My thoughts on this episode are so colored by my feelings about what happens in the next one that it’s hard to discuss the one without bringing in the other. Read more

“Blaze of glory” doesn’t even begin to cover it. Read more

When you feel like a writer has no guardrails, anything seems possible. Read more

Simon is really too nice a person for his own good. Read more

If you trace the arc of Simon’s story – which is basically the spine of TTGL itself – one some level it’s a chronicle of escalating gattai. Read more

In most respects this amounts to a bit of a setup episode – really the last one of the series. Read more

My God, the rage. Read more

I can’t help but be struck once again, all these years later, by how gutsy it was to take the series in this direction. Read more

Transitioning from revolutionary to government is historically difficult to say the least, and history is littered with tragic examples. Read more