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I want an answer to that, It could be as simple as he asked personnel at TI to send him any resumes received from ex-Cardiff employees and Brian being the only one to survive the initial layoffs and work on the Giant put him at the top of Hunt's fishing list. Possibly they were already acquainted with each other. Hunt could have had a connection to Brian that was comparable to his prior connection to Donna, he knew Donna from High School and the Clarks seem to live reasonably close to her parents, perhaps Brian lives in that neighborhood because of similar ties, also they are both around the same age and work in the same industry, sometimes those factors can function like the connections within a small neighborhood contained in a larger city. They may also have been brought together by a third party with an axe to grind and a little research in their hands. No matter what, the lack of a working prototype and attempt to extort Joe into selling off the giant's technology cheap makes their operation look more like a con game than a viable business.

Color me shocked that Nina molested Silage on the couch instead of slinging him over her shoulder and skipping into the bedroom. I think the rapiness is vile though unsurprising. I'm sympathetic with whoever it was that said Silage deserves to be drugged if he's too much of a loser to figure out that his single malt tastes wrong. Jerk.

Strong episode but by the end, I felt like I'd been kicked out of a moving car. I'd (finally) bought into the idea of Cameron putting a personality in the machine, loved seeng Donna and Gordon in a good place and thought the team would find enough positive interest in the computer that they'd be able to get Cardiff back to being a viable company. The latter may still happen, but it's much less assured than it would have been without the Slingshot shenanigans. Donna and Gordon are back on very shakey ground, though at least Donna finally said some things that she needed to get off her chest. I'm kind of meh on the thing that made the Giant special being stripped out of it for financial reasons, I think it was an idea that was better utilized as a new feature in a second generation machine. On the other hand, Joe was confronted at the end with the Macintosh which managed to dazzle by being special in a different way after he'd made his machine more generic. From what I've read, the writers were taking some dramatic licence with that scene since the Macintosh was kept a secret until it was debuted in 1984. To anyone who knows better, do tell. I loved to see Gordon stepping up during the booth presentation and carrying on successfully after Joe appeared to be losing his shit. Hunt seemed to know an awful lot about Joe that was of a decidedly personal nature and seemed to have unlikely amounts of cash to throw around. I wonder if he was recuited from TI by someone with deep pockets and a deeper grudge against Joe. My first guess would be LouLu, my second guess would be almost anyone who has ever met Joe. I wonder if they bribed someone at Cardiff who has also been feeding them information? It could be that Brian has been sneaking into and going through Donna and Gordon's house while they are out during the day, but I don't know that he could get much information that way, since anything Gordon brought home with him would also likely return to the office when he went back out to work.

I hope Gordon didn't cancel that hotel reservation he made out of his own funds, it looks like they are going to need it. ETA Apparently not.

I was fine with Cameron being isolated, not merely because there was an realistic plot-based reason to do so but the drama that was going on in the company was related to the immediate and disastrous effects of Joe forcing them into developing a PC. There is no drama in having the consequent layoffs take place offscreen and no point in inserting Cameron into scenes with day-players instead of doing what she's there for. The one exception with Randy(?) and the bowling shoes was an effective moment. . She did have significant scenes with characters who were around for the long haul; Debbie, Barry, Bosworth, Gordon, eventually Donna and always Joe. I wish there had been more with Barry, not just with her but others as well. I think there is a difference between the notion that the character was kept isolated because of the nature of her early work and the reality that she interacted directly with a lot of other characters in ways that were significant and led directly to developing relationships in subsequent shows. I can't say I have an issue with her early, feral nature either. Her behaviour was far from root-able at times but it was in keeping with what her character was supposed to be, a somewhat immature, strong-minded, knee-jerk rebel. So what if she was also an obnoxious asshole? There isn't much stake in a character who is all outer quirk and inner light. I'm profoundly grateful that we weren't subjected to scenes of her showing her free spirit by twirling or rabbiting on about how coding makes her feel like she's plucking the stars. If she's supposed to be rebellious I think we needed to glimpse her potential for chaos, danger and heedless bad behaviour. Her attraction for nonconformity needed to be more than an unladylike appearance and repetitive scenes of her cranking punk rock on her headphones. I liked how the necessary segregation of her work was neatly framed by her joining a company full of middle-aged men in short-sleeved button-down shirts with whom she had minimal points of common reference and who looked at her like a bug and then her emergence into a smaller workplace that contained a fair number of her contemporaries who found her admirable and had perspectives similar to her own. I really wish they would develop some of those characters, I'd like to see more of Cooper Andrew's YoYo than his great reaction faces and a love of spray cheese. They did nothing with it except have Gordon be consistently hateful while she responded with dismissive contempt, episode after episode. Ugh. There was something potentially fascinating in it too, in that Gordon had been wooed by Joe into taking a huge, risky leap, told he was a star and an inspiration and then there's Cameron, the shiny new toy and he gets dumped and taken for granted. It was a like a romantic triangle without romantic competition. At least the pizza scene at Joe's apartment was a delightful payoff for putting up with their antics.

Ron comes off like he's spending too much time home alone with social media accompanied by a bottle of wine and too little time getting a good night's sleep or talking to living, breathing people in person.

Sam's a bad girlfriend, Silas is a worse boyfriend and they are both boring as crap as a couple. Reconcile him with Nina ASAP. She can be as lively as she wants, he can be ummmm... calmer. I'm sure ReRon wants to create somehing with the magic of Roxie and McBain with a romantic pairing instead of whatever it was they were to each other. He can support her in her future career as a fake-ass wheelchair athlete. It will be a delight to behold.

If Levi's sole purpose is to prop Nathan by default and provide him with an unrootable rival. Job done. What I worry about is when the orange walking plopoint wombat is done with being the easily hateable villain and he's still hanging around like a bad Dunklemonkey bean-fart smell. Strong fan reaction, negative though it tends to be could lead to RonC deciding he's the hilarious second coming of Rex Balsom and writing a front-burner story for him that never freaking ends.

Gordon got a shorter cut and it was probably scripted to make him seem more pulled together and less of a sad sack. Cameron's has been gradually growing out since the first episode. Hers is not so much a different style as the same one left untrimmed. It may be he felt too uncomfortable working with Donna after the incident in Lubbock, not just becausehe feels a bit of guilt over it and realizes he had been flirting pretty heavily himself, but also due to there being some office gossip. We could see little details in the background of other staff acting watchful and disapproving when he and Donna were intereacting and that secretary of his was throwing some awfully nasty shade at Donna when she told her the news, bless her heart. I've read a theory that he wasn't waiting to speak to Donna outside her home at all but instead going to his car from creepy neighbor Brian's when she saw him and that they are up to something underhanded of their own. I guess we'll see.

The PC division at Cardiff electronics is dead for all intents and purposes. Nathan Cardiff was clear that when the money ran out, they were done. The money has not only run out, but it has also been propped up with funds illegally transferred from his personal accounts, which has resulted in the company being shuttered while an investigation goes on. The only thing Joe needed to stay in Dallas for was to clear out his desk when the FBI unsealed the offices and pick up a pink slip along with everyone else. The only reason there is anything left to save is because of Gordon's quick thinking and illegal acts. Joe needed to have that conversation with his father at some point. I felt from his actions in "Adventutre" that he wanted to approach his father when he was in a position of strength with a genuine accomplishment behind him once the Giant was finished. Instead they spoke when the Giant appeared to be finished in an entirely different way and he was in a position of weakness and failure. He wasn't there to ask for a job. He didn't ask for one in fact, his father offered and he accepted. The reason he accepted was there was going to be no product launch for the Giant, no more PC division at Cardiff, no comparable prospects elsewhere, he's pretty close to broke because he doesn't know how to live cheaply, nothing came out of his meeting with his two key players except recriminations and a punch in the face and the window of opportunity for getting a portable to market and claiming a major share of that market is about to close with IBM having it's own in the works. (Though everything I've read indicated that the real life "luggable" PC that IBM came out with was no great shakes.) He was a pushover instead of his own man. There was no hissy fit. He gave up.

The phases Gordon went through that that resembled mania seemed awfully short but I suppose the show could intend to go there. I've known people with monopolar depression that have those brief "up" spells, especially when they self medicate with various substances, so bipolar isn't necessarily the only possibility. I think they've done an excellent job of establishing him as being a problem drinker, possibly an alcoholic. We saw him frequently nusring a drink and his judgement and personal skills would completely go into the dumper when he drank until he spun out of control. We saw him being picked up from the drunk tank in the first episode, we saw him drink when he had a bad day, drink when things were going well and drink when he was working hard or when he needed a break or was making a big pot of grandma's stew and supposedly watching his kids in the guise of a reponsible adult. In this episode he was drinking beer early on. When he and Cameron were sharing pizza and root beer, he pointedly turned down her offer of a bitof booze into the can. Once he had a workable, though somewhat unethical plan to save the Giant, he stopped tippling, became a lot more decisive, expressed himself with clarity, not only refused to let Joe bully him but also manipulated Joe into losing it and trying to intimidate him so he could get under his skin.

I was completely taken aback and thoroughly delighted that Gordon was the hero of the episode after being such a sour jerk for most of the show's run to date. He was the one who kept it together, thought on his feet and best of all, inspired everyone to try to save the Giant. I particularly liked that what he said was full of valid points, and genuine passion. It resonated on an emotional level entirely unlike Joe's grandstanding, hollow words and borrowed ideas. I just love Bosworth and especially his interactions with Cameron. I hope this episode doesn't mark him being deleted from the company and eventually the cast, but it seems entirely possible.

The keyboard she plays? No. However, the keyboard thing Gordon smashed? That was the symphonic prototype.

Breaking the bat meant he was ready to confront his father. So, no problem with him showing up at Dad's lonely mansion. I hated him giving up and caving into his influence so easily, especially since he started giving off that creepy vibe he has, like he's about to go out for a sandwich and kill someone for shits and giggles next to a dumpster while he waits for his order to be ready. *snorts* .... nearly dies laughing.

Best episode so far. One of the most satisfying hours of TV I've watched in a long, long time.

Someone needs to explain to me like I'm Sonny, how anyone buys Nina's story that she still needs that whelchair. Supposedly she's too weak and unsteady following her looooong coma to manage the strength, stamina and balance to walk or stand but she wheels herself around frenetically like she's training for a Paralympic sprint event. Shut up Felix.

The death of Rafe just irked me. If ever there was a bit of pathos that needed to handwaved as taking place offscreen, that was it. I just did not give a crap about any of it and there was nothing else in the episode that drew me in either. I was not interested in how well or how badly any of the cast who cared about his sorry ass acted out their pain. Eventually I wound up spending more time flipping over to Miller's Crossing on another channel, so now my husband and I are going to drive each other crazy by randomly asking "Are you givin' me the high hat?" for days on end.

If I find myself completely drawn in by a character's reality, whether repulsive or appealing, have a strong reaction to it and afterwards am struck by how natural and effortless it seemed, I'm fairly certain that what I was watching was a strong performance, not self-conscious acting choices.

I hugely appreciate what the actor is doing in the role. He has no reservations about being all the way in with portraying Gordon's flaws and weakness. There is no vanity in that performance. Seeing how good Scoot is in the role is what makes Gordon watchable for me. I frequently have to look at him through my fingers. It's rather wonderful that such a milquetoast character leaves me so thoroughly horrified. He really gets to me on a visceral level. You can almost smell the fear rolling off of him, along with some beer sweat. (ew) I don't hate the charcter I feel hugely sorry for him and want him to get some control over himself and his life. Also, the biggest complaint about him is how he takes Donna for granted and lets her down. I adore Donna, Donna loves Gordon, so what I really want to see is Gordon getting to be more like the man she believed she married.

I think the cat was already out of the bag when she asked him outright and he knows that Cameron tends to be more of a loose cannon when she thinks something is off about the answers she's getting.

It's a real person named Neal Patrick who was affiliated with a group known as the 414's and that was an actual Newsweek cover.

Self-sacrifice is great when you are safeguarding your children's welfare and ensuring their happiness, not so much when you smooth out all the bumps ahead of them. It's fine for Donna to let her kids win at games so they have a good feeling about playing them, but not good for anybody if she falsely lets them see her as incapable of winning, especially when she's a highly competent person.

it's tiresome, especially when she acts with greater emotional awareness at other times. Her behavior in "borrowing" Joe's car when he had a meeting pending and sprawling out in his office was ridiculous. Honestly, The idea that Gordon's problems are more significant than self-indulgent melancholia and too much tippling was a welcome development, even if I found it uncomfortable and disturbing to watch. Donna still sees the man she fell in love with, hence her loyalty and strong affection up to this point, but she's cracking now and starting to see the possibility that this version of Gordon is his true state. A guy who takes her for granted, is unreliable, unstable even and brimming over with an unattractive sourness. Also as Gordon himself noted about her habit of losing games with her children (substitute inferiors) on purpose, her tendency to put others ahead of herself isn't necessarily a positive attribute, she'd do better in all ways if she'd make a conscious point of setting it aside as her default reaction. ETA I was in my teens into twenties in the eighties and the way I remember things was that attitudes were often accepting of the existance of Gay/bi sexuality. Also if you look back, andrgenous sexuality was kind of a thing in superficial areas like make-up, fashion and music. I don't think someone like Cameron would be bothered, beyond it possibly tickling some jealousy.

His behavior in tonight's show gave me the impresion that he dealt with the end of the Symphonic computer with behavior that was considerably more worrying than having too many beers and moping a lot, especially when I consider the comments from Donna and her parents about that time. It seems I missed the falling anvils. I was convinced we were going to see him sexually harrass her or manipulate her into an affair. I was hugely surprised that his motives weren't sleazy, that he really did genuinely appreciate her work. I wonder if Joe and Bosworth will have to buy into the PC to keep it going? Bos seems willing, though Nathan was in no hurry to take his money and thought the idea was absurd.

Speaking as someone who has only a superficial grasp of the techno-babble, it's not going to take me out of it when it's used with a less than precise grasp of how the terminology would have been used in the time period, though of course accuracy would be ideal. However I would be hugely taken out of the narrative if there was no techno-babble in evidence or the characters constantly talked around it. Having a character make explanations for the sake of the audience can be dull, other times it works, like when Cameron tried to explain to Debbie what the Bios signified and Debbie told her where to get office-appropriate clothing. I honestly don't care if I comprehend everything each character says or if my understanding of what sort of computer is being planned has to evolve with new information, I do however care that what each character says is reasonably in keeping with who that character is supposed to be as well as giving us a narrative build and I'm satisfied with that aspect of it.