Adele is probably not a force Neolution saw coming.

I was expecting the priest to have some link to Prolethians (though… logically it would be a recent contact?) but no. He was just here to set up the unexpected pairing of Alison + God. At which point Duko, Evie, and all of Neolution should have set their affairs in order.

Samaritan is weirdly obsessed with subverting Team Machine to its service. Greer notably was like "alive, dead, doesn't matter, Harold's group are now like ants before my god" when Samaritan came online. But Samaritan is obsessed with how to turn these specific people, the other god's priests.

I don't think "I was wrong" is really in Samaritan's handbook. It really is Greer as a powerful yet immature child.

I spent the last several weekends at co-ed sports tournaments (ultimate frisbee) and really noticed how every single long-haired player had their hair pulled back so it couldn't get in their eyes and blind them. And frisbees rarely kill.

We've always known Samaritan runs Disqus.

Harold got caught at the end of S3 and didn't go full-Linus.

I really like that the Machine has such a well-defined personality while consisting of a cursor and the occasional onscreen all-caps statement. I think giving her a physical human form would be a step back, after they've done so much to humanize her without the obvious super robot.

The Bechdel test tells you a great deal about bodies of work, and how those skew. It doesn't tell you anything about whether one work is good or bad. (Something on which Bechdel is clear, I believe.) So Master and Commander fails, because it is set on a 19th century sailing ship and there is no reason for a woman to…

I am trying to figure out how exactly it is that you think that the problem here is that they "kill[ed] Root the same week a gay character on the CW [bit] it"?
Because, literally, that keeps being cited in complaints that she died?

I think the implication is that the computer system told her that "he's a regular, and this is his order."

Somehow I don't think that's where this is going.

The Devil's Share plus enraged Finch plus an enraged Super AI.

Greer's claim puts an interesting shade on Samaritan's attempts to reprogram Sameen. Like it needed someone in the know about what's happening, and opposed to its goals, on whom to practice.

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Asking them not to kill Root the same week a gay character on the CW bites it is a stretch.

Adding: There is an echo of the difference between when Samaritan and the Machine intervene to alter unfolding events. The former does it early on, when the human moving pieces could all make different choices that cause the unwanted future to never come about. The latter intervenes at the last minute, letting people…

I think it's more in the sense of living on through your children, or through your students. That the Machine's actions in the future will be shaped by Root's actions in the past.

The smile made it perky. The interplay of expression and tone of voice, as much as the dialogue, conveyed that she was planning to poison their coffee while smiling. Reminiscent of the assassin in the previous episode, just before he drops the act.

Oh, absolutely. And some advice from a heavily-armed Root and John might really straighten them out.