How did Emmit get his car started again? It had stopped, and I had to assume Nikki had drained the gas tank so she could catch him. (Not as philosophical a question as most, but I was baffled when he just drove away.)

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I was surprised that they implied that Jimmy's rigged "confession" to the oldsters would so obviously lead to the Sandpiper settlement being delayed again. They may now have had someone new to blame, but - don't they still want the money? Isn't settling while they're still around to enjoy it still the best choice?

This was just what I was going to say: in this episode it became clear that Chuck's condition is a manifestation of his guilt. He is one of the most compartmentalized characters I have ever seen, and he needed to wall off his guilt so he could continue to think of himself as utterly righteous. But it resurfaces as his…

Help me out here: who was Media this time? She always appears as a pop-culture figure (Lucy, Marilyn Monroe, David Bowie), but I wasn't sure of this one. Was it Judy Garland in Easter Parade? That would make sense, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it. (Do I have to turn in my gay card now?)

A comment I made further down the line, as part of a response to someone else's post:

I think it's an exact replica up until the twin Sudden Departures, 7 years ago. We are missing the scientist's part of the story: why he built it in the first place (in what we think of as World 1), why he was the first to go through, what his opinions and beliefs and obsessions concerning the Sudden Departure were…

Nora's story did not imply time travel. She spent a lot of time on the Other Side (where public transportation isn't exactly in great shape), and then came back. Not through a "magic portal," but through a device built by the same scientist who built the original - who, we were told, used it on himself. They said all…

The closed captioning said *gasp*.

- Throughout the Departure Procedure, I found myself - horrifically! - channeling Nancy Reagan: "Just say no, Nora! Just say no!"
- Throughout most of the episode, with no references to the Procedure, nobody talking about the Sudden Departure, Kevin apparently a different person - I was concerned that we were going to…

I don't think losing the fetus was Laurie's central problem. I think it was her inability, as a therapist and a human being, to help people deal with their grief after the Sudden Departure. The fact that it was also connected to a secret she was keeping intensified her guilt.

What it would have been was precisely accurate. That's where the term comes from.

Does anyone know of a site that annotates all the references, callbacks, and actor appearances relating to the original series? It's been too long since I've watched it….

- I was a little surprised that the highly legalistic Monks ("do you have power?") essentially assigned Bill the role of "speaking for the Doctor" - when she made no such claim - especially when the DOCTOR HIMSELF is on the phone yelling, "that's not what I want!"
- Not knowing that this was all going to have to go…

- And WHO predicted that it wasn't Iris, but H.R. using his Transmogrifier (which gets the voice right too!), who gets killed by Savitar after pledging his love to Tracy so his sacrifice would count even more? Yeah, ME, baby! It was ME!

Guess-Not-Spoiler: I'm with those who say that wasn't Iris, but H.R. using his face-changing tech. We got foreshadowing with Barry using it to look and sound like Lyla. We got H.R. feeling completely guilty and useless. We have him completely in love with Tracy, so his sacrifice has more impact. I don't know how he…

I think we're meant to assume that the French officer was motivated by the coming seventh anniversary of the Sudden Departure. It demonstrates just how crazy people are getting, while also providing a plot element.

It's one thing to require Rene to testify about his wife's tragedy and related issues, but no judge in the country would require his tweener daughter to sit and listen to it, which is both traumatizing and entirely unnecessary to the purpose of the hearing. That's just made up, unconvincing, let's-not-think-about-it…

It's very funny that Gloria has trouble with electric sensors recognizing her presence, because Nora is having the same exact problem over in THE LEFTOVERS. (If someone's already mentioned this, I apologize for the redundancy.)

"You guys work on stuff here while my dad & I take a completely amnesiac Barry Allen to Cecille because there's 'an urgent problem only Barry Allen can solve.'" I'm sorry, that's just dumb. There is actually a time to say, "unfortunately, Barry Allen is medically incapacitated and cannot help you right now." That time…