I think Scott and some of the rest of you are misjudging this show because you think Joe is supposed to be the hero, or antihero, or anyway a central character that you should care about. Understandable, since the pilot started off from his point of view, but he's really just a supporting villain character. And…

Hunh, so Thomasland is open now? I live just down the road from Edaville, and hadn't realized they'd finished construction. That was fast!

Ladies and gentlemen, The A.V. Club turns forty.

Though I recall combining the trains with buildings of Legos…

"Long Train Running", Doobie Brothers.

mass transit system

N gauge is best gauge. It is known.

Superhero stories naturally appeal to objectivists, so it's hard to say, but most of Brad Bird's stories (Tomorrowland, Ratatouille, Iron Giant) focus on the idea that some people are innately special, and that the ordinary morons of the world will attack them for it. Whether that's entirely objectivist is a matter…

Actually, I would like to see a Season 2. Not because I want the heroes to find the answers to the mysteries or to escape their world, but because I want them to make it a better place. There's still bad guys to foil, nuclear war to prevent, and maybe someday a continent to liberate.

Take it from me, it's totally possible to make bad decisions without the aid of alcohol. In twenty years, I'm on track to becoming a bankrupt social pariah with a fully functioning liver.

If I want to play the Fallout series, where can/should I start?

Classic SNL: one great gag, stretched out for an extra two minutes until it's unbearable.

Yeah, but the only thing charismatic about Sumner Redstone is his bank account.

Given the shit JPL gets up to, that's always a possibility.

You're right to compare to The X-Files, which got worse and worse as the audience learned more and more. Mysteries are fun. Explained mysteries are no fun. I totally disagree that the characters should learn more about parallel universes and connecting to them as time goes on: I think it'd spoil the show.

Oh my god, so many thoughts about this show.

The man in the high castle, or the man behind the curtain?

He didn't really do anything to obtain the redemption he desperately seeked

I actually like Julianna as a character. She's not kick-ass exciting, but she's got some elegant touches. She's assimilated Japanese culture a lot more than most of the American characters, and not just the aikido. She speaks quietly and never looks her elders and superiors in the eye, she reflexively bows to…

No way. That would be a bullshit cop-out so huge, it would make the ending of LOST an honest bit of screenwriting by comparison.