I'm watching this because, Alison Scagliotti (though sadly not as much as I'd like).
It's not Warehouse 13, though.

There's a joke about Chinatown in here somewhere…

That's probably the right decision.

He was just terrific in Warehouse 13. He made a stock "evil villain" role into someone complex, real and even sympathetic, and set a high bar for later guest villains to clear.
Also, his voice was one of the few that truly rate the adjective "mellifluous".

Is "lader" some kind of Ophidian rank designation?
Their entire social structure is a mystery to me.

He was in Titanic?

Piqued. It would have piqued your interest.

The whales wail in Wales?

" Hicks wants to find true love by perpetuating an enormous lie.
He wants to be loved and accepted for who he “really is” by pretending,… to be somebody who is more or less
his opposite."
Isn't this the premise for like, 90% of all romantic comedies?

I don't think Carrier's an ass; he's aware that his subject (the idea that there never was an historical Jesus) is likely to be regarded as one of those, eh, fringe theories entertained by the "The Eiffel Tower is really a giant space gun" crowd, and so goes to extreme pains to be as scholarly and exact as he can be.…

On the Historicity of Jesus, Richard Carrier.
It's kind of heavy going for me; his style is exhaustively pedantic, so I'm also reading Lest Darkness Fall; L.Sprague De Camp's classic science fiction novel about a late 1930's scholar transported back from Mussolini-era Italy to Rome around the advent of the Dark…

"…a real concept"

Actually, an Entourage/ Silicon Vally type show about a fledgling online porn company could have genuine narrative traction I think.

The Rock.

Yeah but you know there'd be like, a billion Nikki Benz sexbots out there, all making Ms. Benz a tidy royalty every time they were , uh, optioned by a customer.
And I imagine movie stars would totally have their agents trying to get them to licence their images for personal entertainment purposes as well.

"Barney’s slow road back to Robin-hood is signalled by his tackling Ted
at the end to give Robin the win she really needs. We’re going to take
our time getting there, but mark my words, that’s where we’re going."

John Cusak ; archytypal modern man, playing a Roman? I can't see it working.
Even in the trailer he looks lost; as though he's wandered in from a costume party at a friend's house and is looking for the ice maker.

Oh, I think she did. What was odd was that she seemed reluctant to share the knowledge with Kanan.

Yeah, but Tua was clearly a goner anyway. Vader might have convinced her that pretending she wanted to defect was a way to commute her inevitable execution, and then gone ahead and killed her anyway when she'd served her purpose because: Sith Lord. It's what he do.

To reiterate; "Fuck and you."