I actually really enjoy the show, because it is, for the most part, gentle fun and clearly comes from a place of love. They also had the single best Man of Steel joke I've heard…

Arthur Claypool is still alive, I thought.

Only after he is shot, though.

I actually think the difference is a bit more complicated than that. Samaritan was taught to protect and defend humanity, whereas the machine was taught to protect every person. Thus, the irrelevant numbers and the "you are all irrelevant" line in the opening monologue. Finch's machine was taught that every human life…

Indeed. But there's also a couple familiar faces returning after long absences.

They pretty much explicitly said as much with the closing shot of them all drinking around the table at the wedding.

There was a line about how there was too much rubble to recover any evidence of the bodies. And the radio show host was basically an Alex Jones type, whose stuff would usually spread on social networking, which Samaritan controls.

That's a hell of a reassortment.

MUHWAHAHAHAHA

So, the cast list for the penultimate episode has been released, and there is are at least two names I never expected to show back up on the show on the list.

Root on horseback was the hero shot this series always needed that I never knew.

"Patriot Act. Read it."

How great was the ending of that episode, with them sharing a drink knowing of the coming storm.

Also, Alexa's poor wrists.

So, after watching Reassortment, I decided to look up the science, since it seemed a bit far out for this show—and I found that it was actually almost completely sound. In fact, it was how we got H1N1. And I know a lot more about the flu then I've ever wanted to know.

True, but you needed the Samarikid twist ending to set up Shaw's plot in "Reassortment", and it retroactively made both of the 'this is all a simulation' plots better in the end, as I, as an audience member, was left guessing if it was a simulation or not, which I expect was the point.

So, uh, Alexa, did you miss QSO?

I mean, I think we all want an episode of @midnight where Ron Funches faces off against Miss Piggy.

Hardwick?

Cause, I mean, just because he's an empty shirt.