Actually, not that it matters, but it was a nuclear site at Hanford, Washington (the site actually exists - Wikipedia if you want to know more). The Machine didn't actually give directions, but it did lead Reese to the map with 3 potential locations marked on it (by Nathan, apparently). Finch evidently already knew…

I recently had myself a Lost marathon on Netflix, followed by catching up on the second season of PoI. This briefly gave me nightmares about Ben Linus in control of The Machine before the rational part of my brain told the rest of it to stop being so silly. But last week I realized if anyone on PoI is like Ben Linus,…

Well, I didn't notice either till I looked for her. Look at the right half of the screen - the camera is panning left and when it cuts to her, she is near the center of the screen, and then it cuts again even before the camera has panned all the way away from her. I think she's shown for less than a second. I had to…

I thought I posted this before so apologies if it's here twice. Guest, below, is right. Root *has* been pictured in the opening credits since the beginning of the season. She is not on screen very long, and I did not see her until one day I asked myself, hey, how come Amy Acker is now regular cast but isn't pictured?…

Me either. And it definitely had nothing to do with Finch wanting to go look at de Chirico pieces. I mean, just because last night I watched "'Til Death," the episode where he takes Grace to see de Chirico's The Red Tower at the Guggenheim, that had nothing to do with it. Though I think I had allergies last night too.

Personally, I don't think he really had any, despite what Root said to him about "helper monkeys." A couple of times Finch has said something to the effect that he couldn't have saved so-and-so because it happened before he and Reese started working together. Now Finch isn't always 100% truthful, so maybe he had…

A couple of people have alluded to this, but let's put it out there: when did Reese change his mind? 2/3 through the episode he was still angry, complaining to Owen about programmers whose creations get out of control. So…

Because Hurley bought up all the… oh wait, wrong show.

I was once on a flight that was slightly delayed by a guy having that exact same conversation with a flight attendant, only in his case it was a box too big for the overhead and that stuck out too far from under the seat in front of him. He kept telling the flight attendant how it was stupid that she was insisting on…

I keep wanting to call him Leon. I think Leon would be jealous he didn't think of the black market bazaar first, and we know he'd be in just as much trouble with bad guys if he had. And he's similarly annoying.

I think he looks so much better with his hair down on his face a little bit instead of brushed back, and he had that the whole episode. I also think it makes him look about ten years younger, although not so much when he's wearing it with the unshaven look. (I guess he was thinking, why shave? It's only delaying the…

I kept getting confused when Reese was fighting the ISA guy. Usually you can pick out Reese in the middle of the fight because he's often the only one in a suit (and a lot of times any other suits present are wearing ties). Having the bad guy be the "tall, dark, badass in a suit" was almost disorienting. But amusing.

This is late but I have to say… "stealing cars and almost dying" is just like college? What on earth was Finch up to then? With that and being in trouble for sedition or treason, he clearly has a lot more backstory we need to see. Can't wait.

Of course if they actually were hard drives it would be even harder to destroy them by stomping on them. Break components off the circuit board maybe, render the drive unusable, but I am not sure that you could damage the magnetic surface just by stomping the drive casing with your foot.

I'm surprised Control hasn't killed Hersh. After you give someone cleanup duty like he had in the last episode of season 2, they know too much. Hersh knows far too much.

For me it's always about character, in the long run. A show can have the coolest premise ever but if I don't connect with the characters, I probably won't watch the show much. The pilot was not great in every way, but it did leave me wanting to see more of Reese and Finch.

The volume is pretty low. I didn't hear it on first watching but rewatched later on my computer after reading all this and I could hear it. I'm over 40 and according to an audio test I found online, my hearing stops somewhere between 13kHz and 14kHz. So the TV audio must have had some lower frequency components, but…

"Data tapes." I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed those aren't any kind of drives but rather tapes (they look similar to ones we used to have in a large automated backup system). I was starting to think maybe I was nuts.

Aurora. Her name must be Aurora. If she's going to be anthropomorphized this much, then "Northern Lights" would be weird, so Aurora. I guess that would be "Ms. Borealis" to Finch…