I would much rather watch a show about how society has to turn agrarian again; what we have now is pretty much the normal world except only Monroe has access to the high-tech stuff. Not as interesting.

Yeah, those bicycles are DANGEROUS.

The reference to Michael Crichton, as far as I can tell, was a nod to "Prey," which apparently deals with dangerous nanotechnology.

This was my thought, too. Some of those bullets, surely, will pass right through and ricochet onto something nice.

It's so tricky, because if none of the good guys ever gets shot, it's bad (for the reason you state). But if, as a concession to realism, they every once in a while *do*, then the show has to scramble to explain how the characters manage to avoid death, and these "solutions" usually erode realism even *more*.

Are the nanites used up now, or is she effectively immortal now, short of decapitation or a nuclear bomb? (That is, does she possess negligible senescence.)

I didn't know what to make of the scene where he almost punches her in the face. On the one hand, I never would have thought that the show would have the guts to give its main attraction, the character of Miles, such an unappealing trait. On the other, it might exist mainly to show us how far he has come, as the…

The musical chairs of "someone gets captured; the others rescue him or her; in the process, though, someone else gets captured" has gotten a little tiresome.

No one is buying this.

Dude, lay the fuck off.

Carrie, any chance we'd get a Survivor postmortem from you in some form?

You mean a great-grandmother, someone old enough to have given birth to, say, Jack and Declan's father?

Yes, a kind of pained shyness that he is constantly apologizing for with his face.

Wistful, yes! I was looking for the right word, and "melancholy" didn't quite feel right.

My foot will in spirit be threatening your collective crotch. And this is sure to make us friends in the future.

Dude, awesome book review. I'm a huge fan of The Russia House, both the book and the movie, and A Perfect Spy is great.

Ain't no thang.

Also now we're hugely pregnant, have bigger boobs, and are otherwise equally if not more cute.

It seemed everyone forgot the idiom "Fallen Comrades" and replaced it in their heads with "Rite of Passage."

Good point.