For me, it was one of the rare times where the screwup hurt. I would have liked to hear what the intended FDR punchline was supposed to be, because the Lincoln jokes were nicely meanspirited.

After weeks and weeks of middling episodes with few dizzying highs or
wrenching lows, Lady Gaga’s hosting gig was refreshing in that it
featured sketches that I either hated or adored.

Hmm, no, my point is that it isn't defense enough to say that plot happens and that's why something is obviously good and important. He thinks this is a bold reimagining of the show's universe, I think it's a drifting, forgettable transition period. Oh well. Neither of us can actually know what the show is bridging to…

I'm aware it was from Princess Bride. Then you did it twice. So let's be honest, you were trying to put me in my place.

It's a tv show, you nutter. There's no such thing as "long lasting consequences." It's not a real place. They aren't real people. The show has less than 12 hours left in its life. 12 hours spread over two years, and if the show is to live beyond those few hours, I as the viewer get to decide its meaning.

Transient and insubstantial. As in, the ephemeral season of television was 75% hot garbage that nearly nobody liked and the remaining quarter was dedicated to inventing new mythology that turned the show into a gods-and-ghosts story because the heavens literally demanded it. Also, Mako's a cop now.

Being the guy to take the virginity of the reincarnated deity of light and spiritual harmony is perhaps a slightly more daunting prospect that you're giving it credit for.

This children's cartoon show has made you very angry indeed.

FYI, Emily, flameo de postres is just where you cook up a dessert (or other dish) in a little tequila and sugar and light the thing on fire. Like the French flambe. It's a Mexican thing.

Bolin at the movie premiere was good. He probably had the strongest arc
of the season. Everybody but Korra is at the culmination of their stories for the year (unless one of them unexpectedly dies next week). They're all in their proper places for the end. None of the Varrick stuff came with any great moral…

I have a fondness for battles between the same element because they generally require a bit more creativity than simply matching opposing elements like pokemon or whatever. So I was a fan of Unalaq throwing down with his brother and consider that one of the highlights of the season. I always wonder how such scenes get…

They're going. To interrogate. The Headless. Horseman. That's sure to be one for the ages.

There's no story if the characters competently defend and manage their surroundings. We've been down that road. It's all Dale and Andrea's suicide shenanigans and Lori Macbeth doing the dishes.

Poor Iroh's got a real balding Dr. Zaius vibe going on in old age.

I realize comedians are going to use deflection and jokes as a defense mechanism, but maybe SNL shouldn't have hired a homogenous glob of indistinguishable white dudes if they didn't want the heat? Maybe they should have seen this one coming? Will they get over themselves any time soon, or will this still be going on…

I once tried to read the book but only made it like three pages in when the five year old main character busted out some SWEET KARATE MOVEZ (to avoid getting raped, maybe?)* and the whole thing was written so weird and seething. It seemed like a book written by an ostracized, sociopathic little nerd who got picked on…

I so very much hate that we live in a world where libertarian vandals like Manning and Snowden are namedropped for context.

Such an odd little show. Sacrificing the piglets and the Irish chick and the central question of "how does one come back from the choices we make in the interest of barest survival?" and yet it's a show about an irresolvable apocalypse. Everybody has the zombie sickness, so it's like oh well, shucks. It's not like the…

I love that when you ask Legend of Korra what its creation myth is, it answers "All of them. All of the creation myths."

Fringe threads? What are you talking about?