Yeah, what’s not to love about a guy who is a computer whiz and a gazillionaire to boot?
If I were 20 years younger (or so…) I would be happy to become his very, very best friend!
However, I really don’t want Emily as an enemy…she doesn’t play well with others she doesn’t like. She makes the Bad Seed seem like a fairy godmother in comparison.
Looking forward to the season finale and glad to hear it is returning next season!
Not such a fan of the flashback episode but I can see from the end of the episode why it was needed. This week is going to be awesome though, I can’t wait for the party.
Moonlitherial:
I don’t. What, just for the “parallelism” of the 2002/3 New Year’s Party to the upcoming New Year’s Party?
What important point did this episode tell us that we didn’t already know? The only thing that comes to mind is that it reveals why Jack isn’t all that friendly toward Nolan at the beginning of the season (though it’s a long time to hold a grudge), but since they’re pretty much best buds now, who cares? (Unless that old girlfriend/bartender is going to return somehow.)
Is it important that Emily didn’t immediately read the journals until Nolan pushed her to? We know she read them by now. Is it important that Frank and the Graysons killed that other guy, who was willing to help her? She ended up getting nothing from him, and it’s not like we don’t know they’re capable of murder.
Basically, it wasn’t a terrible flashback, but it doesn’t answer any questions we really had prior to the episode, none that I can think of at least.
Oh man, from the cable guide blurb for the next episode
A death will bring Jack and Emily closer
please tell me that doesn’t mean (just my speculation, but boxed just in case)
they’re killing off Sammy, the world’s oldest dog…
Sure, realistically it’s inevitable, but I just really hate watching something like that happen in a show or movie. 
That was my and my wife’s assumption, TBG.
Seems you and your wife were correct. I turned to my girlfriend when Jack told Declan the news and said “I don’t remember them crying this much when their dad died.”
After last week’s otiose episode, they ramped it up last night. Though I don’t think anyone in their right mind can honestly believe…
Nolan’s going to die. Not with a second season already booked and him being such a fan favorite.
Looking forward to the finale. This is my favorite guilty pleasure since Veronica Mars.
Oh I love this show too. They practically invented the term ‘guilty pleasure’ for this show.
Yeah, I know they can’t kill of Nolan (definitely my favorite character, after Sammy) but great cliffhanger ending anyway. Next week’s episode should be loads of fun.
Dammit, that was hard on me. I lost my boy Boomer last fall after 19.5 years. 
I watched both Revenge and Private Practice last night and after they were both done my husband pointed out I’d cried more over Sammy than the brainless baby.
They can’t kill off both Sammy and Nolan in back to back episodes can they???
Nolan’s little “undercover” operation to the white-haired man’s house was really sloppy, even for this show. And it’s astonishing how much time both he and Amanda spend on her revenge scheme. Isn’t he supposed to be the billionaire CEO of a software company? Don’t they have operatives whom they can enlist for that sort of work?
The problem with buying someone for a revenge scheme is that if you can buy them so can your opponent. Besides Ems wants the personal satisfaction of bringing them down herself.
I so wish I’d been wrong. A year and half ago I lost my 21 year old cat, so I know how you feel.
So. Anyone else unhappy about the finale?
We were digging this girl hellbent for revenge on a couple and their associates who framed/killed her father.
She gets the upperhand on the actual assassin…and then suddenly wimped out because she remembered her dad loved her for being loving.
The prime villainness is dead, but not in a way that was a satifying part of her revenge scheming. Okay, if Emily hadn’t wimped out over the white haired guy, Victoria and the other woman probably wouldn’t be dead in that way. I suppose they were going for irony there.
However the main part of her revenge was to be humiliating and exposing the cabal for their coverup and that part has failed.
Worse, for me, is that whole “the coverup goes much much further than you know”. Gee, another massive faceless conspiracy. Instead of Emily pursuing revenge on a particular set of people for a particular reason, next season will be our Heroine versus some huge nebulous conspiracy? Our anti-heroine with personal, dark motivations will suddenly become Mulder tilting at some conspiracy out of some semi-noble 'we can’t let them get away with it" desire?
PFUI.
I’ll watch the start of next season, maybe even a couple episodes, but I think they’ve destroyed the soul of the show.
I’m not buying that Victoria is really dead. Lydia maybe, but not Victoria.
As for the bigger conspiracy? I figured they would have to do something like that to keep the story going.
I loved it, loved it. Several cliff hangers that make you want to watch the next season! I can’t believe that Victoria is dead. She’s very popular, if only as the bitch everyone loves to hate, and she’s a major part of the puzzle (although how do they explain her survival?) And what about the last scene where Nolan is comforting Emily after news of the explosion on the plane; they’re watching an old video of Victoria in Grayson’s office (I think) and says something alluding to more secrets. Emily looked up at Nolan, and he said something about her mother being alive. There’s a whole more to Nolan than we’ve seen so far, and I’d like to know his back-story. How does he know so much about Grayson’s business and how would he know that Amanda’s mother is alive? I still think he’s a good guy, and I sorta hoped that he and Amanda would kiss in that last scene. (But that would’ve really complicated things.)
You didn’t get the sense that he’d watched the video already? because I did.
I’m glad Nolan is okay. He’s my current favorite woobie, so it would have been terribly sad if they killed him. And as for Jack…the boy better demand a DNA test, but you know he won’t without Emily or Nolan working him over about it.
Reported.