Vague on purpose? I don't see the evidence. There's no establishing of a mediated state, no moment of Root having to switch gears (I'm looking at Root for precedent, as there is none for the boy) and do anything other than transmit information just as she has always done. Both parties refer to themselves in the…

Okay. So. The Conversation. The moment this show has, in some ways, been building to for years. The first (ahem) heart-to-heart talk between the two artificial intelligences, wherein, in some manner, we also first hear their "voices". And I have serious, serious problems with it.

I've noticed this, and not just with genre shows, but various tenuously similar comedies and dramas as well. Yet I'm weirdly glad that I keep having the same manageable handful of shows to keep up with; if they were all hitting, I would never have the time.

By the way…Britt and Oswalt's exchange early in the episode is probably the funniest moment of the entire show.

That final minute actually rivals the films in terms of capturing the strangeness and beauty of superpowers in the world.

If they can keep Ward the Kryceck of the show - the awful bastard that shows up every now and then to complicate things - that'd be just fine.

On the one hand, uh yeah, Americans don't understand how racism really works and affects the world around them. On the other hand, Americans are no worse - and by and large, sadly, probably a lot better - than the rest of the world. Pretending our race and class boundaries don't exist isn't much of an improvement…

Christopher was a douchey marone, but boy did he have some luck.

And then murders her parents off-screen? That sounds brilliant, and not cheap and hacky at all!

The truly advanced don't quote from Sun Tzu, or Adam Smith, or other basic planning philosophies; they cite situational minutiae, often from obscure sources or their own experiential cost-benefit analyses.

I gave Gotham a couple of shots, but their depiction of a corrupt police force was so silly (and the Lone Good Cop tropes so clumsily handled), especially in direct comparison to PoI, it was one of the primary factors I gave up early.

Just before PoI, I watched PBS' airing of a doc on the full-scale gentrification of Fulton Mall in Brooklyn, interestingly enough.

I've become ever more curious about Martine. Something about the way Buono plays her seems to suggest someone reveling in their power, inside her machinelike efficiency. I would like to see a little backstory, as long as it isn't some typical tale of childhood bunny-murdering or abuse (which I doubt it will be).

Conceptually, the other villainous organizations in PoI are much bigger in scope than HR - but I'd argue they added as much of a sense of paranoia and danger as any element of the show. They were an insidious presence within the environment where two of the primary characters on the show lived and breathed, forcing…

Yes, I'm talking about "Join, or Die", but was actually quoting from Craig Ferguson, who got that tattoo when he became an American citizen (and never misses a chance to show it off). I'm a little jealous, because that was the first of very few images *I* ever wanted a tattoo of, when I first saw it back in…

Join, or Die.

I got it when I became an American. It's from the Pennsylvania Gazette, in 1754, by Benjamin Franklin, calling to unite the Colonies. It goes allll the way up my arm and all the way down to my uh-oh!

Perhaps it's because I'm both a boardgamer as well as a sports fan (and play PC strategy games to boot) - the most enjoyable games, to me, are ones that aren't pure ability, strategy, or luck, but have some balanced combination of those elements. Without even a rudimentary gameplan (at the very least, some…

They definitely do - Louis' "When the Saints" is used a lot, and I know I've heard John Boutte's "Treme" before.

I cannot agree with this enough.