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I thought The King's Speech was a nice film, but its winning the Oscar really irked me. There was nothing to it except nice costumes and charming actors playing charming stiff-upper-lippedness. Complete Oscar-bait.

I took the end of the Kennedy episode as a sort of coda, a time-jump to the assassination to bring closure to the Jackie story. I wasn't surprised to see we'd moved back in time for the next episode. But I admit, I wasn't looking for signs of pregnancy consistency.

I only got around to finishing the last season a few weeks ago, so it's pretty fresh in my mind (though most of the actual episodes were pretty meh). While I agree that the "comedic" sexism of the First Doctor was annoying and unsubtle (I've never actually watched that far back in the original series, so I don't know about his character or companions), I still thought the Christmas finale was good fun. Except the speechifying. I hate the speechifying. The long, drawn-out shouts to the void, with Big Emotional Sweeping Statements that Tell You Nothing of Value. All the NuWho Doctors have done it to some extent, but Capaldi seems to have done it more than most. His memo to the Next Iteration was just painful to me. Was the TARDIS taking notes? Is #13 going to sit down to see if #12 left a message for her? Imagine her disappointment when she hears such gems as "Be kind." and "Loving is always wise."

(Months later ...) Yes, it does. "Ogygia" was the island home of Calypso, who delayed (and, um, "entertained") Odysseus on his long journey home from Troy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogygia ETA: I see that @paigow answered this already. I *swear* I searched before I answered ...

Very late, 'cause I'm catching up on Netflix: "Cisco declines to deliver the coup d'etat" I think the recapper means "coup de grace".

Only just watched the series. As it progressed, the Licence to Kill comparison got stronger and stronger in my mind, so I'm not surprised to see it come up here. I also think there's some overlap with Tomorrow Never Dies, with the spotless public villain and the mistress/lover who pays for betraying him (OK, that's quite generic Bond). As many have pointed out already, Pine and Jed's mooniness was ridiculously OTT and bound to lead to trouble. I also didn't care for Hiddleston's huge smile/laugh as a nervous tic. And Laurie's repeated "No!" at the end seemed ... unimaginative. Like Don Lockwood's improvising romantic dialog with "I love you! I love you! I love you!" I disagree about Craig, but even more so about Brosnan. I love Pierce Brosnan, but he's a very wooden actor. He's smooth, good-looking, and OK in fight scenes, but he has zero edge (more than Moore did, but that's about it). Hiddleston seems too slim, but he's grittier than Brosnan.

I'm about two weeks behind, because I have to wait until the episodes appear on ABC's website (general access). I just wanted to make my prediction that FitzSimmons has been stymied before the sexytimes because one of them is already Not As (S)he Seems by the time they rendezvous back at the hotel. My guess is that there are now two Simmonses --- the real one with Mack, the fake with Fitz. Not sure exactly how she's fake --- the cold hands are a clue --- possibly an artificial life form like the doctor's assistant.

Sadly, Gamma Eridani is much closer than that --- it's in our own Galaxy, about 150 light-years from Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Eridani(for comparison, the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in diameter, and the Andromeda galaxy is about 2.5 *million* light-years away from us).

I admit, I'm a bit fuzzy about how the potentials were assembled, but wasn't everyone there (apart from Skye and Raina) there because they wanted to go through the Mist? I agree there. I'd want to be a lot surer about the status of such an organization before I start handing out information, like people coming door-to-door asking to see my utility bill in case they can save me money ...

Didn't they volunteer to go the Inhuman-izing process, deliberately exposing themselves to the Terragen Mist? They were born with the potential for superhuman powers, but they had to make a choice to attain those powers. Which isn't necessarily wrong, but it's not passive, either. Mutant registration in the off-limits X-Universe is closer to the pre-judging scenario you're presenting.