At some point lit'l Bruce has to wise up and start acting clever/cynical right? I mean, I get that he's still developing into Batman but he has to develop into him from something. Even at that age, and with a confusing early teen crush I would have been more suspicious of Silver than he was, and I'm only, like, a…

She's your sister and your lawyer!?

This seems exactly right to me: The Riddler character in all the other versions I've seen wasn't necessarily the most conscientious villain out there, but I don't know if I've ever seen one that was actually bloodthirsty in any serious way.

We really don't have functioning driverless cars at all right now, and it's not especially likely we'll have anything reliably useful that way for a long time.

Heck, she was sacrificed to protect his rigging the vote.

This drove me nuts as well. How could that have ever happened.

Also why were they waving the flashlights around in what was clearly a very well lit building in the middle of the day?

Also someone should eat their own face, and Jake should have to solve the mystery of a flayed person folded into the shape of a heart that unbends itself into a terrifying deer monster.

I suspect that is actually an odd human-psychology-is-strange type thing that would work, too.

Oh no way! Sure Spartacus lost his sword at the end but he walked away with like four spears in exchange for it and that's pretty good.

Also thinking over it some more I suspect that unlike the short stories (which can be made into movies, usually) Dick's refusal to ever just have a premise makes for a really difficult adaptation.

Bryan Fuller might be capable of pulling it off, but with a lot of Dick's novels I think it would be really hard to craft a show where it didn't just feel like it ended with "…but it was all a dream" or something. (I mean, that's not what the endings in his novels are, but he does screw around with the reality of…

Very true - and not just dumb but dumb in pretty much the exact way that Uhtred is dumb.

I don't know if Alfred really had any interest in Uhtred dying unnecessarily. He's a really useful pawn, despite Alfred having to drag him out of trouble over and over. For all we know this was at least tacitly agreed on beforehand, or at least if it wasn't Alfred clearly saw a way out of the problem.

It does make you wonder what they were up to in that fort ahead of time. We know he likes to kill people with his teeth, after all.

It's kind of a crazy one too, to me at least. It's clear why the combat benefits Uhtred: either he survives and is cleared, or he dies with a weapon in his hand and goes (he believes) to Valhalla. If he'd just been executed that wouldn't have been true.

I don't know if he's dumb, per se. He's clearly very, very rash and also not very wise - he continues to not take the time to actually make sense of what's going on with the Saxons, largely out of being arrogant/stubborn about it.

v) - And also smart in realizing that, unlike Danes, the Saxons would just go along with it without being suspicious or saying "Um, Ok you do what you want with that but it's still your share of the treasure you don't get to just take that along with you as well as a bunch of the rest of this."

Doctor: "Clara, I'm afraid you are the sickest woman in the United Kingdom. You have… everything."
Clara: "You mean I have pneumonia?"
Doctor: "Yes"
Clara: "Hypnotic Sontaran viral encephalitis?"
Doctor: "Yes"
Clara: "Vashta Nerada?"
Doctor: "A little bit, yes. You also have several diseases that have just been…

Controlling doesn't necessarily mean having someone present on everyone one of them, though. I mean, two or three hundred years ago Britain controlled nearly half the continents on earth.