It's funny because the show's so NOT on-the-nose when it comes to the character's inner lives. The main characters especially almost never say what they mean, or are honest about what they want, expecting the audience to get that and figure it out.

It's kinda like New Girl in that the headline actor's schtick (Samberg's mugging, Deschanel's twee-ness) is mostly attenuated, and when it's not, it's called out by the other characters as ridiculous or annoying.

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Of note? Not much, but he is a solid actor. He's fantastic in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

OK, that's fantastic, but you were saying there's some sort of irony in a feminist site criticizing a song put out by a kickass young female artist, and I'm saying that's completely silly. I did phrase that second sentence poorly (my bad) - I didn't mean that Feministing's piece was nuanced itself necessarily, but…

It is possible to believe that her achievement was remarkable and also that one song on that album was problematic. I've even heard of grown-ups can hold these sorts of nuanced opinions at the same time!

Perhaps I should ashamed to admit this, but I'm literally just now getting into riot grrrl due to playing the indie video game Gone Home, which has some Heavens To Betsy and Bratmobile songs in it. HIGHLY recommended.

I feel like Todd's use of "clone" is perhaps too dismissive. I mean, I haven't seen these pilots, of course, but if something has its own character and is compelling to watch on its own merits but is superficially similar to something else, then is it really a clone?

What I'm saying is just because you understand these things doesn't mean you can't also "get lost in it and forget you exist for a while". You're asserting that the experience and the analysis are mutually exclusive phenomena and I don't see why that has to be true.

@avclub-f55cadb97eaff2ba1980e001b0bd9842:disqus 's version is incomplete - you can cross the line, but you have to show the crossing. There's a scene in the pilot of Firefly that does this. Mal and Zoe start out on our left as they're shooting the shit with Patience and her crew (who are on the right), but then once…

> The difference is that you don't lose your enjoyment of a car by knowing how it runs.

You're making my point for me. Yes, people still make cars (and moving picture shows), but they *wouldn't* if they followed your silly "don't analyze things" rule.

> You're supposed to blah blah

How do you mean? Like that people are trying for downvotes now?

This sort of thing is why Bill Watterson is a recluse.

Yeah, I found a centipede in my laundry one time. This was followed by about an hour of cajoling it out, staring it down, and steeling myself for the kill.

I was surprised nobody else had already done it, but then I realized I was probably one of the six people that read all the way to those last two sentences.

Is it perhaps because they never told anyone about it?

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