That's what I thought, but I didn't really want to go back and rewatch it just to reassure myself that there's been yet another dropped ball by the show.

good points.

Doyle originally based Holmes off of a London doctor who impressed him with his powers of induction. So House was actually a really decent updating and homage to the source material - instead of making it another tired police procedural with a cop/detective who can see things others can't thanks to…

Matthew Lillard's second finest hour, behind SLC Punk.

yeah I was thinking about that Flashpoint episode as well, much better use oh the terror a landmine could spawn (and that wasn't even the "signature" weapon of the Flashpoint villain).

they'll do anything to keep from mentioning polar bears.

exactly - I can think of many serialized shows that at least seem to be trying to do better than this show, which just seems to coast along. It reminds me a lot of Terra Nova, an ambitious and exciting idea that got bogged down into mediocrity by efforts to put that exciting concept into an overchewed and tired format.

If they had revealed that, I would have been a bit more reassured on that point. It still seems awfully Byzantine, but better than mere happenstance.

It just seems like that would be worth worrying about, as a prisoner. A question that would be asked along with "How did I get here?!" would be "And how do I know who Siri fucking is?!"

Plausible except we see that people are all over the place anyway, there was never any mention of any problems with the mines (and the bomber was confident enough to walk around with them in a backpack as well as trigger them in his own hands). What you're arguing is that the sapper was able to predict how the mines…

Well the problem is that if you make a show "like this" then of course it will have the limitations a of shows "like this". The problem I have (and I think others agree) is that we don't need another show "like this" and that the premise was intriguing enough and the creator had enough pull that it seems like they…

apparently he decided to get over his seasickness by quitting his job at SFPD and joining up the prestigious ranks of the Alcatraz guards (cheap rent!)

That really did annoy me.

Perhaps someone can clear this up for me: in the sniper episode, rebel-cop takes the photo of the sniper to the ONE gun shop he had to go to and gets an ID from the owner, right? So why does Hurley assert that someone has to be helping these guys because someone got the sniper his gun for him?

If the blood on the wall dries… things start pushing through.

I know that I'm guilty of being hard on this show, but I was very annoyed by the use of old landmines, that all worked perfectly, and apparently people only step on all at once. The scene at Pine St was terrible. People wandering around everywhere, then one person steps on a mine, then 4 other people step on mines in…

Because the writing sucks.

What killed me was that the beach was relatively smooth except it was turned right around where the mines were. The best part was in the evening the beach was well trod, footprints everywhere when rebel-cop showed up - Hauser couldn't have asked any of the many beach goers to call the cops for him?

He didn't have to get into a jurisdictional pissing match, he wanted to go in and prolong it so his personal super cop could exploit cartoonish story elements in an effort to produce a weak simulacra of tension.

Ugh, seriously? So we can already start pairing off the boring present day characters into boring relationships to further dilute any interesting parts of the show back down to procedural dross? I guess I din't have any right to expect shows to try to do better than just hit the same notes every other show has hit…