Maybe dullness is a defense mechanism in this society?

For me it's between him, Kido and Tagomi, depending on the episode. The rest of 'em… meh. But those three are basically the reason I'm still watching, and will keep watching in S3.

You might be thinking about Keiko, the orca which played the titular cetacean in the Free Willy franchise? That one died in 2003.

You said "the book is horrifying" twice, I believe.

Suffering is prestigious. Did you not get the memo? I must have a word with Lumberg then.

Well, this looks just like the uplifting tale of inspiring heroics we need in times like these.

He hears his captors talk about an English woman. Whether or not he knows that she's not wouldn't really matter as long as he thinks that they think she's English, or not?

If I've understood correctly:

Right-leaning political satire?

Re: Cuff links. I just figured Frank had eventually gotten around to manufacturing them off-screen, but hard to say for certain of course. They did seem to make a point about him being pretty damn talented, particularly last season, which made me think he's needed to get it done.

Frank's idiocy in that scene annoyed the hell out of me. WTF? Did the radiation suddenly kill half his brain cells? And yes, agreed on the Helen thing as well.

I could listen to this show narrated entirely by Kido. I don't usually like voice-overs (mostly because they have a tendency to be corny as hell or just state the obvious), but that I'd watch. I love listening to his line readings.

I think a concern might be some expect their Nazis or the like to be all bad and if they're not purely bad maybe that gives them dreams they'll turn out to be good people.

I think some members of the resistance are probably not meant to be viewed sympathetically (most prominently Gary Connell, with his obsession to kill Julia, maybe Frank with his general dickishness), but I don't really get the impression that we're meant to despise the group as a whole or the movement as an idea of…

Too many syllables.

Your mileage may vary. If your primary gripe with the first season was its slowness, then the second season, particularly its second half, might be more to your liking. If your issues with the show lie elsewhere (for example, characters, basic premise), then it's probably not worth your time.

I wonder when we'll get to that timeline.

If she looks like that, she can yammer in any damn accent she wants for all I care.

I skipped through bits of season 1 this week again as a refresher, and there was talk of extermination camps in Cincinnati. Also, John Smith and Colonel Wegener reminisced about what seemed to have been some pretty terrible stuff they had done, and how John seemed to have stopped boating after Cincinnati. So yeah, I…

I have to admit I find some of the complaints I've seen leveled against the show regarding the characters rather weird.