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Adam Baldwin is always fun, so that might mean it's not as depressing as The Last Resort. And it looks like it might not be as ridiculous as Helix--but that's not a good thing if it's not worth watching for anything other than snark. I'll give it a go. Here's a trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3054413337/

This one airs tonight in the U.S. on ABC at 9pm CDT and 10pm EDT. From Zap2it:

For me, it just finally made sense. I adore time travel stories, time travel theories--if there were time travel themed undergarments, I would order them immediately--so I was hanging on by a thread this season, trusting all this confusion would come together--and in this episode, it finally did for me. I loved Lucas' revelation that Liber8 would always be somebody's pawns, in part because he's the genius--perhaps even more than Alec--and then having him toss aside the super gun was the frosting on the cake. I can imagine Kira and Brad getting him to join them to sabotage Alec's Halo if Jason doesn't first succeed in convincing Alec to pause production himself--or if maybe Kellogg pushes Halo production ahead against Alec and Jason's wishes. Question: When Kiera walked out of Alec's office/lab, we briefly see an image on Alec's monitor screen labeled "Kiera's CMR." Was that dead Kiera's CMR, or had he just hacked into live Kiera's? @iMonrey, I think you need to time travel with your post back to the previous episode's thread. Heh.

LOL! Yes, true. I was thinking more like Billy Gibbons (Angela's dad on Bones), a street musician who folks might think looked familiar because he was secretly a rock star. But I guess a musical instrument case wouldn't look less menacing unless he played the instrument. ;-)

Me too. What were his exact words? Something like: Happy day at the Pony *hand wave*The cinematographers and related folks on all the other crime shows should be made to watch the scene where they first found Polina's body under the bridge with the water lit by moonlight. ETA: I loved that the only time Walt smiled in the episode was when Sophia said he reminded her of Polina. Yeah, I agree, unless he or someone at the station adopts her, it seems unlikely she will have a happy home. But I guess "someplace better" isn't saying much anyway.

LOL. Someone should make a t-shirt with that on it for Sendhil Ramamurthy to wear in between takes. I was thinking sunglasses. But a full beard and sunglasses would be better. A gray-white beard. Scraggly. But no, I guess we can't cover the pretty. This is the CW.

I recall Sarah discovering (I think from a suicide note or suicide voice mail left by Beth?) that Beth really loved Paul, but he didn't love her. I think it's realistic that the monitors that were not already involved with their subjects (perhaps Donnie) were advised to become physically intimate with them to further the success of the mission. Assuming Paul really is a good guy, I can see why he would not want to let Beth believe he was really in love with her, because at some point he would have to break off the relationship, and he knew her well enough to predict that this would devastate her. But then Sarah comes on to him in a non-emotional way and he feels free to let himself feel all the warm feelings towards her that he had been holding back. If this is correct, sadly, it means he was never really in love with Sarah, who he doesn't really know, but with Beth.So, Tony's brief message does potentially hold a lot of information.

"Cooler by the lake" here. I do miss TWoP, but mostly because it seems there are fewer posts here than there were there. It's like the end of TWoP is killing threads on an apocalyptic scale the way I used to think my posts had the power to kill single threads 15 years ago. Cindy, your husband's eulogy made me cry, so I will not be re-reading. Now I wonder if the writers ever considered the curse to be a metaphor for that sense that we all eventually have of waking up and wondering: How did I get here? Wasn't I there just yesterday?Gonna go take a migraine pill hoping it will have the bonus effect of my not having another nightmare featuring my boss as the WW. The 1960's Animals' song, "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" is buzzing around my head.

I loved Cat slapping Gabe and then ending her rant with, "Destroy Vincent? You mean arrest."

Maybe stem cells from Helena's embryos or amniotic fluid to Cosima's rescue? I hope Allison and Donnie don't become serial killers--at least not at Vic's expense. This seems like something Paul could clean up if he wasn't AWOL.

In the timeline we are now seeing, it's still possible that he might decide he'd rather marry her than kill her (assuming they both give up on getting "back" to their futures).

When Duncan asks Rachel if she remembers him reading her the book, is that a clue to her about where the hard copy of his formulas are? I thought: With a tight low pony tail tucked into a high collar in the back, and a bit of bangs like Felix's in the front, it would've worked. But then I read here: ... and figured that would be a reasonable excuse.

Yes, but also, she was 7 when she was yanked from her loving parents and placed in a lab environment, and there was still a part of her that remembered those loving parents, as demonstrated by her emotional response to seeing Duncan. Now he reveals that she really was just an experiment after all. That's pretty anger inducing information. But my belief in the narrative was a little suspended by the planned sterility reveal, since I was under the impression that sterility in clones like Dolly the lamb is an undesirable side effect, no? Did she send someone to watch? I don't recall. Maybe. If not, she may be assuming he got away. She did try to spare his life last episode, kind of like the Huntsman in Snow White. Even though Leekie seems responsible for Rachel's pathological Ice Queen-ness, he still apparently filled the parental unit hole left by the absence of the Duncans. Allison better not blab in the future to Rachel about Donnie's role in offing Rachel's mad doctor kidnapper, or Rachel might splatter Donnie's brains like Leekie's in retribution.Since tall, dark, and handsome still slays me, when the message for Beth was finally revealed to be that Paul was a good guy, I thought aloud, "I knew it!" Why did Tony have a "package"? Was he born that way, or did he have transgender surgery?

Our little show caught the eye of The New York Times, and they had nothing but nice stuff to say: nytimes.com/2014/06/02/arts/television/longmire-a-crime-drama-on-ae-starring-robert-taylor.html

Oops. I meant tonight's. Anyway, she looks worried about our clones' fates. So maybe: You know Orphan Black is taking over your life when your pets get anxious before a new episode?Although I'm guess it's just the way her markings make her look.

Maybe he killed some rogue soldiers who were murdering civilians willy nilly? The recent social media posts by military members who knew Bowe Bergdahl claiming he was a deserter made me wonder if it was a case of them being the villains in the peace and worried he would now tell the world of their crimes. But I watch too many reruns of Goren and Eames on L&O CI.

But Kiera also saw Curtis kill her. Does that mean there was a third Kiera? Yes, but that's the point of this episode. They are changing into people not recognizable as themselves prior to the effects of time travel on their worlds, on their viewpoints, and on their thinking. The show spells it out for us with NoName (I know he has a name now, but I didn't catch it) saying his future doesn't know Alec Sadler--that Kellogg is the Bill Gates equivalent. So I'm guessing this Alec dies and the prisoner Alec get put back into play--with or without the blessing of the Freelancers. And yes, he was a selfish teenager in love, but having been to the White Room Prison and then getting a second chance will change him. I don't see how that would change him for the better, but other factors might. Anyway, I liked this episode because we saw Kiera change. We saw her complete her break from being a drone who follows authority. Even though Liber8 manipulated her to expose the big pharma whose Alzheimer's drug was going to turn out to be an addictive street drug, that doesn't mean she might not decide they are on the right side. It was also great to see Alec and his step brother communicating again. Not quite sure where that's going. Maybe Julian is the one to kill this Alec?

Given that people who hang out with the clones have a high mortality rate, maybe he thinks he's protecting her? Now that you mention it, this makes sense. I suppose the clones have reason to believe that Dyad and the Prolethians have enough friends in high places to thwart any one who would stand up against them in favor of the clones' civil rights.

@Grammaeryn, did you choose that picture of your cat for your icon because the look on his/her face perfectly expresses how you feel about the finale? :D

I love Vega/Louis Ferreira too. He was looking very spiffy in his fitted suit jacket and shades. I'm guessing the purpose of the ex is so Vega can swoop in and make everything better after the Cross situation goes south and implodes.

They are not as scary. As soon as they said Reapers I had a flash of watching Firefly and thinking of the terror I felt when someone mentioned Reavers at the bank. There was no terror this time. The difference is Firefly had the writing and the acting to back up the “OMG I rather shoot myself than see they things” while The 100 doesn’t. and then...: So, we agree. "Reapers" was an attempt to cash in on Firefly love, right?

"Reapers" or "Reavers" (Firefly), what's the diff? When Clarke stopped to see who/what was under the sheet while they had a moment to run for their lives and potentially lead their people to safety--a moment Lincoln had probably paid for with his life (well, not really; but still...)--I realized she is infused with the Spirit of Kate from Lost.

This episode premier starts in the U.S. tonight in 1 hour and 45 minutes: 9 CDT, 10 EDT

Ruh roh.

With Vic the Dick being so obsessed with Sarah, who he cannot have, and with Allison being on the outs with Donnie, well, I think y'all see where my mind is going with this. For that matter, maybe Vic and Ramon the Trunk Man know each other. Or maybe when Allison finds out Donnie shot Leekie, he'll be her hero.