For me the problem was the stupidity of the characters. (I have the same problem with Walking Dead, much of the time.)

James Cameron to direct 'Prometheus' Sequel: "This is why there's a gap of a few years between 'Prometheus' and the original 'Alien.' That gap is meant for me to answer all the questions raised in 'Prometheus.'"

The tsunami was a big disaster. It killed tens of thousands of people. No-one has died from Fukushima, nor are they likely to.

"The Observer told us nothing that we didn't already know or at least guess." - for me that's a strength of the series, that it sticks to its plotlines despite the audience guessing. The same happened with Peter's history: we guessed he came from the other universe long before the show revealed it. I think its good…

Interesting hypothesis, that Olivia is remembering the original timeline rather than the timeline we saw in the first three seasons. Is there any evidence for it? She seemed to be remembering those three seasons, and especially being with Peter investigating Fringe cases. It's not clear what the original timeline was…

The explanation is that Peter's love and influence is helping Walter. In the original timeline, Peter was Walter legal guardian, was endlessly patient with him and looked after him. In this timeline, without Peter, Walter was not helped so much and instead was subject to regular evaluations that just made things…

It seems crossing over weakens the boundary between the universes, and leads to the Blight over there as a manifestation of the physical laws of their universe being compromised. As long as people are crossing over, I think the universes are pitched into a conflict and only one of them can survive - whichever makes…

Our solar system is young partly because it is second or third generation. This is probably necessary for life. We need the heavier elements produced by nuclear reactions in a sun. So the age of the galaxy is not the window available for life to evolve. The window is much shorter.

There was definitely some timeline information in the CDC episode. Jenner says the outbreak started 63 days earlier, which with events in the show is enough to establish how long Rick was in a coma.

Water is heavy whatever form it is in. It's arguably better to carry freeze-dried food and the saved weight in water, than to carry wet food and less water, because the water is more versatile when its not bonded to the food. You can use it for first aid, for example.

It's good to have skills, but game can be scarce and you may be competing with a lot of other hunters.

Rory and Mickey were less the Doctor's companion and more the companion of his companion. Neither were there on their own merit; both merely tolerated.

I felt the opposite. The pacing of Flashforward was much better than Lost, with plenty of answers being delivered in a timely way. As old mysteries got resolved, new ones were added. By the end of the first series, we'd caught up with the first FF event, we knew roughly who'd caused it, whether the future was…

The spouse wasn't going to return. Shane told her he was dead. We don't know if they had unprotected sex. Contraception fails sometimes.

According to the timeline at [walkingdead.wikia.com], Rick goes into a coma an unknown number of days before the outbreak. Shane leaves him 14 days after the outbreak, and he wakes up 60 days after. So he survived 46 days without medical attention, food or water, and he'd been gone over 2 months from Lori's point of…

For what it's worth, I'd put fℓ at close to 1 and fi as close to zero. In other words, life tends to exist where it can, but it rarely reaches human-level intelligence.

I'm saying a sexbot that surprises me could be a good thing. Consent is a separate issue. And I think the real issues are, first, the capability of the sexbot for suffering, and second, whether that suffering is needless. It's not obvious that we can't create sexbots that would enjoy their role, even if it's a role a…

Surprises are good. You can't tickle yourself. Having a sexbot that was creative and spontaneous could well be good.

This has started showing in the UK. Unfortunately on a channel that uses a large, multi-colour digital on-screen graphic that is too distracting for me to consider watching on the shows merits.

In between, Dale died and they decided to try to work together for a while, out of a kind of survivor guilt. By dying Dale shamed them into it. Lori was trying to mend bridges with Shane as part of the new spirit of solidarity. I also think she's stupid, but it does make sense.