You're right about the powder!

That roguish grin he gives to the camera at the end, after pulling the lockpick from his boot, totally won me over. (Despite his characterization having been a sequence of predictable moments.)

Good point!

"(we're sticking with terraforming right guys?)"

And then she gets her hair done for the dance, very prettily, and the vintage dress, and Norman largely ignores her—What is wrong with you, man?!

I was thinking more of the wig* that Norman puts on his mother's corpse in the movie.

[I replied in the wrong place]

She roams the whole town for a nice patch of PG penumbra.

And the show had Kenya rather than him be the one to say that she was finding it difficult to do her job and be a girlfriend at the same time; it would have been awful if *he* had given her an ultimatum, say, or tried to "save her from that life."

"Normal, usual stuff."

Nolan's friend mentioned Antarctica. This could mean either that he's in on the fantasy (maybe he was there when Irisa was little and Nolan dreamed it up as a promised land) or that Antarctica actually exists.

Are there any other free city-states? Defiance could form an alliance with them, particularly if E-Rep gets more aggressive.

I was glad that the show made Nolan enlightened enough to defer the choice to Kenya, but that landed him a bit in the clueless, insensitive boyfriend hole.

So. We got a CCR cover this time. At this rate I am expecting a "Music of Defiance" CD to come out at some point.

Deputy: "You wanna come over to my place later?"
Irisa: "Why?"
Deputy: "I will be there."
[crickets]
Deputy: "Maybe it's a human thing, but it's customary to answer Yes or No when someone extends an invitation."
Irisa: "No." Then, remembering her manners: "No, thank you."

Fienberg says it's obvious that Norman killed the teacher, and that this isn't the start of a "Who killed the teacher?" mystery. So I guess we are to infer that Norman is savvy enough to have planted that "B" to cover his tracks?

I guess the show should get credit for tying together Norman and the teacher's subplot (which usually involved only the two of them) to the one about Bradley's dad's mistress—in theory, it's good when subplots intersect. But I have almost no interest in Bradley and her dead father, and I also don't want any…

Points in Bradley's favor: She's a water-bender? I got nuthin'.

In another sense, the blackouts already let him off the hook, and give us permission to keep on liking him.

I'd never thought of it, but having heard it now, it seems inevitable.