I had the same thought about the exercise bike. Why would you not hook that thing up to generate electricity? And why would you need an exercise bike when you're running away from or chasing down zombies every day?

Van Alden's drug of choice seems to be dignity. When he feels like he can hold his head high and command respect, he's the most dangerous man in the room. When he feels whipped or beholden, he's barely even a man. As a prohibition agent, he cloaked himself in the dignity of his strict law and order. Since becoming a…

Best episode of the season, by far.

This episode felt like it was on auto-pilot to me. Sure, a lot of people died, but only people we'd figured had shown up to get eaten by zombies eventually anyway.

People who will almost certainly not make it out of this season alive:

What exactly is Narcisse a doctor of? Libyan studies?

I sort of see grunge as the methadone to the heroin of the hair metal era. It wasn't very substantive and made for a pretty rotten high, but it was necessary for weening us off Bon Jovi and Motley Crue and to that end, served its purpose well.

I'm guessing KP, April and kids end up living with Dustin and family after the bills for all his large living come home to roost.

Kenny doesn't seem to be able to handle success. Which is a problem, because he doesn't seem to be able to handle failure, either. His greatness seems to manifest itself entirely in the ride, the build-up to the spectacular flame-out. This keeps him in a perpetual state of rebuilding, which is probably for the best.

A nice film, but the whole time I kept thinking, "this whole thing could have prevented if they'd just installed a ladder-proof lip along the rim of the ship."

American Greed did an episode on John Spano which I really enjoyed, though not having seen this 30 on 30, I couldn't evaluate it against this version of the story.

So far, I am thoroughly enjoying Season 6 of The Wire.

Right. I didn't really have an issue with the level of threat they represented to Walt, just that I didn't really have as much invested in them and they didn't seem all that interesting to me.

Great finale to the episode. It ties up a lot of loose ends without feeling rushed or in choate. My one criticism of this last season is that I never really felt like Todd, Lydia, and the Nazis were a worthy foil to Walt. Certainly not in the same league as Gus Fring, Mike, or Hank, so it was a little bit of a shame…

I didn't think it was possible to still feel sorry for Walter White, but then, here we are. Also, since when is it less suspicious to talk at separate tables with your backs turned to each other than to sit at the same table like normal people?

So many TV shows in the last 10 years have proven better at setting up a mysterious premise than actually delivering on it. The Event, Revolution, Awakenings, just to name a few. LOST will always be remembered as the show that launched a thousand disappointments.

The drummer is wearing a t-shirt that says "Thanks, Malc" a reference to Malcolm McLaren screwing up the Sex Pistols' appearance on SNL. A nice touch.

I'm guessing these are just the first of many dominoes that will fall. We know from the flash forward at the beginning of the season that Walt won't be cooking for Lydia and the Nazis. We also know that he won't be going back to life with Skyler, Walt Jr and the A-1 car wash. I'm thinking that a whole lot of people…

Don't we already know that Hank lives by virtue of the flash forward to his birthday At denny's at the beginning of this season?

It's reasonable to believe that his rented van did have GPS tracking, in which case it's not inconceivable that Jesse would be able to find the loctation with good detective work. What's more surprising, given how meticulous Walt is, is that he wouldn't have made a point of checking whether the van had GPS tracking…