nah. But given how well the 1st and 2nd seasons hang together from our view in the 5th, I'll bet that the new interpretation hangs together.

The goal is increasing intelligence. Removing jealousy is just picking a misappropriated resource to reach that end.

I'm with you. I am hoping that this episode puts the last pieces on the board, but with a plan so daft and with such amorphous outcomes I'm hoping that something equally heartbreaking but more satisfying will take place

Honestly - the plan is so daft, on the level of causality, logistics (if the implant observerized Peter, why couldn't it do the same for September. They have one or two handy. If they've gotten one, they can get a fresh one if freshness is needed. Wouldn't that be safer and easier?), and actual hopes for success…

It took me twenty years of not listening to Good Vibrations before I could appreciate it. But it is a hell of a song if it finds you.

It took me twenty years of not listening to Good Vibrations before I could appreciate it. But it is a hell of a song if it finds you.

That possibility gelled for me this week. I've been rewatching the first season, which is honestly a ton of fun now. There is a pyrokinesis episode where Olivia and Peter visit a Internet board guy who starts off with some plausible stuff about William Bell raising an army, before trailing off into gibberish about…

That possibility gelled for me this week. I've been rewatching the first season, which is honestly a ton of fun now. There is a pyrokinesis episode where Olivia and Peter visit a Internet board guy who starts off with some plausible stuff about William Bell raising an army, before trailing off into gibberish about…

Morris' recent(ish) 'The Ashtray' blog series on Thomas Kuhn and "postmodernism" left me a bit queasy.  He studied briefly under Kuhn and the experience was not pleasant.  It is hard to square Morris' accounts of Kuhn and his work with those of the blog's commenters.  I'm barely a student of philosophy, but his…

DANK House
I was just on the roof deck of DANK House on Western last week - they have a smallish but probably practical roof deck that might be in budget. The view is distinctive.

No children isn't answered - I think that this episode implies that there has always been a no babies policy on the island, which is why crazy stiff acting woman has to steal them. Again.

I watched the S1 finale again just before this episode (catching up, just started watching a couple weeks ago), and the "Two of Everything" seems really portentous to me. The focus is on the twin of Peter-1's favorite coin. Implication perhaps that this is its alt-universe twin. If so it might be very, very…