That smirk — or crazy lopsided twitch-smile — was the highlight of the hour. Even Jack can't help smiling at Logan's cartoonish evilness.

Hurley, who has often been the comic relief, had some of the great emotional moments… And Jorge Garcia, who has been slighted for his acting on Lost, pulled them off well.
His joy at seeing Charlie again, played off against not-remembering Charlie's surly indifference.
Especially Hurley and Jack's goodbye. Hurley the…

I really enjoyed the sf/fantasy elements of Lost, but I didn't feel cheated by the finale… The struggle to defend the Light, the uncorking-and-corking hijinks, Desmond, Smocke turning human, Richard turning mortal, Hurley taking up the Protector's mantle… A LOT of the big sf/f themes got solid but not excessively…

Here's some hardcore comix geekery: I've thought almost since Day 1 that Anna Torv looks like a John Byrne character.
To a lesser extent, Jasika Nicole and even Lance Reddick. Once I start thinking about this, I can convince myself that John Noble and Joshua Jackson fall in this category too, but that's kind of pushing…

I REALLY liked TtSCC. Plenty of intelligent people hated it, so it's fair to say that it's a matter of taste. It's pretty dark, and several of the main characters brood excessively, but it has a goodly number of interesting time-travel ideas and plot twists, adequate dialog and production values.

The anagram is explained by another poster above.

I really hope there is a superhero named Seaman.

It would be a great, sad ending if Pierce showed up and killed Jack at the last minute to prevent him from murdering Logan.

If Jack is really going to go down in the finale, I think the show should violate its real-time format and let him Bonnie-and-Clyde Suvarov and Taylor in slo-mo for a minute or so.

Itzin has been much more entertaining as Iago in this season than he was as the Big Bad. Jack terrorizing him this week was fun, but pretending Taylor hadn't hung up on him and picking a tie for his press conference were my #1 and 2 favorite bits.

Agreed… riveting episode. The whole run starting with the abduction of Hassan is as good as the show has been in a while. For the first time since Season One, we really don't know how this is going to turn out for Jack.

"And it's going to be tough to sell a (mainstream) movie where the protagonist is no better than the bad guys."

Knob Creek and Woodford Reserve would be my top two choices for a quality mid-priced bourbon. Well worth a couple of extra bucks.

There's an all-time classic Onion point-counterpoint in which Jim Steinhauer rebuts Jesus' claim to have carried him during the hardest moments of his life.

In Bauer World, the pinata hits you.

ICR: good point about letting Baltar walk. That's weak even by FF standards. His dialogue suggests that he, homeless murder victim, and other savants may have been used by the bad guys to undertake some massive mapping-of-the-future(s) project… but why was it discontinued, and why are the bad guys only now getting…

Callback?
"Nice shot of Walter's reflection crossing Peter in the closing hospital scene, shortly before Walter himself walks by, sorrowfully."

I was definitely thinking that slacker/stoner kids, especially, should have watched enough TV and movies to know that you don't just go "check out" the mysterious glow from that abandoned warehouse. But whatever, it was so over the top that by the time we got to the "check it out" line, I just enjoyed it as parody.

Question: does Netflix streaming include episodes from current seasons of TV shows? If so, how is the selection, and what, if any, is the delay between broadcast and streaming availability?

Tabernacle: I also guiltily raise my hand to admit that I've slogged through a whole lot of Smallville… childhood comics geek, blah, blah, blah…