Kate does seem like she'd be your type! :D I like her a lot; sad to say, much better than Ashley, whose slot on the team she's rather obviously taking over -- she's much more thoughtful and clever and just generally looks like she's going to bring much more complexity to the team dynamic.

I can tolerate a lot of plot-stupid if it's delivering on other levels, but I wish I didn't have to. I keep feeling like this show is giving me hints of a much better show that it could have been, except it went off the rails somewhere.

And thank you for the links! I sort of wish I didn't like Tesla so much, because he's just this side of evil if not right over the line. But ... he makes evil look good! *runs off to look for icons*