Seems like he and Kartheiser's character would get along, what with the emphasis on ~objectivity~

When he was first on SNL he was definitely considered to be The Cute One in my circles. Granted, we were in high school.

I admit it'd be interesting to see what a psychologist makes of Root :D

Well, he did say that if he survived he'd tell her everything. So she could be more of a Maid Marian figure than a Mary Jane.

I'm just telling you what they said.

I don't think Control gets sympathy because she's morally good. Control gets sympathy because we have gotten to understand her perspective. You can sympathize with and enjoy a fictional character without agreeing with them.

At this point with Chilton it's a running joke.

I never saw it as their being dedicated to his principle, honestly. He was the rising crimelord; they were working for him for the same reasons anybody works in a criminal organization. I never thought it was that complex.

She's funny. She's been shown to care about some individuals and be willing to risk her life, and indeed not shoot people, for their sakes. She has at least three notes.

I was trying to think of an example of citing personal loyalty on the scale you suggest and all I can think of is Supernatural, which if anything is kind of a diagnostic of what's gone wrong with that show.

They said in an interview that normally their philosophy is "if you didn't see a body, nothing's certain," but that so many went down this episode that they literally couldn't show you all the bodies, so probably just accept that dead is dead. But I mean, there's no guarantee they're not misdirecting.

The Machine would not do that. That's, like, the entire point of this entire story arc.

Hebrew is a Semitic language, which means that it is spelled almost entirely with consonants and just a few key long/emphasized vowels. The short/incidental vowels can be marked with extra diacritical marks but are not actually necessary. It's the same for Arabic. "Muhammad" is actually written "mhmd," and most of the…

This is actually my stance. Unless and until The Machine announces a gender in some way I'm going to assume they're either agendered or genderfluid, and presenting to Root as female because that works better for Root. (The Machine consistently collages female voices to talk to Root, but not always for John or Harold.)…

I saw it as simultaneously being about the Machine/Harold conversation but also as signaling Samaritan's final ascendance here. "Welcome to the machine" applies to Harold but it applies just as much—maybe more—to Control staring at that screen in horror.

I did a double take on your comment re: the dog collar and read it as an updog collar. "I don't see this show digging that deep into memes," I mused, until I figured out what was actually going on.

In one of the interviews they did about this finale they were much vaguer about it—they said they had a big, loyal core audience and didn't see themselves stopping telling stories anytime soon, which could mean literally anything.

I really want Silva to be around more, though I admit I'm not sure how it would work.

I got so excited wondering who was driving the truck, thinking it was gonna be some familiar member of the cavalry (I kept thinking "But Carter's dead, who could it beeeeee"). It makes more sense that it was just Anthony 2.0, but damn if I wasn't on the edge of my seat till we found out.

I thought it was supposed to be as bare-bones as possible to demonstrate that She was on her last legs, so to speak.