She's only a luminously cute little tweener when the camera has her in view. When she's out of view, she's some sort of screaming clawed horror that can destroy the face of a grown man like something out of Grimm.

Of course she isn't a cat. She has no mouth. She's a Shoggoth nymph - a juvenile Lovecraftian horror. She doesn't need a mouth, because she feeds on your gaze - adoration will work, but she prefers incomprehending horror.

Thinking about Gotham from the view-point of viewpoints and Scott's Seeing Like a State:

Except that isn't The Machine's optimal strategy against a multipolar AI environment. She's already got the beginnings of a backdoor into the devil-she-knows Samaritan. An alliance of competitive, self-interested infants by definition more amoral and thoughtless than the already-problematic Samaritan is a recipe for…

Eh, I liked this one more than the pilot. The whole deal of a Gotham is wallowing in the apocalyptic horribleness of a pre-Batman city of crime. The fact that they're willing to go there is actually a good sign.

You could cough up grant money for graffiti artists, but there's no way to control for freelancers immediately mucking up your designs. Some of those nautili were probably found art, and just displays Samaritan's superior pattern-recognition image search capabilities.

Otto the Fae is inquisitive, speaks Spanish like a Castilian and loves campfires.

Honestly? She wasn't that great in the first season and a half of Angel, but she did grow in the role. And by the time of Dollhouse, she had burst into a proper ball of fire.

Money? It's how it got the barista to print and put up the first clue we saw. Although once you start getting into shooting people in the head for money, that's a whole other ball of wax. Those guys might be getting messages over their braces from God.

Depends on whether you agree with David Bowie. Johnny's in America/No tricks at the wheel…

The funny thing is that we spent most of the first season getting ambiguous hints that The Machine was basically doing what Samaritan is definitely doing. Until they collapsed the superposition with a flashback, the hints about Ingram could have meant that The Machine had him killed to prevent a Frankenstein "I must…

Yeah, I wonder if they inadvertently crimped Samaritan's game by making it recruit a suboptimal "asset" who will just bumble through her assignments like Inspector Clouseau.

My parents are dead! Speaking of Batman fandom gags…

I'm not really on board with the abandoned subway station. It reminds me - in a negative, itchy-skin sort of way - of the late, unlamented Canadian SF series Painkiller Jane. I would have preferred they had gone full-Nolan batcave instead - maybe some sort of half-dug Victorian-era construction site, like an…

Seriously? Samaritan uses nerd sniping as a recruiting process? I guess the ones who survive have proved they have sufficient environmental awareness to succeed as assets.

Clearly not Neil Tyson.

Person of Interest.

I kind of went the other way. I started out liking it, but the second season of Arrow was just an extended exhaustion of my patience. I still haven't watched the last episode and a half, and probably will never get back to it. I just couldn't take another three years of Lost-influenced "island flashbacks". It just…

Oh, she's definitely not on the side of the angels in that case. Her very argument - using the technicalities of contract law to disprove an illicit wage-fixing conspiracy - is the kind of malignant sophistry which gives lawyers their reputation for mendacity and disingenuity.

And everybody on the Group W bench moved away from me…