It seems this episode was aimed directly at you Zilcho. Did you find it any funnier than the rest of us did?

Also, Kevin came the closest to actually making an entree. That probably gave him some points over Mike's splatter-painting of a dish.

Hank wasn't bad at the superheroing
Except for the hitting part. But the acrobatics and using the gadgetry went surprisingly smoothly. Have we seen either brother show anything resembling talent before?

Third theory: the dollhouse's smooth functioning is breaking down because Adelle is spending less time running the place and more time throwing back the brandy to dull her conscience.

disgruntled Kurt
Did anyone else notice Kurt standing grumpily on the sidelines and not singing along during the Bust a Move and Caroline numbers? This is Glee so clearly that's not subtle foreshadowing. So what was it? An excised subplot?

There are the super-wealthy clients who can afford weekly outings and the somewhat wealthy who can scrape together 3 months salary for a one-time splurge. Or maybe it was a birthday present from a super-rich friend.

Crows have been getting a lot of press for their intelligence recently. Why just crows will probably be because the flashforward's cause only effects creatures with a certain level of neuronal complexity and crows were close enough to get effected but different enough that it killed them. That seems like something…

Restaurants can stay open without power if they're cooking with gas. There were plenty of open restaurants in Manhattan during the first evening of the August 2003 blackout. Ice cream was half price.

The problem seems geographical rather than culinary to me. I don't think Robin knew that India wasn't part of the Middle East until Padma pointed it out. I hope they've got a globe back at the Top Chef house for her to study up on.

I'm hoping Mike I and Robin stick around a little longer. Either of them working the front of the house should make for an entertaining restaurant wars.

I had the same stupid synopsis problem. I got to the point in the episode when i would have figured it out and glumly thought about how much I would have enjoyed the realization.

I thought he meant that the maternal instinct was more chemical than neurological and that's why it's purer. It was a call-back to the discussion that started the episode and it's also kind of true.

The trouble on the freeways would be even worse than alurin says. Our economy works these days with just-in-time delivery of goods, that means that lots of factories and stores (Wal-Mart specifically) use their tractor trailers as their warehouses, always on the road and available to go where needed. With those…

Let's just hope for the awesome first season for now.

"Uh-huh, I see. Magic."
You know, I think I'd like this show better if they were dealing with rogue wizards instead of mad scientists. Instead of gritting my teeth through the sub-Dr.-Who-grade pseudoscientific technobabble, I'd accept a biomancer making human-mole rat chimeras without a second thought. That's just…

Are we maybe watching a different universe than we were watching last season? This season's Olivia didn't avoid that car crash. Or was Olivia returned to a slightly different universe than the one she left?

Theories of Time
There was a lot of blather in the preview at the end of the show over whether the vision was of what will be or of what might be which is supposed to drive the drama. We know that people saw a vision of a future that included the 2 minute blackout which comes down on the will-be side. Predestination…

From what I've read, yes, more flashforwards. And, yes, new safety regulations. That's pretty interesting as a science fiction scenario and a rather different premise from the book which has one one 20 year flashforward.

When scallops stop being delicious?

Yeah, paella's easy—seafood in a saffron broth, put the onions, peppers and peas in a salad and garnish with a rice crust crisp.