That made a lot more sense when it turned out the cop knew Jessica :)

"Fiduciary."

Rico seemed quite reasonable and not smart-assy. He didn't say we should NEVER have different types of stories than usual, just that black or Asian families are allowed to have "typical American" experiences/episodes too.

Exactly. While Evan and Emory seem like the "perfect children" Jessica wants, it's lovely that Eddie has that rebellious connection with Grandma, who you might've assumed would be the most "traditional" or strict elder figure.

Forgot that line, nice point.

Yeah none of these technical details have been directly stated on the show. Probably because a lot of people would find them dry and boring and want to focus on the drama, unlike nerds like me :D. So I'm just making a lot of assumptions based on "okay, what would it take for ALLIE to stay connected to all these…

I mean, it could be, but it seemed like it was only a few people (Jaha and a couple chipped goons) taking the boat trip out from ALLIE Island. Jaha had his Proton Pack but I didn't see anyone else carrying giant sacks of chips or anything. Do they have a drone-based supply chain running more in? There are many…

Again, I don't recall anything like that from the flashbacks until version 2.0 (I thought she said the fatal flaw of ALIE 1.0 was a lack of human connection), but we definitely didn't get a comprehensive picture so you could be right. And I may be forgetting some details.

Look, the rules for who gets beer from where are so fucked up on this show, I don't even consider those things anymore :)

Damn! Nice Google-Fu. Well thank you for finally resolving that mystery for me haha.

Haha, I agree he's one of those people who is sometimes spoken of as if he's more of a figure than he is. Personally I've seen him like 2-3 things so I've started recognizing his name (and it is a distinctive name). I believe he's also the writing partner of Jim Rash aka Dean Pelton on Community - they won an Oscar…

Yeah…you're ridiculous.

I dunno, but he was giving some goofy looks during all the torture and whatnot. They left some ambiguity there is the point. I'm not pushing either version of events, just waiting to see what they do.

You're making a lot of assumptions about what the chip does or doesn't do. I'm not saying she FEARS the chip, but obviously the chip changes you in some way or else it wouldn't even matter. And we know for sure that it somehow brings past commanders into your head. A lot, dare I say most people would object to…

Apparently people had divided impressions there, but you guys seem to be winning the votes so I'll assume you're correct, being too lazy to check again myself.

We don't really know what the chip does though. Even really high tech brain surgery is never that simple I suspect. I assumed Luna was rejecting the chip itself as well, not just the position that comes with it.

Well, they did have that moment a week or two ago where she saw Aderholt out the window because he was working closely with Stan, and then we really did get the tense music, so they probably didn't want to play that same beat a second time. Still seems like a recipe for trouble if this is a regular thing. I was pretty…

That is basically how I'm looking at it, but it didn't quite feel like that's how they were trying to play it :)

Eh, it was just weird dramatically that they wrote her into the episode early when they were basically going for a two-person storyline. I'm sure it would make more sense if I was up to speed on the guard rotations.

Content and context too, not just tone. You're not a deadly viper assassin commanding your firstborn to join the family business. I assume.