That's also a good parallel of the Machine vs. Samaritan, as well. Similarly to how Greer and Co. played Collier last season and then, right as he realized his mistake, unceremoniously shot him dead and how Samaritan is an unfeeling, amoral system while the Machine prefers "order with a personal connection"… it's…

Yep, I was coming to post that, essentially the two best parts of the episode had absolutely nothing to do with the number or the action, but the characters and their journey.

Talk about Amazing Grace then…

No, just merry…

Relevant for people to catch up (and for us to rewatch!):

I'm honestly not sure. So, this was the comparison I made from last night:

So, one of the things I noticed was coming out of the one of commercial breaks, the machine seemed to be forming a circle-reticule pattern in the middle of the screen which looks not entirely dissimilar (if not the cool fully-gradiented Samaritan circle reticules). I took a picture if someone knows how to link in the…

I lurked, but I liked it from the beginning. It filming in my neighborhood all the time helps. :p

I've lurked for a while (basically only delurked for Sleeping In Light when B5 reviews ended) and the weird thing for me sort of recognizing everyone is recognizing Meander's name over on the io9 comment sections…

I think that was deliberately referenced by Root though. The government got "Relevant" numbers. The Machine Team got "Irrelevant" numbers and the Machine recruited Root for an all-new third category: "Necessary"

I'm a huge softie, but — possibly because actual family died in the camps — the reveal of how Henry and Abe met was genuinely affecting for me.

That was almost my favorite bit of the whole thing; that the prophecy that Sinclair got to see came true in the most technical fashion possible. Because, as JMS said, it's not the WHAT that's important… it's the WHY.