I loved how the squid’s eye was behind Veidt and he didn’t yet (although we may flash back to more of this video...which should have looked more staticky and 80s) point and say “That’s the squid’s eye!!!!!”

Yeah I always thought that it didn’t quite fit the original story that he’d be willing to go without any recognition for what he did, I think this works pretty well although maybe you could argue that this would probably be more for the absolute upper echelon of government rather than any newly elected senator.

Squid pro quo was so corny that it looped back to kinda charming

You couldn’t tell from that episode that the whole kidnapping thing was hogwash?

I always read Adrian as sort of a clean-cut bon vivant, what with his tendency to give saucy interviews to lifestyle magazines and show off his acrobatic skills on TV. So Irons’s basic affect seemed right to me.

Fanwank: in this alternate timeline, the Presidency (particularly having been the same guy since 1993) has far more power and Appropriations doesn’t have the same weight to throw around. Maybe they exist mostly just to rubberstamp whatever the Executive Branch wants.

What are the odds he's LubeGuy? 50/50?

How much CGI do you think it took to make Looking Glass’ face? Do they actually have a material that’s flexible but looks that shiny on camera, or is he wearing blue mesh that they project a texture over?

But the video, if it was accurate, was being recorded by Veidt the day before Squidfall. So he would have been, at that moment, at the height of his hubristic arrogance, as his plan was just about to fall into place.

It’s Jeremy Irons playing Jeremy Irons.  I was willing to accept it in the prison because its 30+ years and he’s gone a little batty.  But it’s jarring in what’s supposed to be the same era as the comic.

Veidt in the 1985 video doesn’t seem to be at all like Veidt in the comics. Veidt wasn’t that nakedly proud of his work and had doubts about what happened. Also, if that’s really supposed to be him in 1985 they did a terrible job of making him look younger.

I was about to post something similar. Semenya isn’t trans, in that she has always identified as female and was raised as female, and her assigned gender is female. The complication, as far as her athletics eligibility is concerned, is that she has an intersex condition which means she has element of both male and…

What, are we to assume that Petey spends his spare time memorizing the sewer layout of every major American city in preparation for these missions?

I’m wondering if Lady Trieu might have something to do with the Comedian. We see him kill one pregnant lover in Vietnam during the war. Might be a long shot, but given that the graphic novel implies that the Comedian killed Hooded Justice, and the other theory going around is that Will is Hooded Justice, it seems like…

I think Petey is Lube Man, they look like they have similar frames. His slide into the sewer was cool!

So I really think Adrian’s in a bubble on Mars. Unfortunately, since he’s been missing for 7 years, I suspect we have at least a couple more annual flashbacks before he makes good his escape. I don’t know how he’ll manage that with only a catapult and a home made space suit, but I am dying to find out.

I really really enjoy this show. But it does feel like very little actually happens each episode. Each one is just more set-up. It worries me because of the talk that this was written as a one season show. If that’s all I’m curious if it can be satisfying enough.

The tick-tock at the end of the episode makes me think…

Looking Glass! ‘looks like we got a reckoning’ easily my favorite line of the episode, also the ‘30 seconds alive and they spend the whole time dying’ line about the squids, really loving what tim blake nelson is doing with that character

The fleshing out of Veidt’s world has to be the most compelling and disturbing fun I have had in some time with any series. My mind scans the props full of turn of the century antiques and cobbled together steampunk apparatus. Harvesting fetuses (notice none were blue....) out of lobster traps and putting them in a…

Cheeky episode title, Lindelof. All the haters are properly chastened, I’m sure.