Sepinwall put it really well:

He's worked so hard and so fast proving he was the smartest kid in the room that he's only now coming to realize he should have slowed down to ask "Should I do this?" before he asked "Can I do this?"

I don't like Adelle's new haircut. It makes her look far less scary-authority person and too vulnerable. Topher, OTOH, suddenly pinging me as super hot. Maybe it's the tight tshirt?

Topher, OTOH, suddenly pinging me as super hot. Maybe it's the tight tshirt?

or the conscience?

Biceps and a conscience can be a powerful combo.

Biceps and a conscience can be a powerful combo.

...that actually summarises a rather wide swathe of the fictional men I go thunk over.

considers

Well, no - there are also funny and the geeky. But the biceps-and-conscience crowd are certainly scrumptious.

This opening ep is sounding v. positive! Yay!

(Seska, I don't know about Law and Order: UK - from what I remember, they basically invented an AU Justice System, since our own doesn't mesh with the way things work in the US, upon which the structure of the show hinges, so...possibly not worth watching if you're mostly TV-avoidant? But, fwiw, I have a real soft spot for the Horatio Hornblower series, in which you can admire Jamie Bamber playing Hornblower's adorably puppyish, heroic (and epileptic) BFF Archie, who, other than possessing (secret) biceps and a conscience, is pretty much the anti-Apollo.

But YFondnessforswashbucklingperiodpiecesMV.

I don't like Adelle's new haircut. It makes her look far less scary-authority person and too vulnerable.

I don't like it either. The long hair was sexier. And the stuff you said too.

I don't like Adelle's new haircut. It makes her look far less scary-authority person and too vulnerable.

Is that maybe the point? After Epitaph One, I think we're meant to be moving towards sympathising with her. This is going to take some hardcore writing to effect, of course. She doesn't seem to have a single sympathetic character trait at the moment.

so...possibly not worth watching if you're mostly TV-avoidant? But, fwiw, I have a real soft spot for the Horatio Hornblower series, in which you can admire Jamie Bamber playing Hornblower's adorably puppyish, heroic (and epileptic) BFF Archie, who, other than possessing (secret) biceps and a conscience, is pretty much the anti-Apollo.

UK TV-avoidant, that is. I love me some American TV. Hmm, maybe I'll see if I can find the Hornblower thing sometime. Bamber is a pretty pretty boy.

Snippet of Bamber being British in Hornblower for Seska.

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Thanks, Fay! (Looks like he's good in that. But it doesn't appear to have aliens, time travel, spaceships or vampires in it, so I'm not likely to love it. Well, unless I missed something in the background, or another episode features the famous late eighteenth-century attempted invasion of Bristol by Martians.)

I think we're meant to be moving towards sympathising with her. This is going to take some hardcore writing to effect, of course. She doesn't seem to have a single sympathetic character trait at the moment.

Yeah, I definitely think she's being written more sympathetically, especially with the line about the Dollhouse helping Rossum's "important research." We're meant to believe she really does have the best intentions.