Kel Varnsen

She offered Donna equity in the company, so I would assume the coders got the same thing. I kind of had to laugh at how Cameron gave her big speech about no one being the boss and everyone being equal and then Donna walked in. I really wanted to be a line after that where Cameron said something like "by the way guys this is Donna, she is the new head of hardware development and the new operations manager".

That's what I really didn't get about Joe. I mean it seemed like he was trying to make the Giant all things for all people. But in reality if he had really tried it would have been nothing. I mean that whole line in the previous episode at Comdex where he was talking about how you can use the Giant at work all day, then bring it home and play games with the kids. I mean was there really that big a market in 1983 of people who had the means to be able to do that and actually wanted to do that?

Most comedies also seem to have someone who is a complete and total man-whore who surprisingly has never contracted an STD and never gotten anyone pregnant.

I had a commodore 64 as a kid. I always wondered why it took so long after commodore disappeared, before other computer/electronics manufacturers realized that making your computer monitor and your TV she same thing was actually a smart idea. I mean the fact that you could play games or do whatever on the commodore, and then turn it off and watch TV without changing rooms seems like an awesome selling feature to me.

I wish we could have gotten some kind of an update on Bos. I mean it has been months from the time of his arrest to the time they ship the computers. I would assume he is no serving time in a federal prison for hacking the bank. Because even if old man Cardiff is happy with the results, I am not sure he could make those charges go away. Hopefully his crime was the kind of thing where the law hadn't caught up to technology and he wasn't looking at a long time in prison. As far as Gordon and the "whats next", computers back then were pretty basic. What's next would be making the Giant version 2 faster, lighter and cheaper. That said I did like how Gordon and Donna just got over their post-comdex marriage issues because they are married adults and they just got over it. Because that is totally what happens in real life. Also stoned Donna was hilarious. As far as Joe goes I really don't know what his problem was. The burning the computers and running away I guess made some sense, but it was kind of stupid. Not sure if it was more because he was in love with Cameron or because he didn't really care for the giant once it finally got made. Also what was the point of the car jacking? Was it just to have Donna reflect some more on her life? And I wasn't sure did the car jackers take her ring?

If you are going to count fake companies, then Heisler beer was drunk in tons of shows including CSI, Burn Notice, Bones, Blue Bloods, Happy Endings, My Name is Earl, Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Veronica Mars.

The Mad About You/Seinfeld is a weird one since yes Kramer rents Paul Reiser's apartment, but at the same time George and Susan from Seinfeld watch the TV show "Mad About You".

The Jon Stewart one is probably one of my favs so far (the George Wallace, Letterman and Chris Rock are up there too). The whole thing where they just went to a random residential neighborhood and walked around was great. I liked how in one shot you saw some guy just standing in his porch looking at them, probably wondering what the hell Jerry Seinfeld and some guy in a hat were doing walking by his house. Plus I love how self aware Jerry seems to be about his public personality and his career. I mean the whole thing with the budgies talking about "what's the deal with birdseed" made me laugh a lot. I also liked the bit about how he asked Jon what he was going to do in 10+ years and he talked about it for awhile. Then Jon asked Jerry if he thinks about that, and he basically said he didn't need to because he is essentially retired.

Speaking of comic book shows (and I know it is not a fall show) but I am not sure I have high hopes for Agent Carter sticking around very long. I mean I think that Agents of SHIELD barely scraped by to make it into a second season (probably because there wasn't a lot that was better). And the concept and the setting of Agent Carter seem like a much harder sell to the TV audience (kind of like AoS, but set in the 1940's the guy from Avengers isn't, Sam Jackson isn't going to be showing up and your favourite heroes aren't even going to be namedropped (except for dead captain america)). If those first few episodes aren't just amazing I am not sure what they are going to do. If they are as mediocre as most of Agents of SHIELD was then I predict it gets cancelled after season 1.

It looked to me like a random amount of white buttons gets poured onto the table. Then the person with the stick breaks them out into groups of four. After you have made all the groups of four you can I think the remainder that you have left is the winning number. So if there are 17 white buttons, the winning number would be 1. But like I said if that is the case, I am not sure how you can tie.

I would be kind of surprised to learn that a ballet dancer in Canada, even a former best ballet dancer in Canada, was paid well enough as a dancer to be set up for life. I still can't figure it out. I mean if it is a game where you are basically trying to guess a random number, how the hell can you tie? Either you guess the number or you don't.

That could actually be interesting to explore. How batman goes from basically a local guy with a cool car who fights local threats to a dude with a jet who can deal with threats world wide. A few years of planning after realizing an alien invasion could happen at any time would be a great motivator.

Similar thing for police officers. A cop can be involved in an officer-involved-shooting on an almost weekly basis, and no one will ever thing maybe it is time to move that guy to a desk job. Prisons too, people in prison can be killed on a regular basis, and no one thinks maybe it is time to shut it down at least clean house when it comes to management.

I read that spoiler somewhere else and while it seems kind of an interesting thing to explore, I would still like to see what is going on in the US for an average person after all the shit that has gone down in the last few seasons.

And I would be totally fine with those explanations, I just want them to have some kind of line or something explaining why. Especially for batman because if the dude is a big enough deal to be in the justice league then I assume he is not going to just be some dude beating up muggers in back alleys. Sure he might not want to get directly involved, but how about trying to save people when buildings are about to fall on them?

That is sort of the problem I have always with the whole new idea of movie/comic book universes. I mean if you start adding more characters, unless they are new super heroes I am going to be asking "where were they when this happened". If in this movie Batman and Wonder Woman show up I am going to be wondering where they were when an alien force invaded the earth and basically destroyed an entire city. Hopefully they will have a good explanation. Of course Marvel will have the same issue to deal with as they add new characters (where were they during the battle of NY).

I am glad they finally got rid of Brody and his family. That said, one thing I did like about them was that they were kind of a link to the real world at least a little. I hope with the coming season they still have that, because I am curious to see what the US of the show is like. I mean in the world of the show, within the last couple of years there was a suicide bombing at a park, a huge attack on the CIA HQ, an elected congressman was revealed to be a terrorist, a terrorist hit squad was gunning people down and a terrorist leader was able to enter the US undetected and kidnap a CIA officer. Any one of those things would be huge, all of them together would be crazy. The show is called Homeland and I would love to see what things are like in the US homeland after all that happened, but a big part of last season was spent in Iran and South America. For example what is it like to go through airport security in a world where that kind of thing happens?

Terminators and other killer robots always have something similar too. You will see the world through their eyes and there will be text printed in their field of vision kind of like a heads up display. Because when you are computer, the most efficient way to load information is to print it out on text then read it into your brain.

You mean it doesn't involve a computer going through finger prints one at a time and flashing all the non-matches on the screen. I no nothing about how it works, but even so that made no sense. I mean it would be like if you searched something on google if it displayed all the results that failed before you got the one you wanted. I mean with how fast computers are displaying the failures on the screen would take more time than the actual checking.

It doesn't help that when shot from behind with her shirt of with her hair and her body type Cameron looks like a teenaged boy. So the sex scene in this ep kind of creeped me out.

Also is anyone else kind of creeped out by the Joe/Cameron sex scenes? Between her hair cut and her body type she looks so much younger than him (especially this week where you saw the angle from behind her where she was up against the fence) it looks almost like he is breaking some kind of law.

I read an article about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it talked about Chris Hemsworth basically has the same issue and he doesn't really care for the diet and training regimen he has to go on everytime he has to play Thor. Considering Jackman is 15 years older than Hemsworth I can see how for him it would be even less fun.

Personally I hope they do more international stuff. I mean keeping it Canadian only makes it look like a lower rent version of the original Amazing Race (like the NFL to the CFL or the Daily Show to any one of those crappy fake news shows on CBC).

I thought this episode was interesting. Especially when Gordon and Donna were talking he mentioned she used to be as crazy as he was. I am wondering if he meant just in a typical way where she is a young hot girl from Texas away from home for the first time living in California "let's get crazy!" sort of way or if there was something more to that. It would be interesting if there was since it would finally explain to me what she saw in him. I wonder if the show and the actor would consider shaving Gordon's beard so they could do a flashback scene in the finale? The thing with the cops and Boz has me interested too. I am not sure how they can make that go away. I mean even if they sell a million computers and old man Cardiff says he wants to drop the charges, the crime was also against the bank and not him. I am not sure there is any way they could make that go away. I mean it is not like they had online banking back then. Also I looked it up and the drive from Dallas to Vegas is about 18 hours. I wonder if we will see any of the time in the car next episode?

I am ok with both teams being here. As far as being celebrities go, both teams are way less recognizable than freaking Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod! Plus I am not sure I would call a famous ballet dancer any more of a celeb then a well known business person or someone on youtube. The girls are celebrities, but I think by the nature of what they do, and the fact that they wear helmets most of the time, they wouldn't be super recognizable.