The sincerity and likability of Noah Wyle's performance are kind of carrying these early episodes. He is, however, also the best known actor in the series by a long shot.

Stupid primate supremacists and their constant anti-fish rhetoric.

Haha, that was a reference to something Ken Tucker (from Entertainment Weekly) said about Barrowman: "like Tom Cruise with suspenders, but minus the Scientology."

Torchwood has survived by having a larger scope every year. They don't have a reset button, the way that Doctor Who sometimes does. Considering that they've killed off all but two of the original team members, blown up the headquarters, disenfranchised the U.K. government, and blown the lid off of the existence of…

Like someone else mentioned, I think there's an implication that the events of Children of Earth resulted in a radical change in the relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. It also presumably explains why a CIA agent is waving around a badge and a gun, which they don't really do. But, anyway, while it seems like…

It seemed like the U.S. passed some 4-5-6 legislation, and the reference to "aliens" as responsible for the Miracle by one of the characters indicates that they do know that aliens exist.

I think it goes without saying that we would look ridiculous without jaws.

I admire your calmness about this situation.

I've read that Starz's new original content is delayed on Netflix by 90 days. Do you have confirmation whether or not this applies to Torchwood?

A large impetus for space exploration was competition between nations, and nationalism still functions that way now — just for more nations. There's more cooperation now though, certainly. But then, the turn towards private industry is in some ways just a more traditional capitalistic form of competition.

You're just the latest victim of my nefarious over-representation-of-Caillat-knowledge scheme. Let that be a lesson to you. Or something.

I think it was MySpace. I'd have to know more about Colbie Caillat than I do to see how close the analogy is.

This might be a situation worth watching, since it surely is one of the first cases of a fiction author achieving independent success in the e-book market and then scoring a major publishing contract. Amanda Hocking might be the Colbie Caillat of vampire books.

The situation might be similar to musicians. Even if they doing well as independent artists, musicians generally want to be signed to a label, because publicity yields greater record sales. I imagine Hocking will benefit from book reviews, paper book distribution at airport bookstores, etc. Also, $2 million up…

You replied to the wrong person re: Amanda Hocking, but yes, that name sounds familiar. I'm not surprised that she would get a publishing deal like that, given how well she was doing without one.

It might just be a reference to the way that device is typically used in the U.S. We are certainly always dealing with it here when discussing sci-fi TV series. From the Wikipedia entry on "cliffhanger":

I compare the current status of e-publishing to what would have happened if the major recording labels had developed a reasonable business model for digital music distribution and consumption before anyone had heard of Napster or the iPod. P2P file sharing of e-books is possible and does happen, but, ironically, the…

In my experience, the search feature on Gawker sites is not worth using. Google's site search is much more effective. Here are the search results for "Torchwood Children of Earth 2009":

I tend to think of MS as a juggernaut. They can focus on one or two things at a time at the expense of other things. They lost ground in the mobile market in part because they weren't paying adequate attention to the internet on any platform. And really, the mobile market transformed extremely quickly. The old…

I think there's a lot of credibility in the rumors that Apple is developing an iPad-MacBook Air hybrid, although it's hard to tell whether that would be simply an ARM CPU or a dual-CPU ARM-x86 ultraslim notebook. But what I imagine is that whatever form it takes, it will displace the MacBook. What would make sense…