Interesting in the good-night that Murphy has his arm around JLD, and even plants one on her…yet seems pretty chilly to the rest of the cast.

"I'm a very wealthy man. But I'd give it all up…for a little more."

As much as The Kiss was a culmination of one of my favorite relationships on television, it was Root saying, "That's good enough for me" that nearly had me in tears.

I actually think I'm mostly done with late-night television now. I'll check in on the others now and then (whatever you think of Fallon, his writers do come up with some good bits at times), but I realized a little while ago that what I want to cap off my nights is weirdness. Having grown up in the eighties and…

Ass Mode: It's a way of life.

Did you get to catch Kristen Bell's final appearance? It wasn't a full interview segment, unfortunately, but man, was it the perfect little capper to their relationship.

Wheatley as Threepio? I like it.

You make fair points. I still think the dialogue was weak, and did not serve Her well, but I will agree that her lines were not entirely out of character.

Funny, that's the thought I had after I watched Her.

I wouldn't mind elements of humanity - I do think it is very important to have the fingerprints of their creators and nurturers in the shaping of these two minds, no matter how much they've shaped themselves. But to have thoughts without a trace of iterative construction is just too much.

But the question is, how did they give themselves this context in which to put themselves? They'd have to be analyzing different aspects of humanity than their intended purpose, and comparing themselves to those aspects in some search for identity. Do the writers expect us to swallow that this growth has just…

See my response to Cirion above - that dog won't hunt.

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.