The pop culture stuff didn't bother me since I'm old enough to remember all that shit. It is the long-windedness that got to me. And the fact that it is almost like someone just handed him the solution to everything at the very beginning, but we have to sit there and listen while he makes sense of all of it. Granted, I'm still not finished (I'm trying!), so I could be missing some key plot point, but it literally seems like someone else (the person that wrote the Librarian program) has already figured everything out, but decided to give it all to Hiro so that Hiro could foil the master plan...but instead of just telling Hiro what the whole plan was, he forced him to listen to the Librarian drone on for hours and hours until Hiro finally figured it out himself. But all the info was already there, so Hiro didn't do much that someone else couldn't have done too (minus stealing a super fast motorcycle and cutting people's heads off with a sword of course, because all hackers are super cool like that). Oh, and look, Raven doing badass Raven stuff!