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The only real positive I can draw from this episode are the Emily and Ren segments. I just couldn't help being delighted when they high five after figuring out the elevator lock and key. I think this might just be Ren carrying his partner though, because I also loved the Miko and Ren segments in the early parts of the season. It's not quite the same but I get a lot of Season 1 Hiro vibes from Ren, it doesn't matter how dire the situation or how high the stakes, he and his partner accomplish even the smallest goal and then they have a little celebration (Yatta!) and I buy it, it's just fun and wonderful. IMO the only time this miniseries has succeeded at capturing what made the old Heroes great are the segments with Ren.

Could be a Sea Dragon? We know they actually did exist historically at least because of the bones of Nagga where they held the Kingsmoot on Old Wyk. There have been a lot of hints of dragons other than Dany's three, like the one that was possibly dormant in Winterfell's crypts. I don't know if I buy these theories, but they'd be fun curveballs for GRRM to work in.

Just watched Blank Eyed Girl. To quote Finn "What. The Junk. Was That?" I'm a little glad to know that every so often Finn is as weirded out by what is going on as the viewer is. Not BMO though.

Does California need 4? and 3 NHL teams, and 4 NBA teams, and 5 MLB teams? Damn it Cali, stop bogarting all the sports!

That was fun. Jake is simultaneously a terrible father (putting tons of pressure on Viola to validate himself as a parent) and a great father (being just as pumped that she ran the effects as if she was the lead). So now we've visited with Jake Jr, TV, Kim Kil Whan and Viola. Just waiting for Charlie to get her own episode.

I actually think he has the ending very planned out, and that's the big problem. I could be wrong, but the way Martin writes it seems like he plots out the HUGE events (Ned's Death, Red Wedding, Battle of Meereen etc) and decides how he wants the characters positioned, and then he tries to write them there with almost no planning whatsoever. When things aren't fitting and the characters aren't getting to where they need to be to fill out these scenarios, he doesn't adjust the event he has planned, instead he goes backward and rewrites the character arc trying to ram it into continuity. This is why Dance of Dragons took so long with the fabled "Meereenese Knot". He needed everyone to arrive in Meereen at a specific time in order to kick off the battle how he wanted and it just wasn't working, but instead of just changing the Battle, he instead decided to fiddle with the previous chapters written to ram the characters where they needed to be for his Battle to take place. This is also the problem with following so many characters, we know where literally hundreds of characters are if we choose to look into it. They can't just appear somewhere else as needed, we need to know how and why they got there or else the story won't make sense. To draw back into the Harry Potter comparison: JK Rowling doesn't need any justification of why or how minor characters are where they are, the only ones we really know the locations of most of the time are Harry, Ron and Hermione. If she needs Dumbledore, or Neville Longbottom, or Sirius Black in the scene she can just have them arrive in the scene, and have them explain what they were doing retroactively. Also they are magicians who can teleport, so that also clears up any issues of time in getting to different locations.

Did not like the trailer. It definitely feels more like Guardians of the Galaxy than Star Trek. Not that there's anything wrong with Guardians, it was a fun and fine movie. But when something says Star Trek I want it to be Star Trek. It felt like we finally conquered the Star Trek Even/Odd Numbering Law when Star Trek (2009) was good. I guess it's just another anomaly like Nemesis (which was terrible, but by numbering law should've been good)

Anyone else annoyed that they just wasted a 10 commandments murder? Now that we know for sure that John is the 10 commandments killer I assumed the last couple murders might actually have some weight, instead he just kills some faceless cultists. I get that it makes sense that he needs to kill randoms to avoid detection, but it just makes the murders boring and lifeless. There are also so many people we curently know in the show who would fit the criteria of "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" Oh well, most of this season has been boring and lifeless, i guess there's no reason to change anything now.

Even if there was a way to kill a ghost, I don't see how it would be possible to take a souvenir of the murder and put it in a glass case. I think he's gonna have to kill an actual person, my bet's still on John himself. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins (Gluttony, Greed, Envy, Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Lust) for more on that check out the 1995 David Fincher movie, Seven These killings are based on the 10 commandments. I: Thou shalt have no other gods before me: Cultist's ears (cause apparently AHS has to do everything the boring way and kill people we don't know or care about) II: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image: Brain (what was left) of the guy who was selling (maybe making?) award trophies and also may have been a pedophile III: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain: Televangelist's spleen IV: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy: Teeth from migrant workers V: Honor thy father and thy mother: Twins' hearts who killed their parents VI: Thou shalt not kill: ??? VII: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Adulterer's tongue and eyes VIII: Thou shalt not steal: Thief's hand IX: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Gossip columnist's vocal chords X: Thou shalt not covet: Cop's genitals who coveted Alex, John's wife.

Any thoughts on who our last two victims are? The commandments we have left are Thou shalt have no other gods before me (A follower of the Countess? Alex?) and Thou shalt not kill (Probably John himself. I don't think AHS can resist the urge to have everything end in a nice bow with John taking his own life to complete the "masterpiece")

I think It feels like they ended up just hastily ending Mira's story instead. Very unfortunate.

I think we need to be skeptical about how Littlefinger runs things. They say he can rub two dragons together and breed a third, but there has to be some kind of creative book keeping going on there. I wouldn't be surprised if Littlefinger was running some kind of medieval Ponzi scheme. The Crown does have debts to multiple entities, maybe Littlefinger keeps robbing Peter to pay Paul and the way he keeps the books make it seem like the Kingdom is raking in cash when really it's not.

To be fair to you, they were very deliberate about keeping it a secret. Most of the time you can figure it out because there are more and more clues as the episodes continue. Pretty much all the clues here were in either episode 1 or episode 2, and then they made a point about limiting the cast, having episodes where we didn't see a lot of people (or saw them very briefly.) It didn't feel strange that we didn't have more time with the Murphys because of course we wouldn't see the Murphys if it was a Laurie/Tom episode, or a Matt/Mary episode, or a Garvey family episode or a "just Kevin" episode. or a Meg/Tom episode. It was a very clever way of trying to outfox the internet community. Most of the time these things are cracked on forums or reddit long before they get aired, because each episode has a clue, and they can't help dropping clues because in most shows the main cast is usually in each episode.

Another thought, I have to think this game was hampered by actor availabilty. I mean,

To be fair we don't know a lot about the other girls, they could have problems at home too. But think about it this way, they live in a town where hundreds (thousands?) of tourists come through every week looking for salvation and probably telling them how lucky they are to live there, etc. When to them they're just in their hometown. It's no more holy or unholy then any other place, and just because nobody departed doesn't mean they don't have problems just like everyone else. If you look at the first episode when they're singing in the choir Evie keeps glancing at her friend with a sardonic look, she's almost singing sarcastically. Her life isn't perfect just for living there. And she probably sings or atleast hears that song like every single freaking day. It would probably grate on you if you had problems (even if they were reletively small) and almost everyone you met could only talk about how great your life is because of the town you live in and you had to sing about how blessed you are for living there every single day.

My heart. So many no win scenarios. What did you guys do? I...

It's just Kryptonian naming culture. Females carry their father's full name. Males carry the house name. Names are not changed when individuals marry, even though wives are formally considered members of their husband's house. For instance even though she is a member of the House of El, Kara's mother is named Alura In-Ze, because her father was In-Ze of the House of Ze.

As far as I can recall Pre-Crisis Supergirl was an actress in her Linda Danvers secret identity, she did do a stint as a TV Reporter, but I don't think she ever worked at a newspaper like Clark did. The more recent Post Crisis and New 52 Supergirls never really got old enough to get jobs, if they did have secret identities it was for what were usually brief stints in either highschool or university trying to be a "normal teenager." Supergirl rarely maintained her secret identity on a regular basis though, and I don't believe she ever went as Linda Danvers in post-crisis continuity, she was Linda Lang (Lana Lang's neice) in post crisis continuity for a while, and she's been Kara Kent (Clark's cousin) in both Post-Crisis and New 52 continuities. Typically she's only Kara Kent if she's staying at the Kent homestead in Kansas or she needed to see Clark in his civilian identity. Really the lack of a secret identity was one of the things that seperated Kara from Clark, especially in the newer comics. She really never seems to understand what he gets out of his civilian identity, and she prefers much more to associate with her superheroic peers, like Batgirl, Power Girl, the Teen Titans and the Legion of Superheroes.

Squeaky Voice Jake: Where'd you come up with all those code names?!

The only counterpoint I might have is that Jake probably remembers that he had to offer Amy a weeks worth of paperwork to pull of the most minor portion of his first caper (all she had to do was tell Holt that Jake got arrested scaling the building) and she didn't even really have to lie to Holt, (Jake DID get arrested scaling the side of the building.) When conversely she betrayed him to Holt for nothing more then the pleasure of humiliating him. Sure Jake and Amy are in a relationship now, but I think they still take delight in pranking each other.

In the first caper Jake offers to do everyone's paperwork for the week in exchange for their help, but since Holt had wagered Jake's paperwork in the bet, Holt ends up doing everyone's paperwork. In the second caper everyone (except Boyle) agrees to double cross Jake and help Holt just for the fun of seeing Jake humiliated. This time it seems they just wanted to have fun, and since Jake and Holt had done their work for the evening they figured it was fine to do so. I'm not sure that a bribe would've gained Amy's loyalty, it really just seems like she wanted in on the fun this time and was disappointed when both her boyfriend and her mentor didn't trust her enough to include her. If either had chosen her at the beginning I think she would've gone along with whatever team picked her, if Jake or Holt had taken her on at her second urging instead of both yelling at her breasts I think she still would've helped them. But after the 4 rejections I think she was committed to humilating both of them.

It was fun I guess. But what I liked about the old Halloween episodes was that it was a bit of a question how Jake/Holt pulled off their heists. This time it seemed obvious that Amy would win, which is fine, but how she won was also very obvious. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never did. Just a little disappointing.

Well that was frustrating. My Jays fully deserved to lose. I don't understand how you can go 0/12 with runners in scoring position. Hats off to the Royals, they earned this one with Bautista trying to will the Jays to a win. Ok done being gracious in defeat. Go Mets.

I'm guessing it has something to do with Hachiro Otomo's (Miko's dad's) powers. It seems like he can (could?) both put things into a digital environment (like Hiro and the katana) and take them out (it's pretty obvious he created Katana Girl in the game and then brought her out into the real world) Maybe he was also tricked by Erica and then had a change of heart which resulted in him creating Miko to free Hiro.