Who am I to understand basic physics. Impressions: This I'm not going to call good either, so much as it was kind of funny for being so badly written. Granted, this was the closest it's gotten to being an actual mystery. Middle aside, most of the episode was spent interacting with the new dude, so theoretically, […]
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