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Distraction. Weirdness makes people uncomfortable and they'd focus more on the oddity than anything else. It's like in a magic trick, you get everyone looking at one hand while you do the trick with the other and so they don't notice how you make the coin disappear or whatever.

That blood is still on Alycia's hands. ReSyst was the one holding a nuclear weapon to the world's collective head in this case specifically NY. Darius not caving in to their ridiculous outrageous demands which even if he had, they clearly had no intention of removing the Nukes. Maybe they'd take them off NY today but tomorrow they'd just be pointing them somewhere else and it would continue, threatening to destroy a city full of millions of people. Alycia's words and actions to Liam showed that, she admitted that. They had no intention of ever getting rid of the nuke, no matter whether they got they wanted or not. Because they were just going to keep using it as a threat to keep getting more and more, basically "we want to take over the world...muwahahahaha!!" The only people whose fault it is people were fleeing NYC, and thus possibly injured, is ReSyst's. Not anyone else's. I would assume the armed guards left with Alycia, she was still their "boss" being ReSyst's man on the spot so to speak. I'm also not sure how Grace and Darius having a "good moment" is "happily ever after". How is that forced?

It would be nice for Jillian to show some spirity, cause Guru is the sort of guy who needs to be stabbed. LOL (Nothing against Luke he was very good in Black Sails but Long John Siliver was a liar too :)) Yeah I know I guessed right away about Darius but actually when I saw the whole costume in motion, I was really impressed. If I didn't already know I think I might have been fooled.

Actually I hadn't thought about Russia, but that does also supports the theory that Darius has some experience when it comes to disguises. Those were fairly flimsy but they were very short on time and in a foreign country. Plus we don't know how long Raul Aguirre has been his avatar - if he created/took over this identity years ago, possibly just as a lark, then he may already have had a disguise set up and an apartment to use, to take a photo when a new scientific paper was released or something--where he would have kept his "Aguirre" stuff. And even if not, he's on his home turf, it wouldn't be that hard for him to get a fake disguise together that would look decent on a webcam and then he could perfect it for the actual physical meeting afterwards.

Santiago and Ian need to do a buddy cop movie. They are great together.

Pedro Cervantes has like 4 credits spread out between 2012 and 2016 and they only added it after people started commenting on how their was no actor listed for the character. I'm still suspicious esp because I can't find any pictures of this Pedro Cervantes either. I think it still could be a place holder name.

No sorry that was a badly written couple of sentences. I remember his hands shaking in an episode THIS season(can't remember which one) but it was before I'd watched the last couple of episodes from LAST season. I had missed them and just hadn't gotten around to watching them until a few days ago. So when I saw it in the Season 2 episode I didn't know about the Huntington's yet and didn't realize it could have been some sort of hint about that - so for me at the time it was more like a "hmm...that's interesting, wonder what this means" sort of a moment.

I do remember his hands shaking in an episode. It was actually before I'd watched the final episode of last season(I started watching last season but didn't see the last couple episodes until a couple days ago) so I didn't know why but I remember the shaking hands in a scene because I was like "what is that about?" Also it's possible he really was asymptomatic at the time he spoke with Grace about it and the symptoms only just started showing up, if stress affects it at all - he's certainly been under a lot of stress.

Anyone might have? It might be public knowledge even. What makes you think they don't know what scientists showed up - the scientists, if they were foreign, had to enter the United States, thus leaving a record of their entrance into the country. If they were American, I'm pretty sure they would have had someone watching the Tanz compound to see who showed us at the front gate(or whatever the equivalent entrance to the campus). So I'm feel fairly certain they know who all the scientists who showed up are. (or the idea that Llewela mentioned, maybe Raul Aguirre has always been an avatar for Darius - I had thought of that but then thought Well that's maybe a little too far out, but now that someone else has mentioned it, I don't feel like it's so far out of the realm of possibility LOL) As for cooperating with Liam - Darius seemed willing at first, not happy, but willing then Alycia put the kibosh on that by being completely unreasonable(and yes IMO as long as those nukes are used as a threat, it's being unreasonable). As long as those Nukes are in play I can't blame anyone for not being willing to cooperate with ReSyst and Liam is part of ReSyst, if he'd really wanted that cooperation he wouldn't have told ReSyst about the probability that the railgun test was really an opportunity to destroy the nukes, the nukes Liam claims to not like. I mean Liam is literally a terrorist right now, he very willingly and happily joined ReSyst, who are holding the world hostage with their nuclear warheads by threatening to use them every time they don't get what they want - that is pretty much the definition of "terrorist". He may not be personally doing the threatening but he's an official member of the organization, he's helping them. I don't think he's a bad guy, obviously they've shown the complex issues involved but none the less, it is what it is. He's a member of a terrorist organization and he's has now actively and willingly helped them to continue to have the ability to threaten the world with nuclear weapons. It actually was not unreasonable to throw him in jail when he showed up at the White House, however irrational Darius may have been acting - THAT particular action was not irrational or unreasonable. If anything it's unrealistic Liam wasn't arrested when he showed up at the gates. Darius at that point has more reasonable reason to distrust Liam than Liam did to distrust Darius and decide it would be a good idea to join a terrorist organization because of it. Darius was rude and dismissive of Liam when he left ReSyst the first time - Liam on the other hand, because of that, joined a group that has used violence, almost caused a war and uses threats of nuclear destruction to get their way. And on a personal level, they stole basically Darius' life.

LOL Hey I didn't need him not being listed in IMDB to guess, if that is Santiago Cabrera, it was the eyes that gave it away. ;) But seriously you are right, why not just list a fake actor on IMDB? As for how Darius knew they were looking for him, maybe it was an educated guess. Raul is the one guy who did not show up to ReSyst's little Scientists Hostage Camp, and he's apparently considered THE big expert in his field. So he guessed they'd be happy to hear from Mr Aguirre and being an old dude who has been off the grid for years anyway aside from publishing scientific papers now and again I suppose - he could say "he really didn't know about any of this" until he got back from a solo spiritual retreat in the back country of....whatever for the last six months with no technology or contact with the outside world as he was considering his next big scientific advancement. *or good suggestion from JasmineFlower, maybe it's Croft because Liam just seems to be thinking with...well something other than his brain lately. I did think it was a bit much Grace and the detective almost getting it on - seriously these people switch partners like other people change socks. But then again I've wondered a bit about her since she came out of the bunker and one of the first things she did was whine about how Darius wasn't paying enough attention to her - it's not like he hadn't been unexpectedly made vice president of the United States and was expected to come up with an idea to save the world all at the same time. What exactly did she expect? You'd think SHE'D have been pretty busy herself. But in general some of the way people react to things is a bit weird - why would they just dismiss the idea that ReSyst could be behind the assassination? Sure they said they looked into it and I'm sure they did and they may well not be involved - but they were dismissive of the idea from the start? And I mean why are they uninterested in general in taking ReSyst out? This is a terrorist organization with a gun to the world's head and it's not like most of these people are actually doing anything with regards to stopping the asteroid, so they SHOULD be trying to stop ReSyst but it doesn't seem like anyone is working on that. And the thing is Grace knows about Darius' disease, at the very least you'd think she'd be concerned this may be symptomatic of that and not necessarily something he can control, rather than immediately moving to anger and you are a big old MEANIE!!- it wasn't that long ago she was thinking she was in love with him. Seriously they all jumped ship on him in the blink of an eye, considering he's only in that position because other people pushed him into that position. At the very least considering what the country has been through so far, you'd think they'd have tried to make concerted effort to have a joint intervention or something before individually throwing down the "I'm resigning!!!" cards if for no other reason than to not have yet another constitutional crisis. I mean I get it, Darius can be a big ass!@#! but really none of them are showing themselves to be any better.

Maybe its a chance to show Tanz being a genius(as someone pointed out in another thread, aside from the drone a lot of what we get to see him doing is delegating), if he has some plan to do on his own without what we'd consider his usual toys, then ReSyst's cries of fraud are less convincing. Poor Liam was whacked with the plot stupid stick hard this episode.

Oh wow, that was a good guess.

Yes re: Liam. I was thinking the same thing - why in the heck would Liam tell them about the plan to take the Nukes out? He claims he WANTS the nukes gone yet he informs them that they are going to be destroyed? If he'd been smart, he'd have kept his mouth shut, let the nuke get destroyed and then they, at least the other scientists, could all join a concerted, not hostage-like effort to solve this problem. Darius appeared willing to consider combining the rail gun and the solar sail. IMO as long as ReSyst has those nuclear weapons pointed at the world, anything else they claim they want to do is a moot point - anyone who doesn't want to work with them is perfectly reasonable for refusing. Darius is up to something though(as I said I think there was something fishy re: Raul who may not be Raul showing up when and how he did contacting Alycia)

Nobody has mentioned this yet so did anyone else notice Raul what's his name who showed up at the end contacting Alycia looked a lot like Darius in old make up, or was that just me? I actually don't really get what ReSyst's aim is? If they blow a city up - no one is going to look to them as saviors even if the scientists they basically kidnapped DO save the world from the asteroid(if the asteroid doesn't actually hit, then for a lot of people it won't really have been "real" whereas blowing up millions of people would have been very real. Not to mention the fall out affecting all manner of life not just wherever the bomb was dropped but for thousands of miles around it and even around the world ). Most people will hate them, they will always have to rule based on fear.

Yeah I liked it too, I thought this season was an improvement over last season, seemed more focused and the characters just gelled better with each other.

Yes to all this. There is nothing more annoying that those soap opera tropes(people overhearing, or worse people overhearing only part of a conversation, jumping to conclusions and leaving before said conversation is over, not keeping an obvious villain on a short enough leash, etc, etc). And yeah more Toby Stephens, the man's an amazing actor, don't waste him. :)

Yeah I honestly don't see the point in making them a romantic couple. Why is that even necessary? It actually gives them less to write about. Just take them off the table as a romantic couple and it opens tons of writing possibilities. They should definitely be focusing more on the celestial and more on Lucifer being the damn devil for goodness sake. :) They could get rid of Chloe entirely or just leave her as "one of the gang", a friend who doesn't have to be in every episode. Honestly I like Dan more than Chloe, I like Dan's interactions with Lucifer more than Chloe's. And if as someone suggested it's about making a Lucifer an Earthbound advocate for humanity, well, it should be about loving humanity, not just because he fell in love with one very very dull girl. He's met lots of humans now, some of them he seems to really care about(like Linda). Chloe has fulfilled her purpose - she isn't needed anymore.

That's probably why it was Charlotte, they knew half the audience would be going "wait, really? Finally!" if it was Chloe. :D It would kind of lessen the effect they were going for.

Nah it's the same thing, because it still showed the butterfly effect, in effect, change one thing and other things change after it, but either way Dean's dealt with it before he knows what it is.

I think they just don't know what style to go with so they go with the blandest almost 70's style side part they can. No one looks their best with that hair. I think it would work OK if they gave it a bit of a mussed up look or cut it a little shorter and made it a little spiky in the front. But otherwise I really haven't noticed anything wrong with it.

I definitely like Penny best out of the Robinson kids.

Those are great. I can't pick a favorite.

LOL that's some laugh. :)

LOL Oh my goodness those were priceless. The kids were cute. He and Josh really made great promo partners.

I don't find John and Sarah to lack chemistry, I think they have a lot of chemistry, otherwise I wouldn't want to them to get together. LOL I'm not a shipper by habit(meaning I'm not one of those people who just always needs to have a 'ship and always finds one, more often than not I don't want one) I'm not sure what do people expect for them to be acting like they want to rip each other's clothes off every time they meet? I'm just unsure what is being looked for in terms of chemistry? They have their disagreements but they are often very charming together which IMO is a better indicator of whether relationship might work and be happy and loving long term than "I'm undressing you with my eyes every time we're in the same room". And there isn't a lack of physical chemistry, it's just respectful.