I also picked up lots more cool bits of Ed Quinn's performance where he's, pardon the cliche, seeming kind of a shell of himself. The energy is just a little off, the voice a little sluggish, the shrugs and slightly less composed posture.

I just figured that the times Stark did not seem his usual, focussed self were due to times when he was absorbing more information from the computer. It was enough to make me wonder if the nanogeneids had taken over the computer, and if the computer had taken over Stark. At first I thought that what turned out to be Nano!Stark was Real!Stark as controlled by the big 'puter and the Nanoids. The Nano!Golems were far creepier than a Hal!Stark would have been, I think.

Also, why was anyone (I'm looking at you, Stark) blaming Fargo for the mess with the neural interface? Seriously, what kind of flaming idiot agrees to be the first human trial for a thing like that - and don't point out that Fargo had installed one on himself. Unless the point of it was that Stark's tasty, ruthless exterior truly hides a far bigger inner geek than we have yet guessed, even taking the ultra-advanced android creation into account.

ETA: the end of a sentence for the purpose of sense-making.

That would be so fucking funny if "foamy" were the new hotness for the high school set in Eureka.

And by the way, you guys have no idea how indispensible this feedback is. It goes right to the top and we all discuss it. Even the phrasing of ideas in the posts gives new insights and fleshes things out better.

We're very fancy.

Oh, speaking of heads and whatever, I just saw pictures of Gillian Anderson from that Last King of Scotland (?) movie, and not only is she a midget, her head is enormous. FYI.

GA is kinda the gold standard for industry midgets, isn't she? Well, her and Tom Cruise.

Fargo would totally use 'foamy' as an adjective.

Stark's tasty, ruthless exterior truly hides a far bigger inner geek than we have yet guessed

Heh, this is what I want to answer to be. Hell, the man build his own artificial person and bonded with it.

GA is kinda the gold standard for industry midgets, isn't she? Well, her and Tom Cruise.

Wouldn't Seth Green be in there as well? Also? Dustin Hoffman who's both shorter than Cruise and the original inspiriation for GET SHORTY.

GA is kinda the gold standard for industry midgets, isn't she?

It takes true brevity to get a tallification-box named after you.

I think Seth Green doesn't count, because he is just like, "Dude, I am short. So?" Whereas, with Scully, it was all about pretending that Mulder didn't have to crouch down to whisper in her ear.

I think Dustin Hoffman's allowed to be short onscreen too. Tom Cruise, on the other hand, is tall, like American heroes are.

You know.

Gotcha. I didn't realize the attempt at fooling was one of the defining elements.

...huh. Anyone else a little scared?

Oh boy, yeah. I think we have good ideas and criticisms, both individually and collectively. But I'm not terribly confident of how effective our suggestions would be when applied to the potential audience as a whole.

I mean, Wonderfalls was a really good show that appealed in many ways to a lot of the board posters. And it lasted four weeks, possibly because we may have made up about half its viewership.

Though I did find myself reading transcripts and thinking wistfully of all the Chiana/Jool that people didn't write.

I think people imagined the noises Jool would make and then flung their keyboards out the window in terror.

Tom Cruise, on the other hand, is tall, like American heroes are.

It's just all the hot air providing bouyancy.

It's just all the hot air providing bouyancy.

Actually, it's the engrams, but don't tell him that.