And I was thinking Isaacs is the spitting image of Omar Sharif. He could play Sharif in a bio pic, since I don't suppose anyone will (or should) ever do a remake of Dr. Zhivago. But there he is, in the flesh.

It's no loss if they watch it in years to come. The loss is if they don't.

What does "FB likes" mean?

Proof that (many of) these non-Elliot scenes with other characters are real and not imagined by Elliot. Thank goodness.

Does it always take this long for new reviews to go up? No screeners, I guess, but even so, given it's been close to 8 hours already at the time I write this.

Too melodramatic this episode.

But there is one. The American general who speaks American-accented fluent German.

The reviewer did not listen to the voice saying "I'm not" carefully and seems to have assumed it was Martin talking. To me it seemed pretty clear that it was Lenore talking. She's his mother's sister after all, so would have been checked too. She's explaining why she's testing Martin's blood, since her own was already…

I saw that too. I was expecting minor mayhem as he drove off with the nozzle still in the tank, or at least the General telling him not to be an idiot, but nothing happened.

At the point the reviewer said that, just after detailing a number of sharp criticisms and before balancing those with a few positives, it reads as if what he really meant to say was "Inauspicious start".

Yes, indeed.

That's peculiar. I get captions on my HD BBCA channel (Cox Cable), so there's no reason to switch over to SD (which also has them). You should inquire from your provider why you don't have them.

Lots of small nations. Lots and lots.

G.B. Shaw would approve.

It's being repeated Monday (just for episode 1).

It's not (yet, anyway) in On Demand for the Sundance Channel via my provider (Cox), nor is it available via Amazon or any Sundance online or smart-TV app that I know of, nor even at the iTunes Store which has a lot of other SundanceTV shows. (I expect it will turn up there eventually, maybe On Demand too.)

You're the 12th or 14th person here to point this out. Don't any of you read the comments?

No, he could use it while it was plugged in and charging. After less than a minute it ought to be able to boot while plugged in.

Clarke wrote the book. Who the hell would care what an interviewer thought about the pronunciation? Clarke was clearly being too English, ostensibly polite (well, polite the first two or three times) in continually correcting the interviewer by example. If the interviewer persisted in ignoring her and maintaining the…

Nope. From the meanderings of Vinculus, some of which turn out to be accurate predictions, I'd guess he was either an important magician from the past or some supernatural creature. It remains to be seen. I'm expecting they'll tell us sooner or later, so I'm not in any way concerned that we haven't been told in the…