The first recurring characters show up in like episodes 6-7, the first really great episode is probably 1.13 “Root Cause” (you should watch “Root Cause”), and you definitely want to watch the season 1 finale. I think they do some really interesting cases in the meantime, but you can probably get away with 1-6-7-13-23.

I think ending it is a good choice. They could have kept the show as an “number of the week” show like other procedurals, and kept it going for as long as people cared to watch, but by developing the story as they have, especially the latest season, there really is no going back. One way or another the world is going…

Fusco and Bear could be like Turner and Hooch the Series :)

It builds. It’s subtle which is unusual for US television series, things happen but they’re not what you assume is happening and it’s only later that you find out your assumption was wrong - but you’re never told that explicitly, just a casual reference here and there.
People seem to like this show for a number of…

Yeah. My theory is that all good TV shows have about a 5 year shelf-life, especially with science fiction / fantasy stories. If they can wrap it up while they’re ahead, all the more better.

It’s one of the best shows on TV, but I kind of feel like they’ve told their story. They could probably keep it going a little while longer, but this should be enough.

I used to be a martyr but smartened up once I realized that my company and most if not all companies don't give a fuck about their employees. So I take every break, lunch, pto day, vacation, floating holiday in entitled to. Plus more when I can swing it. Because fuck them.

Circadian rhythms have a lot to do with brain chemistry.

Also in Germany, although with the U.S. government, and our office culture is much the same. Our local staff usually all eat lunch together, either in the cafeteria or at a large conference table down in the office. The Americans sometimes eat with the local staff, sometimes eat up in the cafeteria. It’s really nice,…

I’m a night owl/late morning person, and a slow waker. It’s an inherent physical trait, not something you can train yourself out of. I spent most of my life trying! You can’t make a morning person into a late-nighter, either...

Totally cultural. I’m in Germany, and the prevalent attitude here is “fuck off, don’t bother me. It’s my lunch break.” My supervisors not answer the phone. No one’s job is so important that someone else can’t do it, or that it can't wait 30 mins.

I be sure to take the *hell* out of my lunch break when I first start.

dammit, they Dick-blocked us

This thing sounded fishy from the start. TNT doing an original series? Can’t say that I am surprised that this happened. I hope now this maybe opens these characters up to show up on Flash and Arrow. Especially Nightwing. He is the most popular character that has gotten zero love from the live action DC shows/movies.

Andrew Kreisberg, one of the Arrow/Flash/Supergirl/Legends showrunners was on Kevin Smith’s “Fatman on Batman” podcast a few weeks ago, and mentioned that the Teen Titans is one of his favorite comics, but that they’d never be able to use them because TNT was planning on doing a series.

Or Christopher Lee in anything since Dracula.

If we followed that rule, we’d have never gotten Patrick Stewart’s Professor X nor Ian McKellen’s Magneto, which were the highlight of even the bad X-men movies. Chris Evan’s Captain America is also spot on - his acting was hardly the problem in the first two Fantastic Four movies.