I was exaggerating some when I said 30 minutes but my point was that a game that takes 30 years to make (the average game now is made in 3-5 years now and would take considerably less in the 8 and 16 bit eras) should be more complex than your average side-scrolling rpg.  So the complexity in the game's system actually…

It's interesting that pretty much the only critically beloved series that got cancelled were Awake and Prime Suspect and even they were only sort of beloved.  Almost all the shows with die-hard fans got renewed. This feels different, like the economics of television are changing.

It's interesting that pretty much the only critically beloved series that got cancelled were Awake and Prime Suspect and even they were only sort of beloved.  Almost all the shows with die-hard fans got renewed. This feels different, like the economics of television are changing.

If you're going to take 30 years to make an 8-bit game that's beatable in 30 minutes then a complex system that would appear "infinitely customizable" makes sense.

If you're going to take 30 years to make an 8-bit game that's beatable in 30 minutes then a complex system that would appear "infinitely customizable" makes sense.

I agreed with everything you said. I hated Nina's explanations especially since we should have been able to figure it out ourselves but I guess you have to cater to the "Normals" even in a potential series finale.  I loved the crazy eyes.  I give it a B+.  I bumped it up half a grade for the line that went something…

"…once Fisher Stevens left it started to suck really fast."

Thanks for covering this. I really liked the show and definitely liked how they stuck to the documentary conceit.  I hated the MTV flashback episode though. That felt maudlin and boring and I just wanted them to get back to the actual campaign the whole time.

That's fine. I think we pretty much agree that more diversity is needed we just disagree with how the best way to achieve that diversity is.  I just wanted to make clear that I'm not saying white writers can't write black characters.  They can just like male writers can write women and female writers can write men.…

I'm not saying that "blackness" has to be the defining characteristic of black characters on screen but their viewpoint has to be different than the white characters.  I don't like the "acting white" pejorative either because like I said below I believe Brad is a fully realized character who reflects his "blackness"…

But we can't just put the onus on the actors to "black up" a character when the problem of diversity extends beyond what we see on screen.  We should be trying to get more people of color as writers, directors and producers.

"Why now? Why this show?" is an unfair question that ignores the point some people are actually making. So because I like How I Met Your Mother I'm not allowed to say that I'm not watching Girls because it doesn't appeal to me and that I wish there were more shows that spoke to the experience of minority Americans?

@avclub-b03b8d4bf8d4e3922a8c0b867e4f2ce0:disqus , I may be wrong, but I'm willing to bet that in the majority of cases the experience of a person of color in America is going to be distinctly different than the experience of a white person in America.  In long form writing like television, this experience needs to be…

But Girls is their latest product. So if I comment on the review of the first episode that I won't be watching the show because it doesn't speak to me or my experience I'm talking about the art as product and part of it's creators.  It may not be a fair crticism of Lena Dunham but it's certainly a fair criticism of…

I would like to discourage this type of writing. I don't like when writers on television write people of color as a white guy who happens to be of a different skin color.  And Brad from Happy Endings is not a white guy who happens to be black.  There are moments in Happy Endings where you can tell that Brad was shaped…

I'm seeing a lot of comments that seem to believe that people who complain of the "whiteness" on Girls want Lena Dunham to add black characters to the show.  I don't think this is the point of these complaints.  I think the point is going back to how underrepresented minority characters are on television.  I don't…

That's kind of the problem that no one is talking about.  It's ANOTHER show about privileged white people.  This is also why saying "But you didn't complain about How I Met Your Mother!" misses the point. No one wants Lena Dunham to lie about her experience.  But I, at least, would like something different to watch.

Would you go to a hospital where 50% of the staff believed in levitation?

Well if there are infinite alternate universes then there would be one where the differences and similarities could both naturally occur.  It would just be a big coincidence that Walter happened to tap into one with so many similarities.

When I saw the pictures in Captain Lee's locker I thought they were going to say that maybe it was spending more time around fauxlivia that allowed Captain Lee to become the man he is. As in, sometimes it's the people around us that help us define who we are or who we're meant to be. Also who knows why they were…