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Now the show is Pandorum? Agents of Shield ....in space. There was a Daily Show parody sketch of producers who pitch premises and just add "in space" to look distinct. You know if they had been inadvertantly flung into the Kree homeworld where humans were "kidnapped"/"sent" to work for the Kree and they try to get back home to warn the planet about possibility of a Kree invasion I think that would be less ridiculous. Time travel? So instead of establishing they have to fix the mess they had created in season 4 the show decides to forget that and focus on time travel and saving the future? And the agents of Shield are now legends? I guess this episode was also meant to clue drop for the agents to figure out what had happened or how to prevent the invasion but I get the feeling they're making it sound like it's Daisy did something to make it worse. Where's Fitz?

Nathan, I think is overcompensating with Meghan. The last time he saw her they had a fight and then years later the guilt of her being left behind, he's trying to make it up to her for all those years. Not saying a part of him doesn't love her but it's a gap of many years and then trying to continue where they last left off is not the right time. It should be about her recovery time and leave the relationship issues for a later time. Jo on the other is addicted to doing stupid things. Sleeping with glasses guy (it's not as if she was attracted to him or even desired to sleep with him, she just did it) and then immediately hooking up with Alex after the fallout from the previous season. Are they sure that Jo doesn't have a tumour too? Because she's just out there. Amelia. Well I guess it explains her behaviour lately. Although I agree it sounds like a cop-out. She's not out of control it was the tumour. I wonder how long will the show make Amelia keep this a secret from Owen until it's too late. And since it seems like she's the only brain surgeon in America who perform the surgery, she's screwed. April/Jackson. I thought they were a couple after Montana. Jackson doesn't seem like the type to be vague with the status of their relationship. And no no no to Maggie and Jackson, they're step-siblings. This is not Days of Our Lives where it's okay to hook with pseudo family members.

It just shows where their principles are or where they are not. It's juvenile but I thought it was funny after Trevor Noah mimed being splatted he wiped his face. Seriously? Blaming the Secret Service is a weak defense.

Weird that Mitch in a bottle aged more than everyone in the real world. Mitch shooting Clem. Worst. Dad. Ever. And if I were Clementine I wouldn't let that slide so quickly. And no, Raiden Global? Every time they put their "input" on anything they only make things worse. Now they're cribbing a plot from PD James' Children of Men.

A glass of Mitch. That was weird. Especially considering he had his eyes open in that tank for ...years? A friend brought up a good point. How do they feed his body so it doesn't waste away or develop nutritional deficiencies. And why am I thinking so hard about it?

I think just like that police officer in NY and the woman who set off a bomb where Jackson was that the hybrids have evolved into human clone versions.

Butch is... Cyrus Gold? He's ....Solomon Grundy? Born on Monday. Seriously, everyone in Gotham is an idiot. I'll give Penguin a bit of a pass since he figured out Nygma's OCD tendancy to follow patterns just like riddling he's a stickler to details. Selena being trained by Tabitha. That's a good start to learn to become Catwoman.

Definitely. There has been a lot of shows where killing was the only solution to the problem. I'm not expecting a sappy ending but it's always seem like the default story resolution killing the character to the point it's become expected. She couldn't stay on Earth and she couldn't go back to Heaven or Hell. This was the resolution that I can live with and for Lucifer instead of going back to old habits of bitterness and revenge an actual compromise. I guess Amandiel will slowly get his angel powers back if Lucifer can get his wings back. Lucifer mentioned the threat of civil war maybe this is why he got his wings back and Amandiel getting his power back. They've been drafted to take sides. Maze will always be the best. Friend. Ever.

Geez Arizona, you really know when to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. Telling Riggs that Derek was the love of Meredith's life and that he was perfect was...over the top. Derek was many things but he was also often arrogant, stubborn and sometimes a jerk. Making sound like a saint was weird and awkward. In fact I think most of the characters (other than Richard) suck at the reassuring talk because Meredith and Amelia really picked a lousy time to ask if Maggie is emotionally professional enough to handle a surgery just before a surgery that only accomplishes to rattle her. Nice work Meredith. And by the way shouldn't Minnick be in this episode to deal with Edwards' crisis of faith instead of Richard? Because honestly this civil war went with a whimper and no real resolution. It just dragged on to a certain point and the writers let it whither off without making any sense what the point of this plot device.

Yeah I found that weird. Webber doesn't seem like the type to ignore suggestion/changes to the program. I mean they could have had an consultant just tell the hospital/him and left and that would have been cheaper and less staff changes. Was this a power move by Catherine? I mean Minnick sort of bitched of how exhausting being asked by the students. Uh hello? That was what you were brought here for not for your benefit but theirs. She still comes off as needy/brittle for me to believe she's a kickass teacher/leader. I think the reason Jackson is fighting so hard over the Webber situation is not only family loyalty (I think he misses his father and sees Webber as a second father) but because his mother's powerplay. She undercuts him at the hospital in front of everyone and yet tells him he is the administrator of the hospital. She went over his head and bypassed his authority with Minnick. I feel like it's a constant war with his mother a lot of times. And her accusing him of coasting on the Avery name, I thought in the earlier seasons he tried to make an effort not to bank on his name, even not submitting something that would have brought in line to the Harper-Avery award. Also, what is Catherine's game? And Alex? DeLuca doesn't owe you squat when he contacted the transplant list. He dropped the charges. You owe him more. Oddly enough I was sucked into finding out what happened to that family with the father injured accidentally by the guy's fiance. The sister was kind of bitchy to him so easily to him (granted her father was in the OR) even though it was an accident. But wow, the boyfriend one minute was cold to him almost blaming him and then the next considerate enough to text him because he knew he cared about his dad. For some reason I wanted to know if he did text him and what was the response because I don't think that relationship is going to last.

Even though the double gavel "guilty!" bit was silly I thought it was hilarious at how that's how I felt when I hear them talk total BS. I want to chant "guilty!" that way too. Even though the snake popping out of the nesting doll is an old comedy cliche it was almost a metaphor of the snake resting in a Trump White House staffer.

My friend described Minnick in a way that explained why I don't like her character. She's so brittle. She's supposedly the equivalent of a corporate motivator/efficiency expert and she acts like it's her first assignment ever. She lacks the alpha quality like the Coach Sue on Glee of the "pro" that Bailey supposedly brought in to teach. Sure she only taught sports medicine but she can apply her experience to the students. I'm supposed to believe in her confidence but she's so needy instead of a teacher. Who cares if they don't like her? She was hired to get the job done and the first setback she seems to collapse and maybe it's the actor/character (writers) is lacking the necessary charisma to show how to get it done.

It feels like the hospital is for the doctors' benefit and their "issues" and not the patients'. The shake-up civil war is a stupid storyline. In the end it's the patients who are caught in the middle and suffering.

I'm thinking this is a set-up where April's character will be used as the villain in the storyline or the patsy by Catherine. I get she's trying to fight for respect and that maybe she's worthy of the position but I don't if it's the writing or the acting but she's lashing out really harsh. Beside why do we need another arc to prove April is tough? Didn't last season finale show when she had a live c-section prove she's not afraid and able to handle high stress situation? It looks like Catherine's strategy of divide and conquer is starting. And that really sucks that they're going to make the April character be the fall guy when this storyline goes down badly. And this story arc really puts ambitious women in a really bad light. I predict that Catherine might lose her marriage in the end result. This is a bad way to introduce a character. She's already disliked and not that charming in her way she interacts with the character. Before she came all super confident and cocky about how to teach/be a doctor and the first sign of failure she runs and hides like a first year. This is the pro that Bailey brought? I didn't like how she was relieved she didn't have to explain to the parents that their child is dead. That's a cowardly way to go and makes me even distrust her ability to teach or even a doctor even more. Look, I get you need them to get the doctors their first solo surgery but must you put them in a high risk one? Because I don't think the parents would appreciate their kid being used as an experimental teaching tool. They don't care if they made an honest mistake, they want the best working on it and for Minnick too cowardly to face them and take their sorrow/anger for using their kid as an experiment doesn't sit right. Makes her look even weaker in my eyes. And I find it hard that she has never experienced failure once, what kind of teacher would never experienced that so that they can teach the student how to overcome it? Setting this episode up to humanize her makes me feel the opposite.

I think they didn't want to know because it would either horrify/terrify them they were in a room holding hands/removing restraints/sympathizing with someone in max prison. They didn't want to ruin what they felt for her. Sort of keep it untainted which is unfair to the mom, she knows what her daughter did and she's trying to hold onto whatever feelings she has for her daughter. Yeah and even though the prison doc was kind of a hardass you can tell she's burned out emotionally trying to treat with little resources and then seen as the bad guy by the inmates no matter what. She deals with them 24/7 while no offense Bailey/Arizona/Jo just spent one day.

Right. The crime she did must have been truly unforgivable like maybe a family member because if she totally wrote off her daughter she wouldn't feel ashamed not seeing her and I think she's also scared of her. She really wants that baby to be saved. Even if Arizona's patient deserves some dignity and reasonable care, don't pretend that a person that young in an adult prison was charged because of DUI. Also Jo really needs to be aware that every time she opens her mouth things happen whether she wanted it to happen that way. So I was annoyed that she was horrified by the Karev news. What did she think? She told him that if she reveals her identity her abusive husband might find her and she doesn't tell the truth she'll purger herself. She expected him not to react with that information? That was stupid.

Yes. She was kind of flat with her delivery and missed some of her cues. The Trump sketch was funny but in a too close to reality kind of feeling. Totally. I had hoped they had let it slip that it was an election year with a woman candidate and then grilled that they didn't vote for her because of lame excuses and then lambasted by Susan B. then regretting her efforts.

It's ironic/sad that Trevor Noah's Trump press conference bit was too close to the real thing.

Some get their information from TV news like Fox or the Apprentice. They don't bother to check beyond that. They see Trump and TV and assume he knows what he's doing. Image always trumps (bad pun) reality. He's a great con man and heavy into denial, he never lets on how badly he did things. I mean a reporter polled some Trump voters and when they asked about certain things like unemployment (they thought it was higher) and the stock market (they thought it had crashed), they were way off the mark.

Judging from that victory rally Jordan Klepper showed, I say yeah. They still think he's "different" even though from their very mouths they made excuses for the hiring of more "swamp" and then rationalizing that it's okay because they have experience which contradicted their attitude to Hillary Clinton.

Right. Every time TN kept asking one question over and over again, her response was to keep repeating talking points as a default setting instead of offering a real honest of opinion to a solution. Which only showed she doesn't have an idea, she just wants to criticize and spew rants and talking points like a good puppet instead be part of the solution. And she was pretty hyper like a toddler, I guess that's why her internet clips are brief. And before she talks about the flag and patriotism and the privilege of being an American she should check her history out. She was awful but that was the point of the interview maybe she needs to be exposed how awful she was and kind of stupid, a meat puppet that parrots talking points and if we don't see what the other side is thinking and spreading out there we don't know how to counteract it. You can't fight an idea without information on how they think, even if that's how they do it. And when she said she doesn't see herself as victim. Well that's good for her, she's a pretty, young, blonde white girl, give enough time but she'll experience her first harassment case or be passed over for someone younger, prettier and crazier. Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson never thought themselves as victims but they thought by going along to get along, they thought they were safe. That didn't work out for them. You don't have to see yourself as a "victim" to be treated crappily by the system.

Man Trevor Noah's speech on voter complacency was spot on and I really felt he was talking from the heart. And he's right, the Dems/voters should not rest on whatever slim lead she has. Trump has the hardcore types (ex. KKK) and they always vote no matter what.

Wait, Red is not Liz's father? That seems to contradict everything in the past seasons. Is this another elaborate con or the real deal? I am so confused.

Jordan Klepper did okay considering the last minute prep and I liked how they used Trevor Noah's absence to use it as a plot mirroring what's happening with Trump's "won't respect the results unless I win" and the "transition of power." Ronny Chieng killed me when he thought at first it was a hate crime. Even though Roy Wood Jr's piece wasn't LOL I thought it was still illuminating and depressing with the state of race and media.

If the British wing of the Men of Letters really did their research they would have seen a string of every group/affiliation (outworldly ex.Leviathans/Death/Hell/Heaven)/head monster were either destabilized or decimated just being near them or trying to take them down. It's not bragging but they bring disaster to any group and I predict that their branch of the Men of Letters will be decimated or all their magical goodies will be rendered useless because they got overconfident & reliant to keep them on top. Sam and Dean are the agent of chaos and they either by accident or on purpose will ruin their organization. I thought the Men of Letters were suppose to be scholars/studying the supernatural this group seems overly proactive especially their use of magical items almost to the point of dependence to make sure they're on top. Isn't that an abuse of power? Which might be the start of their fall. Also sorry, still don't like the lady Men of Letters. I find her one minute overly smug and then trying to be sympathetic at a whiplash. The writers don't know how to write a decent female character because I know (dread) she's going to be a part of their group.