I can deal with bedbugs. It's an incredible pain in the ass, but at the end of the day it's just a lot of laundry and maybe some new furniture. I'm pretty sure President Trump means people die who wouldn't otherwise, and it could mean a lot of disruptions to social systems I rely on. I'd take the bedbugs every time.

Couldn't agree more. I have a long, long rant about how it should've been her over Hawkeye from the beginning. Srsly.

Cruz was our countermove, but we cut corners on his programming and look where that left us.

Chad Kroeger hugged Stephen Harper, apparently willingly. He can go to hell.

I'd be happy to give him a drink of water and send him on his way.

I'm Canadian and think Clinton will be fine! My way of life is just more threatened by Trump than by bedbugs, Nickelback, or Shia LaBeouf, is all I'm saying.

A lot of annoying things with no useful purpose or redeeming qualities are still better than actually harmful things.

I didn't consider it that egregious. As someone who went into the show completely cold, it took a little while to even get a sense of what the technology did. And the facade of "this is just a brothel/temp agency" started to fall apart more or less as I was coming to realize how underutilized it was. But I don't think…

Well maybe it's for the best that he didn't, then. I'm still using this universe for stuff. (Mostly fast food cravings)

Oh, yeah. But for 18 episodes instead of 5.

5 episodes is a lot to ask of a person. That's two feature films, basically.

I think we all wanted him to get Castor in Orphan Black.

Fair. I think what they really mostly fail to do is sell the concept before just diving into cases of the week. I haven't seen the original pilot, though, maybe it does a better job of setting the stage.

The 100. Spends a few episodes teasing classic CW teenage love triangles and then suddenly flips into dark, morally complex science fiction.

But I think that was the point - they had this 5 year plan which started with this tiny, almost farcical misapplication of the technology for sex work, basically, and the idea was that as viewers started to think about what the tech could actually do they get hit with the epitaph, which is full blown apocalypse. And…

I appreciated them a little more on the second run through (I love what a hilarious misdirect Gjokaj's gangster stereotype is), but conversely knowing how little time we eventually got and how ambitious the show was it's a little painful that there are five episodes that are basically wasted.

This. As I understand it the show literally wouldn't exist without Dushku, who both helped conceive of and sell it. And they found the right role for her, it just took a little bit of time. Just like it took Angel a year or so to realize that David is a better comedy than drama actor.

It's barely a spoiler, and I think the most likely spoil-y inference someone who hasn't watched the show would draw from it is wrong, so…

I don't have anything to add to this other than Gjokaj is the best and it's unfortunate that he isn't a mega star yet. Lachman too.

I have a friend in the SCA who broke his opponent's shield once in a match. Thing is, they use rattan swords but real shields - this one was oak banded in steel and he split it in two (and broke the arm of the person holding it, he feels terrible about the whole incident). The amount of force that someone who knows…