I was surprised, pleased, and also thrown by the extent to which the show is allowing certain characters to be assholes. Rafe behaved pretty badly toward Irisa in this episode, endeavoring to get her and all her race in a reservation/internment camp/concentration camp.

Same.

FLAGGED!

And Toby got the job in service of a marriage that (1) doesn't look that promising in terms of generating good stories, which is *my* interest, (2) will probably not stick. In contrast, I have a real rooting interest in Travis and want him to do well in life, and this, the car wash, seems like a really solid path to…

Thanks for this. I've watched all those episodes and the events all ring a bell, but I can't for the life of me remember the emotional content (if any). What did Ty mean to Bay? All I remember is that Bay "stole" one of Daphne's friends. That seemed to happen every other week back then.

Regina/Constance Marie should have worn blue contacts! "Grab your contacts and bring the cat in."

I mostly enjoyed all the individual scenes but I felt that the episode was on rails, barreling toward the symmetry of having Bay with her bio mom/family and Daphne with hers. It felt slightly less than organic; the writers' intentions and the artifice of it all showed too conspicuously. I suppose the tennis was an…

I, too, loved that scene between John and Kathryn in which they debated which of the boys to give the job to. Some of the arguments were pretty self-evident, but I was pleasantly surprised by the somewhat pro-nepotism stance AND by the perverse, severe, and perhaps accurate interpretation of John's impulse to do the…

His pragmatism also made him go from homophobic to something akin to its opposite, when he yelled out to Bob that the male nurse *better* be gay.

That's a good choice. He's a bit of a slow-talker, and I think that would help sell the socially-maladjusted angle.

It's unfortunate that there have been no babies in history, otherwise Tom would know about them ;)

This last episode of "Continuum" (2x08) was oddly (and nicely) packed with stuff. I don't know why the sudden shot of adrenaline, but I'll take it.

I blame the surrounding Nora and werewolf stuff.

There's a 51% chance I wouldn't have thanked you.

Now that we know his position on the fourth season, we are unable to determine the velocity with which he'll be fired.

It's all fish pee and sand in one's cooch.

I'm thinking that if the Veep is the mole, she might try to assassinate President Hathaway *first*, to give the Mason presidency more legitimacy, and only then try to kill Tom. That way her standing is much more robust than if she offed Mason first.

Ooh, he's a good choice. He has the "7th Heaven" ultimate-nice-guy persona, but recently he has done a few Henry Fonda against-type roles ("No Ordinary Family").

This seems to be a common problem (Damon in "The Vampire Diaries" and Chuck Bass in "Gossip Girl"): the quote-unquote bad boy character that later becomes cuddly and a rooting interest for the audience. Chuck tried to rape little J in the first episode, and Damon has done a lot of bad stuff, including glamouring women…

What gets me is the gap between my enthusiasm prior to watching any given episode (aliens, yay!) and the material that we sometimes end up getting (the stupid scenes you mention). I have no idea why my enthusiasm persists (rather than adjust to the inconsistent quality).