I think I read that in an interview with a screenwriters a few years ago, though not just aboubt CBS, just about TV writing in general. Supposedly it's a bit of an unofficial contest about who can come up with more ridiculous crap regarding technology.

That scene in season 1 where Charlie gets rammed by the SUV by those two corrupt cops, then hangs upside down in his car and proceeds to shoot them both while the The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Down Boy" was playing as the background music is to this day one of my favourite scenes in anything, ever.

Oh, Touching Evil, I miss that show.

They just went all out on this one with character names, didn't they? Holy fuck.

My step sister just popped her head into my room and asked me why I was laughing like an idiot. That's your fault, just for the record.

Which TV show doesn't?

And by "eliminated weekly" I presume you mean they are put in a deadly trap which will require all their skills (skills which they have definitely not acquired over a very long career) to get out of and one will always need to be left behind?

Don't forget that firewalls and firewall hacking and worms and trojans and viruses are all super-3d-CGI animated and shit!

"Zoom in on that reflexion in the person's eye."

Or who has been waiting for a few hours while you're away and then greets you when you come home as if you've just saved the world. Oh boy…

Ah yes, the good ol' "hand person an empty gun as a test" thing… I've always wondered about that.

Just rewatched that scene and there aren't actually that many bullets flying which don't hit either trees or meat, but it could still have happened.

It appears there is some overlap regarding our taste in TV shows.

You mean regarding the deal he made about being put into the Nightswatch? Yes, fair point. If it really had come to that, he would at least still be alive and could still influence people and such. Besides, he's Ned freaking Stark, he could quite possibly have been placed in a position inside the NW which would have…

"Olivia was too traumatized to be rational, and Peter idealized the idea
of being with a more laid back Olivia to the point he didn't see because
he didn't want to see."

Wait, what?!

Well, I thought of the hound because I think at that point he's one of the few in the story who's around in King's Landing, is somewhat sympathetic to Sansa and would have the kickassery skills to possibly pull it off. But yeah, if GRRM had done a "rescue ex machina", it might of course have been somebody else as well.

If it isn't, it fucking should be.

That scene where Peter explains to Olivia that he came back for her ("for us") and that they had been in a relationship, and the camera just rests on Anna Torv's face, her slowly realising what he means, is one of my favourites from the entire series.

It's been mentioned a few times. ;-)