That's my biggest beef with young adult fiction in general. They'll try to introduce a complicated idea like social decay and class systems, then get lost in a vapid 'love' story where the relationships are super flat. They seem to teeter totter between speaking to young readers as adults (which boosts their…

I hope they spend a lot more time doing one-off stories like the one you mention. Shorter, 1-2 episode stories like supply runs and the like. And I hope they hold off bringing ol' Govesey back in until the last few episodes. He's obviously going to be fucking with the prison from the shadows, but if this season is…

the racy ones in your dads underwear drawer.

The show always gets a little boost when new characters stumble in, which is why it was so disappointing that Tyrese's gang was shoo-ed away right when they got there. So hopefully that doesn't happen with Abraham's group. Every season I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll iron out their storytelling issues.…

Just steal from one of them and blame it on one of the other two.

Can someone who's read the Hunger Games books give me a spoiler here, is this whole series a heavy handed allegory wrapped in a love triangle?

I like the stories about mad scientists more than the ones about intolerant scientists, tell one of those next.

I kind of struggle to understand the fourth dimension. I remember it initially being described to me as 'time', but I'm now understanding that a more accurate definition is 'duration' because it encompasses the entire lifeline of an object where beginning middle and end would be perceived as a singular thing happening…

Flynn's animosity towards his mom was a couple seasons ago after Walt was kicked out. Last season he was mad at both his parents for sending him away and not explaining why, so it wasn't really a 180 by that point. We don't know the extent of what Skylar and Marie told him, but he was in denial about it up until he…

One, Skylar and Marie lied to him.

I thought Walt Jr.'s wording of the events was odd too, but he was protecting his mom from what he found out was a dangerous/bad father. Walt had the knife in his hand in the end so I'm sure jr. was just confused by the tussle.

I thought they didn't know how much it was. Skylar said she tried to count it but all the bills were in varied denominations so she just piled it all together. Saul's guys loaded it up, so Walt never handled it directly to be able to count it either. I wonder if he just tossed 80 million out there as a guess. And 11…

In Mexico, where one would assume an New Mexican resident would flee to, it's so much more money than any one family needs to get by. They could live very comfortably down there on 11 million.

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I've been getting the impression that Amazing Spiderman 2 is going to be pretty divided with its villain time. Rhino will be like a 20 minute episode at the beginning that will wrap up and lead into Electro. So, very unlike Raimi's because there's no team-up. Maybe I'm being naively optimistic though.

Keanu Reeves is a hoot and a half. I'd like to think he talks about everything like that.

I'm not too worried about it simply because Rhino's presences in this next one will amount to maybe 20-30 minutes, then it moves on to Electro. Unless they're hiding something, that's what I've gathered from the spoilers so far. I'd hope they'd do a similar thing in 3, set up one or two low level bad guys that don't…

I remember some 'stuck out there' moments in TNG, but I agree, not like TOS. Another great element of the first trek was how the bridge, and space battles felt like they were in a submarine, like the vacuum of space was just outside, while later iterations somehow felt safer. I could just be responding to the…

I guess I didn't see the deep seeded corruption in Into Darkness. Unless I missed something, we saw one member of starfleet who made an immoral tactical decision (based on Vulcan getting blown up) on his own. Was the call to manipulate khan a starfleet decision? Cause I gathered that it was just this one guys secret…