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Naomi would throw down before she let that happen though. She wants Holden and she's not Camina's bitch to order around and "take" from Holden and Camina wouldn't want her to be. It's possible for Naomi to have two partners in a poly relationship without them being in a relationship with each other. It's called a "V" relationship.

Frontiers always need pastors. And pastor's wives too, if Nono is willing. I think these last few episodes were good evidence for exactly how much the uncertain world(s) they're entering will be a place where people need the grounding that Anna has to offer.

Re: Eve's seemingly stupid behavior. This isn't a pure thriller, it's a thriller crossed with Film Noir and Villanelle is Eve's Femme Fatale. Doing stupid things in the thrall of a femme fatale is classic, it's just men doing them traditionally. Eve is far more together and not stupid than is typical for this kind of dynamic.

Interesting take! Is face blindness something that comes along with antisocial personality disorders though? I'm familiar with it as part of autism. But via a quick Google I did find people on an ASPD forum discussing their experiences of levels of face blindness, so.... huh!

re: body type. It's weird to me how people seem to have forgotten, due to the prevalence of a highly sculpted, unnatural body ideal for men, that working muscle in men doesn't look like huge, highly defined guns and washboard abs. That look is largely a mid-to-late 20th Century product of having access to specialized gym equipment that will target muscles in certain ways and enough money to afford specialized dietary regimes/protein supplements/etc. Cole and Ramse don't have any of that. But they can nonetheless be very strong. They have had to make their bodies work since they were young just to survive as few people Cole fights in 2015 have had to do, they have learned fighting as life an death and bring that level of dirty fighting and intensity to it, and Cole has the physical augmentations Jones et al gave him (adrenaline is an amazing thing) so it's really not unbelievable that he is as strong as he is. On the other hand, they do have Jennifer fit the Hollywood ideal of super skinniness even though antipsychotic drugs are known to cause weight gain, so this is another situation where a media product allowing men to have more realistic body types for their situation is combined by women characters not being allowed that. Oh, well.

I adore Katarina (aka Jones) in this episode. We only get a few minutes of her in the other reality, deprived of the machine and her obsession with changing the past, but it shows so much… I bet that once she couldn’t put all her energy and hope in the machine anymore, didn’t have anything to focus on, the weight of all the people she killed striving after futility finally hit her. And that’s what caused the suicide attempt. Which is part of her wanting Cole to know, in particular for her alternate self to tell him, that he is a sacrifice. She has enough distance to know that what the other Katarina is doing isn't right. She had to live with herself after all the distractions and justifications were stripped away. And by giving Cole the key to get the truth out of the other Katarina, she's reaching out to herself as well as him. Each time original!Katarina hits the button to splinter him she's killing him piece by piece. And he should know. I've been thinking a lot about how there's a sort of Abraham + Isaac thing about them -- Katarina leading people to her scientific alter and sacrificing them for her big ideas. But here things shift in a major way as Cole accepts that he won't just die if they succeed. If he fails he will have nothing, no life. He's choosing to give up his life. Related to that, I loved how Ramse and Katarina’s ethical discussion carried out in an AU where we get to *see* what following Ramse’s logic and trying to care for the people of the present rather than sacrifice everything to change the past looks like. And that happens even as Cole pushes him to restart the machine, end everything he's built. Which, honestly, I think Ramse did more for love of his lost friend than anything. I don’t think he’s entirely persuaded by Team End Everything. I hope not. It makes for a great ethical conflict.