a character trying to subvert the "gaze" of the (unacknowledged-in-show) camera, dense commentary on story structure, and a comic monologue about joseph campbell's "hero's journey". how the fuck is this show still on the air?!

agreed with @avclub-7d58cc22d9ed7d85decaa81e6cedee22:disqus — it felt weird but in a purposeful way, not in a "the writers don't know how to write these characters" way. once i realised what abed was doing with the camera, it had me laughing super hard.

yeah, but he's 70 years old, and tony's speaking technobabble at him. it's more than believable that he would. the movie also subverts the trope when bruce and tony are talking about gammma radiation, with tony's "finally, someone who speaks english".

she doesn't SEEM to outrank coulson (in the MCU, anyway) but there's no real evidence either way, so i won't fight you on it.

that trope bothers me every time it comes up in anything. and if this show were really good, it'd bother me more. as it is, when an episode of the show that has stooped to "speak english" delivers an episode this good, i can look over the villanous slip-up.

agent hill is the only person in-universe i can think of who might outrank coulson — and i don't think she does — and she is last seen at the end of Winter Soldier applying for stark industries (i guess as a mole). romanoff and barton are field agents — assassins and spies — certainly not high-ranking officials. and…

hey, another melbournite. yeah, i saw posters for winslow's show and my jaw dropped.

"we discover a guy in a field, screaming for help, surrounded by walkers. they descend on him and eat him to death."

does it?

you say that, but you totally underestimate how difficult it is not to make those mistakes. if you handed me any of your scripts, i could probably point out a dozen "textbook" mistakes, too — not because you wrote a shit script, but because these things are (1) substantially subjective and (2) so common because…

was that 12% of an avengers reference?

and yet all i can find are these "bort" decorative number plates!

as a guy whose name is jem, i can assure you it's not.

it's a very, very long sentence, but it's perfectly coherent, understandable and followable without need for re-reading. your review of that sentence lacks depth and critical insight. phil wins one over on you, i'm afraid.

haha. i didn't mean to be a cock about it. i was just let down after you called it the "most meta line" of the show, and i thought i'd missed something amazing.

wait, so it's meta because it reminds you of a hypothetical exchange between non-specific people? (or actual people who you doubt fit the specifics of the exchange?) i do not think "meta" means what you think it means.

meta? why? i don't get it. I NEVER DON'T GET IT. MY EMOTIONS.

the tea partier. talks too much, too bossy, too dumb. he's friends with leslie, which makes it clear intelligence and personality is much more important to him in a friendship than political leaning.

if it makes you feel any better, the theory isn't all that convincing in the context of toy story 3.

god no. i didn't make it through the second season, and someone had to twist my arm to get me through the first. but now, with what happened to cory monteith, saying bad stuff about glee just feels mean, you know?