"Touch is remarkable for being simultaneously ambitious and half-assed, pretentious and cheeseball. "

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You can just say "main antagonist" instead which is much less reductive and more descriptive than saying "big bad." The term might have worked for Buffy, which existed in a comic book world where there was one supervillain pulling the strings in a season. But, for example, in Justified, Quarles, Limehouse, Boyd (and…

I've tried recommending it to my twenty-something friends, and I get a lot of dubious looks, just like back when I told them about Greek,

Wilke's a great character aside from his relationship to Daphne, but Travis is only interesting as far as what he represents. Wilke has no interest (or not much anyway) in learning ASL, and for him, as long as Daphne can read lips and speak, what's the big deal? Travis doesn't much care for hearing society and resents…

More than the rest of these moronic characters, though? The two negative things I can remember her doing are being a Debbie Downer with Beth and not trying to talk her out of suicide, and taking Shane's side and considering running off with him. Both of those decisions are at least understandable, and both fit with…

The thing that makes "bad" or "good" editing is in part cinematic convention, and that's what I, and I think others, are talking about when it comes to film grammar. Disregarding convention can make scenes confusing.

They seem to manage a bit of speed occasionally, in short bursts.

After I came to grips with the fact that the Heroes writing staff was just totally lost, coming here to read the really amusing recaps skewering the show was practically medicinal.

The best way to tell how important visual grammar is, and that it is not only a thing, but an important thing, is to watch something that is just completely incompetent and incoherent in terms of things like framing, editing, and use of space. I wish I could think of a good example, but war movies make for interesting…

Forgot about that! He totally 28 Days Later'd through the start of the outbreak.

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus  I'll be honest, I found Michonne to be kind of one-note in the comics, so I'm not really putting her on another level. Characters I liked coming from the comic to the show: Dale, Glen, and Andrea, none of whom I feel have been particularly well served, especially this…

The way they handled the farm gives me nearly no hope for a similar season stuck in a slightly larger setting.

Solid Snake would sink your entire team as he would get mired in page after page of interminable dialogue.

Supposedly a flashback episode following a group of soldiers during the outbreak, with cameos by various TWD characters, was Darabont's plan for the 2nd season opener.

I think that's the concept here.

Your loss, it's pretty on point.

This is kind of true to life, though. I've been in a number of situations where most people are confused and aimless, and then someone asserts leadership (not necessarily the best someone or the best leadership) and then everyone just kind of falls in line.

I don't get it, why does everyone in these comments hate Andrea so much? She's been one of the better, more consistent characters on the show. Also, like you said, smarts and balls. Plus, she doesn't tolerate Lori's bullshit "housework for the womenfolk, loitering around with guns for the menfolk" world order.

Word, this process made the comic-Rick look either spineless or like a total fucking idiot.