Frankly I don't see how any of them, especially bullet magnet Root, have any arms or shoulders left, or why none of them have ever been knee-capped. It's one of those things we have to just let go, kind of like them talking out loud into their comms when they're well within hearing range of other people

And what some (above) see as awkwardness was urgency and rough sex between two women (not girls), both of whom identify as tops. (At least in the simulation. Collective dyke head canon consensus re *someone* being a classic power bottom aside.)

Agreed. That and the previous part of that scene with Finch and Reese and Bear was my first hint. The flirty dialogue during the ear surgery was on key but she would have been more tuned in to Shaw's needs.
I think the disparity in the characterizations is more due to Samaritan obviously having to provide some…

Agreed. probably why it got cut.

—-Shaw has managed to avoid leading Samaritan to the Machine and sacrificed herself 6,741 times and counting—-

On Twitter last night, Shahi noted the scene where she pays the cab driver got cut.

The simulation is a mix of what Samaritan has set up and what Shaw's brain has responded with. It's Shaw vs. Samaritan, which gives it a weird dream-logic/quit cuts/off kilter vibe.

Move along Milhouse. (JK, I have made that same point ad nauseum in other contexts. No one ever cares)

I got no complaints, nor have I seen a single complaint about it from other lesbians.

And how great was the writers' homage to Vonnegut by referring to the machine as being "unstuck in time," which is doubly apt since the POI narrative is built from flashbacks woven into present action to mitigate actions in the future. Sort of like Billy Pilgrim, the Machine has "memories of the future."

It was similar (though Beale holds a higher position) to Grice letting Shaw and Tomas go in Honor Among Thieves, which Control noted later as a reason she counted on Grice.

Actually that was some reporter last week (I can't find the reference now) who had gotten the screeners and was dropping tidbits about that scene on twitter.

Just the idea of little Sam Groves makes me teary. That photo in Bad
Code of her looking up at Hanna is such a heartbreaker for anyone who's
every had a crush on anyone. (especially for those of us who were lesbian children)