I kept eyeing that necklace thing he has, thinking it had to be a translator, but his lips were actually in synch with the English sentences he was saying.

*arrow*
*second arrow*
*third arrow*

I've been wondering about those rings he wears… They're more like rubber bands. Maybe a Michael-Jackson-style Band-Aid affectation?

I forgot to mention the main red-herring candidate, the man Manchester tasked with narrowing the list of names. I guess there are enough "red herrings" that I should really just call them suspects.

Mystique has a twin! This is actually a show about two sisters fightin' crime. The title "Ms. Tic & Ms. Toc" didn't play well in the focus group.

I accidentally caught the previews for the whole season, and one part filled me with dread: Mason gets stuck in a Kevin Finnerty/LOST sideways universe type of situation. Gah. Shows, please don't invest time on stuff that, at the end, will all be taken back. It doesn't make you deep.

Bit of sky fell on our TVs.

Not via in-show logic but rather the rules of TV, he seems to be playing a red herring.

What's the twist, please?

It's the first time we see her, but I think it was mentioned that she had been an aide to the previous president, too. (If she were some Johnny-come-lately, she'd be much more suspicious.)

Ah, I didn't realize that. Do you happen to know why the edit showed us that cave, as though one of the teams (the eventual winners?) had gone into the water prematurely? Maybe it was just to fake us out / offer suspense.

I couldn't manage to feel bad about the Blue Team: I was happy that they saved  us from a foregone-conclusion type of win.

The reveal at the end, where the Vohm guy Cochise casually mentions that the humans have poked a hornet's nest by destroying the plant, was chilling.

Appropriately enough, that's actually Tatiana Maslany.

Galactica did the sex-lit spine thing once and then never again, which confuses me as to whether Falling Skies is paying homage or trying to create an entry in tv tropes.

I liked the role Arthur was about to play for Mason: a sort of Jimmy Carter thing.

A "4400" baby is pretty much the best route the show could have taken. Now the baby won't be a prop or a MacGuffin but an actual player with agency. And its mindset (probably slightly cold or ruthless) will be good for a bit of excitement at least in the beginning, before the character becomes cuddly.

"Veep" last night had Allison Janney, and she and the Veep did a Walk-and-*Don't*-Talk of sorts, with the dialogue to be looped in later.

He also traced the time axis with his finger *in the wrong direction* (toward the origin).

I had the same thoughts: Surely Dan will intervene now on Amy's behalf! But, as you say, then I remembered what show we're watching.