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  1. I think the reason adult Erin doesn’t remember those events as a child is because it probably never happened to her. Time travel, people.
  2. Regarding the timing, I understood this episode to be about 1 year after Day 0. The allusion to the vernal equinox was when apparently a lot of the surviving Michiganders (or wherever) got busy after a long horrible first winter. The store still had Christmas stuff up from the prior year, I guess.
  3. I can’t imagine a dating app without photos wouldn’t have a basic stats profile with at least age, and very likely race, occupation, income level, and other stuff. If Rebecca and Sam don’t already have some inkling of who they’re chatting with, it must be quite shallow flirting indeed. And in the end, the only issue will be the boss/employee relationship they already have. Also, I noticed Becs has another chat partner named something like “Horndogg”, so..
  4. The theme and style of the final number made me think that a second season could find them in Schmigadoon based on 70s/80s musicals. Also, I was pleasantly surprised with the absolute sincerity of this finale. The snark level was turned down to 1. It’s rare to see that shift in a TV show, I think.
  5. If I remember correctly, I feel like Garth Ennis would do that. In particular, I think there was often mentions of Sierra Nevada in the comics. I assumed it was Ennis mentioning his favorite beer. In a TV show, it's quite a different thing, though. Did this episode seem to be lacking in any humor at all?
  6. I’m also a bit skeptical about this whole necromancer class android. If the society has a technology to create not only fully functioning human-like androids, but also add to them the ability to fly, to emit what are effectively death rays, and to be impervious to harm, why aren’t there just handheld versions of these things for humans to use? It’s not clear what the androids are powered from, but clearly Mother would need a lot more power to be able to fly, and yet seems to weight the same as Father. Maybe he’s solar and she’s nuclear? If the faithful were creating the necromancers, as I think it’s implied , you’d guess they’d be starting with all the component parts already as developed tech.
  7. I got the impression that the fissures caused by the arc crashing might have released the predatory animals. Still, it’s strange that this planet clearly has animal life with giant sharp teeth, which implies predators, which implies prey, so there should be an entire food chain of animals and yet in 12 years they saw no animals whatsoever? Maybe humans would’ve been curious about this and investigated, but I can believe the androids would be too focused on the task of raising children for such second or third order concerns. What I find harder to believe though, is how they would not know about the radioactivity. I was assuming the carbos are plants that they brought with them, Maybe genetically engineered to provide food fiber and other materials. But even if they are native to the planet, It’s hard to believe they could create radioactive pits, if there was not already radioactive stuff in the soil. Maybe all the geiger counters were left on the craft that went into the hole? But wouldn’t the ambient radioactivity still be problematic?
  8. Deus ex Mike-in-a pickup truck. I guess Chekhov’s pink pen will have wait... Also: Those kids did some murders!
  9. Even as they described the device, I was thinking of Cerebro. Then they showed it. Maybe they found the set at a Fox Studios fire sale. Also, there seems to be no chemistry at all between Pat and Barbara. Prediction: the annoying kid brother is going to get control of the pink pen genie in the last minute of the season.
  10. This season has been uneven and a mixed bag, but I found this episode delightful. Paul F Tompkins FTW. Also, I just watched this right after the latest Westworld episode, and I feel like the background sci-fi dystopia is more successful here. Limone is creepy and fascinating!
  11. I have quite a few mixed feelings about this season, which I won’t go into, but I’m curious what folks think is the “Groundhog Day” relationship that the nurse character assents to in the end? Because if it’s just hanging out and being snarky with each other while he pines for his dead wife, it’s kind of sad for her. Maybe there was some nuance of chemistry between them I missed?
  12. Came here to make this same observation. Just watched the first two episodes, and while I’m impressed, I feel this sadness that this wonderfully grounded-seeming show is going to descend into a world of supernatural monsters with no rules. I hope I’m wrong.
  13. Waffles. Was Jon trying to make some power-bequeathing magic waffles? Will we get a blue Sister Night?
  14. 100% agree. I was so stoked when they did the two-year jump a a few episodes back, and I though the show was going to start accelerating, or at least be moving along at a brisk pace. But instead it's been bogged down in domestic minutia and drama that I just don't care about. Kudos to the actress playing Ed's wife, but I find the character she's playing so useless and weak, I can't summon any sympathy for her. I want more alt-history not just a the few morsels we're getting.
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