I used to work as a parking-ticket Nazi in my wasted youth. Those able-bodied, young guys who used handicapped dangles to sleaze out of paying their meters were complete douches. Oftentimes they were cops, too. I had one flash his out-of-town badge at me after swaying out of a downtown bar.

It's the sort of dissertation that leads to a thrilling career in retail caffeine distribution, so how much can you expect?

Capitalization? Random capitalization makes everything ludicrous.

Only if it's not just the voice, and they make him wear a cheap monkey suit.

Except the yacht sank.

Yeah, but nobody's like Balloonman. Sky's the limit with that guy.

I may have missed it, did they explain why Iris is working in a coffee house when six months ago she finished her dissertation? Are they actually going to do the "yeah, a PhD in Gender Studies is a great way to start your career in retail caffeine sales" thing? Hopefully they've not put her in Central Perk just for…

So Wells is responsible for the Reign of the Super-chavs? Ha!

Oh, god, I hope not. Terrible, terrible superhero concept, executed terribly in almost every adaptation I've seen.

Some danger of it turning into a de-skankified American version of Misfits, though.

Well, it wasn't exactly a high-performance airframe. I guess we're supposed to conclude it was a cropduster? Rich farming family, if they can keep a Shelby in the barn and a cropduster just gathering dust out by the back forty.

First reaction: a creator citing interviews and press and such as "you were warned" has fundamentally failed at the task of narrative. Everything within the narrative, nothing without it: the cardinal rule. The showrunner brags about hating on The Architect, but then goes on to provide an out-of-narrative…

True. And I don't especially like the way they turned Richard into a schnook at the end there, the Eternal Sidekick.

Except only Jacob and Esau would have continued from Roman times until Ricardo arrives from Portugal. Everyone else is supposed to be mortal. Unless there's some fragment of the Others who are also the "Hostiles" and thus are actual ghosts of the island. I *don't* think that Ben's dead mother and some of the…

Well, almost all writers' rooms operate that way, but usually any given episode has some sort of reliance on a given writer's opinions. It has to mean something that this latin business only appears once, namely, somebody had a bright idea, convinced everyone else, they saw how it filmed, and said "yep, no, let's not…

Part of the reason why I like the idea that the island is rife with highly conditional ontological inertia - the God of the island - who isn't Jacob, Jack, or Hurley, no matter what their pretensions - shifts time and space and reality around to suit His ineffable purposes, which have very little to do with preserving…

Yeah, that Latin business was exactly one episode, I'm pretty sure we can file that under "one writer's bad idea, dropped afterwards".

No, the gangster introduced and caught in this season's first episode. I, like everyone else it seems, have forgotten his actual name, so we call him after the character the actor played on the Wire, the predatory, dead-eyed "Final Gangster" Marlo.

I liked that Reese's attempt to play "lazy cop" meant that he shot perps in the knees instead of running after them because "it's really hot out there".

Honestly, Egret isn't that far from the Finch we saw in the pilot. The deliberate cadences that Emerson gives Finch are… unsettling. Like he's constantly calculating the results of everything he says. He has a semi-permanent air of "Awesome by Analysis", even though it's more an affect than an actuality.