If anyone has the full scope of the corrupting power of money it's a self-made billionaire with a conscience.

The flurry of red boxes was almost certainly connected to the glitches The Machine has been developing over the last couple episodes (I caught one on my first watch: a few frames filled with what I assume were 1s and 0s)

Nope. Heeheheheeeheh.

I was dreading the inevitable fight between Hersh and John, but it was probably the highlight of a really good episode (not counting the long-awaited return of Acker, natch). In the first season, one of the last episodes I think, John comes across another special operations badass kills him, but as the guy is dying…

Really good to see Antwone Fisher getting work.

That actually makes sense. I know my mom would recognize me if I was made up as a white woman so it's a good thing they show the effort involved in this particular failed-this-citying.

I'm something of a TV snob but this second half has been, not "good for the C-Dub" but actually good. It's rapidly morphed into a Nikita or, from what I'm told, Vampire Diaries: plotted like a real comic book (or a trashy daytime soap, I guess)

Alright, this was a big episode for the backstory (and I love how the writers subtly subverted the expectations of people who know the DC 'verse.) but I will always remember it as the episode where I finally realized Diggle would be a perfect Arsenal/Red Arrow/Red Hood.

that episode of Lucy is literally the first time I cried from laughing. I'm glad it hasn't been forgotten.

"breathe new life…"

Still a more realistic coup d'etat than any Alex Jones scenario, so it's got that going for it. Ok that was a little bitchy. Not a wasted time (great acting, nice comedy, sub battles are always cool, etc.) but there were a couple episodes I just stopped watching about 10 minutes in and never returned to. Oh well.

Yeah, it was a different time. JSM was the first place I saw him too, and he quickly became one of two reasons I tuned in (the other being Laura San Giacomo, rawr.)

I meant cam shot as "a picture or video from a camera," not when she actually shot the camera with a gun. My bad.

How they made Elias entertaining in 3 minutes: Enrico Colantoni is a marvelous and underrated actor.

Yeah this is the only reasonable explanation, unless we missed something or there is some revelation about Reese and the Machine yet to come.

End of last season there was the (NSA?) intelligence analyst who basically figured out that the Machine was real, and during the course of the episode his box goes from white at the start, white in the middle as he's sitting in the police precinct trying to explain what he figured out to Fusco (that's to say: he was…

For the lore nerds: what happened before that 2009 flashback that made John aware of The Machine? He had a yellow box in the cam shot before they shot up that cafe in Paris.

Fusco likes the quiet.

I want that spin-off show right now.

I want that spin-off show right now.