I was so happy to see to of my very favorite performers were going to be in the show this year. But for me both Alan Tudyk and Alicia Witt had interesting characters that could have been used a lot more. To different degrees obviously since Wendy Crowe has had a longer arc and we don't know what's going to happen…

I don't know, that "slump" included some quality drama, The Razor's Edge , some big paychecks Ghostbusters 2, Scrooged plus What About Bob and Little Shop of Horrors . A lot of people in Hollywood would consider that run a great success.

I agree with LOAD *,8,1, I liked Irving's first books, Setting Free the Bears, The Water Method Man and The 158 Pound Marriage were all very interesting and I liked them quite a bit. He hit his peak with Garp through Owen Meany and those are 4 of my very favorite books of all-time. But then he hit a wall…

Then you associate with the right sort of people. It was stupid but there were definitely people who got worked up over it. Generally those concerned with fighting "the culture wars".

Modern day, but not in America.

I take it as honest to goodness character growth. Rick has wrestled with this issues before but now he is 100% unapologetic ass-kicker. As long as they don't backtrack in the future, I'm good with it.

Remember how much of the country went ape-shit over the Janet Jackson Superbowl thing? There is a big chunk of this people just waiting to get offended by sex/language so they can get all riled up.

On "The Talking Dead" they mentioned that they only did one take with "screwing" rather than "fucking" and that the actors were really arguing for the F-bomb.

No, they got Constance's head back so they put her immortal brain into Julia's immortal body.

Or all three?

I disagree. Obviously it isn't on the level of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones but then very few things are. But if we are grading on a curve and compare it to the vast amount of true crap out there (reality shows, rote procedurals, and stale network dramas) then it looks pretty good. I'm not saying that…

That sounds like "damning with faint praise" there to me. Actually I stopped watching about midway through the first season and checked back in at the end of the season. So maybe the second season is better but that show is dead to me.

That seems unique but it is the way that every show on TV used to be at one time.

I'm still watching the Walking Dead and I gave up on Lost well before 4 seasons, so I have to agree with reflecto.

Me too. Dexter started out as a very good show with a few flaws and then totally went off the rails. I kept with it in the vain hope it would recover, even though I knew it wasn't going to. And it just got worse and worse.

I thin part of it is the disgruntled comics fans combined with all the people who are just too hip to like anything the masses enjoy.

I was so disappointed in Revolution. I already got burned once by people claiming it had gotten better and it still sucked the last time I checked in on it.

True but I've seen numbers that a very high percentage of physics and math faculty place out there on the spectrum, and that anecdotally matches my observations. I'm not at all saying that all people with autistic tendencies are "smart". But having some of those traits seems to help in some fields.

Say "hello to Ripley" too.

Bishop to Queen's Rook 4.