Oooh damn you, I didn’t even connect the dots on that until right this second. And now it’s all I want.

Unstated in that graphic is that approximately 50% of all water available to CA is sent straight through to the Pacific Ocean rather than captured due to environmental restraints and other restrictions. That pie chart should read: Urban - 10%; Ag - 40%; Enviro Mitigation - 50%.

I read it as Matt's overconfidence and as another sign of being an adrenaline junkie. He can't just sit still and recuperate; he's doing the bare minimum to get back on the street. As soon as he believes he's back to fighting shape, he goes out again. It's echoed in the sequence where he's basically menacing Potter…

Yeah, the hearing returning was a plot device. But I also thought they at least nodded to Stick's training last season by showing his hearing return while he was doing his meditative healing shtick.

It’s the beard. It’s always been the beard.

+1 fuzzy britches

Could use a bit more of Duke losing.

+1

Like all things, time and economies of scale will bring the cost down. It may not be available for spinal injury victims today, but who knows within 20-30 years?

Seriously — this is like reading a WWI veteran's account of "going over the top" compared to a jingoistic general's (which is Ed's point, I believe). It's sincerely fascinating, though not to take away from the hassle it must've been for you.