You say this as if it's a bad thing. The truth is the truth. I can't change that.

You got me. I managed to tell them the exact opposite of what I believe.

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It's a little reminiscent to me of one of the motifs in Star Trek V, as Sybok builds a following by removing their pain. So you get all these people who seem happy, and Kirk rejects Sybok's therapy by telling him "I need my pain. My pain makes me who I am."

I think the implication is just that when Faith tied up Joyce in season 4 she tied up Dawn too. Or at least both have fake memories of that happening.

I thought the Faith spinoff would be an Incredible Hulk style solo show with her going from city to city on the run from the law and helping those in need wherever she found them. Or her and Spike hunting demons, which would have been awesome.

No mention that the two girls in Xander's dream were Dania Ramirez and Rachel Bilson?

Except I think the real Siobhan wants Bridget dead so that everyone will think Siobhan is dead and she can go on with her master plan in peace

But it's not even that sexy

This show is terrible. It squanders the sex appeal of its stars and then turns off viewers with stories about sex slavery and kidnapping. Whose idea was it to revive a show built upon the exploitation of beautiful women by featuring stories that denounce the exploitation of women? A total misfire. And the dialogue…

"Who told the Wall Street CEOs to make gambles their corporations
couldn't afford unless they felt "entitled" to a bailout? Isn't there
supposed to be risk in capitalism for someone besides the low level
employees without the golden parachute?"

And thinking like that has turned us from a land of opportunity into a land of entitlement. That's the problem.

Yeah, for a moment I was hoping it would be Ruxin's wife sunbathing topless

Yeah, my whole point was that it's all fake and you just have to go with it sometimes, which you kind of spelled out in a nice little essay

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the only point is that if you've seen enough sitcoms you should be able to filter out bad acting by now. I'm kind of surprised you didn't bring up the concept of musical scores in movies and some TV shows. Obviously it's intended to manipulate audience emotion and expectation.

Also, can Google images turn around a new street photo that fast?

They actually say a city ordinance requires all offensive graffiti to be cleaned up immediately, so they are just taking advantage of the law (and kind of mocking it).

Reading the review you'd think the episode was one big period joke, when there were maybe like 3-4 period jokes in one of the subplots. I wonder if the reviewer got caught up on one of the early period jokes and lost focus on everything else.

AV Club hive mind. People like to pile on around here.