Thoughts on the new TV Season

[Jazzman]

I love Pawn Stars! It's like Antiques Roadshow for normal people! My only dislike is the voice in the back of my head that keeps telling me to feel sorry for the customers because they're obviously hurting enough financially to be parting with important, sentimentally valuable items. But it's still a great show. Pops cracks me up. Chumlee is such a lovable dork, and Rick is often surprising in his knowledge of esoteric fields and items. The only one I don't care for is Rick's douchey son Corey, who is the biggest tool I've seen in a while. Some of the customers really crack me up. "The guy just said it's worth $1000! I want $1000!!!" Um, look around. You're in a pawn shop. They aren't going to pay you what they hope to sell it for. Kinda defeats the purpose of running a pawn shop.

[Moonliner]

Going back on my word, I hulu'ed "Fast Forward" at lunch today...

The only interesting thing was the trench coat guy. I'll spoiler my speculations because as we all know, my divination skills are formidable.

Spoiler:

So who is this guy?

He seemed fairly calm about the entire thing. I'd think an innocent bystander would react differently which implies he knew something about what was going on.

Still if he knew it was going to happen, why go to a ball game? There is not much to do there. If he's a good guy, and he knew this was going to happen he could save at least a few people by being in a better location, say next to a driver on a crowded bus. If he's evil why not be at a bank, jewelry store or some place else more opportunistic?

My guess is he was there to observe the effect of 'it'. Being at a major sporting event allows for the direct observation of the largest number of people commonly available. Perhaps "they" knew there would be some effect and went to see what percentage of people would be effected. Which of course implies this is a man made event and not the result of gamma ray bursts or the like.