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.

Surface use?

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?

Those Previouslies went back years. I don't think we've heard the "I think Dad wants us to pick up where he left off" bit in a long while.

Oy.