Unlike the rest, I'm more than willing to forgive PoI for returning to its quirky procedural roots. It's why I started watching the show in the first place. Besides, after the emotionally-draining death of Carter and the resulting fallout, I could do with something lighter than usual.

Er, this isn't a bottle episode; they had more than one location. Or do you mean a standalone episode? Because it seems like they're angling to redo the whole evil Finch thing, seeing as how Root is now the avatar of the Machine.

The automated gun turrets are ridiculous. Didn't the designers ever watch Robocop?

They should do more genre homages, like their Die Hard episode. Or at least, stick to that kind of fun action-romp with strong thematic or visual cues from sci-fi/action greats.

I'd put the zombie episode ahead of everything else.

Lesseee… the two lead characters are powerful women, neither beholden to a man, and both have the ability to take an extremely powerful parasite and bend it to their will.

Well, if you didn't like the first episode, I doubt you'll like the rest. Dandy is less of a hero in this "series", and more of the buffoon. The glory of each episode is watching him fail miserably time and again.

There's almost zero continuity between episodes, so there's no real need to wait. Plus, with the relatively fast pace and the almost neurotic genre-switching — sometimes within the same episode — this is a show that is best appreciated in small doses.

Except within the same episode, both Sarah and Ollie pronounced it Roz. Sarah even did it in front of her darling, without so much as a correction from the more-informed Nyssa.

How do you explain the other obviously Arabic LoA members who mispronounce the name?

I know, it's just that I thought that the show had decided on Roz, not Raysh. It's not whether which one is accurate — after all, it was Roz throughout the Nolan trilogy and nobody complained — but internal consistency, or verisimilitude.

I thought this show had decided to pronounce Ra's as Roz, like in Batman Begins. Then we get Nyssa — and only Nyssa — pronouncing her father's title as Raysh al-GOOL. Make up your mind, show!

Maybe she's only klepto in other people's houses. Like this guy I know who only steals silverware in restaurants.

Never heard of GOG, I take it?

Parks' recent decision to make Leslie kind of the villain — along with the loss of Rob Lowe and Rashida Jones — has turned me off.

Er, you're way off base. Braugher (not Braughter) is more than sufficient as a straight man, and even a subversion of the role. Whereas a typical straight man will either dead pan his way or become flustered at the antics of the clown, Braugher bites back in the most delightful manner. Just take the now-classic scene…

My last thought as the episode ended: property values near The Wall must be rock-bottom, if it's got that must-not-be-named vibe to it.

Can I point out that the best line tonight was "my power comes from a scarcity of parking, just like your dad's comes from a lack of hugs"?

That means the planes were already airborne and ready to drop the bombs by the time Duncan cancelled the order.

That, or this was a definitive "no, Troy's not coming back for season six or the movie."