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I wonder if this episode was inspired by the #metoo movement. A lot of the "teasing " on this show could easily be considered harassment. Heck, they've even said so in the scripts. Remember Howard greeting the HR lady by asking how were her husband and the kids, implying that he'd been called in so frequently for sexual harassment complaints that he'd probably overhead bits when she was arranging her schedule, or he'd crossed paths with them outside her office.

Instead of the Capital, it's more like the J. Edgar Hoover building was blown up with only Hannah and Chuck surviving. ETA: and Forestal

My elderly mother has always carried grudges against any family members related by marriage, and yes, it's exhausting. I skipped last week and might not watch anymore. While the audience has to be familiar with the situation to find a joke funny, I am not amused—just too familiar.

Regardless, Angela's mother being dead parallels baby Wellick's mother being dead because of The Cause. Since Elliot is our hero, I think he'll do both. I could see Angela getting killed off in such a way that surprises the audience by how much we care.

It would be nice if this arc ended with everyone being nicer.

I hate it when Mommy and Daddy fight. And so OOC for season 1 Kirkman. Season 1 Kirkman would've sorrowfully said, "I know, Honey, but you're stuck married to a man of character." I'm assuming the yelling was so Kirkman can weep and wail great groans of guilty man pain when she's gone. Or worse!

Only on TV does someone excusing his or herself to go to the bathroom always indicate some significant secret is being kept, and it's not number one or number two.

I just happened to notice that The Internet Archive (at https://archive.org/ and aka The Wayback Machine) accepts bitcoin donations.

I think this is entirely plausible, but I'm not quite sure yet. There's the argument upthread that supports this theory that Mohammed's parents would not have left him home alone after the death of his sister, which makes sense, but I'm still waiting to get a definitive declaration onscreen regarding whether the Mohammed we saw spending time alone with Elliot in this episode was real or imagined.

I remember that. Catherine never went through though. from http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/The_Torment_of_Tantalus: So, yes, @ganesh, heretofore Catherine Langford has never been known to have gone through the gate. But my 89-year-old mother does not admit to a lot of things. She didn't even admit to her age until after she was 80. There are a lot of family secrets I would like to ask her about, but she has hidden them so long that she no longer believes they happened. I am open to a similar scenario regarding Catherine's possible gate travel at the time and age that Daniel met her. Or, Catherine could have not gone through the gate in the timeline of Stargate seasons 1-8.18, but after the events of "Moebius" concluded, not only were there fish in Jack's pond, but Catherine had gone through the gate. I'm willing to see how they deal with Catherine-gate before I start yelling "Retcon!"

Airs December 4, 2017. Thanks, @OnceSane, for posting the episode intros; they keep the all-episodes thread from getting jumbled. This episode was a little more like the season 1 episodes. I liked the physical comedy, like when Randy told Fawz that 400 years ago she would have had him killed and he moved down a few bar stools.

i was pleasantly surprised that he looked so good in the role. While there's no logic to my thinking, the fact that they managed to cast an alum of both the Stargate and Trek franchises who still looks good gives me hope for the rest of the production.

This episode held my interest more than most. But then I was also a fan of the polarizing Breaking Bad episode, "The Fly," which many also found slow or boring.

...plus, my over-the-air TV access today (especially ION) has replaced crime show reruns with made-for-TV Christmas chick flick movies--which I am not watching, but do imagine are populated by couples like those described above.

Cast pictures posted last Wednesday, November 29, with some comments/details—no mention of off world characters that I noticed, @Raja: https://www.stargatecommand.co/feeds/meet-key-cast-and-crew-in-new-stargate-origins-set-photos

Didn't they do this previously? There was that episode that started with Walter and Paige having a picnic on what looke like the beach at Big Sur. Or was that a boy they rescued? I guess with human depravity being so much front and center in the news lately, rescuing puppies is a safer bet. Heh. With the way humanity's going, maybe we should expect to see all puppies all the time soon on TV. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I don't remember the exact line, but I believe she was dressed in stereotypical lesbian attire and gave the impression that if her customers wanted to think she was gay, that was fine. Arthur didn't start wearing chaps or a feather boa to attract his gay male customers. Yeah, Sofia seemingly "got away with" being politically incorrect in this episode, maybe because of editing for time, which could be an example of this season's Inferior Donuts production. I would agree that Arthur's rainbow donuts would generally be appreciated by the gay community, regardless of Arthur's economic reasons for making them. He probably also has Christmas themed donuts even though he doesn't believe in the Virgin Birth. I wonder if there was originally some discussion in the script of the ethics of capitalizing on cultural touchstones.

Yeah, when I suggested the cloud, I also considered the greater risk of potential hacking, but didn't mention it. At the time that they "mined" the Bitcoin (2010?) I put my latest backup of important files (e.g., taxes, passwords, family pictures) on a flash drive instead of my external drive because multi-gigabyte-sized flash drives had relatively recently become inexpensively available, and my IT colleague advised it based on the fact that flash drives have no moving parts to go bad, and I'd experienced and observed many fatal hard drive crashes. Fortunately I also never back up in just one place (so, at least 3 copies of crucial files) because in 2016 the backup flash drive failed. Now, in 2017, the new, younger IT guy points out that it is now more possible to get data off of a crashed hard drive than it used to be, and that when flash drives get corrupted, there is nothing you can do. If this episode had focused on just the storage of the Bitcoins (but then no drunken Penny video, so, boo to that, IMO), they could have flashed forward to maybe 2022 and showed whoever bought the Batman flash drive from Stuart (Captain Sweatpants?) experimenting with new data retrieval techniques on the drive and discovering the Bitcoin. Of course, if it was Stuart who still had the drive, the 2022 value of Bitcoins would be pennies. Anyway, technically, based on 2010 technology, Sheldon putting the Bitcoin on the flash drive would have been considered a technologically superior storage place, but given the advent of skinny jeans with small pockets at that time, not generally a physically more secure place. Still, in Sheldon's defense, I could imagine him assuming that Leonard would not lose his car keys. But to really excuse Sheldon, he would also have to have secured the flash drive onto the key chain in some superior manner and have noticed if Leonard ever changed key fobs—because Sheldon could be expected to do both, as well as be aware of the rising value of Bitcoin. Plus what @BlossomCulp just posted.

Technically Sheldon just moved the Bitcoin code from Leonard's computer hard drive to Leonard's flash drive, intending to make them think it was gone, very soon after which he would reveal its true whereabouts so as not to be too mean. Since a hard drive is only a marginally safer place than a flash drive to store anything important, I can't be too annoyed at Sheldon for that aspect, but a warmer, fuzzier ending would have been if Sheldon had moved it to a cloud location, where it was now still available, while the old laptop's hard drive had suffered too much damage for any information to have been retrieved anyway.

And how did she have no blood on her? TV Crime Drama 101 dictates that if the victim is stabbed to death, there will be suspicious looking blood on the killer unless the ME explains to the audience otherwise.

Yeah, at this point Henry might as well start ducking into phone booths (or whatever the 21st century equivalent is), donning a cape, and leaping into the sky to get to his classes on time.

If it was a TV show, he'd be racing to get there to propose marriage to the donut shop employee who he'd been getting to know for the last couple of years. He would have been delayed by having to capture a thief who was holding up the store where he was picking up the engagement ring.

A lot of the 20th century cop shows included overweight cops, but in the 21st century, we might be able to say that Only On TV are all cops fit and well-coiffed. Bruce McGill on Rizolli & Isles would have been the exception that proved the rule. IRL, I can see how spending 7 or more hours each day sitting in a car might lead to obesity.

There was a season (or possibly two) after she and Jonny broke up IRL during which KC seemed to be phoning it in—to me like she was hoping to get let out of her contract. Painful to watch in a how-much-are-they-paying-you kind of way. I can understand how those performances would have permanently turned off viewers. But that was a long time ago. Both before and since then, I think she gives the material the right amount of emphasis and inflections to maximize her character's contributions without upstaging anyone—which, IMO, is what an ensemble cast member should do. Other than commercials, I haven't seen her in anything else, so I'll be curious to see what she does with post-TBBT roles. But I'm not sure I'm going to watch the Carol Burnett show. I was a fan of hers in the 60s when I was a kid, but I saw her on Colbert last night, and it was mostly a retread of stuff I've already seen. If KC or anyone else makes Internet waves on the show, I can always catch it on YouTube or CBS.com.

My understanding: The graybeard warlord was the good guy; the younger warlord tried to frame the graybeard's people for blowing up American soldiers. Only unnamed soldiers died in this episode. The sizeable stash of stimulant drugs in Seth's car were leftovers from his brother cramming for the MCAT. Seth insisted on claiming they were his drugs, but got off anyway because the White House lawyer demonstrated that the arresting beat cop had a crap ton of similar arrests thrown out in his hopes that enough would stick so he could make detective. Seriously.