AKA: Takes A Shit Guy

At this point, considering just the pilot, pretty much any theories fan have are valid.

The sheriff host was black. I wondered if that was meant as an homage to Blazing Saddles.

I was trying to figure out her look — a massive scar on the side of her head, or fashionably shaved? Just by looks alone, she was cool. Escobar too. We'll certainly see more of these two this season.

I think the production just used a dead mall to stand in for this sci-fi setting. (It's the Hawthorne Mall, by the way.) It's not supposed to be an actual abandoned mall in the world of this series.

The world beyond the park could be a significant reveal. Like, imagine the characters discovering an abandoned space colony or landing port and discarded giant spaceships are there. I could see something crazy like that revealed in the season finale, implying that this series isn't even set on Earth.

I wonder if they are setting up Murphy to become like a Col. Kurtz who will then need to be put down in the final season.

It's still looking like that the NSFNet could become the new backbone of Mutiny. As for how things will shake up with Cameron and Ryan regarding this:

This is an example of the show's writers not having any good ideas and simply not giving a fuck.

You summed it up best. HI simply had nothing to say, creatively speaking, about the era it existed in. It took no chances. And therefore left no lasting memories in the greater pop culture.

Nah, Leon is there to protect Mob and Trent. This suggests the two have been found out by the real assassins and shit is about to go down, maybe inside that Fry's!

The Feds have been managed to piece together the connections among everyone, right down to Elliot and Tyrell being in the center of it.

Yeah that's how I saw it. That could mean Mobley and Trenton will be in danger soon, and that's why Leon showed up.

Chinese take-out menu.

Or, yes, simply that.

My updated theory: The Washington Township is a super collider type of thing that supposedly can prove we live in a computer simulation. That is all. It's not some magical gateway to parallel realities, or other cheesy sci-fi cliche. It's an expensive and dangerous massive thing to operate — early on, it leaked…

Project Township (what I call it) may very well have otherworldly leanings. I don't think it will be a goofy science fiction cliche. I still hold the theory that it is a science project that can prove we live in a computer simulation. That's all — it's not some Stargate thing, or otherwise portal to the "real" world.…

That's how most cable series run at most anyway. 5 seasons. It's also tied to how SAG contracts for TV series work — you can only sign actors for up to 5 seasons before they have to be let go of their contracts, and are then allowed to renegotiate to return, or they can leave.

The last scene makes me wonder if Angela has been the one manipulating Elliot all along. It could tie into the theory I've had since season 1 that the two of them had actually dated and maybe were even engaged at one point, but this is something Elliot has forgotten about (like how he forgot his father and sister).

The actress they got to play Diane's daughter bore such a strong resemblance to Annabeth Gish, right down to the mannerisms and voice, that I wondered if she was actually related to Gish. But, looking up on imdb, I see they probably are not (unless they are related but have different last names?). If they're not…