I don't disagree with your points, but I just want to respond to your last sentence: Bay isn't an adult. John and Ty are.

Oh, I don't deny his legal right to have his daughter, and nor do I want to see some long-drawn-out custody battle. Just some transition from 'I will get her back' to 'I already have her back' would have been nice.

Yes, I definitely get a Lorelai & Christopher vibe from Regina & Angelo: two people who have a history together, a kid together, and are obviously attracted to each other, yet can't ever have a real relationship because they're never in the same place in life at the same time. Throw in unexpected baby with another…

Not bad. Though I'd prefer if the peacock bit Coto - or Jace, maybe.

It felt like too neat and abrupt a solution. And it was horribly unfair to the couple who had adopted the baby. It would have made more sense to have at least one episode where all of them - Angelo, the couple, and their lawyers - get together, and discuss everyone's legal rights over the baby, and the couple decide…

I got the impression that Coto didn't actually have anything solid against Daphne at all, but he knew that he could scare her easily enough by simply pretending that he did. The security footage just gave him actual ammunition. Sure, It shows that Daphne didn't do much more than erase a message on Coto's voicemail,…

So this wasn't the season finale? That means that this (section of this) season has 11 episodes. That's a weird number.

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus Please tell me you're kidding / being sarcastic, because I can't even fathom how anyone could say that seriously.

The point is, the lightbulb isn't broken - that's just the way lightbulbs function.

That's like saying that any episode of 'Buffy' that didn't show Buffy slaying vampires and/or kicking ass in general is inferior because it 'didn't service one of the central pillars of the show's construction.'

@avclub-668d17e713035d498574d832bdd3d7f7:disqus Kirk is everywhere - he would probably turn up as a server or something if he wasn't invited.

It's not even just a then-vs.-now situation - as @avclub-011d0b4fe6835bb3d37ef4e0ea713de6:disqus points out, even current sitcoms don't always have season-long arcs. It's the weird dismissive attitude towards anything that's not part of the season-long arc that's so silly. Even the most serialized of sitcoms (or…

Could someone explain to me why just because an episode in a sitcom is 'minimally important to the larger plot arc for the whole season', that automatically makes it 'filler' and therefore somehow subpar? Yeah, sitcoms occasionally have things like season-long plot arcs, but IMO, those are way less important in terms…

@avclub-15d496c747570c7e50bdcd422bee5576:disqus Yeah, I agree that Sookie and Luke are friend-of-a-friend (which is why I don't know why @avclub-668d17e713035d498574d832bdd3d7f7:disqus thinks it's so shitty of Luke to not to go to her wedding). But the original invitations probably went out well before Luke and…

I can't imagine Sookie being mean enough to disinvite anyone, let alone Luke (who she has no reason to dislike).

The show painted Liz more as a monster - or at least a very negligent parent - back before she became an actual character. I can't imagine the Liz we actually came to know in the later seasons being so callous about her son, no matter how difficult he was. But that's just a problem with serialized drama -…

Yup. I've seen the entire show, and know exactly what happens, and yet I can't wait to start (re-)watching season 3 now.

Why is it shitty? Sookie and Luke aren't exactly close. Luke dislikes weddings (and most other social gatherings) on principle. He has a business to run, and doesn't want to close up for the day. So he doesn't go to the wedding. Simple as that. (That's not even counting his wish to avoid Lorelai.)

"Why is Luke not at Sookie's wedding? THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY"

Just fanwanking here … maybe Jackson's paternal grandmother was Scottish, and her family name was Jackson, and she raised her son to be proud of his Scottish heritage, and he named his son 'Jackson' in honour of his mother's family.