I don't know, has the Anarchist Cookbook ever produced any accessory prosecutions? BTW, it wouldn't be Bryan Cranston and Vince Gilligan, but rather the Mythbusters guys, who actually did the work and discovered that most of the cool "science, bitches!" gags on Breaking Bad were dramatic license, not practical. The…

Oh, Philly. City of brotherly forgery.

Do the occasional comedic outbursts of street noise in court count? I forget which episode that was from…

I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to think Kalinda is capable of avoiding being tracked by Bishop's people. The NSA trumps Kalinda, but unless Bishop has Michael Emerson working for him, she should be able to not lead death to vulnerable witnesses like that.

Just so long as there won't be puppets. Although I will accept nerded-up John Cusack in a guest role.

I certainly missed it - I wasn't a particularly religious watcher of Frasier. Never been a big sitcom fan.

Polmar realized that Castro had zero interest in actually clocking a win against a drug lord, preferring to chase the mouse in front of him instead. Castro looks worse than corrupt, he looks stupid. And you can work around corrupt, and make allowances for evil, but stupid just makes hash of anything you try to do…

One of the interesting problems of modern politics is how the contributing class's priorities and interests diverge strongly in certain cases from their coalition activists and base voters. You see this among the Democratic coalition, where the contributing class is still mildly Zionist, but the activists and base…

Ehhh… the professional campaign apparat are self-perpetuating, their own little sliver of the New Class, and have their own self-interests. They certainly can and do recruit their own bosses as figure-heads for cash-raising purposes. For instance, pretty much everyone has identified the Wendy Davis campaign down in…

Speaking of Boss and Frasier alums, how long until John Mahoney or Jane Leeves get roles playing morally questionable Chicagoland politicians?

It's *possible*, but I'm not sure how much we're buying into the show's ongoing and long-standing tendency to make the State's Attorney the sin-eater for all of the shitty things that happen in its moral universe. Castro is a bald, bespectacled crocodile, thus all the horrible things that Bishop doesn't do, are…

Elevator shafts tend to be… very much constructed to focus sounds up and down along the shaft. Gregson and Watson and the police at the bottom of the shaft would have been in the position to hear the noise of anything going on in the elevator cage. You can test this out by setting off fireworks inside an empty…

Eh, at modern muzzle velocities, it doesn't really matter whether the bullets hit you spinning lengthwise, end-for-end, or tumbling. The latter two are more likely to do massive damage on their way through, for that matter - the lengthwise spinning increases the chances of overpenetration, thus expending more of the…

It was the one really clever trick - the elevator itself acted as the trigger, since the bullets were carried in the crevice in the side away from the magnet, and the elevator moving past the magnet naturally "fired" the device, leaving the engine behind as it continued to the garage. Sadly, unless the entire…

Weren't they piled up against the wall w/ the magnet? It's a silly construction if you pause to think about it, The assassin has to know that the target is getting on that specific elevator, at that specific moment, have some idea of where in the elevator she'd be standing, etc. It requires a PoI "Machine" level of…

Last season they switched back and forth between the two sets of credits; I suspect it's a safety buffer for the editors to use if their episode comes in a little long or a little short, to avoid cutting scenes and subplots entirely.

American cinema *is* missing a modern-day Angel-Eyes David Zeyas is half-way to Tuco. Although everyone and his brother wants to be Blondie, Jim Caviezel is closest to Eastwood. They've re-made pretty much everything else, why *not* a TV series remake of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

SHIELD is a classic example of regulatory capture, except what they were regulating were Nazi supervillains. And everyone knows that Nazi supervillains offer the best minion per diems & benefits… if you define benefits to mean "chemical/alien DNA/technomantic origin-story opportunities".

Certainly deflating after Elias dropped that somewhat cliche speech about iced-over rivers.

A wasteland ruled by cannibal tribes of Eminem clones?