Yeah, but at this point Root has been captured. I honestly don't expect what I wrote to turn out to be right (I did use the terms "crazy" and "extremely unlikely"). I wanted to point out how the show can keep a person off-balance and open to any possibility.

I can hardly wait for the last three episodes, partly because I can't put anything past the creative team on the show. I watched the show for a second time last night (something I rarely do) and I had two crazy thoughts:

I did think something along these lines, but somehow I can't see Reese and Shaw having death scenes again after they "died" a few episodes earlier in the simulation. Killing Harold would be a gutsy move but no one else except Root had the technical skills to deal with the Machine and repair/protect it. For these…

I was doing some research on the point as to whether or not the creators knew these were absolutely going to be the last episodes or that it would only possibly end when they did the final episodes. It sounds like they were fairly certain it was the end, but they didn't want to slam the door completely shut. In an…

A long time ago I read a story about Todd Duncan, who was cast as the male lead in the original production of "Porgy and Bess." When the Gershwins started to play the score to Duncan and his wife, Duncan's initial reaction was to turn to his wife and say quietly, "This stinks." However, he went on to say, "By the…

I don't know who's guilty and who's innocent. What I feel certain of is that this drama may very well turn out to be more interesting than Depp's last few movies.

It's a by-product of mutation. You stay young until your contract expires.

I read an interview with Michael Caine a long time ago. He said about the movie "Jaws the Revenge," "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I look at the house it built and it is terrific."

Dylan himself had mixed feelings on the production. While he said, "I'm satisfied with what we did," he went on to say, "There was a sameness to the rhythms. It was more like that swampy, voodoo thing that Lanois is so good at. I just wish I'd been able to get more of a legitimate rhythm-oriented sense into it."

Maybe that's why Thoreau went to Walden. No one could stand him at that point and he was getting tired of being constantly slapped.

I like Carousel, but I think my appreciation of it comes in large part from seeing a great production of it at Lincoln Center in 1994. I saw the movie over twenty years ago and disliked it. The stage production in contrast emphasized the youth and desperation of the main characters which made them much more…

I'm a little confused by your comment. Fantagraphics is publishing the complete Pogo comic strip in a series of 12 hardcovers, the fourth volume of which is planned for November. I know they published a number of paperback Pogo books in the nineties that I think was part of a project that wasn't completed, if that…

To me, Thimble Theater (aka Popeye) by E.C. Segar. should be on the list. Brilliant stuff, but it has been undercut over the years by the cartoons & merchandising, not unlike Peanuts.

Dead Reckoning. I don't recall the movie too well & couldn't remember the name myself, so I went on Amazon & entered "Bogart Lizbeth Scott" to find the title.

My ending for the series:

I personally don't agree with you about Bogart as Marlowe, but I think he was the definitive Sam Spade.

Regarding Kelly's demise, I couldn't help but think of Star Trek. I mean, since they didn't have a Red Shirt in the show, they had to bump off a redhead instead.

To me, the difference is that, unlike Miller, Moore kept to what I see as the traditional interpretation of the heroes in this and the Killing Joke. Superman kills but he accepts the consequences of his action and realizes he can no longer be a superhero. In the Killing Joke it begins and ends with the Batman trying…

I'm trying to remember the beginning of this episode where Henry disabuses Eliza of the notion that he could be her role model. He lists other possible ways to describe the role he plays in her life. I think he ends with "possibly mentor." I'm not sure if he mentions teacher, but that may be a way to view it and…

While watching this week's show, I kept thinking it was shown out of sequence. There was nothing about Raj getting back with Emily and I don't remember any reference to Bernadette's pregnancy. Even if there was, she seemed to showing less than in the prior episode (I could be wrong on the latter point.)