Why is he so fond of Stephen - especially given the prophesy? (just saw the final episode)

liar!

The whole show seems to be premised on a 'when worlds collide' scenario. So that explosion was built into the narrative's own premise.

At which point do you think this shift occurs? Because I'm not sure the show does anything different other than shift its (perspective on the) world's into anything other than a higher gear.

There are supposed to be 10 episodes and this was obviously only ep 6…so Alex can't handle the truth and must meet a fate worse than death.

If I could upvote your post many times, I would.

I was expecting the bike chase to culminate in the sequence from E.T., and was very disappointed that Nomi didn't end up riding through the sky across a full moon.

On the bright side, Fuller can now completely commit himself to developing Neil Gaiman's American Gods at Starz (which just got the the green light)

The show is pretending to be critical of American foreign policy and 'Ugly Americans' everywhere…which is a purported act of subversion. The problem is that it is admiring the characters it is mocking, and seems to think that intelligent (aka English speaking) and self determined Pakistanis are inherently funny.

I can't say I agree. The tone is celebratory - it pretends to send up 'ugly American' sensibilities when its really celebrating (or pandering to) them.

Hard to believe that a show with so much talent can be so ordinary. Even worse, there's not a subversive bone in it body (it seems to think American boners in Asian hooker give it to the Man though).

The show's excesses are starting to be funny.

The episode felt very hokey in places.

I'm also enjoying the show, and can't wait for each new episode as it keeps getting better (currently up to episode 5 of 7).

Apparently what we saw last night wasn't a crock or shit or a Scientologist training video - an interview with the showrunner about the big reveal.

Tonight's episode was brought to you by…Hellraiser.

Well, that was one of the stupidest hours of television I've ever watched and I sincerely hope that we (like the children) are being fed a *deliberate* crock of shit.

It's a challenge to watch this show - some of the scenes and characters are wonderful whilst others are just plain dreadful.

The Drogon scene - and special effects - were awfully familiar.

Are Dragons (reputedly) so easily wounded in the books?