I liked it, I did. The prose was written to entertain and amuse, not to astound. Lethem's book is supposed to be interesting and fun. So maybe it fails for you on that account, but not so much on the account from which you're drawing.

This is starting to feel like La Jetée meets 24.

I'm picturing buildings and cities turning into papier-mache sets and crumbling around the characters.

That looks absolutely awful. That's all I can say.

That is a totally triumphant anteater. The image has spawned a weird variation on the LOLcat meme: [knowyourmeme.com]

Any word on the villain in the upcoming Superman film? Because I have a suggestion.

My favourite low-budget moment (aside from the atrocious green screening of Vatican City): a collection of priests being wowed by soft blue light playing over their faces. After an establishing shot of Anna unleashing crackly blue energy, there were several reaction shots of priests staring, stricken with awe and…

For a moment I thought you'd written "Space Frampkin" instead of "Space Fraulein". And I thought: Awesome. Then I realized my mistake. But this is still pretty awesome.

@artum: The full line from Henry V is something like "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers".

For some reason it started reminding me of the St. Crispin's Day speech. "We few, we happy few... we super-intelligent sharks".

@Kinowolf: Now I want to get in a time machine and visit the last few remnants of the population, just so I can say that to them: "What, you thought you were special?"

@tallchair: Oh, I'm well aware of the irrelevance of most of my statements.

I tried to like this episode, but oh man, the whole thing felt kind of atrocious. After a decent pilot, this one really fell into that second-episode slump. People stood around and yelled their feelings at each other (repeatedly), the dialogue was all cliches ("She was amazing... she just lit up the room. She was the…

If Reeves is reprising Neo, then at least the movies probably won't be prequels.

@Ian Vincent: Nice. But you can also get "Olivia, Echidna Tsar".

@Josh Wimmer: I'm doing it right now. AND I'm typing this comment.

@Arken: Or November Rain.

@Cash907Censored: Yeah. Damn foreigners. They're not the same as you.

I find it mildly distracting that the main character is named Aidan, because that's my name, and it really stands out when people call Sam Witwer Aidan.

I'll give anything with Thandie Newton a chance. Or anything directed by Brad Anderson.