That may be more about the brightness on your TV than the show. I never had any trouble seeing what was going on when I watched it. Similarly, I've watched the same Game of Thrones episodes on my TV and on my parents' set, and there are scenes where characters are basically shadowy faces floating in a black void on…

Do you have to know who Jan Michael Vincent is, though?

But is one person's fromage another's frottage?

Well the thing starts with a big explosion that kills a bunch of people and turns the public against supers, prompting a registration act so … nope, not another warmed over X-Men story. That is to say, not a warmed over X-Men story.

I'm guessing Miko is going to be the creation of someone else with the power to make their imagination come to life, or something like that. Possibly even the gamer guy that was helping her.

I've been able to rationalize pretty much anything anyone's done on this show so far as within the realm of human behavior - though Madison sneaking into town just for a look around pushed it - but I'll say this right now on the record: if Travis and company try to stage a daring rescue to get Griselda and/or Nick…

Weirdly enough, a lot of religious people skip over that little detail - that's assuming she belonged to a religion that includes that detail to begin with. There's at least one Catholic saint who committed suicide and was considered a martyr.

Moyers did very convincingly remind me of every authority figure I've dealt with who was absolutely convinced that no one outside his organization had anything of value to contribute.

Then everything could come full circle as Bruce kicks in the door and demands … wait for it … "Got Ham!?"

You know, this season almost can't help but be better than last season, and not just because last season set the bar so low.

Does that mean someone's going to have to learn to spell "Onomatopoeia"?

Or pants.

Yes and yes.

Now that you compare baby Joker to Cesar Romero, I desperately want this show to have an episode where they use makeup to paint a mustache on Jerome and everyone acts like it's a real mustache.

If nothing else, this show did give me the wonderful idea to write "Take nothing about my death at face value" on a note and leave it tucked into my laptop whenever I go out. My next of kin will probably not find that as amusing as I do.

"Dear Son, Now that you're obsessed enough to break into my secret headquarters, I want to remind you to choose happiness."

How about the Joker and the Joker's Son?

It's especially weird when you consider how often politicians are caught lying about their military service or something actually significant and their punishment is basically that they have to stop using that particular story and come up with a new one.

Oh, it's not like WH40K tonally, just in the sense that the more you think about the world as its presented, the more sure you are that everyone living in that world should end up getting killed every day.

It's weird: I very much enjoyed the first episode but came away unsure about the prospective series as a whole. It had that same kind of feel I get from Aeon Flux or Warhammer 40K or the role-playing-game Paranoia: "here are the exploits of people living in an utterly unsustainable world that's fun to visit but would…