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Why all the hate for Izzy? She is by far, without any doubt, no question about it, absolutely my favorite character in this show. I immediately felt that way in the first episode and still do after five episodes.

Ironically, at the time NatGeo made this show, they were owned by FOX. They did not blame the Anthrax outbreak on climate change directly. They specifically said the outbreak was caused by forest fires (which of course could be blamed on climate change) which thawed out the deer carcasses, releasing the Anthrax. Then, they went on to say future warming of the Arctic could release more pathogens.

And a strong British accent. It's like when I first found out Jamie Bamber, who played Apollo on the Battlestar Galactica revival, was British. I heard an interview with him, and couldn't believe someone with such a heavy British accent could just "get rid of it" like that. That always amazes me.

Here's my wild-ass spoiler prediction -- that cheerleader is the Malibu's coaches' daughter. He seems scummy enough to be willing to pimp out his own daughter in order to win and get back at Beverly Hill's coach. But he was killed by a rival gang (the one's associated with the dead gangster outside the barber shop), not by his own gang.

But hysterical!

He had a modest career in the NFL (where he played linebacker). He went to Oregon for college and then was undrafted. The NY Giants signed him as a free agent where he played four years and won Super Bowl XLVI. After that, he signed with Miami for what looks like two years. Then, he signed briefly with the NY Jets (preseason only) and Carolina (last month of the 2017 season) before being cut each time.

Everyone in this show has miraculous healing abilities!

Isabella didn't screw that up. She pulled the trigger when it was pointed at Cortez's chest. It wasn't loaded. That whole scene was a setup by Cortez as a test.

The Wall of Crazy is the evidence.

Ronaldo would be proud. :-)

Yes. She got into the second car with the COS. The second car took the brunt of the blast.

Being Laura is pretty darn smart, I thought she was going to answer, "Anatole" and then see if chaos erupted if Stanley had obeyed her instead of Anatole... But, the whole point of that scene was to get into the true nature of people in general and what happens when a good person is backed into a corner, forced to go against all that they believe in. And how that affected Laura. The last scene was devastating to watch as Laura walked down the middle of the street a completely, totally broken person. How does someone like her recover from that? Katherine Parkinson's acting the past two episodes has been superb.

This is the way I read this. The synth part of his brain died when he was stabbed. Nothing was necessarily removed (though, I suppose they could have done that to try and heal him, but I don't think it's important to the plot line, just that it "died" somehow). Then, his human brain was able to heal and "fill in" what went missing when his synth brain died. The part I have trouble with is physically, after being in a coma for a year, you are not going to be able to walk around as if everything is fine. Your muscles would have completely atrophied. (Toby did kind of hint at this, as if the writers acknowledged the absurdity of it with an inside joke...) But, TV is always known for medical miracles... (I love when people suffer a gut shot, one of the most devastating ways to get shot when you survive and they are out of the hospital and just fine in a week.)

I would also add that Niska in the Season 2 finale came to the rescue of the Hawkings family, even though initially she was going to go her own way. Niska appears to be more human than some humans -- having the ability to differentiate between good and bad people and prove loyal to those who are nice to her but fight those who are bad to her. In other words, she judges each person (and synth) individually, and not group people/synths into a "race" for general discrimination purposes.

As is "The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc." :-)

Just started watching season 3. And wow, did this show take a very dark turn. It’s not exactly what I "signed up for."

And remembering my lessons from HS Bio, there are -- like you state -- certain genetic traits which don't follow the classic hereditary 2x2 grid chart. Eye color and hair color are two of them. It's a lot more complicated for those traits. (Then, of course, you have the sex gene traits, like color blindness, which I have, which drop one of those squares in the 2x2 grid chart.)

That makes me think about what my sister, who was adopted at six months, has on her birth certificate. She actually found her biological mother (biological father was deceased), and it took her some detective work to do it, so obviously her biological mom's name is not on her birth certificate. STOP! I can't stop laughing at work now. Curse you...

The word "cop" is an old British word meaning "copper" as in "someone who captures" (and not short for the copper in the badges like many believe). It comes from the Latin derivative "capere." "Cop" first appeared in the British Oxford Dictionary in 1704. [And yes, I looked some of this up. I'm not that smart... :-) ]

My wife brought up a very interesting point at the end of the episode. This team can’t do undercover work anymore. The Iranians (and the French for that matter) now have photos of them and presumably will be passing them around. It was becoming obvious he was wearing the red shirt early in the previous episode.

I once saw a documentary on the history of special forces in the U.S. military. Essentially, the formal special forces we have now in America came out of WWII. The documentary mentioned how special forces were monitoring Japanese troops on one of the islands they conquered. At one point, a Japanese soldier needed to relive himself, so he broke away from this unit marching down a road. He went to the side of the road to do his business into a bush. Unbeknownst to him, behind the bush was an American special forces soldier hiding out. The Japanese soldier ended up peeing right on the American without ever knowing it. The American remained completely still and hidden despite this indignation. It's amazing what special forces guys are trained to do...

I suspect it's for the reason you stated earlier -- safety. As for the Spetsnaz, for the elite of the elite in Russia, they seemed a bit incompetent. Yeah, I get the hero/villain dynamic TV loves to display (and I'm not complaining about them not seeing the Americans in the grass, that's actually believable), but for a elite team to not be able to track and then actually hit their target at least once, has me scratching my head. And why wouldn't they have their people in the back of that truck to protect the drone? Armored bank trucks figured that out a long time ago. And the truck with the drone would not be the last truck in the convey, enabling anyone to just jump on the back and go in. Don't get me wrong, I like this show, and I understand it's not going to be all realistic (maybe not at all to those with special forces experience), but at least pretend or fool me so I don't think about this stuff. :-) Why would the Mongolians speak Kazakh? I honestly don't know, which is why I'm asking.

If I were a high level US Official, I would be greatly concerned that the team handed this drone tech over to the Chinese. The Russians already know about it since it is theirs. So, who cares if they get to keep it once the US got the sample they wanted. But why let the Chinese now develop a similar drone and defense to it? IMO, the Chinese have done a better job high teching their military than the Russians lately and the Chinese are (in)famous for stealing technology from other countries. The last thing you want is to give them an assistance.

Aren't they technically called "corpsmen"? NCIS did an episode on them.

The Super Bowl is on NBC this year. The Winter Olympics are now two full weeks long going over three weekends. Has been that way for a little while now.