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It still has super powers, and plot nonsense that gets invented in every episode.

It’s safe and boring, though the lead actor’s acting is great for sulky feely-feel moments.

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s03e01 – 2014-03-16 – Minute by Minute ∞

Spoiler

• 21:00 — How has she even recovered from her previous battle with supersoldier?

s03e02 – 2014-03-23 – Minute Man ∞

Spoiler

• 0:30 — I recognize him.
• 8:00 — She could have leveraged that body to “die”.

• 35:45 —

  • Little Orphan Annie – (1924 comic book)
  • Anne of Green Gables – (1908 book), by Lucy Maud Montgomery

s03e03 – 2014-03-30 – Minute to Win It ∞

Spoiler

• 3:00 — Siamese fighting fish
• 5:00 — Nineteen Eighty-Four – (1949 book), by George Orwell
• 6:45 — Sushi
• 11:30 — Those are rather specific suicide vests.
• 15:30 — Oh, there’s an explanation..
• 16:45 — Mind meld (from Star Trek – (1966 show)[doesn’t exist])
• 18:30 — His little voice is a play off of one of the Star Wars movies – see Star Wars – (1977 movie)
• 20:00 — Hard drives don’t need batteries. That’s the fucking point.
• 33:15 — That’s not cover.
• 38:00 — Casual misandry.

s03e04 – 2014-04-06 – Minute Changes ∞

Spoiler

• 1:15 — Oh, children, and females at that. We should feel special feelings because feelings. Emotional manipulation like this bothers me.
• 5:30 — No, they’re not kids they’re adults. They’re perfectly able to make, and are making, adult decisions. Decisions to support and be terrorists.
• 11:00 — Apologetics. He’s a terrorist sympathiser.
• 11:15 — What’s that, publishing a pro-ISIS cartoon would be a bad idea? How about pro-Nazi? Pro-Mao? Pick your poison.
• 16:00 — Kirk, Picard, Geordi are references to characters in Star Trek – (1966 show)[doesn’t exist] and Star Trek – The Next Generation – (1987 show)
• 22:15 — Are they going to play the “poor minority” angle?

• 28:15 —

  • Robert Peel
  • Metropolitan Police Act 1829
• 30:30 — Wait, doesn’t she have a second suit now?
• 40:30 — Marty McFly is the lead character in Back to the Future – (1985 movie)
• 42:45 — Yes, I mind, take that shirt off right now.

s03e05 – 2014-04-13 – 30 Minutes to Air ∞

Spoiler

• 6:00 — Walmart
• 14:45 — The seven dwarves is from Snow White – (fairy tale)
• 15:15 — Patriarchy
• 40:15 — Patty Hearst

s03e06 – 2014-04-27 – Wasted Minute ∞

Spoiler

• 4:15 — Rod Serling
• 8:45 — Darknet
• 22:00 — Shouldn’t they all have gas masks?
• 25:45 — He’s not wearing a good suit.
• 27:15 — So his driver can hear everything he’s been saying?
• 27:45 — Oh, it’s just like today’s Twitter, allowing terrorists to chill out and cause mayhem.
• 28:30 — There’s no way he could knock someone out with that, it’s not an IBM Model M keyboard.
• 33:15 — Bizarro World

s03e07 – 2014-05-04 – Waning Minutes ∞

Spoiler

• 3:00 — Armour piercing, but it’s dinging off of the corner of her cover.
• 16:15 — I can’t identify that book from the glance at the cover.
• 29:15 — Oh, that’s a mugshot of Theseus.

s03e08 – 2014-05-11 – So Do Our Minutes Hasten ∞

Spoiler

• 26:00 — United States Navy SEALs
• 30:30 — “The Tor network“? Haha

s03e09 – 2014-05-25 – Minute of Silence ∞

Spoiler

• 13:45 — Guys like that, at that place, would have guns.
• 18:15 — Those people just can’t up and leave for another company. They, too, have contracts that prevent that sort of thing.

• 21:00 — I can’t make out the book: 2071, by Peter something(six-seven letters)

  • This appears to be fictional.
• 30:15 — Yes, that’s a thing.
• 43:00 — Well I thought her tech would come in handy.. but.. this was not exactly how. Also, why wouldn’t he wear gloves? Eww.

s03e10 – 2014-06-01 – Revolutions Per Minute ∞

Spoiler

• 5:00 — White hat, and no, her description is of a Grey hat.
• 20:00 — Well he can’t fetch its contents if he can’t identify himself.
• 20:15 — Also, the bank wouldn’t have footage of that vault like that, or rather he wouldn’t be left in there to manage his box like that.
• 41:30 — He’s military, could he have been inoculated against flash or something.

s03e11 – 2014-06-08 – 3 Minutes to Midnight ∞

Spoiler

• 21:45 — He also got her suit.
• 22:00 — Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
• 34:00 — The Terminator – (1984 movie)

s03e12 – 2014-06-15 – The Dying Minutes ∞

Spoiler

• 5:15 — Daft Punk
• 5:30 — GPS = Global Positioning System
• 8:30 — Why would those dudes need her help to get that guy?

• 9:00 — Twitter, Gizmodo, CNET, Rapturous(?), Rolling Stone, Reddit

  • AMA = Ask Me Anything
• 9:30 — On the wall was a Guy Fawkes mask image, and this is being associated with Anonymous (group).
• 13:00 — “download a virus” .. hahahaha
• 20:45 — Is her foot perfectly okay now?
• 21:30 — The back of her head at that range would have been easy.
• 36:15 — She was in different clothing, so she would have been searched..
• 40:00 — .. so how did that guy lose his memory anyway?

s03e13 – 2014-06-22 – Last Minute ∞

Spoiler

• 5:00 — So she’ll name their first son Sam. Fuck her husband though, she cares about “her” son.
• 5:30 — So how is his passport valid? How is she able to leave the country?
• 6:30 — Why would Alex’s hit squad be so ineffective?
• 8:00 — .. oh, it was “a message”.
• 11:00 — What? Who fries pineapple?
• 13:30 — What? Recovery? That can’t happen. The entire point of the suicide-bomb was to kill him. He was next to her.
• 16:15 — Well that guy had a suspicious beard.
• 16:45 — Called it.. ..
• 19:15 — Oh god damn.. always watching and listening. Always judging. Ready to report on your every subversive thought.
• 21:45 — The gas can be used as an excuse for amnesia.
• 25:00 — I thought he might overload it or something.
• 28:00 — What about the two other suits, the one from other-her and the one from other-her’s friend?
• 29:00 — Why do people with guns close to melee distance?
• 36:00 — Commissioner Gordon is from the Batman comic book universe.
• 39:45 — So doesn’t have have two complete devices now?
• 42:00 — Unless he sold controlling shares, none of that makes sense.

Continues with Continuum season 4 notes