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Ha! Even Carl treated Father Gabriel with contempt. Loved how Carol was all forget him when Father Gabriel was getting attacked. She's one efficient killing machine. So awesome how she just shot the Wolf Morgan was oh-so-gently tying up.

I'll give the writers credit for writing an ending that made sense and allowed the characters (and actors) to say goodbye, but it only highlighted how stupid Kiera's obsession to go back to her future was. She knew about alternate timelines and alternate versions of herself. She's already an imposter in the current timeline. The version of her and Alec in the timeline they already occupy were (conveniently) killed so they have no doubles to remind them that they're both from a timeline that for some reason, doesn't exist anymore [insert Freelancer gobbledygook explanation here]. Of course if she ended up in a changed future timeline, there would be another version of her. She'd be redundant. Why not stay in the present where she's needed and has friends? Where, in my mind, Carlos, Alec, Jason, Garza, Brad, and Curtis (now that his Traveler boss is gone, he's got nothing else to do) fight crime and corporate corruption and Kellog (cause you know, if it's Kellog, he's gonna find a way to survive, come back, and cause trouble). But no, she'd rather skip off to the better future to see a son she doesn't really know after all the hard work is done. Typical of the selfish, shortsighted Kiera of these last 6 episodes. Honestly, I would have preferred it if they just left things at the end of season 5, before the future soldiers came through the portal. That felt like a more natural ending. Then again, Carlos wouldn't have gotten the thank you and the hug from Kiera that we all know he's been wanting for a very long time. At least that was nice. Another bonus? Watching Dillon get casually gunned down by Kellog. Thank you Kellog for finishing Sonya's mission. Hey, if they're going to show Kiera in a new and happy future, I wanted to see the new and happy versions of Liber8... especially since two of them were killed off like redshirts in this last season. Wouldn't it have been funny to see old Alec show up with a cleaned-up version of Garza as his personal assistant? Or Sonya and Travis finally getting their happily ever after? Or Kellog running a con with his sister? Curtis in a monastery? Lucas designing a video game? The possibilities... Although this last, very short season disappointed me, I still enjoyed watching the show. Making the heroine hold warped values from a dystopian corporate future and the terrorists fight for a noble and sympathetic cause was creative. I wish it had more episodes. The way the Traveler storyline was abruptly ended-- it was obvious the writers really needed them.

Can we spin Jake and Paris and all that spy nonsense into a new show that I can ignore? They're completely disconnected from the main plot. I'm disappointed that Olivia did nothing but hide in her tower (and read internet comments-- she should know better... internet peoples are mean!) until Fitz came to rescue her. As she herself mentioned, his constant need to rescue her is offensive. I had hoped Liv would have been more proactive. Maybe she couldn't leave her apartment, but she could have at least strategized instead of leaving it all to Huck and Quinn. Well, unless she wanted everyone criticizing her murdered and disappeared. Cuz that's what Huck and Quinn know how to do best. Glad to see Marcus join the team. He seems competent and he has a moral compass. Wonder how long he'll keep it while working at OPA. Who's idea was it to send Huck on tv? He's not the person to send to do talky public stuff. David Rosen sighting! He still exists! I'm happy.

So Major's a drug addict now? Poor guy really can't catch a break. He was a bit dull in the beginning series, but he has my sympathies now. No need to keep punishing him, Show. The scene where Major was wasted in the bathroom and asked Liv to stay was the first time they really worked as a couple. I'm still against Major getting back together with Liv because she let him go to a mental institution instead of simply telling him the truth! And, it but him in more danger. Who does that? Ravi and Major clubbing while high was all kinds of awesome. Never figured Blaine to be a rich kid with daddy issues. That was a surprise. On a shallow note, I really liked Liv's crime scene "dress".

Anyone think it was rude of Barry to keep Jay in the containment cell? He had no powers. Plus, the cells look really claustrophobic. I felt bad for the evil metahumans they locked up there. There must have been a better place to make him wait while Barry got over his trust issues. If both Earth-2 villains have their Earth-1 counterparts, then wouldn't it be easier for Joe to find the Jay Garrick in their world to confirm the multiverse story? Might've been easier and safer than tracking down the Sand Demon. Then again Earth-1 Jay Garrick could be evil. I'm just waiting for the episode where an Earth-2 version of one of the members of Team Flash shows up and starts wreaking metahuman havoc... 'cause you know that has to happen. Also, Barry will probably take out all his Harrison Wells resentment on Earth-2 Harrison Wells who will probably turn out to be a saint and be all, what's your problem, kid?

I saw Bridget Regan's name in the credits, but I'm disappointed we only got to hear her. I'm curious what her new face looks like and if she's going to show up again this season. Eh, what am I kidding? The Sin Rostro plot isn't as interesting as the awesome Rogelio-Michael scenes and Rogelio just being Rogelio. I don't think the annulment of Xo and Rogelio's marriage is going to go that smoothly. If I'm wrong then this show really does resolve dangling plot threads fast!

I thought it was mentioned last week that Miranda turned her son in for making a terrorist threat (attack?) against the school she was parked in front of. Or maybe it was implied. Or maybe I hallucinated it. This show piles on so many random plot elements in rapid burst fire, who knows if it'll make any sense at the end? Maybe it's hoping the audience will be too dazzled by Priyanka Chopra to care? Look! She's wearing a swimsuit! She's pretty, but not that pretty. So, Ryan told Alex that he'll help her but he needs to make it seem that she's guilty. And now Simon tells her that he'll help her, but once again, he has to make it appear that she's guilty. And... they're both undercover agents working for shady senior agents. Uhhh... I don't think anyone needs to frame her since she capable of doing it herself by being so freakin' gullible. At this point, I'm beginning to think that the bombing was an FBI mistake due to incompetence (have you seen how poorly they screen their recruits?) and they're covering it up by framing Alex.

That short flashback of Jessie's teenage kid (cast getting too big, can't remember names) watching Carl hold the hand of that Too-Many-Cooks girl has me dreading a teen romance subplot. Rick killing his dad plus Carl making moves on his girl equals sulky, vengeful teen who will inevitably do something stupid... though running out unarmed and untrained just to see where his abusive dad is buried is already pretty stupid. Rick really needs to give up on Jessie. It's painful to watch his awkward interactions with her.

That was my first thought too. Rick's plan was crazy high risk. That's a lot of walkers to let loose into the wild for other people to deal with-- which is an assy thing to do to other survivors. If they're all concentrated in one place, why not blow them up or make a fire pit or just find a better way to contain them in the great zombie pit. Fill it with concrete?

So this is original flavor TWD showing FTWD what a real zombie horde looks like... I'm annoyed that Noah-killer Nicholas is still alive. I'm afraid Glenn (& Maggie & Tara) will regret letting him off so easy in the future. The guy just acts shifty all the time. Does Glenn really have time for a pet redemption project?

I still have problems with the sunglasses and the hoodie, but I agree the sunglasses were used pretty well in this episode. Though I wonder, when did the Doctor figure out how to erase the imprinted message? Because it would have been nice to have done it for Bennett and O'Donnell to save them from danger, which leads me to agree with this: That WAS a crap way to treat his fangirl and I'm glad Bennett called him on it. His effort to prevent her death was so very weaksauce and it was obvious he knew it was going to happen. Maybe it's part of the complicated fixed-time rules, but if he had given himself the message, couldn't he have put his oh-so-precious Clara's name before O'Donnell's? Did she really have to die? And why did her ghost conveniently show up later on the ocean base? Where was it hanging out all this time? Still, I generally liked this episode and that's mostly because I liked the ocean base crew. They were all well-portrayed. I also thought the hook-up between Cass and Lunn was unnecessary. She had good reason to be so protective of him-- without Lunn, she can't communicate-- and his job is to be attentive to her. It's a close bond, but it doesn't have to be romantic love. With all the pairings among the crew, I'm thinking that Moran and Pritchard were a couple too. Heh. Capaldi used to be in a punk band, which is why I don't mind the guitar. Hey, maybe Craig Ferguson will make an appearance.

Yay! New preview for season 2 from the NYCC: http://www.blastr.com/2015-10-9/new-york-comic-con-12-monkeys-gets-new-preview-pits-cole-vs-cole-and-asks-who-gets-lucky According to the preview, it will return April 2016.

Heh, Annalise dropped her ice cream on the crime scene photo and then tried to scoop it back up with her spoon. I do that too... but without the crime scene photos and the vodka. She sobers up quickly too! She could barely make it up the stairs but had no trouble navigating the dark basement steps. I'm glad Asher has a secret the others don't know because he's the one who's always kept out of the loop. He doesn't know about Sam or Rebecca and so far, he hasn't appeared in the flashforward either. And... since Asher hasn't been found out yet, maybe he's not as bad at keeping secrets as he thinks he is. The Michaela and Connor friendship is cute. So the mess at the mansion where Annalise gets shot is a result of Wes's grand plan to find Rebecca? Figures. It's the butler! It's always the butler.

As soon as I spotted Joe Morton's name in the opening credits, I was disappointed. Can't Jake, Huck, and Quinn just stay drunk for the rest of the season? For a second there, I was afraid that we went through all that door-slamming and pacing only to go back to the status quo. I'm looking forward to Fitz vs Mellie and Olivia/Abby/Liz vs Cyrus. So... what's David up to these days? I'd rather see him stumble about his office and be indignant about stuff than have to sit through more B613 stuff.

The layout of the lobby reminds me a bit of the Grand Budapest Hotel but the style is totally different. It really conveys a suffocating, creepy atmosphere. I can't believe those tourist girls decided to stay. Did they not read the Yelp reviews? I wonder what the Yelp reviews actually are. Then again, if no one really ever checks out... it probably has no reviews. At times, I felt like I was watching a Lady Gaga video... with the blood, gore, and sex amped waaaaay up. It's too much for me. I hope they tone it down for the later episodes and add more story. It only got interesting when they showed how Donovan (and Iris & Sally) ended up at the hotel... and not just 'cause Matt Bomer's pretty. I so wanted to get those poor vampire/ghost kids an Xbox or Playstation or at the very least, a Wii. The Gameboy version of Tetris? With the earwormy Tetris song? I spotted old-school Donkey Kong too. So wonder they're so anemic looking.

If this show is going to do flash-forwards, can they drop the flash-backs? How much hidden past does Ollie have? The flashback scenes this season didn't interest me at all. Plus I'm tired of the awful flashback wigs.

The part where Blaine eats chocolate and taunts Liv was hilarious. The guy may be evil, but he's always amusing. It looks like Liv is starting to lie to Clive now. I hope this won't be a replay of the Major storyline in season one. Clive better not stumble onto the zombie conspiracy and then check himself into a mental institution. Hopefully Live and Ravi learned something from their disastrous experience with Major, because it's sort of their fault that Major's now an official zombie hunter-- first, by not telling him the truth, leaving him no choice but to deal with zombies in his own way, and then by inadvertantly blabbing about his special zombie-sensing powers to Max Rager. Poor guy's now reduced to being blackmailed into being Max Rager's zombie janitor. Liv might be scared that her mom might freak out, but why can't she tell her brother that she has a kind of disease that prevents her from giving blood? There are all sorts of reasons why certain people can't donate blood. Hate Liv's new roommate/spy/Max Rager assistant. Love the ongoing feud with the police sketch artist.

I liked that the Wells tape further showed Eobard's love/hate relationship with Barry-- he seemed to really value their present mentor/mentee relationship, but could never reconcile it with the hate he felt toward the older Flash he knew. Tom Cavanagh plays those conflicted feelings really well. I wasn't surprised that Wells left something nice behind for Barry and then capped it by saying it didn't matter cuz he knew that Barry would never be happy. When it was just Cisco, Iris, and Stein working in the lab with Joe standing by, I thought hey, Iris and Stein work pretty well as stand-ins for Caitlin and Wells. Not bad! Even so, I'm glad they got the whole team back together at the end. It looks like the Wells role will be split between Stein (for the physics stuff) and Jay Garrick (for Flash-related stuff) for now. I'm curious how Tom Cavanagh is going to fit into this dynamic and whether or not he's going to play a non-possessed version of Harrison Wells... cause if Eobard never existed, then the actual Harrison Wells should be alive somewhere right?

It would have been nice to have seen how Salazar released all those walkers from the stadium safely and how he so nonchalantly lead a zombe horde to the army base/hospital... because that seemed like a superpower.

Too bad it was Madison who followed Liza to the beach. Have we seen her shoot a gun yet? It seemed like her weapon of choice was a hammer. If Liza wasn't sure she could shoot herself so that she wouldn't turn, she should have asked a favor of Daniel. I bet that guy's good at executions. At least Travis got some quickie sniper gun lessons from that soldier dude and didn't mess it up. Still... damnit, Show! I liked Liza and that army doc who probably committed suicide too. I guess there's still the ultra-awesome Strand if I decide to come back for season 2.

I bet Tobias is already on that yacht with his trusty knife.

EW article that confirms that the episode titles are puzzles as a poster noticed in the S01.E03 Eight Slim Grins thread. If you're solving them, the article also gives out an alternate title for the Pilot.

Being a longtime fan of The Walking Dead, I'm used to this trope. I pretty much singled out Moran and Pritchard for death as soon as their characters were established. (TV writers are so predictable.) But I do agree, kicking off the second 2-parter with another black guy death is a bit much. At least this actor gets to stick around as a ghost. There's a lot of talk about Clara's wardrobe, but I'm more focused on the Doctor. Since when does the Doctor run around in hoodies? Is it an attempt to make Capaldi appear younger? Is that why he now uses sonic sunglasses? To look cooler? I just don't like it. It makes him look sloppy. And those sunglasses need to go the way of Eleven's fez. Otherwise, loved Cass being in charge and the underwater base setting.

I found the meeting between old and young Alec fascinating too. It was nice to see Alec finally freed from the fear of his destiny. As I understood it, Alec was the one that gave future knowledge to his older self in Keira's timeline to give his present self a chance to undo the damage that he could potentially do. Young Alec-- not evil old man Alec-- is actually the future Alec of a new timeline, one where Jason isn't born and where Alec can choose not to create an evil corporate empire. Maybe Keira doesn't exist in this timeline either and if these parallel timelines can exist side by side, then its possible for Keira to return. Even so, it's still a lot of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey hand waving. Because if that's the case and the Traveler has the power to cross parallel timelines, then why can't the Traveler return to his particular time? How does a parallel timeline just disappear? Eh, whatever. I thought I was done trying to figure this out last season. I'm just happy to get scenes of Alec awkwardly trying to be a good father to Jason; Jason seeking approval from his young father; and the both of them uncomfortably interacting with Annie. Also, I loved Carlos's line to Alec asking if he had time-traveled back to season one where Keira and Alec were keeping secrets from him. Glad the show acknowledges that Carlos frequently gets sidelined. Now I know why the future soldier girl watching over Kellog looks the way she does. Future Kellog knows exactly how to manipulate himself. Well played, future Kellog. All the scenes of Dillon complaining to Kellog about the terms of his employment seem to indicate that he's going to switch sides at some crucial point. He better. I was annoyed he survived when Sonya died trying to take him out.

Me too, but I'm already sick of watching a shot ring out in the mansion, Wes running, and Annalise bleeding out on the floor. Ha! When they panned out and revealed the prosecuter's body, I wondered if in the next episode, they'll pan out some more and there will be another body... and then another. After all, Annalise does employ two murderers... well, three if you count the puppy.