I think the edgier take could have worked, and i think abandoning their more adult take on the material and playing more like original muppets could have worked too, and where they really fell down was when interpreted made "more like the original muppets" to mean "just redo old muppet sketches nearly verbatim."

Yeah i kept waiting for the other part of that skit. I am fine with it being corny and out of date, or even bad (i don't need piggy's show to seem like it's wall to wall quality). It could have been, say, two mashed up references from a decade ago each, but just straight up doing that video over with no twist went…

I'd be fine with more of this show, but if it came back (it won't) there would be pressure to further screw with it, and i don't want to see this turn into another Up All Night or The Mindy Project that's constantly trying to find something new that brings in what it believes is its potential audience rather than try…

Is ABC actually doing badly in general? Or is it just not doing as well as it should be given it owns all the IP imaginable?

I think i liked the middle the most, but almost every episode had some bright spots and some problems.

Trying to pick a winner out of those two just hurts my head.

The stuff from Avatar?

It's just coming full circle after mistaking Iraq for having a connection to Afghanistan helped start this mess.

The classic inappropriate cue-card break.

He's a lot better as an alcoholic dickhead in Spectacular Now and fine in Whiplash even though JK Simmons takes focus any time he's on screen there.

Its silliness is my favorite part! One of the things that doesn't sit too well with me is how high the stakes are now that there's a villain who strip mines the galaxy rather than just sort of putting down a flag and building a statue to him/herself while mostly fighting other people doing the same thing.

I really liked this episode when i thought it was the end of this arc. That reversal in the last few minutes that this just makes Dominator even more powerful felt really cheap and unjustified though. I think i've actually been more positive on Dominator's time on the show than a lot of people here in general, but…

It's alright. Its format is a complete mess at the moment, but it does have some funny moments.

I take issue with the idea that Gotham is even remotely close to being Batman.

I suspect some of mine did and know others didn't. At least i hope no one changed their name to "wachdorf"

Do you think none of those Cruz voters are among the hardcore racists? I mean, aside from being a weird evangelical Christian theocrat disguised as a libertarian, Cruz's biggest characteristic is promising to bomb and invade and torture the middle east, and he's certainly on the far end of the scale on immigration…

Best i can tell it's a mix of people who like how outside he is and people who like how authoritarian and racist he is. It would actually be kind of refreshing that he can, for instance, talk about campaign finance being fucked up without being beholden to anyone were he not also very hitlery. So i suspect there are…

I think what makes this show tolerable is that while everyone is terrible and constantly wrong, a few of them are terrible and wrong in directly opposite ways from the rest of them. There's no way i could handle everyone being like Hannah, but she or Marnie or whatever work a lot better as foils to Ray or occasionally…

I really enjoyed the wedding episode and this one was back to like, i'm not sure i'm going to bother to keep watching this.

You think that was unintentional? I think she's not quite oblivious enough that she doesn't know that was a bad conversation to be in and worked her way out of it on purpose.