Yes, seconded. ME1 is a brilliant concept that tries to hard to live up to its own lofty ideals. It's wonderful and weird and charming, but it often doesn't work.

Also KOTOR 2's subversiveness in that regard is basically never talked about, and it's my favorite thing about the game. Everything in that game is clouded in shadow and confusion.

I came to the decision that Nar Shaddaa is the best of all the KOTOR planets recently. It's the high point of the second game, at least.

the bit in the attic where Ben stands up to Kenny is pretty good, from a narrative standpoint.

You…were against Aveline?

I sat there for a good 15 minutes trying to decide what to do. Eventually had him help me defeat Meredith and then let him go.

See, I think it's the depressing tone that makes the satire and whatnot much funnier. Even if they're the same dick jokes as before, that they come in such a sad game makes them feel angrier and more pointed than they did before.

I still think the mission progression in IV is the best by far. Everything that follows feels like it makes sense as you slowly inch your way up the food chain. That first bit is honestly great. Keeps this crazy momentum all the way through killing Mikhail, then shifts gears entirely through Bohan.

That feels oddly poignant considering I think it's three years later in game, too.

Not only that, but it's just a better final mission. Taking all three characters to simultaneously kill one another's arch enemies feels like the sort of thing the character switching gimmick was created for.

because he's Andy

I think it probably passed the Bechdel Test in the first 15 minutes of the first episode. Or whenever Leslie and Ann first met.

whooo 260!

And I love that Joe immediately used it and then looked completely horrified.

I think what helps it is that most of the times that they've ever been truly mean to him, someone (usually Donna) calls them out and makes them feel like assholes.

Sort of, because it's supposed to be Ben writing these things and, like most fan fic writers, he's really bad.

SHUT UP HONEY I HAVE TO LIVE WITH THIS AND YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT ME

It worked because he looked like a doofy rich asshole, which is essentially what he was.

As soon as I understood the basic concept of what Waldo was and what he was doing to become famous (hold phony interviews with confused celebrities), I immediately thought of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and spent the entire episode wondering how much better and more believable a cult political figure Space Ghost would…

The first time I saw them, leering out of those windows, scared the absolute shit out of me.