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Captanne & toddthomas: I also enjoyed that episode, for the reasons you both cite, particularly the wonderful pacing/sequencing you both bring up but it also had NLH & CarrieAna being badass whilst fighting off Rabbit's woman. It showed that - as Captanne mentions - the creative team are willing to take that risk, and well capable of delivering on it.

I chalk this up to a tight continuity team. It reminds me of Leverage where Eliot wasn't healed immediately after his fights. Also how NLH and Eliot sometimes respond with the "Oh, come on, are you kidding me?!" when they have more people to fight through.

Ryan White, too, even though it was a few years later. Hudson was Hollywood. White brought the disease to "the heartland". No need to apologize. I found that much of the meanness was tied up with the ignorance. People who were inclined to be closed-minded were inclined to ignorance (obviously) and to meanness.

Christian Kane took this already really well written character and made him even more well-rounded. He (Kane) was good as Lindsey in Angel, but - and no offence to the Whedon intended here - I think Eliot was more nuanced. I particularly liked how much of his emotion was 'show, not tell'. Three examples: when Hardison is rescued from the grave, Eliot's hug was all at once relief, joy and a little anger at the bad, bad family that buried Alec; when he heard that Sophie'd been taking his lessons in combat to heart, his pride was so apparent; when he was being interrogated in the Experiment Job you could see all his gears turning.

Thanks Captanne. I did catch some of the origins/prequels. They do round out some of the characters. Having just watched the last two eps of S2, I must say that I like Job even more.

‘Fargo,’ ‘Masters of Sex,’ ‘Broad City,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ Score as Critics’ Choice TV Noms Embrace Newcomers. From the article:

LADreamr, I just now had a chance to read your post fully and your relationship with AIDS sounds very much like my own. I did a bunch of volunteering with AIDS-related groups in the late 80s; I chalk up my decision to do so directly to having seen this play ('87 or '88) during secondary school. When I came back from secondary school (I was in school in Ireland; my immediate family was in NYC), to New York it was just natural to me that I would take the emotions I felt while watching the play and turn them into action. I especially agree with the snippets below. I recall the mosquito question. Did you encounter the "can I get it through sweat?" question. Imagine if Reagan mentioned "AIDS" publicly just a few years earlier; imagine how many may have been saved. I know it was 'cause he was "dancing with the one who brung" him, but I've always wondered if he was aware of how much his former Hollywood colleagues were to be affected by AIDS.

From Tara's write up: So, so true. As previously mentioned, I'd be very surprised if there aren't at least 5 Emmy nominations from this (overall movie, Ruffalo, Bomer, Parsons, Roberts, perhaps Kitsch). Bomer's acting was amazing, even before the 'ugly the actor up for the award' turn. And walnutqueen, I also noted the irony of the 'polio's gone' comment.

Captanne - only b/c I'm a lazy layabout: do you happen to have links to those web extras? (What's the official twitter account?) Also -do we know Rabbit's real name and how became known as Rabbit? On another topic - sometimes Anthony Starr distracts me b/c of his resemblance to Chris O'Donnell. Edited to note: holy stuff on a stick, but I love this show! The big moments like the fights are great and the small moments (when the BSD is about to raid Proctors strip club, the banter b/w Siobhan and Brock is funny) are great.

I read somewhere that they're to appear in the last 4 episodes. I'm not sure if that's where we are now, or if there is another episode or two before the last 4 air,

I've recently mainlined season 1 and am about to do so on S2. Some questions: 1) Are we ever told what Hood's real name is? (I don't recall hearing it through S1 and the first two eps of S2, but I did miss the first 15 minutes of S1 E1.) 2) Are we ever told what Rabbit's real name is and why he's called Rabbit? Captanne, I'm with you on the really liking the show, but being at a loss as to why. Everything is so fantastical on it. And so much relies on chance. Has nobody (how about the longest serving deputy) thought to run Hood's prints? Would Job have been able to fix that? Also - love Job.

That portrait in her attic does wonders.

From The Huffington Post: The Major Problem With 'Law & Order: SVU' This Season

Are Benson and Mayhem still a thing? When Benson and Finn were leaving Ellie in the half-way house, I asked them (loudly enough that my cat wondered if I was yelling at him) whether they'd learned nothing from 100 years of that going pear shaped. My prediction? The person everyone is so afraid of? The one that has Tino so scared he's copping to "green-lighting" (is that what they said? what is it anyway?) Ellie? It's his mother.

D. That Lester - a prisoner - wasn't restrained. Oh, and there's this recent story about fish-rain: Fish rain down on Sri Lanka village, from earlier this month.

And a political operative as 'brilliant' as Eli would know this too.

If you're referring to each character being a talented musician (however deeply talented or not): Hodge is trained in the violin & Kane does have a side career as a country musician. So, I think in each case the writers decided to use the actors' side talents to allow the characters to do whatever was needed for each episode.

The Americans Should Let The Russians Win. That's from "The Concourse" which is part of the Gawker empire.

Clark is the Greek Chorus of the show.

Almost 100 years ago, I worked for a bank (at the branch level); we had a (retail, individual) client that was such a total jerkwad - he'd made at least three tellers cry and was just all around unpleasant - that the branch manager made the executive decision to cut him a bank check for his entire balance (app $200k) and tell him to take his business elsewhere. She had the blessing of the regional manager to do so. So, 'firing' of clients happens in various types of companies.

Person Of Interest's Creators Had To Fight For The Show To Include A.I. Person Of Interest: The Complete Unedited Interview Both from io9

I hope that Team Machine are wise enough to tell Fusco that he needs to keep his eyes open.

I would like to know why Hetty's having Nell get her a flight to DC. Aren't there administrative folks for that? Unless Nell was to go off and have the admin staff take care of the flight and not make the arrangements herself.

Terry Crewes showing up would be proof of a higher power.

Interesting to see Alex Saxon (Wyatt) as Chloe, a transgender sort-of-hustler on Ray Donovan. I'm glad that someone saw the potential of the pretty face being 'feminized'. He did a really good job with the role too. It's a pity my free-view weekend is over; I can't see if we meet her again.