Yeah, I assume they have some black unmarked speedboats ferrying them between the island and a cordoned-off pier with a hangar full of their black SUVs. Though maybe they just turn a frozen donkey wheel in the basement.

I enjoyed this episode. It's definitely still sticking to the formula but at least it's streamlining the formula a bit... They identified and found the '63 in just the first few minutes. The mine aspect was novel, and coincidentally just this morning I was reading Nick Harkaway's "The Gone Away World" and there was an…

Hmm, good point.

I would definitely watch the hell out of that show.

The scene in the bar once Rene and Evil Dom show up made the episode. In zombie fiction the real enemy is never the zombies, but your fellow humans in extremis. I wonder if this experience will in fact convince Hershel of the value of our heroes' presence, or if it will convince Rick that he and his band are the scary…

To be fair, the cylinder was open and swung out, so there was no way she could have shot herself in the face. God, I can't believe I'm defending Lori.

Okay, I'm re-watching In the Mouth of Madness right at this moment and it turns out that movie does the freaky iris thing too. So I think we can safely consider this episode an homage.

Yeah, I was definitely thinking of that movie watching this, especially when they were trying to drive out of the town... I kept imagining them driving by an old man on a bicycle.

I've passed the 300 hour mark, and I haven't even visited three of the nine holds yet. I'm probably only 1/3 of the way through the main quest. I've finished the quest lines for the College of Winterhold, the Companions, and almost the Thieve's Guild, but have only just started the Dark Brotherhood line. I am…

Back in the day, Windows supporters would always tout the greater number of applications for Windows as proof of superiority over the Mac. Now, whenever an app is released for iOS it gets a cascade of "why no Android version?" comments. Funny, that.

Taking a tourist ferry from San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf to Alcatraz takes only 15 minutes. No doubt our heroes have a speedboat that would take more like 5.

This episode addressed the second biggest concern I have about this show, after its formulaic nature. The flashbacks are the most interesting part, but since they're about evil inmates butting heads with cruel and corrupt staff, the conflicts in them aren't gripping because I don't care to see either side prevail.…

The slow burn is actually working for me. I found myself looking forward to this week's episode, mainly for the crumb of mystery it would parcel out. And now I'm looking forward to the next. Definitely not to Lost levels, but surprisingly more than this season of Fringe.

Every movie has one, they just usually hide it better.

Strangely, some of the character design (specifically the men) remind me more of Dreamworks's characters from "How To Train Your Dragon" than Pixar's style. Though maybe I'm just reacting to the first Pixar feature without (as far as I know) a fantastic element to the main characters.

Yeah, I agree that it's accurate that people in Alcatraz would generally be not nice people; I was just concerned that the show would wind up missing out on the chance for emotional resonance because of that. But I just watched the latest episode and— I will be vague so as to be spoiler-free— it turns out they…

This episode reminded me somewhat of the X-Files season 4 episode "Synchrony," in which an old man travels back to now from the future and kills certain people with a chemical compound that doesn't exist yet, all to prevent time travel from being invented. I was always chilled by the vague and evocative description he…

I think that was just to show a shared quirk between them. The writers obviously had that on their minds, since Neil did the same thing with his mother, but he was enabled by Observer technology. With tha Astrids it was more "look, they're different but still the same."

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