Now I'm imagining some historian at the National Archive peering over the Declaration of Independence and noticing "Cookie Monster" scrawled in one of the corners. As imaginings go, it's pretty fantastic.

Like, I was a little annoyed at first that it wasn't something mind-blowing and crazy and perfect, but hell, it fits all the facts, it makes sense, and it isn't stupid or insulting. Go, Observers!

I spent the first two-thirds of this episode yelling at my TV because characters kept saying stuff like "It has to be her, she is on the camera" or whatever IN A UNIVERSE WITH BOTH ALTERNATE UNIVERSE DOPPLEGANGERS AND SHAPESHIFTERS. Also because it was obvious from the end of last week that the Nina with Olivia was…

As always, when someone makes this point, I wonder: What would a GOOD Seinfeld review look like? Lists of jokes? Or just opinions less divergent from the AV Club hivemind? Given that "Writing a weekly, indepth review of a sitcom from a decade ago" is such a weird, tiny niche job assignment, it's not like there's a lot…

Can a single person "pile on"? Can one person be a pile? I mean, i can, because I'm morbidly obese, probably, given that I'm a person typing things on the Internet.

I can't tell, is that a slam for liking nerdy boardgames? Because if you're hunting through the back half of a comments thread on a Battlestar Galactica article on the AV Club in order to call someone a nerd… You should check your pot and your kettle, because they are saying SLANDEROUS shit about each other, re:…

That's fair. Exodus Pt 2 doesn't work without those three and a half (counting the last bit of Lay Down Your Burdens Pt. 2 and the Resistance webisodes) episodes of grim, depressing darkness. The episode is all about emotional release after all the darkness (even if some of that release is super dark itself).

Has anybody played the Battlestar board game? It's one of my favorites. Humans Vs. Cylons, with the Cylon identities kept secret. Kind of a mess in terms of a bunch of different game mechanics interacting (space combat, voting, fighting on the ship itself, intriguing and trying to work out who's who), but it matches…

I think Exodus Part 2 edges 33 out for sheer awesomeness/emotional spectacle, but DAMN, is this a good way to start a series.

I think the show is at its absolute best from "Downloaded," three from the end of Season 2, through the fourth episode of Season 3 (Exodus Part 2, which is my absolute favorite episode of the show, and maybe my favorite episode of anything).

I swear, Dawes would have been dead and gone a long time ago if their name didn't fit so well into so many terrible puns.

A little dumb: Reading reviews of a 10-year-old failed animated Jon Lovitz vehicle.
Less dumb: Getting paid to write said reviews.
Dumber: Leaving typos in the reviews you were paid to write.
Dumbest: Complaining about said typos as though they have ruined your experience of reading the free review of the 10-year-old…

All this talk of Olivia dying has me flashing back to the end of last year's animated episode, "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide," where Olivia casually refers to the guy who was trapped in the Zeppelin in her mind as "the man that's gonna kill me" while munching on toast.  Partly because I wonder if he'll be involved, but…

I've been reading it as "Without Peter's contributions in the field, Olivia has needed more FBI back-up when investigating, causing a more formal infrastructure to develop."

Bleeeeeeeeeh.

I wish I was. The anti-climax horseshit provoked actual laughter in the theater I was in (not helped by the fact that the film had broken twice before, and there was a little hope that it had simply broken again).

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To hate Hank Kingsley is to hate oneself.

That was my favorite bit. I really want to get more backstory on Altstrid. My theory was that, since she's running probabilities and statistics in her head all the time, it's super-interesting for her to encounter someone who's a product of a probability coming out the other way. A kind of living statistical anomaly.