BafflingBeerMan

That, immediately followed by Pierce waking up with a painting of Chevy Chase from Caddyshack hanging over his bed made the scene doubly-meta

Doubly great because #@!$ My Dad Says premiered on the same night

To be fair, after that appearance, Stewart looked at some of the female PAs and their clothes fell off.

I think Kennedy never being assassinated is one of the columns/foundations for building an alt universe

Actually, I don't think the couple was too willing to co-mingle. They reluctantly got wasted with Shady Couple because they basically got guilt-tripped into doing those activities because Sean saved the girl's life. Which, of course, was probably planned. I can see Sean dictating what activities they would be a part of in an effort to spend more time with Laila alone. He, after all, arranged it so they would hike to that spot so he could propose. Not that I think they were isolated, but on that massive ship (it had a huge concelierge area with escalators), I am not so sure they saw anyone more than once, except for Shady Couple.

As far as how Sean got back onto the ship in the first place, you got me there. But one can fanwank two explanations:

Whoever wiped the system wanted Sean back on the ship so he could know that Laila was gone so he could easily be manipulated (maybe he was the first choice to fly the plane that Daddy ended up hijacking). With that reasoning, someone could have been posted at the entrance and given the signal to wipe the system after he entered. Everyone else would be in place, just the data would need to be switched. I think this is likely because how else would Sean know about the hijacked plane in the first place if he didn't come into contact with "The Conspiracy" at some point in his search for Laila.

or

Because it seemed like Sean was coming back from a private excursion set up through the cruise ship (the snorkling boat appears to be taking them directly back to the ship, not to another port), they checked his ID on that smaller boat by hand or, because they all came from the ship and never left the boat captain's sight, there was no need to recheck them once they got back.

Pretty much, that's the joke. He is obviously inebriated when he was walking to Pepper and yelling to abort.

Now, whether or not he was acting to cover up his illness, I guess that is debatable.

Hence why I put proper in quotation marks

I actually find it harder to watch TV shows on the computer. Not that they are of a lesser quality, but I am more liable to wander off or surf the net while watching something on that computer than on the TV screen.

Which is why I want to give the new shows I am interested in my undivided attention via the TV

But I was on time to this thread!

Sadly, we have to take Tartie off our list of functional couples in geekdom. At least, for now.

I would say the Hulk is closer to a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde analogy than Frankenstein's Monster.

Basically the impression that I got.

The time jumps in the episode...yeah, a bit much, but I read about them before hand so I was prepared.

It's funny, because I was reading a review of the episode on AV Club and they said this show is going to be more about the mysteries than the characters, unlike Lost, which was more about the characters than the mysteries. Setting aside the comments that tore that apart (saying Lost was about the mysteries, not the characters...Hello, we had an episode devoted to Rose and Bernard!), the problem with a show being more about the mysteries is that we ended up not caring about the characters or their actions and just want answers, answers, answers. Nothing matters in any given episode unless an ANSWER is given. And that is hard to sustain long term

I don't think The Event is going that route, at least with Jason Ritter's character. I actually started to care about his plight (even though you SO don't meet any strangers on a vacation. That always ends badly).