Yes. It's not a bad show if you give it a chance.

In the case of the South China Sea and the islands therein, we are talking about things like oil, fishing, and shipping lanes (it's one of the biggest shipping routes in the world). A conflict there will be almost exclusively a naval affair except for things like physically occupying islands. Aside from attacks on…

Enemy ports are often taken by land or a combined land/sea operation because a naval defender has such an advantage. To use the WWII comparison, the D-Day landings weren't at ports. The French ports were heavily defended which was a major reason they weren't attacked directly from the sea despite the Allies' clear…

Bloody is a relative term. A modern large scale naval battle fought all out will still most likely produce fewer casualties than a large scale modern land battle fought all out, particularly if it's near a population center. By all out I'm including everything up to and including chemical weapons (but not nukes) in…

You missed the joke. Tray is the dog that Artie fez mind melded with last episode.

Yes, that's why I thought of her. She's doing more directing (like a few episodes of The Closer) than acting but she's still around.

I wonder if she'll turn up as Pete's old Secret Service supervisor.

About 1/2 to 3/4 of the way through it struck me Jane might be Pete's mom so I was waiting to see the reactions if and when they met face to face. I didn't even notice Pete's line was almost drowned because I knew what he was going to say as soon as I saw his reaction.

1. The time line change is permanent. The mid season finale of season made that clear. That has also been stated by the show runners.

And now they know you know. RUN!

After looking at the photos again I have to agree with the other commenters below that it's a landing gear strut and not a "giant lifter".

As Eridani pointed out, I was specifically referring to Alien, where we didn't see anyone driving ground vehicles around.

Nope. I get where you're coming from but I'm really not feeling the Star Wars. It just looks like a large construction/dockyard machine...In The Future!

While I like the premise of Death Valley (anyone else remember Special Unit 2?), I'm not the target demographic for MTV so I'll probably skip this.

Samsung Electronics is just one part (probably the best known part) of the Samsung Group conglomerate.

Hell doesn't look like too bad a place. Yeah, feeding the guy to Cerberus wasn't cool but otherwise everyone's smiling and dancing and having a good time.

That's the thing. The Voluntary Cat 1 Club and the 45th-floor club are similar and arguably the same movement with a new name. It would be easy to tie them together so it doesn't just feel like they're throwing out the "Miracle Reaction of the Week". It comes across as a bunch of writers who didn't read each…

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I zoned out during the obligatory soliloquy with the dying lover and didn't even notice he mentioned Ianto. I really hope they have a good explanation of what's going on but my expectations are set low right now. As for this episode:

But the Soviets would be able to track it to the moon by tracking the radio signals if nothing else. They would still know we sent something to the moon and wouldn't keep quiet about it without a really good reason.