Perhaps a gormless twenty-year-old on a motorcycle, a drunk in a beret and a pretty lady from the upper crust could have roles to play…?

Agreed; I thought Fringe's first season had lousy character work, with second-rate X-Files plotlines, and not even the neat future-y stuff to redeem it. If not for John Noble it'd have been essentially unwatchable to me.

'YOLO' proves that they're not only evil but they're at least 60.

Your wife makes an excellent point. I like procedurals and scifi and robots and everything, but these writers really need to pick up their game because these stories wouldn't cut it on NCIS.

What do you suppose the odds are on YOLO surviving to the year 2050? It'd be like someone unironically calling something "groovy!" or "far out!" on Tumblr today.

Yeah, it's an odd contrast with the central premise of technology leading to the spread of fear and chaos.

They're in luck. If you thought Lance Henrikson looked old and tired before, you haven't seen anything yet! Dude's so weathered he looks like he's carved out of hundred-year-old oak.

I can only imagine that particular generator was one-time-use, since it was confined within the forcefield with a powerful explosion.

I'm not sure I would notice if she did try to act, given that her "resting" face is distractingly flawless.

Just the other day in one of Sava's AoS reviews we got a commenter who seemed fairly sane until the subject of police came up.

Oh, that'd be awesome. Have him get portrayed by the guy who plays Jaime Lannister, because audience surveys indicate that TV needs more tall, straight, white, handsome, fit leading men.

Good point. I figured he did what I sometimes do with my phone: left a bunch of programs on in the background. While he was climbing the building he was also solving some difficult math equations, streaming some live music and trolling Darknet(tm) for black market recipes.

As unnuanced as those sequences were, the fact is that Youtube commenters are frequently more illiterate, bloodthirsty and hateful. Much as I'd like to I really can't call the show out on that one.

True. He really should have just filmed his overweight cat falling off a coffee table to score ten times that number. Think of the money he'd save on devious bombs and roofies-in-a-can.

Honestly I think the white guys come across way worse in Samurai Champloo than here.

Because when you try to make your petard joke you get hoisted by it.

I don't remember that episode of The Mentalist at all. I watch it, though I;m not particularly proud of the fact.

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Harry Kim asks if he's going to find a little black box with a lieutenant's pip on his chair….

Well, it definitely happened more with Picard, but with the possible exception of the Die Hard episode he never looked particularly at home with the physical stuff—and even then, that episode was more explosive arrows and hyposprays than rough-and-tumble.