Okay, Internet, you've earned it.

These shows were always going to suffer from a comparison to the DCAU, weren't they?

William Shatner sang his own version of Common People because of course William Shatner sang his own version of Common People.

I agree with the sentiment, but I think Del Toro's heart has been set on having a huge, apocalyptic conclusion to the series for a long time. Personally, I'd be just as happy with a BPRD miniseries focusing on the individual characters and smaller stories.

What you've just done is literally worse than genocide.*

Superman sighs and throws Bruce into space.

Hmm, Moffat opened his mouth; what could it mean?

Goddamnit.

My problem with this show is that I like everything (the performances are top notch and everything looks great, from the sets to the cinematography) about it except the rather obvious plotting. Hopefully the second season will offer more surprises.

No you.

Fortunately as cats lack opposable thumbs, they're usually only about half way through tying the noose before you return.

Ah yes, the infamous and unforgettable Reactron.

Matthew Broderick killed two people! Roman Polanski abused a young teenage girl! Woody Harr-wait, I think I'm doing it wrong.

When Woods kicks in your door, waving legal papers and screaming "say hello to my little friend", don't say you weren't warned.

Fair enough, but in my opinion he's eloquent only to obscure his meaning; he employs educated language to cloak his generally reprehensible opinions in respectability. There's nothing original or radical in his thinking that I've come across; he was a staunch defender of the status quo and, despite his relative sanity…

Possibly, but I see Tyrell as symbolic of "the system" at its most extreme. He may subvert and twist the rules of the system for his own ends, but his validation and very existence depends upon its structure. Thus all his actions are about elevating himself within the system and his own mind at the expense of others.…

Despite the odds stacked against him and the dangerous enemies he's made, the greatest source of tension in this show, for me at least, is the fact that not only is Elliot scarily competent and somewhat unhinged, but that none of the other characters seem to realise just how dangerous he is. He's Hitchcock's bomb…

Exactly, they work as villains because they're both excellent foils to Elliot insofar as they help to define his motivations/philosophy. To use DnD terms, if Elliot is chaotic good and Tyrell is lawful evil, then Fernando slots in nicely as chaotic evil; Elliot's mirror image.

I think this comment works on two levels.

That debate was my introduction to Buckley and left me with the lasting impression that he was an articulate pseudo-intellectual with a talent for prevarication and demagoguery.