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"This show is Satan's asshole." That's good writing right there. About 10 years ago, Spike had a show called "Joe Schmo" and the second season was a dating show where everyone was an actor except for two civilians. The fake manipulation wasn't anywhere near what goes on in this show.

I think there's something in confession about avoiding the occasions of sin. Association is definitely one of them. I mostly took people at face value this season, but I was also extremely distracted (watching other shows at the same time). I can pretty much swear that S3 is a no-go for me. Hopefully, this is a reality show that gets cancelled before someone dies.

Hey, if Gordon can take down Mutiny with a program, then Cameron is doing something wrong. She hired the guy who screwed up their servers last week. I'm guessing Cameron is still pissed about how Gordon saved Cardiff (for a while) by extracting her girly operating system. I'm a little stumped at what Joe is doing. At first I thought he was going to bring on 3 shifts to utilize the mainframes. Now it looks like he's going to sell computer run time on the sly. Didn't he flood the IBM server room?

I already felt dumb for watching S2. Now I feel kind of dirty, too. I do wonder how much impact the real world will have on the show. I think the FYI audience is pretty clued in, although I really haven't paid much attention to SM on this show for most of the season. I think the A&E audience is a lot less inclined to keep up with the online reality, especially considering Storage Wars is still on. I bet the ratings for MAFS are horrible, though. I frequently spent more mental effort on my laundry than the show.

I don't think Jamie really know much about what happened in S2. If I were a showrunner and faked the whole second season, I would tell as few people about it as possible. However, I do think that she has blinders on about the SM that has come out and really believes the principles in the show would have told her about it.

I'm going to watch Tuesday because iZombie is already done for the year. If A&E has any sense, they won't air it at all. FYI might as well, it's really their only show. If they were going to fake a reality show, they should have done a better job. The show 21 was fixed, but I understand that it was much more entertaining because of it.

To get away from the really awful to the merely awful, I think the fact that Dr. C is defending this crap lends credence to the rumor that his doctorate came out of a diploma mill. I suspect he's not in high demand in his chosen field and the show is his pay day. The show's atheist spiritual advisor has a real job, which makes me suspect that he's just there to get his name out there and to discredit spirituality by talking about it on a reality show. I remember Dr. Pepper from the 80's doing local talk shows on NYC's WOR. As far as Levkoff, there are a lot of other specialties dealing with human sexual behavior that don't use the word "sexologist." I think S1 of MAFS was a fun gig for the experts. S2 was likely a contractual obligation. The "experiment" this time was seeing how long you could force two random people to stay married.

The Daniel stuff kind of played into a narrative of inherited evil. In S1 Daniel was a dumb kid who wasn't close to his parents but needed him when he got into trouble. Emily was using him, literally sleeping with the enemy. Then Daniel did a quick 180, becoming a puppet master in his own right. Charlotte eventually avoided that evil by getting out of the situation (and because the actress was tired of doing that character). I still think killing Declan was such an unnecessary and arbitrary thing to do. Then they just piled on by killing Jack's wife as well. Amanda kept her hands clean, but Declan's death was a direct result of her constant poking of Conrad. It would have been better if she just fatally poisoned him in episode one. That's the other thing. His takedown was kind of anti-climactic. He was done in by monologging to his own (step)daughter. He didn't get a chance at revenge because he was stabbed after a prison escape. One can argue that cast defections caused the changes in story. I argue that the lack of a clear storyline eventually made the actors want to leave.

Mind control is one of the worst powers plotwise. If it's effective, it basically trumps every other power since they can control everyone else with a power. My guess is that every "power" would be different. Vaughn's plan for Super Max is to make an energy drink that eliminates the need for sleep. Every scientific study in the world says that sleep deprivation will basically turn you into a zombie, angry and unable to mentally function. Plus, we middle aged people like sleep. Liv wants to cure zombisim. Vaughn wants to kill all zombies because it's the kind of evidence that would destroy his company. Blaine wants to keep his customers. It will be interesting to see how all of them intersect next season.

Curing the big Z seems to be a big part of the show. Utopium might as well be Unobtainium. Why can't Ravi get more? How exactly is it "tainted?" The idea of the cure being communicable would be interesting. It was the reveal in one of my favorite vampire movies, . You could never be turned back into a vampire because the blood of the cured former vampire became the cure. What can get dumb is chasing the cure for the next 3-4 seasons. If Liv doesn't eat brains, there's no show. If there's a cure and Ravi can't replicate it, it becomes a stupid plot device. I can only hope that Cure 1.0 has major (pardon the pun) flaws with it.

I don't remember waiting a long time, but I bought the cartridge around the same time as the drive, and my point of reference was the tape recorder in my "old" computer, the TI-99/4A. I actually used the C64 for writing BASIC programs and making title cards for VHS videos. The games I had were all on cartridge.

I bought a 1541-II when they sold them at Toys R Us. They were daisy chained and you had to open data lines to use them. Early on I bought an expansion card for the C64 that supposedly increased the access speeds and let you use tape drive commands (load, save) for a floppy. http://www.networkscanning.com/store/COMMODORE-64-128-WARP-SPEED-BY-CINEMAWARE-COMPLETE_171751814945.html I remember those Commodore monitors, too. I got one from a school that was dumping them. Not only would they allow you to use the component video lines from the DIN cable, you could also hook it up to a VCR and use it as a TV monitor. From what I understand, Apples were the big classroom computer in the US and Commodore was big in Canadian classrooms.

I remember seeing Oregon Trail on an old PC clone and being jealous of the people playing.

I wasn't a gamer, but the thing I remember from the 80's (okay, 90s) were BBSes. That was the ancient version of a Facebook wall. I assume you could play games on them since they were modem connections. Modems in the 80's were also really slow. Acoustical modems with the phone cradle were about 300 baud.

I have to ask why Abe and Anna have to meet in secret when THEY BOTH LIVE IN WHITEHALL. Actually, a lot of things stopped making sense. Andre is a military tactician? Washington was freezing Ben out as a subterfuge? Richard Woodhull is still a dick (and a loyalist)? The worst was Abe (and now Peggy's) babbling bullshit because they don't think 5 minutes ahead. It probably wasn't the appropriate reaction, but I just laughed my ass off while Peggy was doing her pre-wifely duty for Arnold, all whilst holding the braid. I believe, aside from the sex, Arnold was looking for a rich wife. Remember, he attacked Washington because he married wealth. Most of the plot holes are obviously due to them trying to rewrite history. Plus, Abe wasn't a freaking mass murderer.

I unfollowed Davina on Twitter. Too many retweets and not enough authenticity. MAFS really blows this year.

Especially on the couch in that business outfit. Stupid Gordon, he probably could have gotten laid if he didn't go to the garage.

I don't know about Gordon. He may get one of those TV diseases. In the preview I'm still waiting for a good Cameron take-down. She's too Mary Sue for my liking. Props to Cardiff for telling Joe to pound sand. He (indirectly) got Bosworth in jail and liquidated a company that was perfectly good at selling IBM software.

As I was watching the end of the episode, I was thinking "You put one of my men in the gallows, I put two of yours in the sea."

TURN spent about 2 seasons on what is essentially backstory. The Culper Ring wasn't really operational until Townsend was able to supply information. For the writers, I think it gives them more leeway to write what they want, but it also leaves them unable to tell the real story. Plus, they find dumb ways to take us out of major battles, like Ben being ill during Washington crossing the Delaware. If it's cancelled, they should do a one-shot miniseries about catching Benedict Arnold.

I think she was being paid weekly. I just meant that she quit after the Giant was produced. In theory, she could have continued there making the same amount doing BIOS and interface changes. $40K/yr was a lot of money for a kid out of college in 1983.

Wow. Things happened this week. Benedict Arnold seems to be pissed because he's not Washington. Andre put his job before his lady. Hewlett is still a bad ass and there was precious little of the Woodhulls. The submarine is total BS. An unused prototype of such a thing wasn't even made until the Civil War.* *I stand corrected. I had the feeling I was going to.

Was that Bosworth in the S2 promo? I hope so.

I knew for a while that Eddie killing himself was the only clean way to fix history. I just didn't think the show would have the stones to do it. Depending on how time resets, Eddie should be alive in the new time line.

Villains are necessary to test heroes. However, I prefer when villains are equally matched. Too many of the superhero type shows have an overly moustache twirling super villain who doesn't lose until the last episode of the season. It's nice to see Simcoe meet consequences once in a while.