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Go, Luna! ;)

Okay, Shapeshifter, that legit made me laugh out loud. The visual alone...

You're kidding! Wow... I really didn't think it was going to happen.

Agreed. Plus, how many times has Watson been in serious danger? I would imagine her role as a detective consultant would be too dangerous for adoption agencies to accept. If anything happens to her, the kid is an orphan all over again. That's not healthy for the kid.

Absolutely. After all, I imagine he must have to be pretty firm with people who demand Madam Secretary's time but aren't allowed to have it. I loved that moment when he stood up to the other guy. That guy even raised his eyebrows like, huh... kid's got guts. LOL. I felt Blake earned his respect in that moment, and I'd love to see Blake get more opportunities to shine like that.

No worries! I got to listen to it today instead. :)

The podcast seems to be set to play "Secrets and Lays" (last week's podcast) rather than the new one?

I thought maybe after Blake's work with the team he was going to tell Elizabeth that he doesn't want to move "up" and that he sees the work he does for her has great value, just as the work the protocol team has great value. He organizes so many things for her, and it's important and sometimes even crucial. I hope they have something good in store for him, whatever it is, because he's my favorite and I don't want him to go anywhere if it means I won't see him anymore.

I think they lost focus, and they lost sight of their own characters.

What would be nice is if (after the finale airs) the showrunner would post what he'd planned for the show, so we could envision where it would have gone. Some showrunners have done that, and I've appreciated reading about it. But if he just leaves us with an unresolvable cliffhanger and no info about where he would have taken the show and these characters, then I feel like it's just a waste.

The minute I saw the journalist, I was all, "It's CHO! I've missed you!" LOL. I loved him on The Mentalist. He was my favorite character (along with Simon Baker's, of course). I know it's not the usual type of episode, and they can't do that kind of thing all the time, but I liked the fresh take, seeing him observing them all, and watching them do their best to protect Madam Secretary and protect and defend the work that they do, even when it's difficult. And I thought Tim Kang did a fantastic job. It made for a very interesting episode. On a side note, I thought he was going to give the drive to Daisy (which might make her lighten up on him a little, LOL). But giving it to Blake is good, too. (And I liked Blake's wary eyeballing of the flash drive and saying carefully, "What is it?" That was fun.) Yeah! What was up with that?? I thought maybe they'd explain it eventually, but they never went back to it. (I think it was a brownie, or something like that.) I loved the look Elizabeth gave him as he kept right on walking away with it, too. Funny.

I think you're wrong about this episode. I mean, maybe not about the unhealthiness of Will and Grace's co-dependent friendship, but about the fact that you said it was worthless or a nothing episode. I can remember really liking this episode when it first aired, and one of the reasons is because I think it showed something we had not really seen yet back then: that gay characters have long relationships just as straight characters do. Most times, shows used gay characters as punch lines and side kicks and pretty much treated them as sexless - as in no one producing TV seemed to want to demonstrate that gay characters actually have sex and have enduring, loving relationships. Instead they were used as victims, or silly/sassy joke generators, or the types to flirt wickedly with straight people, and maybe have one-night stands. But rarely were we shown gay characters in loving, lengthy relationships, or shown the result of the break-up of one. So I thought this was a step in the right direction socially because it quietly and thoughtfully showed that Will had had this incredibly meaningful, lengthy relationship with Michael, and that it had meant something to him, and he - like anyone else would, gay or straight - mourned the loss of it. I felt it helped to nudge the audience forward just that little bit more, so that gay characters (and gay people in real life) could be seen with these kinds of eyes, that there is no difference. To cheesily borrow from Lin-Manuel Miranda, to teach people that "love is love is love is love...," or to borrow from Karen Walker, "Gay, straight, bi, Thai...," it doesn't matter. We all feel the sting when we have a big break-up; we all love and care about our partners. Which seems like a "duh" sort of lesson, but so many people never really think about what they don't personally experience, you know? And given the lack of respect or understanding for gay people back then (and still now in many ways), I thought it was a needed kernel to be planted. And at the time, my own best friend was really struggling with trying to figure out whether he was gay or bi, and what that means, and what people would think that means... so I really appreciated this show showing him that it was okay, no matter what, and telling him, "Look, this guy Will is gay, and he had a boyfriend for 7 YEARS. You can have that too. It's okay. And the people who love you will want to see you attain that sort of happiness." As we see in this episode, where it showed that his well-meaning friends (even Karen, LOL) were sensitive to that enough to be willing to do as Grace asked and go on this trip. So I think you should give this episode more credit. That is all. :) P.S. Campbell definitely looked mm-mm-good. (LOL) P.S. For all the reasons I listed above, that is why I was pissed when the re-vamp of this show ruined and essentially re-wrote what Will's relationship with Michael had been. Such BULLSHIT. Okay, now I'm done talking. ;)

Jason behaved terribly to his parents afterward, but I did like that he eventually apologized with sincerity, and I loved the end scene between him and Stevie.

Random side note: nice touch, having Matt use an inhaler after running to catch up with his girlfriend before she left. I remember an episode where he stayed at Nadine's and told her he had asthma, so I like that they added that little detail in this episode. I heart continuity.

I don't think it's an unforgivable sin. But I do think Maze needs to apologize to Trixie, and she hasn't done that. Which surprises me a little bit, because if nothing else, Maze does seem to regret how she hurt Trixie.

I feel like whoever made the decision to change the tone of the series so drastically is at fault. I don't know if it's the network, or what, but they really did miss the boat this season. The show should have stayed in a later time slot, and kept part of its dark tone. It needs that. The show's about the devil, for fuck's sake. We need his snarkiness, we need his rebelliousness, and we need a tinge of darkness under his humor, or it's just off. And whatever they did with Chloe this season was a mess. Her not giving a damn about including her daughter with all the Pierce stuff, us not even seeing Chloe give Maze hell for hurting her daughter... so not Chloe. It's really like they forgot what this show was all about.

Wow, bravo to Benny and Marissa for telling Bull off. He really needed to hear what they had to say. It blows my mind how tone deaf Bull is about his own behavior, but I guess that's life... we're too close to our own stuff, sometimes, to see it clearly (or to even want to see it clearly).

Does it matter anymore? Didn't Maze figure it out when Ella let it slip that she'd given Pierce advice on where to get stick-on tattoos? Maze knows his mark is gone. He better watch his back. She's mad enough at everyone that she'd have no issues with killing him; it's just a matter of how she's going to do it and who she'll hurt in the process. Then again, Pierce is mad at Lucifer now, and he knows that Lucifer's weakness is being around Chloe, so Pierce might end up trying to hurt Lucifer. We'll see what happens! I think they only have two episodes left in the season, is that right?

If the showrunners had had Chloe and Pierce dating all season, then maybe I'd believe that Chloe would be ready to marry this guy. But he pushed her away all season, uninterested in anything but finding a way to die, so the idea that she would say yes to him after only dating for what seems like five minutes is just ridiculous. Especially after he'd just run for the hills at the first sign of true intimacy, so you'd think Chloe would want to take a little time to make sure that he's not going to run again. Especially since there's a kid involved in all this, and she's already been hurt by Maze, so I'd think (hope) that Chloe's mind would be on protecting her daughter from further emotional upset and/or confusion. *cue eyeroll Anyway, the parts I loved involved Lucifer and Linda. They're the best.

Agreed. Also, right before he so viciously assaulted her, didn't he pretty much tell her that it didn't matter where she tried to run, he would always find her? At that point, I would imagine she felt she had no other alternative. Even if she tried to leave again, she feared he would find her, hurt her, hurt the baby... I'd say that's a good case for not feeling like she has any other way out. And when one has been battered and emotionally destroyed so much, I imagine the "logical" or "rational" direction we think she should have taken doesn't necessarily occur to her anymore. It's such a horrific situation.

This is a fantastic episode, definitely one of my favorites from the early seasons. Which makes it all the more annoying that they haven't honored Bobbie Adler (or Debbie Reynolds) in a manner befitting such a fabulous and hilarious character. The stuff they've done about Bobbie in the new W&G series hasn't been good, and that's not right.

Ethically, I'm on the side of the doctor mom, taking care of her son and her patients with whatever medicines will help them most. But I was annoyed that they made her so irrational as to not see her behavior skipping out on court might make things worse for her case. I know her mom's not in physical shape to go looking for her grandson, but couldn't the mom have gotten someone to drive her and look with her? That doctor was really foolish.

I'm annoyed there was no follow-up scene with Trixie and Dan, or something. You can't just make an adorable little girl cry and leave it at that! Even if it can't be fixed in one episode, there needs to be some sort of follow-up. That poor kid.

I kept waiting for some surprise twist involving the waitress from the bar, that it was actually the woman Cain knew and not her granddaughter, that somehow she's immortal too, and has an agenda of her own. Alas, I guess not.

I wish they hadn't shown that moment of Shaun saying "I love you" to Glassman in the preview for next week. That seems like an especially big thing for Shaun to say, so I wish they hadn't given it away. It would have been a huge surprise to me. (As it was, I teared up just hearing him say it.)