Nah, this season has been mostly on par with the last. Same flaws. I thought last night's episode was the best one of the season.

I'm barely interested in what’s happening. My wife thinks this is the biggest drop in quality between seasons she has ever seen.

We'll see how it goes, but at this point I really, really wish Season 2 got rid of the time jumps.

I am not 1000% sure, but if I remember correctly, the guns were programmed to shoot low-velocity pellets instead of bullets (sort of like paintball guns), and hosts were programmed to "feel" them like regular bullets. They either started loading real bullets or got rid of the programming once the revolution started.

If you're scratching your head wondering how the same sort of failsafes could be in place for the motherfucking swords in Shogun World, you're not alone.

I hadn't even gotten around to thinking about Shogun World (I suppose it just worked like a programming command line, do not slice guest, since there's not really the accidental stray bullet problem). But yeah, okay, that's basically what I remember too--so then where would they get the bullets from? Where's the "Dolores discovers an arms dealer warehouse" scene?

With Ford-in-the-Machine, they can throw in 2 lines of dialogue that explains all of this stuff. They actually already started that this week with the stuff about the Cradle sending out messages to the park--Matrix Ford is making sure the guns behave like real guns now, or he sent Dolores a message about where to find live ammo. They can now change the rules of the show on the fly (which they've already done a few times anyway) and that makes it tough to be compelling.

Agree with this 1000 times over. The time jumps at least served a narrative function in Season One, even if they were at times purposefully obfuscatory (because we're living in endless loops, just like the hosts, right?). But now they're just gratuitous, and they're bordering on nonsensical--like the start of last week's episode, where Dolores is actually controlling Bernard. Obviously that's meant to be a jump backwards, since it's pre-Malcolm X Dolores, but then that doesn't really make sense since she's aware of her consciousness here--unless she gained her consciousness and then lost it before the start of S1?

Overall, though, I think I agree with ST. When it gets to Sunday, I'm never really excited to watch this show, but by about five minutes into each episode I'm *interested*. So I'll keep on until that stops.

This show would be so much better if the episodes were like 40-45 minutes instead of an hour.

The best thing about this show is the theme song. Every time I hear it, it's stuck in my head for days. What a melody.

its great, but not better than Ed Harris

His character is good but he'll come down a peg when we all find out he's a host.

His character is good but he'll come down a peg when we all find out he's a host.