yes, that was a seriously unfortunate cop-out of a writing choice.

when?

sorry. i know it's frustrating to deal with our complaints, but our opinions are actually just more valid than yours. anyone who thinks the show is nearly as good as it used to be just has terrible taste, and really ought to be educated.

see, yes it's a visual detail, but i don't see why it's remotely funny. i hate this phenomenon (that the simpsons has been "capitalizing on" for years) wherein the mere fact of a cultural (or pop cultural) reference is sufficient for a punchline. "look everyone! here's something you recognize! isn't that…

B+
1. i am crazy about the scene where the mansonator talks to john henry, and reveals that he knows her secret. i wonder how she'll keep him quiet about it. maybe his realization is going to force her to speed up her plans. the dialogue between them was great, and i loved how there were parallels in the two…

…who cares?
such a slow death for the simpsons. i mean, the death of the quality was long-ago complete, but so few of us can truly let go. at any rate, gimmicks like this don't help. was any of that really funny to anyone?

B- episode at best
after last week's great episode i no longer worry that the show is going downhill, but this week's really lost me. there were little gems of cleverness, but overall it just felt slow and dumb, not blazing fast and wicked smart like the first two seasons. the kenneth storyline was SO tired! there…

i agree. and why DID she feel her own face??

…and apostrophes don't make things plural, Penguin!

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is anyone else afraid—very afraid—that claire's new text-message buddy is captain emo again? what was supposed to have happened to him, anyway?

i appreciated that they seemed to have been outfitted to be the scariest-looking clowns imaginable.

C+
you know what this episode reminded me of, slightly? ugly betty. or rather, ugly betty before i stopped watching it two years ago.

i actually didn't like that line at all. it just felt totally tacked-on and lazy. and i say this as someone who would normally jump at any opportunity to mock Lou Dobbs.

disagreed. i think both their characters are consistently entertaining, and have appreciated their more frequent interactions lately.

more than a little off, i thought this episode was pretty far off. i agree that the writing seemed different somehow.

why's everyone talking about kyle reese?
was he in the "next time on SCC" teaser? anyone know where i can see that online? google is not help me find it.

i did not catch it. what was the joke?

yeah yeah, we've all heard that argument about how because superpowers are implausible, you can't criticize any gaps in logic in the show. and i guess it works that way for some people. but for me, this genre works when it picks one consistent set of rules to break (such as the rule saying people can't have…

meh
i agree with the C+. i'm ok with episodes that are slow-paced or not super exciting. but not when they also don't make sense. the future stuff was cool, but the present/past stuff not so much. the family bought into the whole skynet story with WAY too little robot evidence. everyone spent way too much time…

the answer!
i chuckled a couple times during this episode (well, not actual chuckling, but i thought about it). once when hiro and claire had that simultaneous yet mutually unintelligible "here's the plan" conversation (i know… usually too cute for me, but this time it worked), and once with sylar in the elevator. …