Like you said, lots of people are better at computer hacking than Sam. If they weren't, we never would have been introduced to Charlie, and Sam would have hacked Dick Roman's computer or whatever.
But I do think, as much as I love Charlie (and Robbie Thompson), Robbie Thompson is a little too in love with her. There's a bit of Frankenstein's monster adoration there, or something.
There's plenty of room to criticize Thompson for the special snowflake-ness of Charlie (not so much this episode, but in previous ones). But I still tend to enjoy those episodes, and when I see his name I can at least reassure myself that there won't be reapers moonlighting as mercenary thugs from Phillip Marlowe novels or people fucking their pets.
Oh, exactly, Matt. If a writer's going to have flaws, I much prefer his. And I love Charlie! If it's a Mary Sue I like, then I don't really care.
Since she was introduced, I think this is the tamest the writer-crush on her has been.
I hope Show got good money for their Surface use. It is one of the more subtle I've seen (check Vampire Diaries for the opposite of that word), which makes me think not.
The Microsoft Surface (see what I mean about subtle?). It's the device Charlie hooks up to Ye Olde Time Computere to download and decrypt the files.
I adore Charlie, but also think of her as the straight male fantasy of what it would be like to be a hot geek lesbian. Does she strike anyone else that way?
I am obviously the wrong person to judge, but I didn't think so. She struck me as more adorable than hot--but Felicia Day has never been attractive to me, not with that haircut. There's also nothing that codes gay (and what do I know about that?) for me in her appearance. Geek, yes.
Sometimes I find myself thinking that the new semi-permanent cast are too quirky, and then I remember Ash.
I have thoughts and questions about coding as gay, and how that is relevant or necessary on TV specifically, but am too tired to voice them properly. And may idicate that I need some schooling.
Do you feel Kevin, Crowley Jody, and Abaddon are quirky, or is it Garth residue and Charlie breaking the camel's back?