FF: the 'yellowcake' turned out to be a kind of marijuana.

I found SGU watchable again this week. Carlyle really manages to take the drama up a notch and drag the rest along with him.

wrong thread!

I loved the look on Noh's face during the gunfight.

THUD

It was seriously hardcore.

And I'm definitely curious as to what particular favor President Coyote called in after the Chief's visit.

Also with ita on wishing they hadn't shown us that Coyote was president in the previews. The drama in the reveal would have been so much better.

And I'm definitely curious as to what particular favor President Coyote called in after the Chief's visit.

I assumed he made Senator Bitchy the VP in exchange for her approving the funding for Mosaic. Do we think there was more to it than that?

ION, I kind of hate the use of music in this show. They haven't broken out the "Hallelujah" yet, but it's only a matter of time.

Do we think there was more to it than that?

It's not un-possible he was responsible for the Chinese gangsters.

I went to the place that he was doing cleanup on the mistress. She gets to Puerto Rico for some reason.

I went to the place that he was doing cleanup on the mistress. She gets to Puerto Rico for some reason.

Yeah, I was between the Chinese gangsters and the mistress being sent to PR. From what little we've seen, he doesn't strike me as a particularly fair sort of guy. He's very much into defending his own self-interests by whatever means necessary. When he was telling Stanforrd that not only was he willing to get down in the mud, but that he reveled in it, I sort of read an admiring tone into his words.

But I also think, going along those lines, that he doesn't necessarily trust that Stanford will destroy the negatives as promised. After all, one time use or not, it's incredibly powerful political currency.

The Senator was totally lying when she said she saw herself as president.

Totally.

I'm telling you, I think some of the things people saw were what they were dreaming.

I'm telling you, if we don't SEE it, it's not true.

I really dislike the use of music in this show.

Heh. I think it's sort of hit-or-miss. Sometimes they do brilliant things like the Bjork last week. I have mixed feelings on the karaoke shootout. It was amusing but I'm not sure it QUITE worked as well as they wanted it to.

Also, did they KILL Janis?!? I will be displeased if that's so.

No way. Displeased! Also, she's in the main cast. They can't kill her off this early.

If President Coyote resigns within the next six months, he'd still be called "President" and would still get Secret Service protection, right? That could make the Senator/VPs flashforward claim true.

Hmmm.

Also, who was the polygraph guy at the beginning? The actor looked familiar.

He did! I think he looked like someone, but then when I got a closer look, I realized it wasn't who I thought it was.

Not at the end, when it was wheeling around in her blood

Ooooh, that's where those tracks were coming from. Nice.

Jon's scenario might work, though, since I'm not sure why she'd lie.

If enough people BELIEVE she's President in the future, they may be willing to go along with whatever needs to, uh, happen to make that possible. I think this is one of the ideas that's at the crux of the show: believing in a specific future changes your actions in the present, whether or not the future you believe in begins as a lie.

I loved the look on Noh's face during the gunfight. Everyone feels they can't die if they saw something, but I think he feels extra that he can't die because he knows precisely when he's supposed to.

Yes! I could tell he was thinking, "Fuck you all, I don't die today."

I wish they hadn't told us Coyote was President beforehand. Would have been a nice reveal.

Who told you? Was it in the previews? I didn't know, and it was a nice reveal.

My current theory is that the CIA, or some other goverment people (maybe even President Coyote who made that phone call after the FBI guy blackmailed him) sent the hitmen partly as a way of advancing the CIA theory.

Oooh. Yeah, it seemed too coincidental that the hitmen were Chinese after the finger-pointing.

Unless the CIA hired the Chinese gunmen to promote the Chinese-Did-It theory they want to promote....