"I love being in continent!"

You're welcome. And episode 20.

Maybe because Vigilance is, kinda by definition, paranoid about putting stuff online, so they're less "visible" to the Machine.

Hm. For the first season you need episodes 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21, 22, and 23 (just best guesses from the wikipedia descriptions and half-remembered beats from two years ago) to "get" what happens afterward, The backstory of the main characters, and other interesting stuff that pops up later, is pretty much…

The machine already crossed that line at the end of last season when it created a conspiracy to kidnap itself.

I think Harold has it right. The Machine does want Root there so she (the Machine) can talk to Harold. Analog interface.

Root is awesome. Touched, sure, but The Machine is (or was) keeping her sane. I figure her every waking moment is either a: her off on her own doing crazy sociopathic shit b: The Machine telling her what to do. That's deep. And props to Amy Acker for pulling it off. And she looks really tall next to Shahi, which added…

I just clicked off the thing on EW about the spin-off. I had no idea they were actually going through with the "men of letters" idea (presumably collected from the still-breathing comic reliefs) but it makes sense. And I bet Dorothy's gonna be in the gang. Or not.

She's, hehehehe, a, ahem, friend of Dorothy.

When it's all over I really do hope Dean settles down with a smokin'-hot Asian chick.

“So I took a WikiLeak all over that,” which, no.

Missed the writing credit, but I knew from the density of witty rejoinders Edlund had to be involved somehow. He's quite good at his job.

I liked the episode even if all those criticisms are fair, esp. Cas not stopping a beat after dying (I thought he was gonna die and go to heaven, thus getting his magic powers back through a magic loophole. Oh well.)

Anything is possible on Planet Vancouver.

You kept me guessing till the end, Cinemax CEO of Tits. Well played.

Laurel is the worst.

That's crazy. Never got into Dexter but I'd watch it just for that ending.

Then you'll find it really hard to believe most people don't seriously inspect the biopolitical metaphors (especially the literally unreasonable [and figuratively faceless] horde) inherent in zombie movies. But it's true.

That would work too.

(before we begin - satire does not mean: let's get every detail 100% accurate to the exclusion of the point we really wanted to make in the first place. You know who you are.)