1x03 Truth or Darius

Grace continues to be nothing but filler. Preachy, annoying, self-absorbed filler. And her DoD pal, Harris, isn't far behind, especially now that his son has been introduced. And his son, like Grace, is complete filler, too. Preachy, annoying, self-absorbed filler. He and Grace will get along well if they ever meet. And now they've added a second potential love interest for Harris since the writers clearly wanted to be in the position to slow the big story to a crawl. But I like her a lot more than Grace, so there's that. On the much more interesting side of things, Darius is acting like a tool and doing stupid things and acting way more like Bill Nye than Elon Musk in this one. First he mucks up the proof of concept test and then he hires Liam's girlfriend --without telling Liam, of course -- and puts her on the ark project, as if she and Liam won't compare notes at some point. I'm hoping that we'll learn that he did it on purpose because he wants them to compare notes for some reason, but it's possible that they're just making him that stupid. Time will tell. Meanwhile, the Capitol Eyes reporter, Amanda, is starting to get more interesting as she pushes to learn the real story behind what's going on. Of course, just as I was realizing this, she had to go and, um, get caught up in traffic like that. But hey, she's young. She'll bounce back. Hopefully.