"who clap afterward" Well-meaning white people need to have their good intentions publicly validated.

Oh, okay. What I get for skimming the article. That girl did not look anything like anybody. Thanks for the correction.

"dark-skinned, plus-sized hip-hop icon?" Aaliyah was certainly darker than the two near-translucent "actresses" Lifetime initially cast in the role but Aaliyah weighed 92 lbs soaking wet on one of Jupiter's moons. Plus-sized she was not by any stretch.

Bowcaster is the preferred term, please. Because Star Wars!

These women are amazing.

I thought he stopped writing for television after West Wing.

Good points. I would add that every show is slaved to the writer's imaginations (or lack thereof). That one guy sleeping with the chinese agent seemed to blow over or was that Hanssen?

You read Legacy of Ashes? I also read about a fleet officer who was caught running a kickback scheme with Navy ships with some SE asian merchant company. He'd actually route battleships to sail through certain ports to get his beak wet after some businessman plied him with hookers and free booze. The real life CIA…

I would have preferred the ambassador's husband getting screwed by his wandering eye and the ISI agent was a student he was banging. Or would that be to Shonda Rhimesian?

True, people handle trauma differently. The conflict that interests me is people trying to apply the old rules to the new world, i.e. Tyrese et al trying to maintain his humanity in the face of evil. I just found it odd that Carol's perfectly rational act of risking murder at the hands of cannibals and/or zombies was…

Great review. Sorry to hear you're moving on. I agree that Quinn's protective instincts for Carrie aren't expressly romantic. It's more he naturally extended himself for the person he's spent the most time in a foxhole with. I would think the writer's would have learned that the Harlequin (no pun) romance is the thing…

It's good they've seemingly abandoned the One Black Man rule and actually have multiple black characters with independent(ish) dialogue. That's enough of a win that I'm content to just wait to see where they go with the characters.

Carol came away the undisputed champion of this episode. The rest was meh. You HAVE to kill a guy who threatens a baby. That's like the guy who kicks a dog to tell the audience how much of an asshole he is. I mean if Carol can shoot a little girl in the back of the head then go Fallujah on Terminus then Tyrese should…

Maybe reflect on why you're uncomfortable?

Ugh. I just can't. It's a pilot so I guess it doesn't have to be funny but come on. Sidekicks were more interesting than any of the main characters. And just cast a Brit. Don't say, "Hey, look how diverse we are!" and cast the same light-skinned, long haired black person with a British accent so it's okay because…

Wait, this means that minus the eidetic memory and martial arts modern young people are horrible. I felt like I was reading a script for a spec Samsung Galaxy commercial.

Haha. Nerd humor. As you were.