Between this episode and the last, Fusco apparently had enough time to recover from a bullet wound; surely Shoot had the chance for a few intimate moments together.

Scouting, maybe? Or a messenger? They can fly, after all, and Lapis was apparently able to reach the Homeworld under her own power, which suggests FTL travel, something other gems usually need spacecraft or a warp to achieve.

Pour one out for Darryl and Jason.

Fusco the grumpy Christmas elf is something that really should have happened.

Elias spends his days reading novelizations of Gregory Peck movies, apparently.

Sounds plausible. But, if that's the case, it's a pretty big tease to put PoI in the top picks and then make us wait more than twenty-four hours for a review / discussion space. I can't think of another case where they've done that.

An anthology of PKD short stories? You have my interest.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."

The CEO of Manchester-Reed was the HR boss Brian got his temp job from in the pilot. Also the first recipient of his NZT-48 fueled benevolence.

All through the scene with Piper and the enzyme, I kept expecting the whole thing to turn out to be a hallucination created by Brian's NZT side-effects. It really seemed too good to be true, given all the tension the show spent the last few episodes building up.

They're clearly working up to something with Adalind.

I'll be playing Breath of Fire IV for the playstation.

Once we saw Juliet was topless during the hat ritual, it was sort of a foregone conclusion she was going to transform herself into Renard. There must be a clause in Roiz's contract that requires a shirtless scene every three episodes.

Agreed.

Your friend is doing god's work.

That six-pack of Deschutes had the look of a paid product-placement.

At present, I'd put it more in the 'dumb pulpy fun' category. The show often demonstrates a lot of visual creativity, and has shown a nice variety in how it tells its stories, but its characters aren't as layered as PoI and (thus far) it is nowhere near as conceptually deep.

When you say "great" do you mean Season 1 PoI, or Season 3 PoI?

Sherlock re-dressing Joan's room as the AV room was a cute meta gag, since the two rooms are, in reality, the same set with different props.

Has Hal Holbrook ever had an action figure?
Because that really seems like something that should have happened by now.