This was just me venting about something I should know better than to take too seriously. I am actually much harder on Scorpion, because they claim to be geniuses on that show.

I really, really should just get over certain aspects of this show if I want to keep watching it, but some things just keep bugging me. I think I'll share

I don't disagree, but I also don't think this is a bad thing necessarily.

Particularly in the books we learn that Jane has been manipulating events the entire time and that pretty much everything that happened in the first book was aligned so that Alice would be both able and willing to 'go nuclear' during the big fight. Q's (and Alice's) infidelities were part of establishing her mental…

I wonder if two endings were filmed: one if they got renewed and a different one if they were cancelled.

Or secretly stashed in a "FriendCzar" cloud account

One could say that the Machine is already "Un-Rooted," even if she did keep Root's voice. ;)

That was my first thought, that it was a reference to Sir Francis Dashwood, Baron le Despencer, famed founder of The Dilettanti Society and the Hellfire club.

Well, we knew they were working on Samaritan right up until the Machine went live and it makes sense that at some point a working version would have existed.

The big (and slightly spoilsporter) question I have is why didn't the Machine take steps to protect itself from Ice-9? I can understand why Samaritan might not be able to; the attack was coming from inside the firewall using software specifically designed to sneak onto all the servers.

I look at this as one of three things. Either
He doesn't remember because of brain damage caused by his death and re-birth
Vanessa mis-remembered during hypnosis and just put a kind and familiar face on her jailer or
Dracula chose that face for his visits with Vanessa for reasons as yet unclear. We know he…

Yeah, It's a pity he wasn't around. At this point I don't think he
could be made into one of Victor's experiments, though that might be an amusing way to make Rusk a regular.

I took Dorian's decision as being a touch more complicated. I think he was Bored as he was not being included (nor really could he be) in Lilly's would-be revolution. I think he was also more than a touch Jealous that he wasn't included in some way, particularly with Lilly. I think he was Angry that the women were…

As Vanessa's last scene unfolded I was again reminded of one of my favorite lines from "The Good the Bad and The Ugly"

I like it!
The all-singing, all-dancing One True Wells.
In this universe the Particle Accelerator isn't Particle Accelerator but rather an experimental circular chorus line which suffers a tragic accident on opening night. Barry gets his powers when he's flung from the line with such force that enters the Speed Force.
H…

I enjoyed the Cut-wife episode and I watch the show because I like it (and Eva Green especially), but this season we've seen a lot of wheel spinning in all the plots. Vanessa in particular seems to be almost right back where we first meet her in season 1. To have an entire episode devoted to material that could either…

My comments:

My only concern is that Gonzo wouldn't be able to whistle "Hall of the Mountain King." That said, it was actually Fritz Lang's, not Peter Lorre's, whistling you hear in the movie.

re: Wells

I'm with GlutenGlutton .
Sure Eva Green got to delivery a master class in Scenery Chewing, but other than that this episode was an unnecessary detour that told us pretty much nothing. If they wanted to make a production of Nellie Bly's "Ten Days in a Mad-House" they could have done it in the off season.