Yeah, that's probably his elaborate plan to infect everyone with every conceivable pathogen, so he can then test the cure. At the end he'll be like, "Good news, everyone! The cure is 100% effective, but it still has a 60% mortality rate. That's progress nonetheless. Thanks for participating!"

Well, I initially thought that the RFIDs weren't just for key access, but also as a personnel tracking system. I'd think that a secretive base conducting illicit experiments with infectious contaminants would be paranoid enough to want to track the movements of its employees. However, they apparently don't have such a…

Would it be tactless to make a tumor joke by noting Sarah's tremors as it pertains to vibrations? I mean, I already made a euthanasia joke… Yes? Okay, I'll drop it.

Maybe it's not actually separate from the base. As you noted before, this base is probably over ocean water if it's above the 85th parallel. I'm thinking the entire base is actually a water vessel held in place by the winter ice.

Yeah, once a show opens itself up to snark, it's difficult to come back from that level of scorn. I mean, I still watch this show regularly, and I do still enjoy it without hate-watching, but I am definitely now in the habit of mocking its failings. I'm now nit-picking at its ventilation system, laughing at its RFID…

Yes, their air duct design is baffling. I get that if you want to move a certain volume of air, then you need a certain size of air duct. However, if this base values its security and impregnability, then these air ducts need to have some kind of steel grating not just at the ends, but regularly dispersed along their…

As a follow-up, when Sarah asked if Julia was wearing colored contacts, Sarah should have just went ahead and jabbed at Julia's irises without warning. If Julia resisted, Sarah should be all, "Don't worry; I can just euthanize you if it hurts." Then Julia would be like, "I … I have black vomit I can share with you."…

Yeah, I don't get why Alan de-prioritized his goals of finding a cure. I mean, sure, Ilaria clearly intends to wield the cure for malevolent purposes, but humanity still needs that cure, regardless of Ilaria's intents. Should full-on biowarfare break out with the black vomit, the cure becomes a necessary…

Yeah, rehashing the X-Files' black oil alien invasion storyline conveniently explains a lot of this show's plot points. It explains the polar climate location, the super soldier Narvik B strain, the black oil Narvik A strain, the vectors' behavior, the silver-eyes' domination plans, etc. At some point, I expect…

Did you notice that without the whiteout conditions, the glowing blue light beacon was very clearly visible outside the base? LOL The black guide lines stand out against the white snow, and the blue light is right at the end of them. So stupid.

I bet she's concocting up a reason to get Peter in her bedroom instead. "There was this chick, I kinda euthanized her; maybe you can be my replacement zombie?" *Peter vomits black oil into her mouth* "Yes! YES! Cure my tumor with your alien virus, Peter! Yes, just do it!" *Sarah sensuously rubs the black vomit all…

Then he should send in his assistant to talk to her, while he sheepishly giggles from his director's chair!

Ehh. They can just add that tragedy to further his motivations (whatever they are) for the next season. I wouldn't mind Julia surviving (but only because of her super powers), though I don't find her essential to … anything about this show. Hatake would be good to keep aboard, if his machinations prove to be engaging…

Entering a random room and accidentally stumbling into a weapon hardly qualifies as competence, though.

Also, conveniently, the Ilaria people didn't think to use the security camera system that allowed Daniel and Hatake to monitor the base. You would think that the room that contains sonic cannons would be under surveillance, and someone would/should have tipped off the Ilaria guards to Alan and Sarah's presence there.…

Some of that exposition could have been salvaged by the actress. Unfortunately, her delivery makes her come across as kind of an airhead. I don't know why the director didn't help her along with all that.

This show needs more moments of competence, because tensions are greater when you see effective people fail despite well-executed strategies. Tension is lost when you're watching poor behavior result in exactly the kind of failure you'd expect. I still like the show, but at this point I'm rooting for total death for…

The show could have helped that moment along by using the sonic cannons earlier in the series (like when they were fighting off the initial wave of vectors). That way, it wouldn't look like a deus ex machina, with Sarah suddenly revealing a pertinent hobby out of her ass. I mean, really, not only did she recognize…

Perhaps the aliens are the black vomit that's being spewed all over the place. The human bodies are merely vehicles, providing warmth from the debilitating cold. It doesn't matter if they're beheaded because the aliens will simply rebuild the body using the remaining DNA info (although I don't know where they'd get…

I think @The Allusionist:disqus was referring to Julia's fake-out vomiting in the beginning of this episode. Alan didn't think it was funny, while Sarah just kinda smiled it off. I agree it was a terrible scene.