Just watched the Dead Zone with the priest in it. Now that I've been told there were budget cuts to the show I can't help staring at it more intently. Week before last Sarah didn't even appear, did she? Or the sheriff.

I'm surprised narratively that Johnny didn't just call in a bomb threat. Not that it'd have worked, due to the nature of the explosion, but it is what I'd have tried.

In the priest one he's really obviously moving his hands above things until he feels enough to touch what'll give him a vision. Have we been shown that before?

Also, in the explosion episode, he gets a hit off the phone call. That definitely looks like something I'd remember--has he done that before?

I can't remember.

That was the season opener, wasn't it?

No, the recent one in the train station. He calls the husband of the woman in the wheelchair and gets a vision.

Okay, there've been two in train stations, I realise. And they were both light on the regular cast--not the noir one, but the reconnecting couples with the crossword-puzzle lady.

I think I'm starting to be bored by the show.

Oh gosh yes. THAT one. A very pointless episode - I don't remember it because I could barely watch it.

And now that they've cleared the politico of the apocalypse he comes back in as a romantic rival.

I don't even want Johnny and Sarah together, but I was irritated that he didn't say "Walt didn't want me to tell you about my visions, and that's why I made the bad choice."

Unless he really wouldn't have told her without prompting--but I don't get that idea. He just got started on a lie and was too chickenshit (but in a human manner) to back out of it later.

I would heap scorn on the exploding wheelchair, but at least I understood the plot. The noir one...I have no idea what was happening.

There was a call on the PA in this last one that mentioned Montreal. I know they're filming there, but it's been a little heavy on the Montreal references this season.

I mean, two? On a show set in the US?

Was it at the train station? Because I know that the Montrealer used to go through Vermont -- but I'm sure that there are trains that could get you from Maine to Montreal too.

Yes. I just don't know why they bother to keep mentioning it.

I'm pretty sure I've taken the Montrealer, now that I think about it--one spring break we took the train to Miami.

Don't, for the record.

Ah, no. That was the Washingtonian we took, wiki says.

No, the recent one in the train station. He calls the husband of the woman in the wheelchair and gets a vision.

It was a bus station; the friend character mentions she just spent hours up on the bus from Boston. The one before that happened on trains and in train stations. Both had no Sarah.

In the priest one he's really obviously moving his hands above things until he feels enough to touch what'll give him a vision. Have we been shown that before?

Yeah, he's done that before. He'll wander around a room touching things at random, until one triggers a vision.

So tonight's was a horse race, and I was really pleased to see Bruce back again, only they've paired him off which means they probably consider that a resolution of his storyline. Ah, budget cuts. If only you could cut Stillson, as much as I enjoy SPF. (A result of a longstanding crush on Young Indiana Jones, to be sure.)

He'll wander around a room touching things at random, until one triggers a vision.

No, that's not what I meant. He's hovering over items, not touching anything until he reaches something that will trigger a vision.

As for the bus/train thing--well, duh. I mean, I didn't take the train to Florida from Montreal. So part of my brain was being consistent, just not the part actually deciding the words to use when communicating with the outside world.

I have taken that train from Mtl to NY--just a completely different trip than the 36 hours of hell (and that many more back).

Yes, I took the train from Mtl to NYC and then another (I think) to Washington.