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[meganbmoore]

Nikita 2.6: Wow, show, it only took you 1 1/4 seasons to actually get into your main character's background.

Am I the only one terrified that we may be headed for a "Percy is Nikita's father" reveal?  Also, what kind of security is Percy under that he and Alex could have that last conversation?  Like, aren't there cameras?  Even if there' no audio, there's always lipreading.  (And did Amanda take over Alex's wardrobe?  Because that was so and Amanda outfit at the beginning.  And does anyone else find it weird that Alex isn't in a different apartment now?  LOLs to her using Birkoff as an answering service to contact Nikita.)

Birkoff!  You lost your house!  And wine!  And gadgets!  I actually feel bad for you.  Such a strange feeling.

Michael, you really are right to feel hurt and betrayed, but you had better come to understand Cassandra and Nikita's POV and not go on about lies and betrayal because, seriously, Cassandra's still right about why Max should be kept a secret from everyone.
 

Lost Girl 2.6:

OMG MORRIGAN!  I love how her office is to bright and open and shiny.

Too bad she brought the Johnny Depp wannabe with her?  Actually, Vex annoyed me less than  in his previous appearances, and i liked when he and Morrigan made up at the end of the episode.

I'm glad we finally got more info about Morrigan, but I'm kinda sad to learn she isn't a succubus.  My dreams of her being related to Bo are crushed.  So sad she wasn't really in love with the painter, though.  Too tropey.  (If they give her a romantic plotline, it should be with a light fae she's been warring with for centuries because they disagree.  Like in CrossGen's The First.  (Ok, that's tropey too, but it's more my kind of tropey.)

Was anyone else hoping that the plug New!Ash was talking about pulling was Way Better!Ash's?  I just want him back!  I do like getting more info about Lauren, though.  I wonder if Nadia is fay, or if she's human, and Lauren discovered the fae while looking for a way to cure her?

Notice how, the second Dyson goes away, we suddenly start getting tons more on the women and Bo gets to focus on non-Dyson relationships?

Also, I laugh forever at Kenzi proposing to Hale because he can cure hangovers.  Of course, now she'll just get drunk all the time and move him to #1 on speed dial to make him come fix it.
 

Pan Am 1.5-1.6: For reasons I do not fully understand, I like this show more with every episode. That probably mean it will be cancelled.

Dean, what are you doing?  I realize that, narratively, you need some sort of relationship between Bridget and Collette (which the show is obviously building up to) but, uhm, I thought you were smarter than sleeping with your boss's mistress.  Apparently in his own bed at least once.  Also, I...have no idea what to make of Jenny?  Like, one minute I think the show wants us to like her, and the next that it doesn't, but I just can't figure her out, beyond apparently being rather bored?  Her being bored, I mean, not me.

And Maggie, don't sell out Dean!  I mean, too late for that and he basically brought it on himself, but I feel that's going to go badly for you.  I do have appreciation for how you basically conned your way through life until you got your dream job.  (As a fictional character, I find Maggie vastly entertaining.  I would be terrified if she was real and in my social sphere.)

Also, shame on you, show, for doing so little with Collette these two episodes.  i was really hoping we'd see what she and Jenny talked about in the bathroom?  But no.

I'm slightly concerned by my willingness to go along with the show's clear desire that I ship Laura/Ted.  Really, I feel i should hate Ted, but can't.  Though, like Maggie said, he's something of a chauvinistic loser, but he does tend to come through no matter what.  Also, Laura has been well trained by both Kate not to put up with his games and call him when he needs it, even if she is still hopelessly naive.  (I think I was won over when he went with her to Harlem instead of saying he'd go for her, even if he did stay something of a jerk throughout.)

Are they working up to Kate being an actual spy and not just a courier?  If so, I approve.  Though, her handlers being all "Whore yourself out for the cause!" keeps me from being able to like them.  Like, I realize that, at least in fiction, that goes with the spy territory?  But they act like she should expect it when she doesn't even really properly work for them.  At least she likes the guy and he seems decent?  I feel it will end badly hough.  Loved her hustling at pool, though.
 

Ringer 1.7: I did not know this was going on break for a week until I didn't have a new episode!

Wow, Henry, I guess maybe you actually do/did care about Gemma.  I still hate you though.  Also,  nnnooooess! It looks like GEmma maybe really be dead.  Was NOT expecting to learn who Siobahn's partner is so early.  i wonder what he did to meet Bridget.  Did he just go around trolling AA meetings until he found her?

Juliet, you are trying, but you still have a ways to go.  I am greatful, though, that your car wreck halted the near-sex. 

Bridget's slamming hersef as Siobahn is so very interesting and troubling at once.  I think she's impersonating Siobahn not so much as to hide as because it's the only way to hold onto her sister (Which, given what Siobahn's up too, is extra sad.  Though, it looks like Bridget may have accidentally put things in motion for Siobahn to be discovered and have her impersonate Bridget eventually?  I really hope we do get Siobahn impersonating Bridget at some point, regardless of how we get there.) and I guess it's turning cathartic for her too?  But wow, lots of self-hatred hiding in there (Also, was anyone else reminded of the Buffy episode where Faith and Buffy switched bodies when Bridget-as-Siobahn was telling Andrew and Henry about Bridget?), an I'm afraid that the longer she's Siobahn, the more she may feel that.  Also, I can't wait to see how she gets out of the sonogram/no-baby reveal.  Unless she's pregnant and doesn't know it?

And Malcolm!  You are no longer being tortured and having drugs forcibly injected into you!  I am so happy for you!  Also, some of Andrew's comments this episode made me slightly concerned about what will happen when the fake-wife reveal is made (not that there's any way that'll be pretty anyway) so if he fulfills me worst fears, I am perfectly willing to switch to shipping Bridget with you.  (Actually, Andrew's shaking Juliet recently and some of his comments to women in general also make me wonder if we're headed to a reveal that there was actually more to Siobahn asking the lawyer about abuse in the possible divorce than just testing the waters.)

Still hoping to get more on Siobahn soon.

Once Upon A Time 1.2: 

Wow, show, I can't believe you actually went with "Maleficent."  Not that I really object.  (I get a much stronger 10th Kingdom feel than Disney or Fables, but to each their own.)

Henry, you didn't annoy me in the first episode, but that sure changed fast.

In the pilot, I had the impression that the queen knew (or suspected) who Emma was and that's why she adopted Henry, but apparently that wasn't the case at all.  Given her near-obsession with both Henry and Snow White, I'm thinking Snow White somehow caused the death of the queen's child (Either son or unborn child-anyone remember that movie with Sigourney Weaver as the stepmother?)  Really, maybe she should have made her new world a huge apple orchard instead of a small town?  Her apples made her happy.

BTW, while, like most of my listies watching this, I am completely on board  with the inner-12-year-old Snow White/Prince Charming sparkle-vision love, I actually really mostly just want Emma and Regina duking it out while pretending they don't know they're fighting over whether or not a curse gets broken.

Also, I think I register cheese and camp differently than most, because if I think it's deliberate, it barely registers with me, but something with way less camp and/or cheese but that undeniably has it at least in the premise but that takes itself seriously ends up being bad to me.  Which is to say, this show so embraces its premise that I don't even notice the cheese I analytically know is there.
 

Covert Affairs 2.11: I did not know this was coming back this week! So happy!

I liked that the episode basically began with Annie and Danielle and Annie being bored waiting and then Maria Callas being a codeword.  I so approve of these priorities.

I've been so dreading the inevitable "Annie's mission includes seducing a target" episode and now that we've basically had it, I feel like a major bullet has been dodged.  And I loved Annie's near panic at JOAN ISN'T YELLING SHE MUST BE TRYING TO TORTURE ME and injuries actually lasting.

Jai, I still don't know what's up with you or if I'm going to like where you're headed, but I loved you sticking it to your father so much.  Also, feel free to get shirtless again.  i know most fans are all about shirtless Augie when it comes to shirtless men here, but Auggie does nothing for me.  You are another matter.  (So glad that, contrary to what Heroes would have one believe, your actor can actually act, too.)

I think I missed Arthur.
 

Revenge 1.6-1.7: So very glad there wasn't any hiatus between these episodes.

Wow, Frank-to-Victoria went from "kinda creepy now that Frank is creepy" to "WHO FRANK CREEPY STALKER MUCH!" to not quite as creepy to "WHOA FRANK CREEPY ALPHA CONTROLLER FLASHBACK MUCH?"  Yet, I still kinda like the idea of him pining for her for 20+ years and her never reciprocating.  I wonder if he's really dead.

I was hoping they weren't headed for "secretly gay man tries to ruin BFF's love life to keep him to himself" because that was looking more and more like the only thing that made sense.  And I...think we sidestepped that with his just not wanting anyone to interfere with his taking over Conrad's company and Nolan's "also, I'm Bi too" reveal but I'm still a bit uneasy.  I hate him.  Ashley deserves better.  Also, I'm glad we finally got a bit of her POV at the end there.

And gosh, Declan, I was starting to like you and then you went and humiliated Emanda and Charlotte at that dinner.  Well, and Victoria too, but she wasn't the girlfriend who invited you or the person you were attacking.  (Also...uhm...I'd feel bad for Jack if it weren't for the fact that he knew she was already dating someone else.  I mean, what did he expect?  Yeah, we the viewer know that she probably does have romantic feelings for him, but even so, she hasn't really given him any reason to believe she does.)

CCH Pounder as Emanda's apparent mentor!  Victoria (finally) kicked Conrad out!  There's a real!Emily!  But what will we call her?

My money is still on a "Charlotte is Emanda's half-sister" reveal.