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  1. They burned Bobby's remains and the flask his spirit was tethered to, and he went on into the afterlife. I assume all the ghosts they've laid to rest over the years have done likewise. So far as I can recall the only souls we've seen an implied final end to were ones that had degenerated into demons and were then destroyed. (You'd think Lucifer might have had further uses for Lilith and the rest of Hell's roayalty if returning them were an option.) And don't get me started on the Nepotism duo deciding that Crowley can veto a saved soul going to Heaven with a flick of his wrist when his whole raison d'etre as a crossroads demon was cutting deals with people so they'd freely give him power over their souls, or that the Reapers previously shown to be mysterious agents of Death are second-rate angels that moonlight as cab drivers in the world of the living and do under-the-table work for demons rather than their appointed task. If an episode pisses all over the cosmology previously established by the show and cheapens a metaphysical concept, you can bet your bottom dollar their names are in the episode's credits.
  2. I don't think what Mary did to stop the poltergeist would have destroyed her, it probably just untethered her from the old house so she could go to her final reward (hopefully in Heaven). As for John, I would assume that refusing to submit to evil for a subjective century in Hell would earn him some brownie points regarding the final disposition of his afterlife.
  3. Creel could probably stand up to her if he absorbed the right material properties. Hell, if he got his hands on some vibranium she probably couldn't even knock him back directly.
  4. At least from Dabb we can count on enjoyable romps like "Weekend at Bobby's" or fairly deep and meaningful stories like "Dark Side of the Moon" once every season or so. This was sort of a mix of the two. I loved how we got opposition from Hannah and her fellow angels without them actually being enemies or acting with nefarious motives - just a disagreement about helping Dean being worth risking escape by Metatron and another angel war. It's nice when angels not seeing eye-to-eye doesn't automaticially result in some of them being destroyed. I think I trust Dabb more than anyone else to deal with the metaphysics of the show's setting without cheapening everything.
  5. That's my assumption as well. The spotlessly-clean 70s future look was her kind of thing. That was my thought too. Even if it's a Memorex version rather than the real Karen, you'd think a beloved dead wife would figure pretty prominently in Bobby's idea of Heaven. As for Karen having been a monster when last we saw her, she was a zombie-ish thing raised from the grave by Death rather than one of Mother-of-All's progeny. I'd imagine her soul went back to Heaven where it belonged when she was put down, if it was ever truly present within the reanimated version of her to start with.
  6. Those things are powered by nuclear reactors that can operate for years without refueling, and if it has the projective masking technology like the Helicarrier it would be effectively invisible. The main limitation would be how much the ship was carrying in the way of supplies. Remember that some of the planes in The Avengers were the ordinary sort rather than VTOL quinjets: the fighters the Hulk destroyed in the interior hangar during his fight with Thor, the one he jumped onto that blew up, and the ones carrying nukes that Fury was only half successful in shooting down.
  7. While they will probably have some superscience Phase Two macguffin onboard, they really don't need to. The US Navy is built around 10 Nimitz class carriers, and the entire rest of the world has another 10 comparable ships. If any one of those gets taken over by a terrorist group everyone not living near the Pole of Inaccessibility in central Asia had better start saying their prayers until it's back in the proper hands.
  8. I doubt the show will actually go this route, but it does sound like a plausible explanation for a number of things and I would LOVE for it to be true. If I'm prone to turning into a destructive nigh-invincible monster when angry, taking away my ability to read internet comments is actually a very good idea.
  9. Not specifically, but she could make an educated guess that it would be one of the ASZ people rather than Camp Dinner Bell. Rick, Michonne, Maggie, and Abraham have all proven they can take care of themselves, and would have been on their guard what with Pete's bellowing approach. I think Carol would have welcomed the chance to kill him herself if he'd screwed up his courage enough to attack her.
  10. I saw A Passage to India so long ago that I remember nothing of the plot, but I do recall it serving as one huge huge travel advertisement for India's tourism industry - every frame of the film was gorgeous!
  11. I've read a hilarious review by a critic who seemed to have the mistaken idea that Lady Tremaine is supposed to be a drag queen, and was offended that Cate Blanchett didn't play her campy enough. Of course that critic also voices the opinion that she's a horrible actress in general, so I can only assume controlled substances play a defining role in his moviegoing experience.
  12. Wait, when did they have an interview with Andrew Lincoln? I recall it being mentioned, but never actually saw it during the show.
  13. Although he's built like a linebacker, Pete is a bully, not a badass. And Rick didn't have a weapon between them pointed at him when he started that fight last week. He's used to beating a woman that no doubt cowers from him and tries to placate him when attacked, and now he's faced with an armed stranger who's clearly no more afraid of him than she is of a kitten and just informed him with the ruthless demeanor of a Mob hit man that she could easily murder him and get away with it Scott free. I think the lizard part of his brain saw through the booze that he would not be walking away from a fight if he started one then. I'd imagine that good biker leathers would be pretty much impossible for a walker to bite through, so wearing them gives Darryl a lot more more protection. To be fair, he did have a basically endless supply of practice dummies to work on his skills with. I vote for holding up a tray of brownies toward the camera. Bwah! I do recall being very skeptical that Darryl could hit three heads hard enough to split them open with one swing of a flexibel chain, though that would no doubt have been devastating if they were living opponents who could be blinded or concussed. Maybe they're turning him into Ghost Rider?
  14. Were those over Jessie as the new love interest, or fallout from Beth's suicide-by-cop?
  15. DIdn't Gimple step down so they could concentrate on the three actors?
  16. No matter how awful the characters get, we'll always be able to say "still not as bad as Lori." Yeah, even without whatever's animating the dead, Rick was all but motorboating a rotting corpse while sporting a faceful of fresh cuts. That can't be healthy.
  17. Honey, I Blew Up the Zombies is a hilarious title but inappropriate as Carol won't be crossing over between the shows.
  18. Thank goodness, that pretty much removes any cringe factor from her sitting next to the actress she's cosplaying as.
  19. I loved the whole epsiode. I was really cheering for Glenn and Maggie to spare their respective traitors, for their own consciences' sake. I'm reassured by the secrecy around Lenny James' return indicating the producer understand how much of a big deal Morgan is for the show. And while I was dismayed by Noah's and even Tyreese's deaths, a There Can Be Only One Brother rule won't bother me so much if Father Gabriel is the one who buys it in favor of Morgan. Never attended parochial school, did you? I don't really think wanting someone who just killed your spouse in a drunken rage right before your eyes to get treated in kind is self-serving hypocrisy. You'd have to be a LOT better person than I am to want Pete spared in that moment. That was my thought as well. Her motivation for threatening Pete couldn't have been protecting Jessie, she'd know better than anyone that it wouldn't work for long with that type of guy.
  20. Peter would have had to be in Midtown Manhattan during the fifteen or so minutes the climactic fight took place within. Otherwise by the time the news started broadcasting about the invasion, he made his excuses and changed into the suit, and web-slung his way from Queens, all the fighting would have been over already.
  21. I have a feeling he'll be about as scary as Christine Taylor on Friends: https://youtu.be/ZfrIK49ylF0?t=55s
  22. I loved how everyone was screaming in pain as they were being shrunk except Cheryl, who was clapping like a happy toddler.
  23. Bruinsfan

    S05.E15: Try

    It may very well be that life with Pete has taught Sam to recognize when an adult is likely to follow through with a threat of violence, and when it's just talk. Yeah. I'd bet on Darryl, but only because I think he'd know a lot more about fighting dirty. And of course Carol, because she'd know not to get in an up-front fight while Pete's coordinated enough to throw punches (but look out once the drunken stupor hits - you can't beat up lit gasoline!).
  24. I hope that means that her home situation with her dad has gotten less stressful and she's able to take some time to relax.
  25. We're really lucky that she's the #1 superfan for this series. That was the best episode of the aftershow I can recall seeing, everything clicked just right.
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