It's like Twitter: it is what you make it. If you follow a bunch of Supernatural fangirls, all you'll see is posts about that. If you follow a bunch of Justin Bieber fangirls on Twitter, that's also all you'll see.

"Latent bitchiness"? I always thought it was glaringly obvious.

It was a disappointing episode after the long break.

@avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus That's true but later when Lorelai confronts him about it doesn't he say something like "I say 'I love you' and she just sits there." I think that's just the gist of it. He pressured her into saying "I love you" when she wasn't ready and then got pissed that she was…

I liked Rachel, because I thought she was written to actually be likable, whereas all his other partners—specifically Nicole and Anna—I felt like we were supposed to hate (and I did — they were awful characters).

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus That's really interesting, I never knew that. I've always wondered how her S7 would have looked, and honestly I think the S6 finale is really incredibly heartbreaking (in kind of the best ways) but I just hated everything that happened leading up to it, particularly…

But the Dean who built Rory a car was also the same Dean who broke up with her in that same car when she couldn't say "I love you" to him when they had been dating for THREE MONTHS. I just can't with him. There is almost nothing redeeming about him but supposedly he was the "perfect boyfriend." Please.

As much as I *hate* April, I thought he showed some real growth there. I think that forced him to sort of shed the exterior he put up, even though he used it as a mechanism to distance himself from Lorelai.

But there was no "there" there.

This show did dreams so perfectly. They were usually fairly true to life, as a dream would be, but always surreal, as a dream would be, too. Like Lorelai's "Say Something" dream, or the one with a hundred alarm clocks, or the real Paul Anka and dog Paul Anka.

I can't hate "Diorama" for that suuuper weird town history thing with the deaf mannequin and the girl at the end shouting "And I love Jesus!" That always makes me LOL.

Rory mentions once that he doesn't serve pancakes but has moved on to "international cuisine" but kept the name because he printed a million napkins with "Al's Pancake World" on them.

From what I gather the GG fandom (like, the ones who have crazy knowledge about the series) find his voice rather grating, specifically the way he writes Lorelai (I think the opinion is that she comes off as too mean in his scripts). I'm not sure I know enough to have an opinion one way or the other, but he has…

I wish we could've seen Al once or his Pancake World.

Cinnamon's Wake is an example of the show being in love with its quirkiness, which could be really grating or curiously endearing.

Ugh Dean. Every time I re-watch I become more annoyed and disgusted with his character. His "courting" of Rory should have sent up major red flags. These episodes did air 13 years ago, so I have to wonder if our gauge for what is normal or attractive has changed (I have the same problem watching My So-Called Life and…

You can say the same for any series, but the loss of Bromell has nothing to do with that. As it is there's no indication, from the limited info out there on S3, that it will be ridiculous.

The Homeland writers room has now lost three of its five writers from the first two seasons (Meredith Stiehm and Alex Cary were the other two). The abruptness of this loss is obviously a factor. Bromell was a gifted writer and wrote some of the best episodes of Homeland ("Q&A", as noted, as well as the polygraph…

There are two kinds of settling: "settling (down)," which Marnie assumed she and Charlie were doing (rightly or wrongly, who's to say?) and "settling" for something you're better than or that you're capable of more than. Marnie and Charlie presumably did both. Shoshanna thought she was doing both and so left, and…

I think it suggests the egotism and superficiality that weaves itself in and out of this world Dunham has created. It also goes back to these characters "trying on" different roles and personas and seeing which ones fits, which ones don't, etc.