Miss Dee

I'd love to see a flashback in Season 3 where Doomworld!Mick tells Ray what happened and asks Ray to keep him from doing anything like that again.

SO THEY SAY.

Nice thinking! So of all the candidates out there for Penelope's baby-daddy, who's the frontrunner? My money's on Fred because of how Penelope reacts to Archie.

Dude. I've seen examples of your "intellect." You do NOT want to go head to head with Stephen Colbert.

This is the good part about being new to the series....they're *all* new to me, except for Linc and Michael, so I'm not hung up on seeing old characters over new ones or vice versa. As long as there's lots of Linc and Michael (especially Linc), I'm good. I liked the episode fine.

I'm 1000% on board with Dominic Purcell. Dominic Purcell now, though, not as he was 11 years ago. Pictures of him in early Prison Break do nothing for me. A bit of mileage on him has done wonders for how interesting he seems. @DearEvette, I was fortunate enough in the mid-90s to travel to England for university classes, where we frequently saw plays at night we were studying during the day. During that time I had the privilege of watching Toby Stephens tread the boards in his first major theatre role as the lead in Coriolanus, which was blowing critics away that summer. He was mesmerizing.

We haven't gotten to Queens classes yet, so that might still be a possibility. No doubt in this show we'd see more of how that would impact Diana. As for the riches...how do we know the Barry family isn't leaning heavily on Aunt Josephine for some of this?

I think this might have been around the time Purcell had his (very serious) on set accident. They might have had to shoot with a stand in and then film him separately afterwards. Not sure how much time they had in post-production to do that, so I'm handwaving it. They might have had to take Linc out of the season altogether, otherwise.

Batman as a metaphorical carpet bomb. I can accept that.

That's one I haven't read.

Ooh, this is new to me!! Cite your source?

Poor Gilbert! Always an afterthought! :)

I love all the Anne novels until Anne of Ingleside and Rainbow Valley. The latter is my least-liked, although I have a soft spot for John Meredith and Rosemary - oh, and Norman Douglas because he's an exaggerated version of my own husband who is also no "tame puppy" (thank God!). I'm just not as into the next generation. But the writing of RoI was enough to win my love, even if Rilla herself hadn't turned out to be the most interesting of Anne's kids. Walter is a close second and the focus on him through Rilla helps too. If the series had been able to show Anne's kids in WWI (it's probably impossible with moving up the dates to show a young Anne so close to 1900), do you think Walter's artistic side, sensitivity and disinterest in girls would receive the...well, the "Josephine Barry" treatment, shall we say?

No mention of David Eddings' Belgariad or Elenium series? Sad! If you had a showrunner familiar enough with the series to keep the best while exorcising some of the author's worst tendencies, I think it would pull in fans who are sort of intrigued by Game of Thrones but are put off by the darkness of it. Eddings' world is more humourous and realistic in terms of "human" nature while being just as deadly and exciting, and the magic is prosaic enough not to seem overly "high" in nature. I would prefer they colorblind-cast the everloving shit out of it though, to the point where you'd have to fanwave the genetics as obviously not based on our world. Otherwise with the characterization of the different peoples it would come off as incredibly racist. I can think of actors and actresses for all the major roles, except for Polgara and Ce'Nedra.

Damn, but I loved that scene of Bruce getting his second wind and running off his attackers. The more Bruce they show, the better the episode for me. I don't think we have full-blown Riddler yet. I think he knows he can be who he wants on his own now, and he knows what name he wants to be known by. But I think we're going to see how he makes his bones and develops his reputation and becomes "THE RIDDLER" to everyone else. Ed's story is ending, but Riddler's is just beginning. Hopefully this is the approach they're taking with Bruce as well; we're getting to see how the idea of Batman came to be, and hopefully before too long we'll get to see that persona start making his bones too...even if Bruce doesn't know his name yet.

That's how LMM describes it in the novel. How does this show make me bawl so easily when This is Us can't do it? Watching that snowflake transform into a tear and drop off Gilbert's hand wrecked me. As did Marilla crying over her letters. I loved the juxtaposition of Marilla's and Josephine's tears. Both women grieving over the loss of someone over whom the world would declare they had no right to grieve, so they must do so in secret. But because it's acceptable in this world for Marilla to have her feelings (no matter how she might be shamed or scorned for her weakness), we the audience are allowed to observe her in her grieving process. Poor Josephine's is not, and so we only see what Anne sees, which is the little she dares to let out. The rest has to stay forever hidden. Poor soul. Speaking of which, I thought the writer did an admirable job of hinting at the true nature of Josephine's relationship with her companion to the audience while at the same time couching it in language that would sound like the natural culmination of a deep kindred spirit friendship to a girl like Anne. It would have been completely unbelievable in this day and age for Anne to even know what a lesbian relationship was, let alone be accepting of it. The writer walked a fine line in choosing words that are meant one way by Josephine and taken completely differently by Anne, yet the advice was still sound and still helped her and resolved her situation. Great job. This is definitely not Gilbert's story from the novels, but as we never met his parents in the novels (we only heard them described and talked about) and as it's an intriguing story they're setting up and gives Gilbert something to become besides "love interest", I'm fine with it. My recording cut off just as Anne was running up to Gilbert's house (I assume) - what happened after that?

Man, I hope this show zags and Carlo Rota (Trish's new boss) is actually a good guy. Either that, or make him full on Lex Luthor. (Carlo would make a sexy Luthor, actually.)

Tuck Buckford rubbing chili on his legs left me gasping for breath. That was *inspired*.

No way, I don't want to get rid of the parents' stories like that. I love the sprawling, multigenerational feel of the story, and the idea of the "sins of the parented are visited on the kids" vibe. And I especially love how the perception of the parents being more screwed up than the kids adds a creepy, surreal vibe to the story, like they're all trapped and can't get out and they just have to stay and deal with everything.

Good thing Martin Stein isn't in this show; I'd be completely addled.

Really, only two posts?? This one had me on the edge of my seat. Between Linc/Sheba getting caught and then Michael getting caught, my stomach was in knots almost the entire time. I came to this for Purcell, but having seen Miller only as Captain Cold it was a real treat to see some of his acting range tonight. That ending was extremely affecting. Linc didn't get a big storyline but he did get to beat people up in his tight white tee, so I'm satisfied. However...writers? Those of us coming to this show from Legends of Tomorrow are aware that Dominic Purcell can do a great deal more than you're giving him here. Husband is definitely evil. The govt is hoping Sara is going to lead them to Michael, right? But Sara had almost talked herself into staying out of it at her inlaw's house, and Husband very charmingly and subtly goaded her into taking action. Definitely the game player he was describing in the last episode. I'm impressed with that actor - Paul Adelstein, right? Actually, one great thing about watching this with fresh eyes (no prior Prison Break experience) is that I'm really into some of the new characters. I like C-Note, but could take or leave the other "oldsters". On the other hand, I'm loving Whip, Sid (SIIIID! *cries*), Rick Yune (haven't caught his character name yet), and I really like Sheba. And while I hate the character, I'm loving the Christian Army guy who just lost his brother. And, of course, Husband.

Of course Matthew would know what's going on; being a fairly intelligent man and a good farmer with livestock, he'd recognize what was happening. It's just that this wasn't talked about. The closest LMM comes in the book is when Anne speaks of a lot of changes occurring when you turn thirteen. I'm really glad they went there...I'd like to bring this up to anyone who gets wistful about the good ol' days....

Archie, beloved protagonist, is the secret Patrick Bateman of Riverdale. The remainder of the series involves him trying to keep it a secret. Bonus points if it turns out to be a Tyler Durden type situation, and he spends the series investigating himself.

I knew there was a reason I liked you, @Princess Lucky! We'll let everyone else have Michael and keep Linc for ourselves.... I too liked Rick Yune. I thought he had tremendous presence for someone with so few lines. This is the first season of Prison Break I've ever watched, so they're all new to me. I like C-Note too.

I'm just starting the episode but I had to pop in to say: Daaaaammn, Aaron! The rumpled look really works for you!