After 5 seasons of being told that he was destined for something great (and the character continually rising to the occasion), to have him be tricked and murdered and ultimately amount to nothing was a pretty cold ending, in my opinion. I get that they were trying to play with our expectations, though - maybe my hopes…

For some reason, people hate this explanation (which I agree is the obvious truth).

It was mostly that the show runners explicitly and repeatedly said exactly that. We were naive; TV had not been that good before; we didn't know that they'd just lie to us.

Alias had a really great pilot as well. Abrams knows how to start a story, at least.

Remember how Sayid and Locke had extensive tragic backstories that were tossed aside and never concluded in any satisfying way? And how all of the characters just did whatever served the plot at the end instead of sticking to any sort of personality or character arc? Butbutbutbutbutitwasaboutthecharactersnottheisland

The problem with including us early-mid 80's kids in the group is that unlike the people born in the 90's, we had significant life experience before cell phones and the internet became ubiquitous. If you were born in '82, then you most likely started college with a land line in your dorm room (I did, and I'm '84 - had…

OK, I guess I just disliked her so much (basically all she did was bully Schmidt and then, if called out on it, pretended to be a victim because she wasn't…as thin as other girls? or something?) that she basically stains the entire mid-series for me

It fucks over their parents, too (like when they defund Meals on Wheels and gut social security/medicare). Baby boomers are a plague on all other generations.

Season 3 was when he started hooking up with her though, I thought

I think New Girl just, on the whole, hit a real low point during the season Nick and Jess were together. Remember when they brought Schmidt's college girlfriend in? Ugh…

I remember when those articles said the same exact thing about "Generation Y" (now called [or lumped in with depending upon your perspective, I guess] millennials) and those "slackers" in Generation X

Up until and excluding the slapping scene, Cal from Titanic. He's a rich man, providing all the finer things for his fiancee and her mother, and she publicly steps out on him with some guy from "steerage" in front of all their important friends? I really wish they had left out the slapping scene and let him be more of…

It changed FROM a "character" show to a "mystery" show, IMO. They introduced new, pointless characters left and right and completely disregarded main characters' personalities and arcs to serve the "mystery" plot, which they swore up and down they'd resolve and ultimately only halfway (at best) could

I am really liking T&E, but it's niche wackiness probably would have been better served on a Hulu/Netflix or maybe cable

If only there were already a way for the public to see Trump's tweets, for free, at any time

Can't she be both? The magical, sassy, black female side kick?

I really did not read this as Marnie having any kind of real epiphany or maturing at all. She got yelled at by the pawn shop guy, and called Desi, but other than that she's just going to live off her mother. She didn't actually take responsibility for anything, she just removed responsibility from Desi.

I don't see the AVQ&A link, but what about Up in the Air's third act failed? Did you think it should have had a happy ending?

That makes sense, thanks.

I don't care enough to deep dive into Tomi's belief system, but I don't think it necessarily hypocritical to think abortion should be legal and still think it is morally wrong and should not funded by government (although of course the Hyde amendment prohibits this already). There are plenty of things that I find…