Deborah kids, but that "as soon as things calm down" always happens either in the denouement of the week's episode or, at latest, the next week.

Cosign on the "writers lost their way" thread. They completely dropped the upgraded shifter storyline. But!

Definitely table-setting. If I, as a TV consumer, can suss out the narrative arc, I have to assume that the writers are ahead of me, or I would not still be watching this show.

*SFX budget.

Presumaly, (yes presumaly), the Observers can hook up to a 600-years hence interubez to get information on the Space-Kardasashians. And anything else of note.

Hm, you might be right. We'll see, -shades-, in September*. Yeahhhhhhhh!

In case no one got to it: the September from the end of the episode was the September from after (in a wibbly-wobbly way) the abduction in Walter's lab a few episodes ago. His bald bros Wally Wested him, apparently healed him, but good ol' Sep was gathering intel on the invasion the whole time. Oh snap, indeed. So…

I discovered TTOI today, AND the definition of seppo! Face!

To be fair, West Wing got it several years ago… but yay, verisimilitude!

Dean's hypocritical moralizing is part of the character. He's done it since, well, the pilot, and it was addressed (just from this season alone) in the episode where Dean kills Kaylee, or maybe one of the ones just afterward. My point being, Dean *is* a dick. When he's just a casual asshole, getting drunk and watching…

there's milk in the fridge that's about to go bad…. and there it goes

You know it's Beckett's role to be the bringdown, since the pilot, so why ding her (or Katic) for playing her part? And I liked the jealous, non-fembot Beckett we saw in therapy with Worf. Next: bat'leth training!

Have a squad with 2 anti-armor damaging skills and 1 anti-barrier skill. Turn off squad auto-power. Profit.