i just looked it up when he said it, and considered myself duly educated.

yeah, i think she considers the technology inevitable. the best bet is to assume rossum has (or topher can design) a defense against it—like the kind that alpha supposedly built in the epitaph 1 future history—and in the mean time play along as much as possible. it's a huge power play that may have seemed like her…

contestants for best line of the night:
"it's the manufacturing room, not the it's-finished room!"

slightly disappointed ballard-body's not completely dead
even though it gives me tingling feelings in the right lighting, his face and voice have been bugging me increasingly over the past several episodes.

isn't it obvious that dewitt's bluffing?
yes, she convincingly plays the opportunistic, self-preserving ice queen, but isn't it pretty obvious that she still wants to bring rossum down and help the dolls, but realizes her only chance to do that is to work from the inside? and she's badass enough to compromise all…

question:
have pete's eyes always looked like that??

"Is anyone else getting the idea that Jack and Liz are headed for an affair?"

i endorse the above comments.

Rabin watches SNL? like… on purpose?

@Alum: i'm going to say yes, absolutely and unequivocally, "good acting" is not the same as "mimicry and impersonation."

yes, Gjokaj is pretty brilliant. i'm still not convinced he's a good actor, though, however intensely gifted he is at mimicry and impersonations. i found him pretty utterly unconvincing as his 'original' imprint characters, and then shocked by how good he was at being an imprint of somebody else we've already seen.

i'm a plausibility nerd
i always think shows ought to operate mostly within the framework they've established for zaniness and character motivations. you know, the kind of framework that heroes doesn't have? but the office does, and i balk when it misses the mark like tonight. yeah, it's an office of goofy people,…

best Arlen Specter joke ever
Whoopi made me laugh out loud, which i never do.

who's simon? do you mean simone, or was there really a simon i don't remember?

Urthstripe, why don't you demonstrate for us here an example column of the serious kind of discussion of the episode you wish to see? that way, mssr. Heisler will be better able to learn from you how to cover the show.

puppet guy? didn't he like, totally die before?

the only reason i'm glad i watched as much heroes as i did is that i'm able to appreciate all the mockery. i may not be able to get those hours back, but at least they're good for something.

>700 comments? damn.
ok, i'm way too exhausted by even seeing that number to begin slogging through these. however, i echo those who whole-heartedly disagree with the author.

i enjoy the juxtaposition of "grow up" with tolerance of childishly unrelatable characters.

this week's Two Things
1) i suspect, though i'm not certain, that the Padma Lakshmi stuff would have been funnier if i had ever heard of her before tonight.