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At this point you must discard it as useless. Flailing helplessly against an attacker's chest with your open palms while screaming is a much more effective strategy than pistol-whipping him with a metal gun.

Yeah, she wasn't given much to go on other than knowing her mom was keeping her employers' kids without permission and that something had freaked the woman out. If Neeva had the presence of mind to calmly point out that a very stubborn woman who was just released from a quarantine had taken to her sickbed, been acting odd and vaguely menacing around her children, and had something majorly weird going on with her eyes, keeping the kids another day or two might have sounded reasonable.

To be fair, it is very much in his best interest to live by the example of "Death wipes the slate clean." His continued existence is at the sufferance of people he terrorized or cost their nearest and dearest.

Was there any explanation for why Satomi didn't take out that entire warehouse full of legally blind mercenary riflemen in about 15 seconds? Last time I checked she was still an alpha werewolf, and not hampered by the twin constraints of soft-heartedness and ineptitude like Scott.

He's used it on Isaac as a beta, and Derek did it in an uncontrolled fashion to Jackson when he was a beta. I gather that alphas are better at it, but presumably Peter retained the knowledge of how to do it after his resurrection.

Seriously, even if it were just muggers or crazy people surrounding the cab, why stick around and engage in a gun battle instead of just driving away? It wasn't the cabbie's damn house! Maybe there are vampires that get their intellect back after a time like Eichorstand are working against the Master? Or maybe they work for the Master's competitors?

I think the specific names on the deadpool have to be Meredith's doing rather than anything she picked up from Peter. There's no way he'd have known about the kid werewolves, Lydia, Kira, etc. back then. And no way anyone without precognition could have known about Liam when the deadpool was established. Peter's subconscious probably just supplied the basic idea and the hows of getting the money and contacting assassins. (Though I still have no clue how an ancient computer that's apparently been running unattended in the Martins' lakehouse for years could be involved in running the electronic transfers.) Not necessarily a flub, since the flashback was to a couple years before the series started in 2011. He could have had a short haircut at the time Meredith was in the hospital. Though I have no explanation for the Hulk-like neck...

Scott's probably only had more than one beta that would count as his since Liam was bitten, though I could maybe see a case for Derek if his association with Scott is enough to outweigh any lingering familial connection to Peter and the now-vanished Cora. (And those two definitely never seemed to regard Scott as the boss of them.)

I thought he was a good enough supporting character in Iron Man and Thor, but he was just cringeworthy in The Avengers. Trying to make him into a character I'm supposed to love had the opposite effect.

The money troubles are just all so poorly drawn. Stiles' medical bills would be a few thousand dollars, which could be paid out in installments basically forever even if insurance didn't pick up the tab. And a nurse involved in patient care would most likely not know anything about a former patient's hospital bills for taunting purposes. The damage done to Stiles' jeep in several episodes should be more of a financial concern. Meanwhile, I suppose Melissa could be house poor and barely making ends meet even on a decent nursing salary, but it seems really odd for it to get to the point of the power being shut off without asking Scott to pitch in a bit now that he's allegedly been working a part time job for almost a year. If things were that tight and she had no savings you'd think they would have put the house on the market and tried to downsize their expenses long before now. (Or hell, just rest a room to one of the supernaturals being irresistably drawn to Beacon Hills now that Isaac's left!)

So many funny scenes in that one, like the mean kids having their faces frozen, Bobcat Goldthwaite running amok in a Godzilla suit, and Demi Moore fleeing from the cub scout troop so eager to perform first aid that they're mummifying random people with bandages.

I'm sure the big love scene in Watchmen was intended to be dramatic and meaningful, but between the use of dirgelike "Hallelujah" as its score and the hamfisted symbolism of that flamethrower bit at the climax, I couldn't help but laugh in disbelief.

I always liked The Hobbit better than the subsequent trilogy. Its brevity is a feature, not a bug, and I think it loses something of its fairy tale aspect when so many details are filled in.

This last issue of Overture was interesting and had some nicely creepy bits, but I'll admit a small feeling of disappointment that we didn't see Morpheus going to speak with his father (presumably the Creator?) as issue #2 seemed to indicate.

I'm wondering if DJ Cole was right in his guess about Parrish's true nature now - Jeff Davis went stonefaced and took a minute to recover. Though the phoenix was a singular being and not human in form. What other supernatural creatures would be immune to fire? Ifrits? Dragons? Funny that they didn't do a trivia game this week thanks to Jeff being there. Based on the show's handling of continuity, Posey or the fan guest might have had a shot at beating him!

I for one liked the Meredith reveal. It was genuinely surprising after her faked death, and for once it's completely believable that the antagonist would have all kinds of information about the condition and whereabouts of various supernatural creatures since she can predict the future. I wonder if Meredith was trying to wipe out all the local supernaturals so the county's death rate would drop back down to normal levels afterwards? That was one thing I tilted my head at. Really stupid of them not to take one of the werewolves with them for backup. I would have loved to see Brunski getting slung around by wee little Liam. Also, Stiles could yell his head off all day in the basement of a mental hospital and never attract anyone's attention, but if Lydia let fly one of her eardrum-bursters everything supernatural in Beacon Hills would know exactly where she is.

I actually kind of liked the singing, but that interminable video game chase scene through Goblin Town was too much for me.

Yeah, when early on you have someone survive a nuclear blast by hiding inside a refrigerator there's more wrong with the movie than the ending. About the only thing that movie did right was bringing back Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood.

Wow. I liked Latter Days, but I really wouldn't put it up in the same company as Brokeback Mountain, Beautiful Thing, and Angels in America. Those movies felt ground-breaking in addition to being extremely well made.

The latter was probably busy yelling at a police commissioner to put out APBs when her nanny was more than 30 minutes late getting her kids back home.

I did almost mistake Mia Kirschner for Amanda Tapping w/brunette hair a few times. Though Helen Magnus wouldn't have needed any rescuing...

There's always Interview with the Vampire.

I don't think that's a plus, as not singing means she instead spends all of her screen time "acting." (I saw Valentine's Day, and when you manage to make George Lopez and Eric Dane look like master thespians in comparison maybe an acting career just shouldn't be a goal...)

I think that movie used up so many endings there weren't enough left over for a number of other films.

I tried to watch The Hurt Locker and found myself bored to the point of switching to some mindless fare on cable TV. Don't get me wrong, I was thrilled that the Motion Picture Academy flipped James Cameron the bird by giving it all those Oscars, but ideally I'd like for a Best Picture winner to be compelling enough that I actually feel motivated to keep watching until the end. (Movies like Driving Miss Daisy and The English Patient certainly had no difficulties in that regard...)