I'm so happy Gordon is finally out of his drunken self-pity stupor and dishing out asskickings. Yay!

I can say without hyperbole that Banshee is the show I'm looking forward to the most over the course of my week. And while it is of course pulpy action-nudity fun and all that, that alone would not be enough to hold my attention. The reason I'm so looking forward to it is precisely what you mention: I care about the…

I've been wondering about Banshee's timeline for a while, and I think that the show actually moves quite slowly. Often, an episode will start off pretty much right after the previous one ended, and many episodes only stretch a day or so.

I was afraid that they were going to go the route of having Siobhan killed and then have Hood just be sulky and a bit depressed for a while (which is about the usual way these things go), but it does seem they're really delving into his state of mind and showing him starting to come apart at the seams, which ties in…

Totally. I don't mind romance per se, but let it be an organic part of the story, not shoehorned in just for the sake of maximising viewership/ticket sales.
And indeed, considering all the meddling that must be going on behind the scenes since POI is on a major network, I am pretty damn happy with the end result we've…

Huehue, I see what you did there… :D

I remember discussing the show with a cop buddy of mine a while back, and his main gripes were not really that the forensic science (at least in the earlier seasons, we had this discussion probably somewhere between 2006 and 2008) was fundamentally unsound, but that

Yeah, season 1 of Strike Back was without Cinemax involvement AFAIK, so the nudity did quite a jump between seasons 1 and 2. And yeah, I've never been bothered by the sex scenes on Strike Back, they seem to fit pretty well into the overall story. I remember the back end of season 3 (the one set around Tywin Lannister)…

Butbut, pixels! Enhancing! Interpolating! Filtering! Noise Reduction! Building GUI interfaces with Visual Basic (CSI: NY I think)!

That pottery audio thing is to this day among the most ridiculous crime-solving macguffins I've ever seen.

Indeed, a topic we could go on and on about. I have discussed this on a few occasions with friends and family actually.

Agreed. Considering the overall quality of the show I'm pretty sure most people involved are aware of this, my guess is that this is primarily the result of executive meddling. While it is a bit ridiculous at times I have come to accept it as a comparatively small price to pay for the overall pretty damn high quality…

Yeah, that was totally unprofessional. Same thing when people are hiding somewhere (like in an airduct, crawlspace, w/e), the enemy patrol walks by and they come out of their hiding spot only seconds after the guy went around the corner.

Well, ideally, an AI overlord can be programmed so that it lacks two very fundamental flaws of almost every politician ever in my eyes:

Wasn't it "Murders and Executions" though?

Touché, my friend, touché.

I agree, it's not that Samaritan isn't making the world a better place (at least for some people), it's that it really doesn't care how that better world is brought about. But as you say, the how matters as much as the objective. After all, if it didn't, you could just kill off half the world's population to solve the…

True, but if he's connected to the internet, he's also open to attack from Samaritan. If he wants to quietly study what's on the drive, he'll make sure there is no internet access from the computer into which he's plugged the drive I'd reckon (similar to what people investigating malware do).

True, they could have used some trickery to make it look good without doing much actual damage. But yeah, I suppose they wanted that little bit of actual doubt in her eyes or something like that, so they didn't clue her in on getting hit.

Yeah I had the same thought. I reckoned he wouldn't have any of the necessary tools to then actually do something with the stuff on the drive (code analysis, w/e other magic).