Yes, and I've rewatched some of the older seasons lately: so much time and energy was spent on their relationship, I was really starting to feel that it was a cornerstone of the show. For it to blow up with so little fanfare really shocked me.

I know we're all dreading the idea of the mother being sick/dying/dead at the time future Ted is telling the story of how he met her, but I'd forgotten the whole Time Travelers episode… Why would he want so badly to spend an extra 45 days with her? I thought it was just Ted being schmaltzy, but maybe he has a legit…

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One of the major problems with rape jokes (and violence against women jokes in general) is that they help create a socially permissive environment for violence and abuse. I know that's not the intention. I know when people make rape jokes they are pretty much certainly not actually rapists. However, for the few men…

I'm not sure it was clearly sarcastic/satire when seen only in the form of that pretty out-of-context tweet. Viewed within the context of the entire bit, re: the intensely racially charged Redskins, situation it's clearly lampooning the manager.

If he was on the show for a year, maybe two, then find. But come on…he's calling out what is essentially his entire career and latching onto a new faith and a new beard?

Does anyone else see this study as potentially making a stronger case for the fact that waiting for things to load may induce cravings?

I know I'm late on this and probably no one will ever read it, but I just saw this on cable "On Demand" last week and thought it was an interesting mash-up of typical Swedish themes of bleakness and alienation/exploitation (especially of immigrants) and of American caper/crime films. If I hadn't seen as many Swedish…

Wow. This is like that horrible story of the woman in San Diego was arrested for escaping prison 40 years ago for *attempted* shoplifting. It's hard to have faith in a justice system this petty and vindictive.

The fourth episode is where it starts to settle into a routine - Piper settles into her permanent bunk and the show becomes a little more serialized and organized.

But this is based on a personal account of an experience of an actual person, and she is super white and affluent, so that's sort of part of the narrative. I just read the book, and book-Piper is both less and more relatable in that she a lot less gauche than show-Piper, but she also internally fixates on things like…

Yeah, now it's 4,700. I'm not sure I understand how eBay works…

I forgot too, and went back to check, and the reason is lame. Jules walked in on Travis and Laurie in the shower, and slipped and fell.

It was definitely a clumsy metaphor…she didn't need to *literally* float away like a balloon. At least not for that long…

They really get the incest right!

I think, aside from the possible Mycroft-was-in-on-it angle, Holmes did it for Mary/John rather than any grander reason. He is, in his words, a sociopath, protecting his friends in the only means available to him in the moment. He didn't do on their first meeting because there were no personal stakes in it for him.…

Yes, actually that's more in keeping with the lit canon Watson, although he gets a bit more dither-y in the second one. Sherlock is the brain, Watson the muscle. For some reason many of the early film adaptations decided to make Watson a ridiculous bumbler. Possibly because it was funny to watch people step in buckets…

The only major fan service thing I noticed was the Sherlock/Moriarty kiss.

Totally. The series has been reconfigured, hopefully for the better, and we can see some more real mysteries next season.

I just want to chime in on the "damsel-in-distress" thing. In the original canon, it was often (usually?) Watson rescuing Holmes from danger. This series comes pretty close to letting Watson be tough, I'm not sure any video version of the stories has ever done justice to the John Watson in the books: crack shot,…