They are fanatics, though a literal death penalty for gay people - if that's in fact an established law and not just what Lucy's brother fears might happen - still seems counterproductive from even a completely amoral perspective. I don't know how many people they still have in cryogenic storage, but killing someone…

I've thought for a while that having humans turn into abbies over the course of just 2,000 years was unrealistic in terms of the evolutionary biology. On the other hand, if that's by design on the writers' part, then they need to convince us that Pilcher or someone else figured out how to engineer such a change…

Yeah, though I'd also argue that the conspiracy was convoluted enough by the time the original series ended. With so much up in the air as to how much more new X-Files material there will ever be, I really think Carter and the other creative powers-that-be ought to try to bring the main points of the conspiracy…

Well, he was always open to new theories, but I think he'd usually at least ask some questions if the new theories didn't seem consistent with what he'd already discovered. He went through that one period of thinking there were no aliens in Season 5, but that was after challenging his informant to substantiate his…

I do think trying to squeeze too much material into six episodes hurt the miniseries. However, the biggest problem, IMO, is that Mulder bought into this new take on the conspiracy way too easily, and even if it's going to be revealed as another red herring, a limited run long after the original series ended is the…

I didn't even think of the end of S1 as a cliffhanger - I thought it was simply a Downer Ending, and was kind of surprised that the show came back at all.

I don't know, this episode felt kind of disconnected for me. I suppose Wayward Pines is a show that's pretty open to retconning by nature, in that you have people being awoken in stages and entire periods of the town's history that only a few people probably know about, but it still felt like the Pam/Jason backstory…

I'm wondering if maybe the Harvard professor that Yedlin mentioned to his wife recommended her and Theo to Pilcher. While it's not yet clear what she contributes, the notion that Pilcher or someone he trusted thought highly of her might be enough for the fanatical First Generation types to wake her up. Plus, having an…

The basic premise of this show has always been a stretch. Even if you accept that somebody mastered cryogenics well enough to pull this off, I don't buy the notion of humans turning into a species of crazed monsters in what is, as far as I know, a very short time frame in evolutionary terms.

The thing about the 12-year-olds was definitely a moment when this show crossed the line from creepy in a weird and interesting way to creepy as in "eewwww."

If Megan Fisher, the Cigarette-Smoking Man from The X-Files, and Glenn from The Walking Dead can still be alive, then I suppose Ben can too, but it's certainly hard to see how he escapes getting jumped by three abies at once.

Well, Alicia genuinely seems to want to help other people besides her family, Daniel, and Ofelia. I don't remember exactly how the whole "unleash the zombies" plan unfolded last season, but I don't recall her playing a major role in devising it or carrying it out. She isn't exactly a model of good character writing so…

Well, they don't have any real reason to like or trust Strand - he's clearly selfish, manipulative, and perfectly fine with letting other people die.

Most of the TWD characters didn't have quite as many reasons to distrust Shane at this stage, IIRC. Lori certainly did over the attempted rape, and Dale suspected that he was thinking about shooting Rick, but I don't think the other characters knew about either of those incidents. Daniel already tortured somebody and…

The military was planning to kill all the civilians at that point, but that still doesn't excuse what Daniel did. I couldn't understand why they didn't just tell the rest of the residents what the military was planning - even with their firepower, I don't think the military could have held off the entire population if…

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why is Mike so intent on killing Hector? Is he convinced that Hector will eventually come after him, or does he want revenge for Hector threatening his family, or what? It seemed like Nacho was probably telling the truth when he said that Mike wasn't even on Hector's radar any…

Chuck is self-absorbed and petty, but I did feel like the writers went a little too far in the flashback to their mother's death. It reminded me (in a bad way) of the kind of thing we see on The Walking Dead, where the antagonists always seem to turn out to be complete psychopaths or sadists who go out of their way to…

Rick probably would have tried to beat the crap out of George, at which point somehow the fence would collapse and the house would catch on fire all at once.

Edit: Never mind.

I've been pretty down on both Walking Dead shows lately, but I actually thought this one was decent for most of its running time. For once, it seemed like we were going to see the main characters on a Walking Dead show find a group of strangers who don't all turn out to be evil, insane, or helpless.