I literally couldn't get past the opening scene of the Newsroom.

I don't remember this, what exactly happened?

I'm betting there will be more flashbacks in later seasons dealing with the immediate aftermath of the departure. The vanishing fetus at least gives us some sense of why Laurie might have turned out the way she did.

Completely agree on that last scene, a beautiful ending with just a slight somber note to it. Pretty much the best kind of ending there is. Depending on how you look at it, the stakes were slightly lower this time and the battle wasn't on the same scale as last season's, yet it felt much more engrossing. I think thats…

Telling Ted Jr. that she knew about what Daniel had done to him was probably the worst thing Tawney could have done. Daniel confessed to her as a way of coming clean and letting Tawney know what Ted was dealing with. There was no malice in it, but for Ted, a guy who once implied that any man who was raped in prison…

Kevin is already agreeing to speak with his father and attempts to find out what he wants, he just doesn't go all the way. Otherwise he would have just had his men surround Kevin Sr. the moment he entered the diner.

You make some fair points though rewatching the scene I don't think its clear as to how much Kevin Sr. knows though he obviously doesn't have a full understanding of what the voices in his head want. Still, I feel like there are natural follow up questions that Kevin does not ask. Granted he's frustrated with his…

I have a love hate relationship with Lindelof's writing in that there are things that I like about it and things that I find incredibly frustrating about it. I realize the vagueness of certain scenes is intentional, the issue I have is that often times it feels like he's just stringing the audience along. I get that…

Sure, but Damon was still the co-showrunner, which means he led the writers in breaking the episodes and deciding roughly how most of the scenes would play out. I'm also sure that like most showrunners he made a pass on each script regardless of whether or not his name is on it. Usually while the writer of a specific…

The diner scene with Kevin and his father reminded me of the worst parts of Lost. Of course Kevin's father can't just come out and say the significance of the magazine, he has to speak vaguely and Kevin has to blow up at him rather than continuing to ask what's going on. There were several fill in the blank…

To steal a line from Hart when I see people trying to completely dismiss everything Rust says in his monologues, they often sound panicked. They often won't take the time to explain why Rust's philosophy is so ridiculous or what alternatives they consider to be "mature philosophy", instead the fact that Rust's words…

Apparently David Goyer wanted to use Two Face as the main villain of the third film, but Nolan just wanted to take it one movie at a time and have each tell a complete story. He also wasn't entirely sure if he would do another one so that also factored in.

The dreams being mostly realistic is pretty vital to the film in more ways than one. Mal refused to believe she was actually awake, Cobb is ready to blow his brains out after every mission if his top doesn't stop spinning, and the ending of the film is meant to make the audience question if the entire ending (or…

His comment about people in their basement was aimed at bloggers who just comment on things and pass around info without doing any investigation of their own. He feels that this can never replace journalism but does think that the future of journalism is online.

I thought the Reek chapters fit with one of the main themes of the asoiaf books which is about the nature of identity and how they're constructed. Theon, Arya, Jamie, and Sansa's stories to all deal with this to one extent or another. Theres also once again, the theme of redemption and frankly, I thought what happens…

According to the commentaries only about half of the material George wrote ended up in the episode he is credited with. The rest got shuffled around at the last minute into other episodes. None of the Theon scenes were written by him.

My issue with the Guilty Remnants isn't just that we don't know what their goals are, but I also don't have a good understanding of what would drive someone to join them. I get that some people might latch onto a cult following something like this "rapture", but why this cult? Even with Wayne, he seemed to have a…

People say Ozymandias should have been the finale because it represented Walt's downfall, but to me thats just the climax. The real conclusion and what the show was really building towards was Walt's confession to Skylar in Felina.

Yeah, where I part with other people who didn't like Sklyer was that I actually thought she was most interesting in season 4. It felt like she had the most agency in that season, coming up with clever plans and taking a more active role in the story.

You've got to admit theres something irresistible about the narrative of one of Cleveland's own sons (technically from Akron, but whateves) leading them to the state's first championship in decades. Considering how deadly serious we take sports in this country, he might as well be a religious figure.