[S02.E10: Luther Braxton (2)]

I like this show but they are just making up mcguffins as they go. First Berlin and now the Fulcrum. If the alliance was was as big and bad they made themselves to be you'd think they would just steal the damn Fulcrum themselves.

[S12.E11: Sous Your Daddy]

Re Mei's attitude towards her brother....

 

I love my brother, but I am straight out blunt to him and love to tease him about anything and everything.  If that makes me a mean brother, then so be it.  I'd rather be able to have an honest and joking relationship with my brother (and my other siblings) than gush fake platitudes about how awesome they are and how I miss them so much.

[S12: Last Chance Kitchen]

I am uber-suspicious of the nomination of Mike Isabella's protege for coming back in to compete. Unless he totally won them all over during their sequester with his wonderful personality, I really have to wonder.

I don't find it suspicious at all. He was eliminated on the first quick fire challenge and I don't think it's out of the ordinary that the other chefs thought that he had gotten a raw deal.

[S05.E08: Coda]

For those of you who know the show inside and out: do we know the significance of any of the items Morgan put on the alter? Thanks!

 

Just my opinion, but:

 

Rabbit foot - gave him luck.

 

Goo Goo cluster - reminder of his son

 

Bullet - I think he saved that bullet to kill himself but something kept him from doing it. Stumbling upon the church further cements his faith and he can finally let go of the bullet.

 

 

[Spoilers: Even here, Red is one step ahead of us]

I love Perlman so I can't wait to see him chew his lines with Spader. 

 

 

Ron Perlman is bringing anarchy to NBC's The Blacklist. The actor has signed on to play the drama's next mega criminal when it returns on Feb. 1 behind the Super Bowl.

 

Perlman will appear as Luther Braxton, a meticulous thief who plans his international heists over the course of several months or years. The ruthless baddie creates great diversions and chaos to get what he wants — that is, until he faces off with Red Reddington (James Spader).

 

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Blacklist-Super-Bowl-Ron-Perlman-1089161.aspx

[S05.E05: Self Help]

But the rednecks from Season 2 specifically said Washington was overrun. 

 

Those rednecks didn't say anything like that at all. 

 

In the bar, they told Rick, Herschel and Glenn that they were heading towards Washington, D.C. because they heard there was a refugee camp there, but that they "never even got close" because the roads were so jammed. 

[S05.E05: Self Help]

What distracted me was Glenn standing there with his mouth hanging open when Eugene made his confession.  Glenn was at the CDC, he met Jenner, he knew what went down.  His CDC amnesia is annoying.  

 

So Jenner's conclusions from 12 months back regarding the virus meant that no other scientist in the world was also doing research on the virus at the same time or after Jenner's passing? 

 

In addition, Jenner never said that there was no cure for the virus.  In fact, he specifcally stated that the French was closest to finding a cure before communication was lost.  The fact that Glenn was at the CDC makes it more likely for me that he bought Eugene's BS because he was aware that there existed scientists who were working on a possible cure. 

 

 

Where fresh water is at a premium, to waste it all on killing Walkers, dumb.  Especially when they were just hours earlier drinking water out of a toilet tank.

 

I am sure 500 gallons of drinking water is going be useful for Glenn, Tara, Maggie, Abe and Rosita when they are dead after being suprised by a horde of walkers. 

 

 

This band of wandering idiots don't even know to knock and make noise before entering a dark building.

 

After their run in with the Termites, I wouldn't be surprised if the group was more concerned about humans than zombies when entering an apparently deserted building.  I'd probably take my chances with predictable zombies than alert any humans potentially lurking in the bookstore by knocking on the door or loudly announcing your arrival. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Spoilers and Speculation]

The Spoiling Dead Fans posted this today.  They are usually spot on with spoilers so RIP Beth.

 

 

Mid-season finale info:

We received some information a while back stating the MSF would have a death and would be bloody. Last night we saw Noah escape the hospital as reported. Recently, we stated that Noah would be used as a "bargaining chip" when the group goes to the hospital for Carol and Beth. Noah "volunteers" to return to the hospital with Rick’s group.

 

No one finds Beth as a walker. There is a "standoff" of sorts. Beth has the choice to leave and has a moment of gumption (or weakness, depending on how you look at it) that leads to her demise. Beth ends up believing that the choice she makes is a necessity in the end. But Beth doesn't envision things ending the way they do. Beth's death will be a harrowing moment not only for Beth, but for Daryl, Carol and the others as well.

[S05.E03: Four Walls And A Roof]

I lost the quote, but someone upthread mentioned that Morgan siting was a flash forward. I'm pretty sure the Terminus sign had been blacked out by Rick when they showed Morgan looking at it, so it would have to be a flashback since Rick only did that after they escaped Terminus. If we want to line it up with current events at best I'd say it's happening concurrently with the events at the Church. The take away I got from that was that Morgan was a few days, perhaps weeks behind Rick & co.

 

The official AMC episode description says that: "Months after Rick's escape from Terminus, a masked stranger marches down the railroad tracks......"

 

http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead/episodes/season-5/no-sanctuary

 

Morgan finding that sign a few months after Rick and Co. passed makes sense to me because the Terminus sign had plants growing all over it when Morgan passed it whereas the sign was clean when Rick marked it up. 

[S05.E03: Four Walls And A Roof]

Abraham giving Rick the map with their route to DC made me roll my eyes. How could they possibly know what route is not clogged up with cars and walkers? It is not like they could take I-95.

Regarding I-95, I am sure that the biggest freeway on the eastern seaboard was something that millions of people avoided when the zombie apocalypse began. It's just sitting idly with no traffic right at this moment waiting for Abraham's journey to DC.

[S02.E04: I Will Face My Enemy]

I thought this was a great episode. When I saw the preview and I saw the dancing segment I thought it was going to be boring as hell.

However this is episode was full of character building moments and I think that's really important because it makes us as viewers really care about each individual character.

I'm a bit depressed that it's not getting very good ratings right now but hopefully we'll get out that the show has been much improved since the Hydra plot.

[S12.E01: Sudden Death]

After the fucked-up judging of last season, I'd had enough and was planning to bail. Then I read this recap, saw that Blais was involved, and KNEW I was going to bail.

So did you bail for good or are you going be back next week and tell us you are going to bail?

I actually like the start of the season so far. I like the fact that the judges are apparently giving critiques immediately after the catering challenges. I also like how they are calling out the entire group so no one has an idea of who is going to be at the top or who is going to be at the bottom.

[S02.E04: I Will Face My Enemy]

Amazing that people just won't do their proper research when planning to impersonate someone. The imposter will almost always do one thing that the real person would not do, say, or eat.

To be fair it is not like Agent 33 had a lot of time to actually figure out Mays backstory because it didn't appear to me that she had any intention of actually impersonating May because Fake Talbot wanted Coulson to appear at the meeting.

I would love to be in a special operations program where you had time to study the back story of everyone that you may possibly imitate on the possibility that you wold be in a position of putting on a mask that made you look exactly like him/her.

[S05.E01: No Sanctuary]

 

That's what I was just coming to ask.  I totally thought that was the remains of the katana and was going to ask if anyone remembered it getting broken last season.

 

 

I rewound just to check and the weapon even had a strap for carrying.  It looked to put together to be something that she made in a box car, bt why would they give her even a broken Katana in that car.  I don't recall the Katana being broken but it didn't look like it was with the stuff in the room.  Carol found Daryl's bow and Rick's watch;  she wasn't even looking specifically for them.  Wouldn't she have looked for he Katana since she was pretty sure Michonne was there?

 

Someone has already mentioned this, but Michonne makes her weapon from her katana sheath.

 

Here is picture of the sheath: 

 

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140509020810/walkingdead/images/b/b8/Michonne-katana-sheath.jpg

[S02.E01: Shadows]

In 1945, who knew how to design life support / stasis units for humans, let alone Kree? If Hydra was that smart, the war should have been over in 1942.

What makes you think Krees even need life support? You can't impose human needs on a fake alien species.

[S13: Fade Zu Grau]

That's another thing - I think the gimmicky, sponsor-pushed stuff was wearing on his last nerve.

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Has he ever watched any previous seasons a project runway or for that matter any reality show it all? Gimmicks are part of almost every design challenge and if he could not adapt his own style to that then he didn't deserve to be on the show anyway.

[S13.E08: The Rainway]

It's often said that the judges should not be rewarding designers for their past designs. If that is really the case then what was the problem with eliminating Fade after this challenge?

That was a two day avant garde challenge and his design ended up looking like a cheap T-shirt from urban outfitters. He deserved to go.

[The Strain: Books Vs Show]

I just finished the last book and while I certainly enjoyed reading about Quinlan's backstory and the Ancients, the portions with Zach hanging out with the Master was simply tedious to get through.  I get that Zach is a young teenager with some absent dad issues, but to me he was annoying and entitled.  I was hoping that someone would just take him out so we wouldn't have to spend anymore time with his teenage angst.

 

Gus was simply bad ass in the book and I really hope the show gives him some much needed attention instead of making him the cliched "gangster with a heart of gold."