Since this is turning into simulation season, my prediction is that when mini-machine finally beats mini-samaritan in one iteration, it is because mini-machine engaged it in an ethical consideration of its core imperatives and convinced it that its actions were leading it into a type of "moral hazard." So Finch…

Yes, sort of like Life on Mars

I was thinking about why I liked POI so much, and the way it handled suspense was one part of it (sort of a Wire light approach to story arcs). But I think what really made me enjoy it was the Machines. There are so many things changing that we ignore and hope they turn out okay. Drone warfare, fracking, carbon…

Didn't Delphine jump in her car and drive straight from outside the party to the parking garage? Shay or Cal are the only two I can think of to make her question make sense, since the are both in some sense caregivers for a female that Delphine cares about.

Wait, unless I misread the Bess Marvin character, this isn't a novel concept.

Was it just me or was the Netflix season so so much more subtle and consistent in tone than what came before?

I can't wait to see them all in a remake of "Cocoon"

Thought it was a spectacular movie, riveting in places, but always fascinating. But then, I've seen all the "Up" movies.

The pace of this show works against it. They could easily have adapted the books and have slowed things down to where the plot advances at half the pace, with more time for subplots and character development. Instead, the characterization relies too much on stereotypes (I'm a jarhead! I'm a tough hottie with a heart…

And why not? I mean, it has access to guidance systems, plane controls, digital closed circuit feeds, launch codes, robotic assembly lines and everything that touches a network. But no, the meatbags must be its agents!

An upthread conversation already covered the way that schooling in capitalist America is in large part indoctrination, so I agree with you there. And you are right that the show actually got Cuba mostly right, but where are you going with China? The PRC education system, is, sadly, hamstrung by the huge impact of…

Was Caviezel stoned during that panel or is he just enormously inarticulate?

Gave her this weird Shelley Long vibe

Yes but it strikes me as a rather odd formulation, since the show does pay attention to the civil liberties limitations that are the reasons a government program that uses big data to do policing is verboten.