Susan's not really a 'character' on the show.  She rejects Jerry and Elaine - they 'talk too much'.  Her whole place on the show  is that she doesn't fit - she's an ostensibly normal person (besides her flirtation with lesbianism) thrown into this world, and for some reason, she stays.

This is the second time that you've referred to the characters on Seinfeld as sociopaths - obviously they are terrible people, but sociopaths is very strong.  I much prefer UMD's description that they tend to do bad things that people think of but dismiss.  I know there are moments (like in this episode, for instance)…

K. Thrace:  Right, but why does it have to achieve profundity?  Why is that an expectation of a film?  Art achieving profundity is incredibly difficult and a deeply personal experience.  Person A's profound experience is Person B's 'trite, hackneyed, pseudo-X garbage'.

This show is at its best when it doesn't really care what's going on.  Jonathan being on the clock face is resolved in 2 minutes.  (Also, I loved Ray's fake old Noo Yawk accent as a building inspector).  The plot is immaterial and at no point do we actually think that Jonathan will be arrested or anything boring like…

the worst part is i swear he's told this story before.

I remember bringing this up after Sims was done reviewing Season 4, where he was already noting that the show is weaker and less satisfying in its later seasons.  Now it's just gotten old hat.

i think given the pedigrees of the major people involved with this show, a lot of people think more is going to happen, so they keep sticking with it.  if the show didn't have buscemi, michael k. williams, terrence winter, plus scorsese involved, i think a lot of people would've left already.

the tri-state area in NYC refers to NY/NJ/CT, not PA. the tri-state area in philadelphia refers to PA/NJ/DE.  either way it's a helpful designation. 

I prefer Throwdeen, Throwdini's brother.

almost all of the detective plots are resolved in a totally unrealistic way.  anyway you used the phrase 'jump the shark', which pretty much invalidates your opinion.  plus both you and sims seem to have missed the broadness of the previous two seasons.

The Sopranos is almost certainly the 'deepest' television show I've ever seen - the way the writers find to wrap everything around everything else is nothing short of remarkable.

goddamn it, i had never even heard that joke, because i'd only seen this bit in syndication.  i always thought it was weird that he didn't mention what his lunch was.  that's a great joke.  stupid syndication.

"Now 20 years later, nobody gives a shit or remembers us"

are we forgetting 'pizza man' also?

ed:  yeah, noel murray already got reamed for holding that opinion.  while it's hard for me to defend happy gilmore, it's hard for me to defend pretty much any comedy movie.  'suck my white ass, ball' will never not be funny, even if i became chief justice of the supreme court.

well, sure, except that woody allen got to where he is by writing, directing, and starring in several successful movies.  and he has enough of a following worldwide that i imagine he can basically get the louis ck deal wrt financing.  ck will have starred in a moderately successful television show.  i don't think with…

How could it be a conflict of interest for a GM to hold shares in a team?  If anything, it's the opposite - he has a serious personal stake in the team doing well.

warfreak:  i got 2/3rds of the way through that.  i was interested in the story, but keri just doesn't have the chops that michael lewis does.  the rays are going to be very good for years to come though, even as the inefficiencies in baseball continue to get smaller.

i agree with this, i think they were trying to hook people with the barrage of online advertising, etc, and then trying to reel them in for greater profits later.  but how many people upgraded their service?

lloyd:  sure i do, but that's what i am paying for.  the way netflix's business structure works is that adding one more disc to their inventory has a way lower marginal cost than adding a disc at a brick and mortar video store.