I really found myself thinking the Skye part was written for Eliza Dushku, and Chloe Bennett was channelling her mannerisms and diction with mixed success.  I also found Skye kinda irritating, in a stock Sassy Heroine kind of way.  But it was nice to see J. August Richards again.

It was a very specific level of hurricane.

So far the Elizabeth Keen actress reminds me of a poor man's version of Thirteen from House.  Except with adoption instead of bisexuality.

They're really committed to the idea that the world is full of unobservant and easily distractible idiots, I guess.  Maybe it was the only way to keep writing Miami Metro.

I just wonder if eventually his SUV commercials will stop giving me the creeps.
 

She should have smuggled him to Toronto with Sarah and Felix.

It did.

I like flat-out saying that the show with a Superhero Serial Killer had an incredibly simplistic view of morality.  Because it's true, and it shows as much as anything how the show degenerated from its premise.  It's not in the least bit ambiguous or complex or "edgy."

Because he still had the choice?  Because, in fact, leaving his young son with a multiple murderer and staging his own death is as much a stupid, selfish, and reckless choice as a "noble" one?  Because there's no particular reason to assume he won't change his mind in another few weeks?  Because the way in which he…

And gotten us all excited for the spinoff.

That episode gave me such secondhand embarrassment.  It was like nodding and smiling when a kid tells you in great detail about the awful Mary Sue fanfic she writes, except worse, because those were professional, highly-paid adults.

Execution scenes majorly freak me out, but that would have been immeasurably better.

Infant Harrison was a way better actor than Abandoned-With-Mass-Poisoner Harrison.

Yeah, the bet with the date at stake made me cringe a little

That's an interesting thought, but I think TWW actually engaged much more with the questions of perceived power and lack thereof—especially in the first seasons, there's a lot of stories that actually use the limitations on the characters in interesting ways—like Take This Sabbath Day, or the Matthew Sheperd analogy…

And to Sorkin "a more civilized tone" apparently means a wealthy white man alternately yelling at us and talking down to us.  (Oh, and constantly cutting off a female commentator, for great lulz.)

And in yet another "funny" subplot, they tried to get another journalist to publish a story under her byline, the primary purpose of which was to fix an EP's wikipedia page.  This is the journalism I want?  No thanks.

And set to the smuggest possible music montage, to boot.

Seriously, Miami Metro might be too dumb to put 2 and 2 together, but Saxon's defense attorney?  An even mildly ambitious reporter?  (Hell, the staff of The Newsroom could crack this case.)  The prosecutor, excited that for once he or she gets to actually try a serial killer who doesn't conveniently disappear or die…

Weirdly charming.  But I'll be away with no TV (something something) the first two Mondays in October,  so who knows what it (or Fox) will have done by then.