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Appalling episode. Great music, though. Oh and "dust buster" seems to have several sexual meanings, but the one they seem to have been going for is snorting coke off your partner's privates. Agreed about Huck. But then, he'll have to wait in line behind both of Liv's parents.

Apparently the writers on this show hate happy, mutually supportive, stable relationships. Also, Patrick Dempsey stands in a doorway, speaks about 3 sentences, makes enough money to buy a new car. I don't know whether to cheer or gnash my teeth about that.

It's like a romance novel. Proud, handsome young Oleg chafes against his father's control, but what can he do? He's stuck in a position with little scope for his ideas, little chance at making a place of his own. Dutifully he travels to Austria to pick up a load of black market digital equipment, then he flies home to deliver it to the Technical Gulag. He opens the door-- and violins play as he comes face to face with Nina, the woman he thought he had lost to a cold and cruel fate! But now they are together again-- and nothing will stop them!

I just assumed he was a euro american from the melting pot-- with a bit of curl and tan. But then, everyone's a little ethnic compared to Stan. Agreed. She went into the interrogation having decided to keep her secrets. And having so decided, she'd metaphorically put her back to the wall. No retreat, no surrender, no crying, come what may.

Right up until the line "we have our own way", i had completely forgotten about necklacing. But when he said that, i immediately realized what was coming, i was just surprised that he already had a tire handy. But i thought maybe they'd show the start, and cut to another scene at the first screen, then return after it was over. But they didn't :(. I wonder how KGB cleanup squad is going to handle that one.

I disagree with the show-o-matic rating. I say: 25% Supernatural, 75% X-Files.

From the point where Donny says "here's what we do..." i was afraid the entire sequence would turn out to be a long hallucination.

Upper aristocracy tend to have lots of names so he's probably Richard William Henry Liam George, or somesuch. And it would make sense for the least common name to be the one they normally called him by so as to avoid confusion.

When a man is king in his own right, his wife is usually called queen. But due the integral sexism of the system, when a woman is queen in her own right, her husband is often denied the title of king to emphasize that he is not the born ruler. The last man to be a king consort was, i think Phillip of Spain, husband of Mary Tudor. And he bitched about not being made the ruler.

Saddest kind. She does the work, the other party gets the orgasms.

Marla Gibbs should get her own Shonda show-- just with more rational story lines. And Huck's wife is so underutilized. She's the incomparable Astrid, babysitter to geniuses. Have her shot she she can join Marla.

I don't think Martha is ready to suspect Clark of being a spy. I think it's more likely that she'd suspect him of being a reporter looking for dirt for a big expose, or else someone from another agency trying to discredit the FBI (or at least that office) so they can get a bigger budget or more responsibility. Either way, it's still a realization that she's being used. I also think he'll be able to talk her down one more time, but the next incident will be the end.

It has only been, what-- three years? since someone else did almost exactly this show. And it was soapy and cheesy and i liked it. I'll probably like this one too, but i don't expect much from it.

Stop playing with us, Shonda! First we get a quake, to tease that this will be a disaster episode. It could be, after all-- Seattle may not be as quake prone as some other places, but it is on the Ring of Fire. A quake could be a side effect of a local volcano going off. But no, it was just a tremor, what follows is a series of typical individual crises. But what's on the end? An unknown female voice answers Derek's phone! Bad Shonda, you get a newspaper swat to the nose! You think we'll freakout because we've already met all 200 of Derek's sisters. But come on-- this will turn out to be his cousin, or maybe his lab assistant or something like that. We're on to you, Shonda.

I think it was "he's black so he feels he needs to come across as a really hard worker, and i understand that, but he's getting on my nerves". She did have an accent and it did sound south african. I think Elizabeth ask for the time so as to hear her speak.

That was the neatest van escape since the old Mission Impossible series.

Six has eyes and ears-- those drones, i assume she has hands too-- server bots. That's what it looked like to me.

I was getting ready to stop watching this show. But now a bored AI has a nuke. BTW: did anyone not realize the woman was a hologram as soon as she showed up? Well somebody's right arm, anyway! That was my thought as well.

One thing that impressed me about the french program was how they found two actors to play the formerly twin sisters who really do look alike, and also found someone to play their mother who could easily be an older triplet of them.

Ok, time to end this show. And since everyone else is too busy trying to drink hot chocolate at Granny's without choking on their secrets, i'll do it. 1. New character, an elderly hermit (with the obligatory hair and beard as thick as a bush) who lives in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the river, near the T®oll Bridge. He's also bent and scarred and his legs look as if both were once severely broken. He can barely walk and only with the aid of crude crutches. His name is Finn. 2. No one in Storyb®ook questions why they suddenly accept him as a long time resident. 3. Finn hobbles around town offering to help people with various problems. He claims to have travelled widely in his youth, that has given him a lot of valuable experience. 4. He tells a lot of very improbable stories about himself, always the star of some great adventure, full of blood and thunder and cliff hangers. 5. Some of the locals begin to suspect that he's the Author. 6. The audience quickly figures out he's supposed to be Huckleberry Finn. 7. Various crises are averted, thanks to someone belatedly relying on something Finn said. 8. Emma decides that if Finn is the Author, he must have lost his memory. She persuades him to move out of his cabin and into the house they believe is the Author's to see if familiar surroundings will help. It could also help him physically, because he's been weak and coughing a lot lately. 9. During the move, Emma retrieves a newspaper that falls out of Finn's pocket. It's dated a few days before she and August arrived in the real world. It has a story about catastrophic floods threatening the local area. 10. Finn does become a little more lucid, albeit no stronger. Emma decides it's time to confront him with The Book. 11. Is this yours, she demands. He grabs it and declares that it is his and no one's taking it from him. 12. Then he topples over backwards and the book bursts apart. Some of the scattered pages scatter over the hearth. At least one gets close enough to catch on fire, and the whole mass begins to go up like kindling. 13. As Emma tries to drag Finn clear, he screams and tries to rescue The Book. As he grabs for parts of it, it is no longer the single printed and bound volume we've seen all along. Instead, it's a bunch of parts of individual books, and scraps of paper with handwriting on them, all tied together with rags. 14. Emma stares at the pages. The titles are familiar. At the same time, the conflagration reaches the walls of the mansion, which starts to disintegrate around her. 15. Finn sits up, his hair and beard on fire. I'm so sorry, he moans, before collapsing. 16. A group of forest rangers is putting out the remains of a fire. One body, reports a medic, and no one else seems to have been around. The camera pans back and we see, the cabin. It's actually more of a lean-to, built from the remains of a smashed up river raft. 17. A ranger stomps out the last bit of smoking debris. It's part of a book cover. The words Once Upon a Time are still visible.

Alicia loses, moves to DC with Eli. They both become professors at Georgetown. Kalinda marries Elfman, they become fixers. Diane becomes senator, serves 4 terms, then joins Chelsea Clinton's cabinet. Canning has a miraculous recovery, marries David Lee. Peter serves 2 terms as governor, manages to avaid further scandals or controversy, retires and becomes a mystery weiter. Bishop attempts to go straight. It works for about 10 years, then his son sells him out to the cartels.

After leaving the operating room, the next thing that should have happened is Amelia gets grabbed by orderlies, stripped, thrown into a shower, and have her finger tips scraped. She won't be able to continue as a Derek-class surgeon with bone tumors or leukemia.

When Rumple stole the gauntlet, said it was from Camelot, then got the challenge, i was excited. I thought, ah, he's going to have to face Morgan Le Fae. But nope, it was a trio of other characters, including a dog slaughtering society lady not from a fairy tale but somehow promoted to witch. That was a disappointment. Then i thought, oh yeah, Disney. There's no Morgan in Disney's version of Camelot. And then i remembered Madam Mim, the magical bag lady. Thank goodness, the writers didn't go that direction. And i see now, that dog skinning is apparently Cruella's secondary power; she started as a witch and became a society lady only after being exiled to Earth. I wonder if she'll get a backstory. Oh and the creature from Fantasia was a bit of a disappointment close up. I'd always thought of it as a balrog, but the cgi looked more like a gargoyle.

Remember they've already done an episode in which Phillip and Paige are shopping and encounter a grown man with a teenage girlfriend who then gets pretty skeevy towards Paige. Later, Phillip tracks the man down to frighten him.

Aids. Ring. Frank. Rebecca. Ouch! It hardly matters what else happened in that episode. Annalise's borderline inappropriate behavior with Wes? we get it. An apparently guilty client that Annalise will defend with shady tactics and legal brilliance? Over before it could develop. Rebecca is manipulative and devoid of conscience? All our speculations were confirmed but that's anticlimatic. Sam was the killer after all, for realz? Effectively yes, but so what? Bonnie yearns for Annalise's approval and for some extracurriculars of her own? That continues nicely. Nate being treated like some heirloom that Annalise pawned to get out of a jam but really really means to get back? He's wised up. So in effect, they've swabbed the decks clear of most of this season's issues so they can set up the next season. And next season will be almost a different show.