Um, that's your theory, that he's under a compulsion.

Yeah - though those bank tellers are generally pretty flirty… Turning off the security cameras though? Jesus, that is fucking retarded; I imagine you'd more than get fired if you were (easily) caught.

He would know their addresses by such items as the deed to their house in their SD box, as stated in his interaction with necklace owner. There were also passports in some of the boxes he opened, so those would have helped as well.

And see, that just doesn't make sense to me. I'm going to cover my tracks by drawing tons of attention to myself?! I'm going to foil my pursuers by making sure I have plenty? If he'd hit one bank, gotten what he'd wanted and vanished, would anyone really have made a fuss about it? Especially since he's already killed…

Really? The one thing they have a problem figuring out is the seat belt? That's a satisfying nod to their anachronism? (incredulity)

And they have astoundingly unique MO's, as well. Ok, not the first guy, and possibly the sniper wasn't "astoundingly" unique, but there was a glaring commonality (the only one?) in his choice of spree targets. Not to mention a ritual to his method of preparation. But yeah, I hope the show addresses why this might be…

See, once again, the procedural bit took me out of the show. There's a way in but not a way out because of "alarms". The cops are going to bicker until shots are fired, then they're going to rush in so fast that they get punk'd by an old trope (without even the benefit of smoke grenades or panicked, rampaging…

I concur, the Matt Damon wannabe as protege turned betrayer wasn't a surprise for me either. At least not after the resolution between Sweeney and Tiller at the birthday party, following the constant reminders to not be weak, to have no weaknesses, etc.

I disagree with the theory that the Bank Robber was looking for a particular box - at the previous banks he hit multiple boxes quickly - popping the locks before checking contents - at the final bank he opened only one box, the one with the key. Sweeney went out, did his thing so the right people (narratively) could…

I remember when I was about 9 or 10 years old, I was reading a Hardy Boys novel (I had read a lot of them at this point, all of the ones available at the local, rural library) and got disgusted with the writing. I didn't know it, or at least I didn't phrase it that way at the time, but that's how it was. Frank and Joe…

Those commercials are incredibly annoying because nothing on those lists is precluded by marriage or kids… finishing up a movie is impossible because you're married? I guess if your movie is a low budget retelling of the greatest Roman orgies of each emperor, then yeah, your husband might take an issue with it. And…

That's weird, my section of FB is filled with people who can't stop talking about how great their kids are, constantly sharing anecdotes, pictures, videos, and transcribed bits of dialogue…

I realize this is the internet, home of the hyperbole, but you should note that I said that I thought that "a lot" of the  enduring fandom had "a lot" to do with the context of the show's release. I certainly did not assert that such "I was there when" feelings were the sole way for people to develop affection for the…

That was word for word my reaction.

No one has said that the best episodes of a show are its first (I think that for the most part, all of the good shows have good beginnings, but they are far from the best of what the series has to offer), so comparing the show to itself is moot. What I am saying is that these first 3 episodes of Alcatraz have been…

I guess this is why so many senior citizens are so comfortable with technology - it's just paralleling science fiction that they may or may not have read as children. Right.

Really? 99%?! What's the margin of error there?

Yeah, without knowing what they're pulling from it is easy to see how L&K could really suck. For instance, the mother in the trailer seems to be honestly asking her kid what it is like to be a ghost; when in the context of the scene she thinks she's just humoring the somewhat morbid imagination of her youngest kid,…

In the trailer for the pilot Dodge (well echo) looks pretty good. Tyler looks amazingly well cast pulling off the huge surly teenager look well; the rest are at least consistent looking enough to be family. 
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In 2001 she did an interview with Esquire where she asserted that she has MPD.