I don't know, I think the near-pathological aversion to 'big gub'mint' in the face of obvious overwhelming need for government assistance is pretty weird and absurd (and tragic).

When I read the novels as a teenager those views really helped to create a sense of place in the past for me.

On the basis of the first episode: don't worry, it's not Sherlock or Doctor Who. The direction is more pedestrian than hyperbolic though - it really SPELLS. THINGS. OUT.

Yeah, cumulatively lots of small things make the suspension of disbelief just a little too difficult, especially as the adaptation from the comic relies on a very particular tone of heightened reality.

Well acted, cleverly directed on a shoestring budget but poorly written. If you want Gattaca (remember that?) meets what-happened-just-after-the-version-of-Blade-Runner-with-the-happy-ending fan fiction then this is for you.

I never saw the British version. Is it any good?

She had an Afrikaner accent. She was NIS.

Lois & Clark worked until Lois discovered that Clark was Superman. At that point the show had very few places to go.

I don't listen to hip hop.

In Remembrance of the Daleks the seventh Doctor refers to various alien events on earth that Ace has never heard of, his point being that humans tend to ignore what they don't understand.

It's a great bit of casting. Hawke's character has to be naive, self-righteous and a bit irritating for what happens to him over the course of the day to have the effect it does.

Quantum Leap thought about it in the episode where Sam met a woman who claimed to be an angel.

I don't think Cal's evil at all. He was a good man who had his family taken from him. He says at one point that he wasn't strong enough to protect them. He's tried to make himself strong but has paid a terrible price in doing so.

Isn't that Random Roles?

There's a line in Jarhead where Swoffard tells his sergeant that he knows that his father was in Vietnam, but his father only ever talked about it once. The sergeant replies "if he only talked about it once, he wasn't lying."

Let's face it, AoS is not going to get renewed for a third season is it?

Does the Hulk ever kill people? I thought that was a no-no.

Coulson's character is the fatal weakness at the heart of the show. He was originally written as a square, suit-wearing G-man character for Tony Stark to riff off. He's a conformist company man, a follower rather than a leader and not at all equipped to take over from Nick Fury, especially at the moment of collapse…

Fleming was joking. Shaken ruins the flavour.

Something I haven't seen asked or explained anywhere about the ending: