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Sounds interesting. So you would recommend the book?

Generally I would agree, but I can't stomach torture scenes, even cheesey fake ones like Jackson being strung up by his shoulders for hours, so this episode was one I could have gladly missed. And then why did Mitch not want anyone to know he was blinded during the process of deactivating the brain chip? Because it would be easier to lie by omission about being blind than to lie by omission about why he and his father were trying to deactivate the chip? Hrmph. I hope next week is better for me, but this season's story arcs could potentially make me quit this show. I watch a lot of TV, but I can be quite fickle too. And speaking of fickle: Dariela and Abe?

Yes, that's what I surmised. I hope that I was clear about that.

I don't think so, but maybe quantum entanglement?

Well, his friend was killed for it, so, yeah, he didn't want to lose anyone else for a bejeweled egg.

LOL! Too bad the guys in that sketch can't do a MST3K riff of this show each week.

Ha! Much better and more colorfully descriptive line than any in the show! And it points out that the props, camera work, and production values in general are totally outstripping the dialog. I looked her up after the first episode because she had such a great screen presence, which she did on Timeless too, even though she looked different and had a different accent. I think most of the casting is good (just not feeling Grace's daughter as her daughter), but ugh, can they recruit another writer to create believable dialog/relationships? Or are there egos involved that are getting in the way of the storytelling? I seem to recall reading about that problem with the source material scifi author of the failed show, Flashforward. It's like: Which Harris do we see in this scene? Mr. Nice Guy, or his evil twin? And whose juvenile fantasy was fulfilled by using the plot device of Inhibition Removing Serum and an Ella Fitzgerald record to advance the Darius-Grace relationship? The parallel Louis Armstrong recording in the background at the wedding when the young lovebirds reunited worked better without the expository Captain Obvious lines.

Yes, I'm enjoying the various scifi bits—how they're not making it all about one technical option, but also not spreading out the devices among too many characters to keep straight in my mind. If only the main focus (the doomsday asteroid) wasn't so implausibly not visible outside the US.

The Harris-Grace-Darius triangle is the black hole that sucks the life out of this show.

Hah! I have a daughter older than you! I was born in 1953. But your point is well taken. I didn't read the book, but if it included a mention of Wallace, I would imagine an explanatory sentence would have been included that might have sounded too expository for a TV show.

^__this explained any death and destruction to me. For those too young to grasp its significance, think Charlottesville (last weekend) times a million. With nukes. ETA: I have to admit that I don't recall Wallace's foreign policy theories. If no one else clarifies, I'll do research and post later.

It seems the OP and other respondent are not familiar with the racially charged significance of the term "token" in the US, and dictionary.com will not help them. A less fraught word choice would be to say the "[limited role of Morgan Freeman] adds nothing to the show."

Well, if you mean it seems odd that there would be a medical fact sprinkled in with weightless invisible giant snakes, yes, that seems odd. Another Sharknado nod.

I'm more inclined toward it being the writing of the cardboard cutouts characters than the acting.

Best. Sex talk. Ever. (On or off TV.)

I'm going to assume Charlotte is staying with Art and his family while Delphine and Cosima are on the road with the understanding that she can move in with them when they are done traveling if she doesn't still want to stay with Art. Also, she will babysit for Helena occasionally. I think Sarah not taking the GED test was a choice based at least in part on it not being the path she wanted to take. I totally missed this!

Did the "cure" do anything about the infertility of the other clones? Because if it did, I wonder what the odds would be of a male child and a female child of two of the sestras meeting and having a baby together which I'm pretty sure would be not a healthy outcome for the sestras' grandchild — unless maybe since the clones were created by scientists trying to create a super race of sorts, perhaps recessive genes for hereditary diseases were removed? Yes, I (and probably all of us who watch procedural crime shows of the CSI sort) gave a few minutes thought to that potential plothole. Now I'm imagining all of the 250+ clones showing up in court in a glorious display of sisterhood (sestrahood?) to claim: I did it. No, I did it. No, it was me. I did it! And so on, until the judge had to throw the case out due to some sort of mistrial, heh.

Me too. I loved that Helena's birthing utterances were the same as mine and not some ridiculous shrieking. But my one criticism was that the birthing went on too long. Even though it was all worth seeing, some of it should have been left for DVD deleted scenes. I felt not having Cal or Jesse show up was a realistic choice, even though it was likely just done because the actors weren't available and/or because it would have taken too much time to reintroduce them to the audience. Seriously!

Low IQ or at least familiarity with low IQ culture seems to be required to give answers that will match the survey responses to many of the questions. The bachelorettes probably have a very narrow cultural IQ, and are in the habit of giving answers based on their own preferences rather than others' choices.

Based on Bad Guys Tropes (don't know if there is such a category outside of my viewing experience) likely the real Sam is hog tied and gagged in a closet (if the writers ever want to get his blood or have a shotgun wedding led by Mitch) or else Real Sam is dead in the closet. Or Sam and not Clem is the key to restoring humanity's fertility, and Sam's wife and babies are bound and gagged in the closet with Bad Guys holding guns on them and on Sam or, Sam was otherwise threatened (his grandma is bound and gagged in the closet with guns aimed at them etc.) Or Sam was bribed with a truckload of Nutella or, if they want to redeem Sam, he was lied to and told the people at his door were Bad Guys lying to him either about Clem being pregnant or about wanting to help the baby

I'm still wondering: Was "bearclaw" a Zoo pun in the script? Did Michael Hogan adlib it? And how many of us were dreading that Michael Hogan was going to reveal a real bear's bloody appendage? *cringe* *so glad that didn't happen*

Hey now, don't go dissing my ol' iPad Mini 1. If I can post on this board with it, surely I can fly the Snakes on the Plane around the block with it!

Backups in the cloud, people! The fall semester is about to start, and if your flash drive gets literally eaten by your dog, that excuse is not going to bring your term paper back! And what's your backup plan for if/when your old or brand new laptop hard drive crashes? And you better have more than one cloud backup for when hackers bring down Google Docs the night before your group project is due. Okay. Enough with the PSA. Meanwhile back at the episode: When Grace was instinctively holding Darius' hand (platonically, presumably) after we had heard the story of his regrets at losing his One True Love, and then we see Grace and Harris passionately embrace (the world is ending, so, why not?), and then we see Harris as the noble father figure soldier to the orphan: —well, all this reminded me that not only does Ian Anthony Dale typically lose his shirt by the third episode, but he generally puts on the red shirt (metaphorically speaking) before the end of the season or series, if ya know what I mean.

Hey, with Ron Howard as director, it can't go too wrong, can it? This show, OTOH, hasn't quite gone off the rails yet, but it always seems one plot contrivance away from that tipping point.

This show has evolved into a depiction of the ultimate dysfunctional family, including the pets that are just never housebroken. Sort of like Dynasty, with all the backstabbing and front stabbing and neck darting and whatnot.