@LoveWaffle:disqus Yeah I believe in last week's review someone mentioned that Teen Titans never showed Batman because it instantly turned Robin back into a "sidekick." Young Justice just embraced that instead and it gave the characters more of an underdog feel.

G. Viceroy is also the pseudonym Gary uses when he sends a question to Dean's newspaper in "Tears of a Seacow." Continuity.

I had the opposite experience. I only watched that movie because Pace was in it and I also love it.

The Funky Phantom's motive and explanation rant is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. If you're going to make me sit through a dream episode, that's how to do it.

@twitter-204091455:disqus Too many cannibalism puns and dramirony.

I think full names are just subconsciously more intimidating for some reason. David Robert Jones ("Fringe") is much more ominous than David Jones or David. David is your drinking buddy. David Robert Jones is that guy who opens portals to alternate dimensions.

There was that shot in an early episode (the third if I recall correctly?) where she is remembering gutting a deer and the camera cuts away then cuts back and one of the dead girls is in the deer's place. And also Alana mentions her being craftily manipulative after their first talk. After those two moments I was…

I really dig the reversed procedural thing the show has going for it. That is, most procedurals have the character development as a subplot while the case-of-the-week takes up the main plot, but "Hannibal" seems to flip this around.

"I think this giant 3 season "arc” was clearly being fiddled with as we went along"

I don't think it's that douchey to ask for reasonable spoiler alerts.

I don't really think there is such a thing as a 'dirty trick' in storytelling, but more to the point of the question, I think all stories rely on some cultural referents, 'Hannibal' just has a very specific cultural referent.

@avclub-ea93d61158b479315c8e0d4cd003ec35:disqus I think the biggest similarity between Hannibal and Pushing Daisies has to be that they're both shows built around a strong and unique style. Daisies' twee style is practically the opposite of Hannibal's tense dream-like style but I've never really seen those show's…

I assumed she was speaking colloquially? When people ask 'are you a doctor?' it generally means 'are you trained in healing the physical body?' not 'do you have an MD?' which are admittedly close.

I agree with your anti-prescriptivist attitudes but I'm trying to figure out what other way around you're referring to. Words are not the barometer of what people mean? I mean I agree with that too but what an odd time to get linguistically philosophical.

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@mratfink Actually I think the best example is Band-Aid. Asking for a tissue will work but asking for an adhesive bandage will just get you weird looks.

I'm guessing you left a "not" out of that sentence. I was expressing a similar sentiment to my brother, in that most of the other Fuller shows are heavily stylized but usually with twee or quirk. This one is heavily stylized in a completely different way and doesn't try and counterbalance its grimness like Dead Like…

I get tired of the blank looks that he gets when he gives them in the early seasons, but once the crew just starts rolling with them I don't mind them at all.

The colloquial use of random as meaning "something as of yet unknown/unidentified" is a nearly universally accepted variant definition!

Yeah, I'm surprised everyone expected this to be bad here. Bryan Fuller has done no wrong (long live Wonderfalls).