Yeah, maybe that's it. Rudd's Paris wasn't even enough of a presence to be an afterthought. Nice teeth, though.

Way down the list, maybe, but that and Paris being alive bug me more than anything else I've read about this show. The big crazy is easier to wave off than the little wrong.

That's both scary as heck, because of what could have happened, and impressive, because dang, Bad Kid had an arm! How did any of us survive childhood?

I actually did get clonked on the head with a Jart as a kid. Didn't die (…obviously) because it dropped from a tree it was caught in rather than straight from the throw, and had thusly slowed down. Still, after that day, we never saw the Jarts again. Too bad, they were super-fun, except for the pain and blood…

Oh, Vijay! Of course! I was wondering where the healing factor came from, and I had totally forgotten about Vijay, even though we just saw him in the Framework. Poor guy, now I feel bad for forgetting.

Most reviews I've read seem to feel that the first episode is slow and fairly scattered, but the last one is fantastic, and this seems to be averaging them out, maybe? I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, so I couldn't say for sure.

I feel like he and Nate would blend together into one big blandly handsome, vaguely charming, passably funny action figure.

No, "object" is correct. Per M-W, an object lesson is "something that serves as a practical example of a principle or abstract idea." "Abject," meanwhile, means "sunk to or existing in a low state or condition" or "expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit." Abject apology, object lesson.

I think the bank was just him killing time. He had to do something to keep the rest of them busy, and they do so love fighting crime.

Well sure, in RL he passed away in 1982, but in the show, is there a closet full of shriveled mummy Swigert, or one with duct-taped and angry Swigert? You'd think someone would have asked.

I really enjoy Mick and Stein as a duo, and Nate and Ray have had their moments, but I can't say I don't miss Mick and Ray. Or rather, Mick and Haircut.

Yes! I enjoyed the episode a bunch, but the "real world" stuff (as opposed to, you know, laser fights and time travel) is one heck of a doily this week. Heywood has a public security incident, starts acting weird and hanging out with random strangers, drops off some alleged British scientists in the command center,…

Ray is villain catnip. Lock him up with one and they'll bond. Snart and Ray in Vandal's cage, Mick and Ray in the gulag, Eobard and Ray in space…. the boy has charms.

Honestly? Not until I came here. Totally forgot he existed.

Plague has a variety of fuzzy adorable vectors, almost all of which played some hand (paw?) in the 14th century European outbreak (the one everyone thinks of as The Black Death, dum dum dum). Our usual North American culprit, prairie dogs, didn't get to join in, but gerbils, rats, marmots, cats, and of course people…

I just bought a t-shirt along those lines, and my cat is currently sleeping on it. She's not a subtle hinter.

And yet right from the books.

What, the ever-so important job of being on a free poster handed out to school tours? Somehow I think she could have handled it. The relative scarcity of women in the UN, particularly in the upper echelons, is an actual problem. The lack of access to clean water and food, education, health care, independent economic…

"Honorary Ambassadors," like Wonder Woman, are always fictional characters. "Goodwill Ambassadors" are real-life women. So it's not actually out-of-bounds for the job for imaginary people go to an imaginary person.

Kallus was visibly shocked at the execution, somewhat dangerously so considering Tarkin was about a foot away. He seemed a little off his game around Tarkin later in the episode, IMO. though it's hard to tell if it was an intentional character beat for him, or the writers (justifiably) tilting the board for Tarkin. He…