Well, in Minnesota, they have a horrible habit of referring to "garages" as "ramps" (I'm still not used to that after living here fifteen years). Maybe it's a missed opportunity for regional oddness to not have "the parking ramp king of Ramsey County" or something.

Yeah, there's a bit of a difference between "if you could go back and time and kill Baby Hitler, could you do it?" and "Should you let the Nazis euthanize a random teenage kid living in a totalitarian regime who could either become a productive part of that regime or not?" I was about to say I'm exaggerating to make…

That's straight out of the Good Omens evil theory… where the demon goes out at night in the rain to move surveying lines to make the freeway more confounding. Then, as thousands of people sit through a traffic jam, it snowballs into yelling at their spouses, kicking dogs, etc…I need to re-read that, it's been a good…

I don't know… the bounty hunter always made me laugh. It probably wasn't intentional, mind you…

I'd buy that if the first half of the season wasn't made up of Joe torturing himself over his part in the boat crew being murdered. I'm not disagreeing with you that the show is about people in tough positions making bad choices, just that the reasons for the bad choices matter. If they had played up or sold the…

See, the way the character is played, I get the sense that Joe went full Nazi because of the girl with the funny accent and genetically selected bone structure. Which is just as "ugh" worthy as daddy issues. He seemed resigned to honest work when he first tried to leave Berlin.

But let's say someone came in and killed Tagomi in his office, as he was meditating. Does his "you" that is traveling continue to exist, or is it a projection of his (now dead) self? I know I'm trying to essentially assign science to magic, but it's a pretty important distinction. Anyway, this then supposes that…

This has been bugging me… I've heard the theory that you have to die in one timeline to travel between them. Do you die in the "from" or "to" timeline? Tagomi died in the secondary timeline, and travels to it. His assistant, theoretically, died in the hospital in the secondary timeline, and travels to the main one.…

The best part about this show is how easy it is to just ignore the characters you don't care about. I've developed a talent for compartmentalizing problematic characters and still liking a show in spite of them. Frank? I don't care. He may as well be on a different show. Juliana is not great (so far- I've…

My two favorite scenes are him at Juliana's parents questioning about the shooting, and with the General. In both, with very minor changes in expression and pacing of dialogue, you can clearly read smugness, shame, disgust, pride, and the sense that he is the worst sort of true believer.

Wow… I thought the previous episode jumped the shark what with the environmentalist, acid-dropping young Nazi hippies, and this episode brought me back into the series. Then again, Kido is my favorite character to follow, so that plot line really drug me in. Thomas, too, really raised the stakes by having his…

Yeah, I'm now getting into the mechanics of this too much. What if you meditate in a park that is a parking garage in the alternate universe? How did a certain traveler from a future episode get from one continent to another? Plane? Automatic dimensional travel?

Just when I think I might know the rules of this show, I get confused again. I guess it doesn't necessarily have to be San Francisco… I'll have to watch again to see.

I actually was shaken out of the world by the fact that Hellman's, not Best Foods, was in Michiko's refrigerator. Or did that east/west split happen later than the 60s?