Does anybody remember back when Joan was racist? I guess that character trait was conveniently tossed down the Memory Hole.

Could someone explain what late 60s psycho/social fad was being skewered by inclusion of the Ethan from Lost guy? Does he represent the beginning of the spread of 70s "flake" culture?

Giving away cars. That takes me back. The ratings have dropped so far they're not even giving away free screenings to crappy Jack Black movies anymore.

"Hey, you got your pig brains in my peanut butter!"

"Unless you need the money for your truck's shocks."

"I just remembered. I don't eat pork."

Phillip threw that Tribal Council vote.

Lord Vader! They voted off Malcolm!

@avclub-4a51fda79bbd54b4e7327dd6559b6c4d:disqus "not certain I could walk down several flights of stairs with a bullet in my right eye"

Totally agree with Todd about the cheapness of using the sex slave thing as a throwaway story element. I was much more intrigued when I thought it was all a projection in Norman's head. Making it "real" left a bad taste, and didn't seem to flow at all with Shelby's character.

"a lot of us guessed that the season would loop back around and reveal that Norman had killed his father before the series began"

Apparently there are quite a few linguists supplementing their income this way. The even have a trade group, the Language Creation Society, which "seeks to promote conlangs [constructed languages] through… organizing work for professional conlangers and people in the entertainment industry". David J. Peterson is their…

Datak's wife has quite the evil manipulative Lady Macbeth thing going on. Though I agree their son doesn't seem especially malevolent.

"The Castithan language was created by linguist David J. Peterson, developer of the Dothraki language used in Game of Thrones." The More You Know…

It was either-or, confirmed by Doug Drexler, CG Supervisor for both projects.

Is anyone else offended by the evil albino stereotypes?

I'll keep hanging in there. But I'm still bummed that SyFy chose to go with this instead of Blood and Chrome.

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus  "juked my expectation of [Nolan] being Defiance-Han Solo"

Thank gawd the Voyager's Doctor created a Vulcan Holodeck Fleshlight that allowed Vorick and Tuvok to "abate" their urges.

I'll let Senator Vreenak sum up my thoughts on the subject.