And where Zoe's role in the house is to wheel around a little coffee cart.

In all seriousness, though, I expect to see Dawes again in a week or two.  They did sign with the Luncheonette, didn't they?  So, there'll probably be an in-studio recording episode, plus the fallout with Crosby's former co-worker (boss?), etc.

SPOILER?

No, if anything's it's Ben's theme (I think it mostly shows up in his dreams, though there's at least one moment where it's playing on a record when he wakes up).  It would probably work pretty well as a Ben/Sophie Love Theme, if that relationship had ever gone anywhere.

The Dreifusses are awesome.  So much great stuff with Rita Sue and Libby.

Oh, definitely.  Certainly not everyone, but it's probably pretty easy to get most of the town to show up when the competing entertainment is radio and you have a few vocal believers.

@exiledjerseyite:disqus Thanks for the clarification.  It's been a number of years since I watched the show the last time (my dvds are currently in storage in another country…), and I can't quite remember all of these details.

I'm pretty sure they all have the same powers, but may naturally discover some and not others.  For instance, Scudder definitely used the healing power that Ben has, despite the fact that he was the dark one.

I assumed his eyes were milky because of glaucoma or somesuch—that is, the curse part of Scudder's "gift" made him blind physiologically, not just in a magical "your eyes are fine, but you can no longer see" way.

VAGUE SPOILER

I was drawn into the show from the beginning, but do concur that it gets a lot better toward the end of the first season when things start to speed up.  There are a lot of early episodes where not too much happens.  It might have worked if Knauf had the six seasons he planned, but since that could never have been…

The song that reappears (and will reappear several times in the future) is Ruth Etting's version of "Love Me or Leave Me."  Thematically, it may not be entirely appropriate with the show, but it fits with the time period, and ends up working about perfectly.

It's just a little harder to be discrete when your spouse is incapable of having sex, since yoou can't attribute unplanned pregnancies to said spouse.

Or lack of issue, in the legal sense.

They didn't talk about it in the episode, but I assumed a lot of what wasn't being discussed was the fact that Matthew could never have children.  So, staying with Matthew wouldn't just mean not having sex, but never having children, which would likely have been a huge part of the life she had planned for herself.

I feel petty pointing it out, but I think Swan broke into Regina's office in city hall, not into her house.

Oh, yeah, that's why I assumed it was the Ben/Sophie lovechild - it disappeared from the jar right after they had sex.

It's because the robots killed most of humanity and he has to lead the resistance.  But only by first turning into Christian Bale.

There's probably no evidence to support this, but I always thought the fetus was Ben and Sophie's unborn child.

@avclub-383beaea4aa57dd8202dbff464fee3af:disqus Very interesting…  I had always assumed that Lucius had made his way to the Western Front to hunt Scudder, since that fit the history better, but I guess that wouldn't have explained Lodz and the dreaded Trench Bear™.