UH!

Scrubs had a little something for everybody.

The New World story was a nice device to show what the programmers' tinkering would do to a host: the first version (when she was glitching) was disjointed. The second (when she'd been given a crazy dose of aggression) was lewd and way too forward. The third (after the lady programmer had adjusted her) was coy and…

Yeah, it's like an audible shrug.

All praise due to Frankie Faison.

That happens all the time in a creative business: the cycle of "oh, I have this brilliant idea/quick, let's make this thing/shit, somebody else already came up with it and put it out."

Loved the final promo. Since the Summer of Punk, nobody's ever been allowed to look that good in a promo against Cena, and here AJ and Dean don't just burn him, they tear him to pieces from completely different angles.

I never really got the whole "oh, so they just invented everything major" snark. The companies that made the Internet famous usually weren't the only ones to have those ideas. Lots of people and companies dreamed up rudimentary concepts (and even rudimentary executions) for the sorts of developments Cam, Joe, Gordon,…

The characters have history together. And we know they have history together. And the writers know we know they have history together.

Definitely fair. But they hadn't gotten there yet. And I liked the nuance and weird grace to Cottonmouth more than the straight temper-tantrum Bond-villainness of Diamondback.

Yeah, the series spent so time much undermining and needling all those blaxploitation tropes that Diamondback was so jarring.

Yes, yes, yes to that last paragraph. Luke has to come up with how to combat an entrenched, intrinsic problem that he can't fight his way out of. Cottonmouth has to figure out how to marginalize someone immensely powerful that he can't control and can't kill. It's a weird chess match, but it's a lot more interesting…

Sharon Jones!

Damn, that's a good Method Man track.

That smile on his face after destroying everyone and getting to the lockers. Damn.

That smile on his face after destroying everyone and getting to the lockers. Damn.

After the world-establishing Ep 1, Ep 2 is the jump-off. And it jumps off.

Loved all the tips of the cap to Shaft, even right down to the blind newspaper vendor. So excited to see the rest of this.

Titanic is a better spectacle.
LA Confidential is a much better film.

If loving this comment is wrong, I don't want to be right.