I agree, but I felt the same about "Studio 60". At a certain point, it became the hip thing to pile on Sorkin and it created a bandwagon effect.

I loved this episode overall, but was dismayed to see that Sorkin was apparently jumping on that millennialist, Chicken Little bandwagon.

"I don't believe that people 'prefer' frivolous content — I'm not that cynical."

I fully agree with you, and I believe this is of a piece with the commonly heard notion that we have to drastically reduce money in politics. The implication there is that people can't be trusted to figure things out for themselves. (Yes, I'm basically making a brief for Citizens United; and yes, I'm a strong Obama…

So you don't think any enterprise should be, what, even *allowed* to provide vacuous trifles for shallow consumers? I can't agree, even if I agree that such content is deplorable.

It really was a great episode. Glad to see I'm not alone in thinking so!

I confess I haven't read all the comments here—I'm sure there are detractors. What I should have really said is that it's impressive that there are significant numbers of people here saying positive things about the show, when there is virtually no one doing so at Previously TV.

This is so interesting to me. I normally think of this site as being a "tough crowd", but there is surprisingly a lot of positivity around this show. Whereas over at Previously TV, the overwhelming consensus is that the show started off well but fell apart midway through. I am somewhat in between, so over there I…

Good point—hadn't considered that possibility.

That's for sure!

Whoops, I knew it was 2,000 years…not sure why I wrote that.

Huh, I definitely think of them as being farther apart—but looking at Google Maps, you are right.

I was disappointed that they seemed to cop out in terms of not showing what the "First Generation" thought of Ethan's declaration, and then their hypnoteacher's attempted counterrevolution.

Except for why he doesn't just use his own name and be "mousy Dr. Pilcher". It can't be that he was Bill Gates-famous in their version of our time, or they'd recognize his face.

Probably either or both, depending on what went down.

It certainly is. I'm much more forgiving of some of the implausibility around technology (some people go nuts complaining about how they preserved everything for 10,000 years including Mylar balloons and clown costumes) than I am of wild 180s in characterization. It's one thing if it's a case of someone pretending…

I enjoyed the episode, but there were some weird glitches in it—maybe more a fault of editing rather than directing? I thought it was too abrupt to go from a putative reckoning to a flashback without a "12 hours earlier" title or something; conversely, the weird flashback to Ethan calling Pilcher and then talking to…

See, I feel just the opposite. Everyone seems to be complaining about Ben being so quick to fall in line with the hypnoteacher, but that strikes me as perfectly plausible. What I can't abide is the complete 180 on Pam's character. There's no way the sociopath we saw in the first half of the season would be the softy…

Definitely Chekhov's headache there.

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