Fascinating episode, but I was most surprised that there is someone who is a better computer hacker than my beloved Nolan! I mean, seriously? The man is a computer genius, and suddenly we learn that there is some egotistical jerk called the Falcon who just happens to be better? WTF?! I don't think Padma is smart enough to be the Falcon, but it could be her father or maybe it is Amanda's mother, who knows? I just hope that Emily manages to get rid of her skeevy foster brother Eli ASAP! He needs to get gone like tomorrow. And Daniel is such a whiny little pretender, I hope that something horrible happens to him. Aiden is still hotter than any other man on the show (besides Nolan) and I LOVE that he and Emily are still together. Jack, on the other hand, is going to get himself killed, just like Charlotte, if they don't butt out!
Reviewer, you have a typo in your second to last sentence, which should read "Will Rumple choose sides OR continue..., not ARE"
Also, I wondered why Owen's dad wasn't let go, either, after Regina lost Owen to the real world. She probably found a use for him and just turned him into some kind of slave or critter or something.
And BTW, Henry DID say "thank you" to Regina after she destroyed the curse scroll at the well. He considers her his adoptive mom, and I am sure he still has some feelings for her because she raised him while Emma was in jail. I felt so bad for Owen and his dad, who just wanted to rest in town for awhile and then go home, only to be treated to Regina's evil queen routine. Sad.
Oh, and the one thing I don't agree with is that Marley is anything but a watered-down version of Rachel, without the charm or drive to succeed. I loved Blaine in this ep, and I loved the Boy Band sing-off. I feel that Finn won and that by the end of the ep he'd grown a pair and is now going to become a teacher and go after the love of his life, Rachel. More power to him!
I agree with the reviewer that Will was being immature and ridiculous over a kiss, and I agree that he should have found a better way to deal with it. I also agree that Santana was the BOMB in this episode, and I was glad she told Finn about Brody the manwhore so that Finn could knock the snot out of him, because any guy who is lying to his girlfriend about having multiple sexual partners is putting her at risk of getting STDs that could ruin her life and her health. She is at an age where she could get HPV which could lead to ovarian or cervical cancer, and they often don't have symptoms for women until you're too far along to treat successfully. There is also a new strain of gonorreah that is resistant to antibiotics going around, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit that Brody is transmitting these diseases to all the women he sleeps with. So I think its much more likely that Rachel has an STD than she's pregnant.Also, I thought Sue as Niki M was pretty silly.
I agree with the reviewer that there needs to be more Ethan and Curtis on screen during Body of Proof! Those two are hilarious and interesting characters and they're always finding a new way of looking at the evidence. They also have interesting hobbies, like Ethan's fascination with True Crime stories. My 13 year old son watches this show with me, mainly for Curtis and Ethan, because he also thinks they're funny and fascinating. I hope that Tommy and Megan get together, eventually, but I'd like to know what he did in NYC that got him banished before I ship him and Megan too hard. Because if he's a slimeball, he shouldn't be around Lacey. And it seems that this season Megan is much more irrascible than last season.
I think that Jimmy is an immature jerk who is selfish, throws fits and gets high way too often to be a good match for Karen, no matter how good their chemistry is...she would do well to stay OUT of a relationship with him, as he will only drag her down into drug abuse and make her his punching bag for all his immature fits. Still, I hope that Hit List makes it to Broadway, and I hope that Eileen tears Jerry and slimey Ellis apart, and takes Bombshell back. I don't think Tom will be a great director, but I do think the show will make it to Broadway, I just don't think it will be very successful in its current incarnation, and if they choose Ivy to play Marilyn, it will flop big time, because Ivy isn't as good a Marilyn or as good a singer as Karen.
I'm with Megan, Sally can't come back as a ghost, she agreed to give her soul to the witch (Linda Lavin) who brought her back, and from what we have seen, the witch EATS souls and dusty bodies, apparently, to keep her young. Ugh.
Though I understand why it's abhorrent to Sally to eat live things, I think she is going to reconsider that as soon as she starts decaying again and her hair falls out, her teeth come out and her insides start to rot. Not to mention the nasty smell of decaying corpse that her roommates are not going to want to deal with. She should consider just eating small animals for as long as she can, and then she needs to get to the witch and ask her WTF is going on, and what else she can do about it other than eating live things. I am glad that Aiden survived the virus and I'm also glad that Josh is a wolf again. Loved the old hippy werewolf, too, with his crockpot and wine!
continued....life of a king: LOVE. And I agree with the reviewer that the best moment of the night was Rumple's phone call to Belle. That had me in tears! So well enacted and so beautiful!
I have to say that I am not a fan of Robert Carlysle, after seeing his work in Hamish Macbeth and Stargate Universe, I felt like all he could play was "wee pissed off Scotsman" and nothing else. However, during this episode of OUAT, I saw him play Rumple as a seducer and a lover of a gorgeous young woman, and was surprised that he actually pulled it off, so much so that I believed he was sexy in that turning straw into gold scene. Color me amazed.
I was glad that this episode, as heart-wrenching as it was (pun intended) lead to the death of Cora, whom I have little sympathy for. Yes, she was treated like dirt by the crappy royals, yes, she wanted revenge for that, but in any Monarchy there are the royals and the peasants, and there are always a lot more peasants than there are royals. It's a caste system that is still in place to a certain extent, in England. Yes, the royals are figureheads, but look how eagerly the peasants await news of any problems or divorces or missteps in the royal family! There's practically an entire tabloid industry based on royal-watching. So she was the miller's daughter and had a hard childhood, big deal. I'd be willing to bet there are thousands like her in the fairy-tale kingdom. The only thing that differentiated her from them is her lust for power and revenge. And she seems to have thrived on such things for her whole life, giving up the one thing that makes the life of a peasant better than the life of a king: LOVE.
Loved this episode, and though I know Emily loved her, I am glad that Fauxmanda perished with one of the evil Ryan brothers. I hope that Emily has the chance to tell Jack the truth, though it would not surprise me if she puts it off until the end of the season, because the time isn't right.
I love Aiden and Emily together, because they're both beautiful and both wounded and they have chemistry that Emily doesn't really have with Jack, by her own intention.
And I, too, wish they wouldn't bring in the foster brother as yet another distraction from Emily getting REVENGE. Oh, and Nolan, my sweet Nolan, was ever so adorable this episode, saving the day and calling himself everyone's pawn. He's an amazing guy, to put up with all of that. He's the best character on the show, IMHO.
I enjoyed this episode, though I did figure out that it was the FBI agent, just because he seemed the least likely suspect. Still, very entertaining, especially the atmosphere of the storm, and the old-style "Clue" like plot of trying to figure out whodunit.
I was especially proud of Finch, however, in this ep, because he stood up to the killer, and made the statement that they were nothing alike, because Finch saves people, and evil imposter guy just kills them because he enjoys it, because he's sick and twisted and evil. It took courage to say that to his face, especially when you know he's going to kill you.Finch just looks so much like a Wind in the Willows "Mole" illustration, so blind without his glasses and so vulnerable, it is easy to forget that he's a genius and capable of so much, but that he uses his powers for good. I LOVE that about this show.
I am with TV!Garth, last nights ep was AWESOME, right from that wonderful first number, which was elegant, beautiful and perfectly choreographed to The DangerZone/Old Time Rock and Roll mashup with lots of hot young lads clad in tighty whities and socks! I LOVED the music, and I adored how caring Santana was with Rachel when she needed a hug and compassion. I loved all her quips and witty asides, too. Glee wouldn't be Glee without Santana keepin' it real! I also really hope that Emma and Will get back together, because that whole thing with Finn has been blown out of porportion. It was just a kiss, for heaven's sake! Get over it, Will, you're an adult and he's still a teenager! I loved In Your Eyes, which always makes me cry. And I hope that Brody gets kicked to the curb, because if he is a drug dealer, he needs to go, now.
"As an avid television watcher, I get irritated when great shows don't find an audience and get canceled, while certain trash remains on, in some cases, it seems forever." said the reviewer, and I say AMEN to that! That has been my gripe about TV for a long time. It seems like even more so in the past several years, that wonderful well-written shows with great ensemble casts get the hook and are yanked off the air while trash like "Reality" shows and The Mindy Project get renewed for some reason beyond my understanding. Anyway, LOVED the part of the ep where they had to go to Eileen for the tie-breaker, and I was also glad to see she got dumped by the prison guy. I hope she takes over Hit List and makes it a huge success, just to show Jerry who the REAL producer is! I also hope she chooses the older version of Bombshell, and that it becomes a hit with Karen in the lead. She was born to play Marilyn!
I loved this episode, especially the Kenzi-Deeks banter and their realization that they do have feelings for one another. Unlike a lot of people here, I've been shipping them from the start, and I think they'd have a wonderful, sparky relationship that would be seriously entertaining and funny. I don't think it would bring the ratings down at all. In fact, I think it would bring the ratings up, because they're such different people that they compliment one another. Where Kenzi is weak, Deeks is strong, and visa versa. I think she could get him to be more serious and he could heal her heart. I would LOVE to see more eps that involved the two of them together. I also loved that fact that Hettie had the balls to say NO this episode, and she was tough and to the point about it. She showed her leadership skills in this ep. I also loved it when Sam tackled the guy he thought was making moves on his wife...LOL!
So my point is that though the reviewer didn't buy that a TV journalist would actually kill to keep his job, I do buy it because I've seen the desperate journalists from all different media, and I know that it is tremendously hard to find a paying job as a reporter nowadays, and it is even harder to keep it. Desperate people do desperate things, and that broadcast journalist looked like he was getting long in the tooth, so he probably knew his days on air were numbered, and that he was looking at possibly years of unemployment, trying to find another position at a radio or TV station.
That said, I LOVED this episode, because I was so thrilled with how Vance handled Abby and allowed her to hug him and had her help his daughter with her science project. Win-win for everyone! I was also glad to see Tony get it in the chops for a change, he deserves a bit of grief.
Speaking as a journalist of 27 years,
(albeit print journalism instead of broadcast journalism), I can honestly say that I can imagine a desperate broadcast journalist murdering women, especially women he sees as not valuable to society because they are drug junkies. My husband worked as a broadcast journalist, both in radio and TV, and the TV people were mostly ruthless people who cared only for their own rising star, and they didn't care who they had to step on to get where they wanted to be, and to stay there. With ad revenue closing down print publications and radio stations scrambling to keep advertisers to pay salaries, you have to know that TV stations are feeling the pinch, too. So firing journalists for being older and not as attractive, or for not getting the big stories that draw viewers is not uncommon.
continued... So I totally understand that moment where she tells her mother that she's made her own life outside of her hometown. I think that happens to a number of people who grew up as "different" and discovered that being so isn't as much of a handicap in the 'real world' as it is in a small town full of small minded people. I can hardly wait for the next episode! I am also glad that Lost Girl has been renewed for a 4th season! It is one of my favorite shows!
Wow, this was an amazing episode, purely from an emotional/psychological viewpoint for Bo. It was also great to see Kenzi back in action as Bo's sister/sidekick, and I was laughing several times when Kenzi was disparaging small town folk and their clothing. I also loved that Dyson (sigh, beautiful, hot, manly-man Dyson) was being such a gentleman about Bo's relationship with Lauren the boring doctor. I was glad when Trick pointed out that Bo can't stay monogamous with Lauren, because Lauren is human, and won't ever be enough for our favorite succubus. She needs to get back to spending some quality time with Dyson and other random hot fae. I also know how Bo feels about going home again, and having to confront all those bad feelings from high school and family. I was pretty happy to get away from my high school bullies and get into college and the workforce, where I made my own family from some great people I came to know and love. So I totally understand that moment where she tells her mother that she's made her own life outside of her hometown.
Excellent episode, though I am concerned about Snow turning evil and having the "black heart" that Cora so desperately wants for her.
I think Henry is being a brat, and I wish Emma would tell him that his father is a liar and a thief and she was only trying to protect him.I sincerely hope she doesn't get back together with Bae/Neil, because he's creepy, cruel, a liar, a thief and not at all handsome. I hope he's not Peter Pan, either, because at least Peter was fun. Bae hasn't shown us any fun side at all. BTW, I LOVE the little girl who plays Snow as a child...she's a perfectly marvelous actress, so emotive and lovely.
Very interesting episode, and I loved that we got to see more of Tommy's father,played by the wonderful John Barrowman. I was also glad to see Alex Kingston of Dr Who come on board as Laurel's mom. I seriously hope we get to see some super heroine action from either or both of them!
Oh, and I am with all the fans who say that Teddy and his mistress are BORING and need to go. The political stuff is deadly dull, and I hope that this show continues to focus on the wonderful music and musicians, and not the political wranglings of that turd Teddy and his heinous father in law.
Rayna is better off without both of them. I feel for her kids, though, that is really tough to see your parents marriage, divorce and infidelity played out in the tabloids. Poor kids.
I was also glad Gunnars brother was killed, because, as many other fans have noted, that was an awful storyline.
I disagree with the reviewer that Avery is at all interesting. He's a slimy little twerp who only cares about himself, and he treated Scarlett like crap. I hope he fails in everything he does. He's not handsome, he is wimpy, and he's a narcissist who doesn't have enough talent to back up his arrogance.
Scarlett and Gunner, meanwhile, are huge talents, incredible singers/songwriters, and just as adorable as they can be. I LOVED that they finally got to make out, as the sexual tension was so thick between them you could have cut it with a chainsaw.BTW, really, reviewer, you don't know who Pam Tillis is? Heck, I am not even a huge country music fan, but even I know who she is! Duh! I loved Deacon's party and I agree that he's scrumptous and charming as heck, but I think he's at his best when he's with Rayna, not Juliette, who has a lot of work to do to deal with her mother and her own awful childhood.
continued...I would be seriously bummed if this show left the airwaves, it is dearly beloved and would leave a gaping hole in the TV schedule (that might, horrors, get filled with some godawful reality program).
I agree with you all that Bunheads needs a season 2! I loved this show from the outset, as I was always a theater geek, and I remember how hard it was for young girls to get the right kind of information about sexuality. My mom was a nurse, so she told me all the clinical stuff about "where babies come from" when I was 9 years old, but when it came to things like kissing, how to touch a guy and where, how he should touch you, etc, I had to do what the bunheads did, I had to do research, and when I was 13-14, there was a brand new book out called "Our Bodies, Ourselves" that was supposed to tell girls all that stuff, plus, it had helpful photos! Wow! After reading that book I decided I'd wait to have sex, because it talks about the emotional and physical consequences of losing your virginity. I was glad to see the bunheads reading it, but I was sad to see how upset Ginny was about her decision to have sex with Frankie. This show is so funny, so beautifully written and enacted, I would seriously miss it if it were not renewed. Please bring Bunheads back!
Loved,loved, loved the Kenzi-Deeks interactions in this episode! They had me LOL'ing all over the place! I especially loved his admission that he was a stripper, erm, I mean exotic dancer! Snort! And I loved that Kenzi smacked him on the rump and said "drop it like it's hot" What a hilarious quote! Especially after she tucked some money into his pants...awesome stuff. I sincerely hope that the relationship between these two continues to heat up. I think they'd be awesome together.
Sam was good in this episode, he really is a big-hearted guy, and though he looks pretty intimidating, he's always so gentle with women and children and older folks. I adore him, and I think LL Cool J does a great deal to keep this show going smoothly and on the air, because he's an excellent actor and impresses me as something of a bridge-builder as a person. I LOVED how Hettie kept telling him all these things were coming out of his paycheck...LOL! Henrietta Lang is the BEST character on NCIS LA. Love her!
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Also, I wondered why Owen's dad wasn't let go, either, after Regina lost Owen to the real world. She probably found a use for him and just turned him into some kind of slave or critter or something.
And BTW, Henry DID say "thank you" to Regina after she destroyed the curse scroll at the well. He considers her his adoptive mom, and I am sure he still has some feelings for her because she raised him while Emma was in jail. I felt so bad for Owen and his dad, who just wanted to rest in town for awhile and then go home, only to be treated to Regina's evil queen routine. Sad.
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Though I understand why it's abhorrent to Sally to eat live things, I think she is going to reconsider that as soon as she starts decaying again and her hair falls out, her teeth come out and her insides start to rot. Not to mention the nasty smell of decaying corpse that her roommates are not going to want to deal with. She should consider just eating small animals for as long as she can, and then she needs to get to the witch and ask her WTF is going on, and what else she can do about it other than eating live things. I am glad that Aiden survived the virus and I'm also glad that Josh is a wolf again. Loved the old hippy werewolf, too, with his crockpot and wine!
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I have to say that I am not a fan of Robert Carlysle, after seeing his work in Hamish Macbeth and Stargate Universe, I felt like all he could play was "wee pissed off Scotsman" and nothing else. However, during this episode of OUAT, I saw him play Rumple as a seducer and a lover of a gorgeous young woman, and was surprised that he actually pulled it off, so much so that I believed he was sexy in that turning straw into gold scene. Color me amazed.
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I love Aiden and Emily together, because they're both beautiful and both wounded and they have chemistry that Emily doesn't really have with Jack, by her own intention.
And I, too, wish they wouldn't bring in the foster brother as yet another distraction from Emily getting REVENGE. Oh, and Nolan, my sweet Nolan, was ever so adorable this episode, saving the day and calling himself everyone's pawn. He's an amazing guy, to put up with all of that. He's the best character on the show, IMHO.
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I was especially proud of Finch, however, in this ep, because he stood up to the killer, and made the statement that they were nothing alike, because Finch saves people, and evil imposter guy just kills them because he enjoys it, because he's sick and twisted and evil. It took courage to say that to his face, especially when you know he's going to kill you.Finch just looks so much like a Wind in the Willows "Mole" illustration, so blind without his glasses and so vulnerable, it is easy to forget that he's a genius and capable of so much, but that he uses his powers for good. I LOVE that about this show.
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That said, I LOVED this episode, because I was so thrilled with how Vance handled Abby and allowed her to hug him and had her help his daughter with her science project. Win-win for everyone! I was also glad to see Tony get it in the chops for a change, he deserves a bit of grief.
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(albeit print journalism instead of broadcast journalism), I can honestly say that I can imagine a desperate broadcast journalist murdering women, especially women he sees as not valuable to society because they are drug junkies. My husband worked as a broadcast journalist, both in radio and TV, and the TV people were mostly ruthless people who cared only for their own rising star, and they didn't care who they had to step on to get where they wanted to be, and to stay there. With ad revenue closing down print publications and radio stations scrambling to keep advertisers to pay salaries, you have to know that TV stations are feeling the pinch, too. So firing journalists for being older and not as attractive, or for not getting the big stories that draw viewers is not uncommon.
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I think Henry is being a brat, and I wish Emma would tell him that his father is a liar and a thief and she was only trying to protect him.I sincerely hope she doesn't get back together with Bae/Neil, because he's creepy, cruel, a liar, a thief and not at all handsome. I hope he's not Peter Pan, either, because at least Peter was fun. Bae hasn't shown us any fun side at all. BTW, I LOVE the little girl who plays Snow as a child...she's a perfectly marvelous actress, so emotive and lovely.
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Rayna is better off without both of them. I feel for her kids, though, that is really tough to see your parents marriage, divorce and infidelity played out in the tabloids. Poor kids.
I was also glad Gunnars brother was killed, because, as many other fans have noted, that was an awful storyline.
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Scarlett and Gunner, meanwhile, are huge talents, incredible singers/songwriters, and just as adorable as they can be. I LOVED that they finally got to make out, as the sexual tension was so thick between them you could have cut it with a chainsaw.BTW, really, reviewer, you don't know who Pam Tillis is? Heck, I am not even a huge country music fan, but even I know who she is! Duh! I loved Deacon's party and I agree that he's scrumptous and charming as heck, but I think he's at his best when he's with Rayna, not Juliette, who has a lot of work to do to deal with her mother and her own awful childhood.
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Sam was good in this episode, he really is a big-hearted guy, and though he looks pretty intimidating, he's always so gentle with women and children and older folks. I adore him, and I think LL Cool J does a great deal to keep this show going smoothly and on the air, because he's an excellent actor and impresses me as something of a bridge-builder as a person. I LOVED how Hettie kept telling him all these things were coming out of his paycheck...LOL! Henrietta Lang is the BEST character on NCIS LA. Love her!