most people, in general, just arent on the lookout for psychopathic murderers in their lives. And yeah, that sounds silly, but I think theres some truth to it. People could easily see Andrew as a liar and a scumbag, and many people did, but most people probably didn't realize how far he would go until it was too late. The show is clearly taking liberties, and that is always iffy (especially when many of the victims families are still around), but I do at least understand why they're doing it. Unlike last season, where the OJ Trial was painfully well recorded from multiple sources, we dont know much about what happened here. Pretty much everyone involved, even the killer, is dead, and to make matters worse, the perpetrator is a serial liar. Some of the leaps are rather questionable (like Versache meeting Andrew), but others, like speculating on the last days of David, are kind of necessary for the plot. In reality, its possible that David was killed right away, or that he was threatened or in shock, but we had to go with something, so this is basically speculation. The one line I wouldn't want them to cross is trying to make sympathy for AC, or give him a sob story, and they haven't been indulging in that. He has moments where you can see an actual human coming out, but its impossible to tell if those are real moments, or just what he "thinks" people should do, or if that even matters. He can be moved by a song, but he cant be moved by a person begging for their life. We get insight into his thought process, but not in a way that makes us feel sorry for him, but just understanding him, at an extent. Like I said, we dont know how his thought process worked, this is all speculation. But its a decent guess.

And why wouldn't you want to stay in once? I would totally hang out with a snarky Poe AI in my spare time! Banecroft's family is crazy and creepy in the way that only ridiculously rich, powerful, and immortal families can be. The daughter taking moms body for a spin was wild, and I could watch James Purefoy chew scenery all day long. The guy plays ridiculously cocky bastards who are also rather charming so freaking well. I am really liking Kovacs/Vernon dynamic, especially with the addition of Poe as Mission Control. I like seeing Kovacs interact with more people in this time in a less confrontational way, and the acting have good chemistry between them. I hope that Lizzie can be saved, and that we learn what happened. I guess when someones death is super scaring, they cant just be tossed into another skin, or if they do, it damages them even more? So Banecroft wants Kovacs around because he wants to show him off to his rich friends, like a pet cougar or something? Yeah, not surprising Kovacs isn't thrilled. Word on everyone loving his little pink backpack. I am sure he knows it isn't really a "tough guy" piece, I just dont think he cares. Its awesome.

The weird thing was that you could tell that Colin and Josh were doing a traditional "uptight heroic guy and roguish bad boy start out enemies, and then warm up to each other" in a way that was natural, while the writers kept making their relationship skip around all over the place. They had great chemistry, and you could often see them in the background talking, and laughing, and even hugging (!) each other, but then the writers would decide that either A. The relationship wasn't important enough to focus on mostly or B. It only existed for ANGST. Or, momentarily angst anyway. In general, platonic relationships suffered as the show went on. The show started with out with a lot of platonic relationships (parent/child, friends, other relatives, etc.), but by the end, it was mostly all about who can hook up with who, and anything else was kind of shuttered away except for some ANGST for an episode or something.