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We did get one "fuck" in Season One: Herb's "…now get the fuck out of my house" in "The Telescope". Not quite as devastating as Season Two's, but it happened.

I noticed that, yeah. There just seemed to be something… off about Dr. Warren for the whole thing, until I started looking closer at her face. I don't know if they intentionally cast someone who looked like Jasika Nicole or what, but the resemblance was striking.

Switch OFF.
The new graphics and sound/music are ON by default.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I would have paid $15 for Knytt Stories. $15 for this game seems like a bit of a stretch.

Why is this game getting so much attention?
I mean, once it has your attention, I understand why it's getting so much love. It's a great concept, it seems funny and well-told.

A technical quibble
Since the actual content is maddening at times:

Things that confuse me about this review
1. How Gearbox is "ripping off" Fallout 3 when the first marketing materials for the games were released a month apart
2. Why someone would go out of their way to play co-op in the worst possible ways, and then present them as the only possible ways to play
3. The phrase

That's what we were trying to figure out while watching it tonight. Did a bunch of people trip over their monitor cords and cause minor office fires?

One of many problems I had with tonight's episode
Did they say that 25% of the people in this country have a criminal record? That seems… high. Maybe I'm just naive.

Stop saying "whee!" Nobody says "whee!"

Sorkin re-uses so many lines, concepts, stories, names, and characters from all of his projects that you'd get exhausted if you tried to find all of them.

Al Swearengen's Fake Mustache
The best thing about the pilot episode, for me. Compare his facial hair in the first episode to the glorious decoration he has for the remainder of the series.

Hmm, I should have said "Walter" and not "John Noble". I like tormented, sobbing Walter. I like intense, competent Walter. I even occasionally like flighty, confused Walter. The Walter I don't like is goofy non sequitur Walter. For the first few episodes, sure, I was buying it. But after a dozen or so, I got a

If I remember correctly (and I just re-watched the beginning of "The Other Woman" to verify), Harold Perrineau's name was in the opening credits for pretty much every episode before he returned. That was… unfortunate. It's gotten to the point where I need to start blocking the bottom 10% of the screen with my hand

Stirring the pot
I don't want to turn this into a Fringe vs. Dollhouse thing, but holy shit, has Fringe completely blown Dollhouse out of the water, or what?

Jesus. "I'm had the opportunity"? And I'm supposed to do this for a living.

Missed opportunity
I'm had the opportunity to cast Mr. Emerson as the main antagonist in a video game project I wrote two years ago. His agent apparently asked for something like $10,000. A bargain at twice the price, right?

Although judging by the complete lack of response to the article, maybe that hope is false after all. Heh.

Ah, good point. I'd forgotten about the not at all contrived scene where Echo accidentally changes the input on the TV by pressing a button on the camera. I do that all the time.

He resents my dune buggy…