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$4.5 to $5 million per episode sounds about right. That is in line with industry norms. Even the average half-hour sitcom costs more than $3 million per episode. A big chunk of that is payroll. This show has about 200 people working on it. While the majority of those people only earn middle-class wages that still adds up to more than half a million dollars per episode for the crew. Executive producers, directors, some senior writers may earn almost as much or in some cases even more than some of the cast members. Yeah, this show costs more than $100 million per season to produce. With that kind of money in play the whole idea that the network would let the show runners just do their own thing and live out teenage fantasies for even one episode is ridiculous.

Yes, if the show I'm watching is not Lassie or Mr. Ed or some other show featuring an animal in a starring role, I don't care. I'll also extend that to humans in very minor occasionally recurring roles whose purpose is to add a bit of color or comic relief to the proceedings or flesh out a main character's backstory. I don't care about Ms. Hudson and Clyde on Elementary or Agent Christopher's wife on Timeless or Lizzie and Tom's dogs on The Blacklist. They show up, serve their purpose and then are gone. I'm good with that.

I see nothing wrong with Adam regularly cleaning house. Almost all of what is posted on Twitter by everyone is only relevant for a few hours or maybe a day, after that no one cares who said what. The majority of what is tweeted by anyone probably has no value whatsoever. Adam also follows people not connected to the show, replies to their tweets and they reply to them. If he wants to improve the signal to noise ratio on his feed by deleting unimportant tweets so he and others can find what he considers important then good for him. It's just Twitter, not the congressional record. If people are annoyed by Adam's posting habits on Twitter, the fix is simple - stop following him.

Wyatt was chasing down the wrong guy. His wife's killer was not who he thought he was so preventing the guy's birth had no effect. After that Wyatt decided to accept the reality that his wife was gone and move on with his life. Lucy and Flynn have not done that. They still think they can get their loved ones back by manipulating history. Whether they really can remains to be seen.

British vs. American usage.

I liked the first two episodes. The two money dudes are weird. I hope they are phased out. It looks like Maia's mother and uncle set up her father to take the fall, and it also looks like they left the door open for Diane and Kurt to reconcile. Both of those story arcs could be interesting. Marisa continues to be entertaining.

Filming for T2 happened last summer before production for season 6 commenced and JLM sported Sick Boy's signature white hair. The movie premiered last month in Britain. It was pretty obvious in the first episodes of this season that JLM's hair was dyed back to something close to his natural color. Maybe he got tired of the elaborate combing needed to cover his growing bald spots and decided to embrace the hairless look.

Yes, the Columbia Gorge Hotel is real. Someone already linked to the hotel's web site.

And the music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from Balanchine's ballet. The waiter woging into Puck was a bit of a giveaway.

It doesn't seem like the two shows are similar enough to claim plagiarism. It sounds like Onza is pissed off that their talks with Sony didn't go anywhere and now they are looking for someone to blame.

So they are doing their version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Will Wu be Bottom?

A lot of companies still distribute paper pay stubs to employees with direct deposit. It's pretty much standard practice for companies using ADP payroll services.

Yes, he was an awful person and his actions spoke volumes about his character. He was self-righteous, judgmental and unforgiving, all of which are very ugly character traits. He was clearly shown to be the villain in that situation. Other people might have the attitude of do whatever in private and we'll look away but don't embarrass the family with a scandal. However, that does not make for big drama.

Sure, some people do that but that action says more about the character of the person doing the cutting off than the object of his disapproval. It takes a pretty self-righteous, heartless person to turn turn his back on his child or grandchild in need. I think more people would quietly people offer financial support, perhaps with the condition that it must be on the down-low to keep up appearances in one's social circle. Disapproving of a child's life choices and wanting to maintain some distance while keeping a willingness to help in an emergency and hating that child to the point of wanting him to suffer are two very different things. Most parents can't bring themselves to hate their children.

The old man would help Eleanor because she is his granddaughter and he loves her and she is in need. It's pretty common for people to put aside their disapproval or distaste of a family member's life style and bad choices to help for no other reason than because that person is family.

Maybe they thought they were going back to 1962, dressed accordingly and then Flynn pulled a fast one on them. Rufus looks like Bachelor Father. Wyatt is in his street clothes so he must have been a stowaway.

Last time she wrapped in Vancouver she tweeted that she would be back in about a month.

I suppose this is the episode she was crying over and carrying on about on Twitter a little while ago. Perhaps it is a network-mandated Zelena send-off.

Emma appears to be around 40 now. She looked much younger in the video footage that Jiya viewed, so she obviously aged normally during the ten years she lived in the past. The same thing may have happened to Anthony. I think he was a young pilot, perhaps one of the original pilots, who for reasons spent 20 years or so in the past before being brought back to his original time. Even though he looks much older Anthony was probably born in the same decade as the current team of time travelers. With Flynn I think maybe they are just going with him being in his early 40s and even though GV if well over 50. I noticed in recent episodes they are putting a lot of effort into making GV look younger with rejuvenating cosmetics and careful lighting.

Steady paychecks is a pretty good argument to stay on and negotiate a light filming schedule. Ginny can still do a Zootopia sequel if she wants to. The studio and show runners have been very accommodating. She can be pregnant again for most of the season and they won't mind. Right now voice acting is her best option. It's unlikely that she will be offered any more leading lady roles. Compensation is very individual and depends on one's current market value and how good one's agent is at getting the best possible deal. So no, they all don't get paid anywhere near the same.

I doubt anything at all would happen to Wyatt if he returned to Toledo in 2017. It is an easily verified fact that he was not even born in 1983. Any resemblance to the unknown suspect of a very old cold case would get written off as Wyatt just looks like someone else. That happens all the time.

It's not as easy as just avoid any place you recall visiting in the past at a specific time. There is always the risk on any of their trips that they alter their own past in ways that result in them visiting places they never visited in their original time line. They can't go back to any time period in their lifetime because they can never be sure that a younger version of themselves is not already at the time and location they go back to. Suppose Rufus never visited the Grand Canyon in his life. On one of their trips to the past, decades before Rufus is born, they change something that has the downstream result that Rufus's family takes a vacation trip to the Grand Canyon when he is a child. If a mission requires the gang to go back to the Grand Canyon and arrive the same day young Rufus and his family are there, then Rufus could run into his younger self and bad things will happen. We saw that new memories of Lucy's altered past did not flood into her mind the moment she returned to the present. She had to go home and actually see her healthy mother to realize that her past had been altered and she no longer had a sister. To go back to the above example, Rufus wouldn't necessarily know that he visited the Grand Canyon in his altered timeline without some external cue, such as seeing a souvenir snow globe on display in his mother's living room that wasn't there before.

In the flashforward teenage August was shown wrapping the bear blanket around his gun to muffle the shots as he was about to shoot his parents.

Yes. Forever kept getting better as the season progressed. Judd Hirsch and Ioan Gruffudd had great chemistry and Burn Gorman improves any show he's in.