the reason that I love this show so much, and why when it drops the ball here and there it really bugs.

Eh. First season syndrome, my fingers are crossed for next!

I was just thinking, in the end, the thing that sent Carter into a sulk in the first place is still there, isn't it? He can't do his job a lot of the time because he keeps coming up against S5, either their free-pass or just that he doesn't have enough information to come to the right conclusion about what's actually going on.

love the revealed relationship between Henry and Stark, mentor and star pupil

The Jo and Taggart thing was great. I loved the crazy look they put on Taggart with the red paintball paint all over his face.

Stark's "Oh crap." was PERFECT.

I think that the pairing of Allison & Carter together was a bit heavy handed (as usual). I'd been hoping for a bit of a Beverly/Carter/Allison triangle, just to complicate things some, but that really doesn't appear to be in the cards.

Putting Fargo in with Beverly was great b/c you know that Fargo must've dreamt about a situation like this before.

There had better be a second season. I'm enjoying this show way too much.

And hey, isn't "oh crap" Carter's line? heh.

Speaking of Carter and Bev,

let's do the time warp

I never understood what the heck happened in the pilot, where one minute she's kissing him and the next he's waking up. All I can think is that he fell asleep on her like she said, which I don't buy with the way the scene ended, or that something nefarious happened that we've yet to see pay off. Was it just a bad edit? Am I glacial?

And hey, isn't "oh crap" Carter's line? heh.

Every time I hear Carter say "oh crap" it reminds me of Darien Fawkes from "The Invisible Man." (Though it is slightly different.)

All I can think is that he fell asleep on her like she said, which I don't buy with the way the scene ended, or that something nefarious happened that we've yet to see pay off.

I've always assumed she drugged him. That's why I wasn't at all surprised when she poisoned Susan #2.

My local PBS outlet was just showing Jeeves and Wooster. Seeing Hugh Laurie playing a twit after seeing him in House week after week--whoa.

I saw him play Bertie long before he was ever Dr. House.

Also, this conversation really belongs in Natter, not here.

See, with the hair and the scruffy, it's almost like a different actor for me. The two shows, together, though, really really want Fry and Laurie to play Aziraphale and Crowley.

And to be glad that House plays piano.

eta: Yeah, I was wondering about the genre-ness.

I enjoyed the episode, and glad they went to a different AI for the killing of red-shirt pizza man. That's one thingy I'm always leary of with AI-gone-bad stories is that the characters always fix the computer and then seem to forget about the fact it went wonky and killed people.

Also, the entire ep, I was waiting for someone to comment on Carter's b.o.

Especially when Carter and Allison hug. I was expecting her to either scrunch her nose up, or else ask "Why do you smell like vanilla?"

Okay, I didn't get the Zuul reference when I read the ep. but loved that someone else got it. It made me very very happy to remember it.

Yeah, and beer and coco yums is gross. It makes you pretty distended feeling after a while.

Hammy music. Agree. As always.

it actually wasn't Fargo who came down the ladder at the end - it was just some guy - but Fargo would have been a much better idea.

And we loved the beer move when we came up with it on the day. (Moving the beer away from Carter when he starts to be an idiot) We tried to create a better out for the scene because there was no reason for me to be that obtuse, and then it came off laughing about maybe he was drunk. But we loved it.

And I'm praying that 1rst season syndrome clears up too. We hate the inconsistencies as well. We were SO hand to mouth on scripts that inconsistencies were the "little" battles. And I knew we'd never win a battle trying to slow the Ja-llison trash compactor, so it was just trying to take the sting off stuff.

We will try to fix. We will try. Loved the Stark Henry scene.

!!Vanilla line would have been great!!