Starburns is also cartoonish but that's a less silly detail than an ivory toupee, come now.

Was anyone expecting Valvrave to be good though?

Easily the best moment in House of Cards is when Kevin Spacey asks someone which games their PS Vita has, and he responds 'All of them.'

I feel Ming-Na and Gregg (the latter especially) get praised because of leftover goodwill from other projects - and, again with Gregg, because he was in movies people like.

Apparently giving him a daughter was meant to mellow out his casual sexism. Or whatever the fuck.

I dunno the Masuka plot in season three really summed up the entire problem with Masuka, in that he has exactly one plot, he is the pervy guy, and over eight years he never became anything else. Character development amounts to MAYBE HE SHOULD STOP BEING PERVY AT WORK… NO, WAIT, HE SHOULD STAY PERVY.

Touche, but I meant what prose we saw of his was really bland. Rand at least had her crazy libertarian variation and a decent sense of pulp narrative (at least in Fountainhead) to keep things cooking.

I disagree because of this: It's really easy to know what Primer is about. Primer is about time travel. Primer tells you it is about time travel. Any confusion you have with the movie's plot must ultimately come down to time travel issues.

Breaking Bad is very plot driven. It's got less transformative events then say, Game of Thrones, but the tension of the show is often about OH MY GOD WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT. Inevitably this means Walter White getting into and out of scrapes, though, yeah.

It's an anime. I was interested because the person who wrote Madoka wrote for it. But yes, don't look at it.

That would make it one of the most disappointing shows of the year then, rather than worst.

Oh Contrast is good? I remember voting for that on Steam Greenlight because I liked the trailer but then I forgot about it.

Is AV having a top three this year?

I wish I didn't know what that subreddit would be about without clicking on it. I'm not sure how a line from a 1999 sci-fi movie cribbing from Descartes has become the go-to term for internet misogynists who have woken up to the TRUTH.

There has never been a season of Mad Men I did not love.. Honestly when I think about it it's a lot easier to say what I like about a given year of Mad Men than what I didn't, because it is, generally, that good.

I guess that's the thing about Mad Men. It's not a thrilling pot boiler like Breaking Bad, it's people repeating patterns and getting stuck in unhappy life ruts. Things change, but a lot of the show is going to cover the same thematic ground as it did last year… which I for one am always down for.

But what's important is I don't think Don understands that until it's over (if even then.) When he has a woman, he believes he can control this woman - it's a fantasy she is indulging for Don, but for Don it is a fantasy he wants to live.

I feel like they didn't go with Peggy because they wanted to focus on season six stuff. Yes, Peggy is important to Don, but Peggy is always important. There was some good stuff with Sally this year and Sylvia is, obviously, of the year.

You're not missing anything. I've seen some interesting complaints over here about how Marvel's Agents of SHIELD got heavily promoted and a public station airing while Sleepy Hollow is off on an obscure cable channel.

I think the writers largely liked it? It may not be one of the best shows of the year but also not one of the worst.