Its always, except maybe S1, been a show that just positions everything to set up epic moments and expects the audience to live and die with those moments. Its just that everything in between those moments has gotten progressively worse, and the moments themselves strain the internal logic of the show to the point…

Yeah I really wish he was interested, because this season has given me renewed interest in the books (last season felt like it was just a streamlined version of stuff that would eventually happen in the books, this season feels like its gone way off in another direction and I'm super curious what the novels would look…

I assume acting contracts have something to do with the need to wrap everything up as soon as possible. And I agree they have some general outline of endpoints (like it feels like 'undead ice dragon' was a bullet point somewhere and the last two episodes had to be built to get to that bullet point), but now they have…

But what they may not realize is the volume of people who come here to read the comments without really participating in the conversation. The comments section at the AV Club is almost always more interesting than the review, and I often scroll through pages of comments on shows I like - I can go anywhere to get a…

1. Spend over a month traveling north, capturing a wight, then going back south.
2. Show it to crazy queen
3. ??????
4. Profit

Agree with you, there were a lot of parts that just dragged for me and I just don't really love the Reagan/Bush impressions or arc at all. But hey humor is very subjective so if some people loved it great! I hope they keep doing more.

Yeah a true humblebrag is an attempt to downplay the accomplishment while also bringing it up unprompted. This has no humble element to it at all.

Ha yeah my father drinks Beast Ice, retired so he could start his own lawn maintenance service and is the kind of manly conservative I assume this petition is trying to represent except…. I don't think my dad has watched a sitcom in 30 years. He like watching the Three Stooges, I think. He watches sports, the Weather…

Yeah I mean I have a 4 year old (he doesn't watch Dr. Who yet or anything), but kids all these 'difficult' conversations people talk about aren't really that difficult.

Eh a movie is such a different beast. That was the end of Firefly, and you needed to establish some stakes during the final battle (killing another beloved character earlier might have mattered to hardcore Firefly fans but he was barely present in the movie). I think that works better than the Anya/Xander split does -…

Wholeheartedly agree with you on that. It really seemed out of character for Xander as well, who had all sorts of flaws but stuck with Anya through much worse things - just because no one was allowed to be happy.

World War Z would have made such a good anthology show, sigh. I really thought that book was interesting and it was just completely wasted as a movie - they barely even try to touch on any of the major stories of the book.

That is essentially what went wrong with TWD as well. It follows the comic books far too closely when it doesn't have to - having far out-paced the popularity of its source material. GoT was better last year being able to break from the source and actually move pieces forward. TWD would be a better show if it wrote…

People have killed for a lot worse causes than Olivia Williams

Well its Whedon, which means a subset of us would watch it no questions asked. And it has really big ideas that make you think, and the balls to take them to the logical extreme in the two episodes mentioned. There are much better shows, but not a ton of shows that churn in your mind as much in terms of ideas…

Yeah I have just one son (4) and two daughters but my son loves the movie and I have to just leave the room at this point during the last 30 minutes. It's just such a gut punch in how it addresses the line between protecting your kids and letting them make their own mistakes.

Just wanted to chime in and agree. These pieces are always amazing and somehow they get buried - I completely missed the Enrico Colantoni one until I saw it on the sidebar just now. Instead the most inane stuff gets featured. I mean, I know you have to generate clicks but still promote you should promote the best…

Oh man, absolutely. I don't understand Snapchat at all beyond its initial use as 'dick pic app'. I'm 33 and don't really fit as a millennial or Gen X despite the classification, I think, of being a millennial.

Simmons was a major influence on my life (I got into sports writing because of him), but even I watch those promos and cringe. He's in his 40s now, probably closer to 50, and things have just kind of passed him by at this point. He was a revolutionary in many ways, but I have no desire to watch a show built around his…

Yeah I always loved that episode as well, but I do think the criticisms are fair. Doesn't change its place for me, but I love the dogfighting story and the focus on Kara.