I think its' because they have to have something on stage that night- and it's more important at this point to have _a_ show than to have _the best possible_ show, so they can't afford to fire Derek or get him so pissed off he walks. Today. So Julia, Tom and Eileen have to back down.

I'd like to think the judge would send him to the chair just for being him.

There's actually some really interesting places the show could go with this next season, if the characters have full knowledge of their fairytale selves, but a much greater possible range of action and free will, because no one is writing their story anymore.

I was gonna break the curse, until I got high…

Maybe now we can get a Happy Endings/Don't Trust the Biscuit lineup.

Read Rule 34 by Charles Stross, for a good look at what kind of ick replicators could get up to.

I think the show needs to end on a reprise of "Let Me Be Your Star" sung by a drag-queen Marilyn.

The fatal flaw in this week's Doug Loves Movies was both Doug and Sarah Silverman dancing across the ever subtle "too high" barrier. It really sounded like Sarah was not expecting the quality of Doug's stash before the show.

Any word on differences between the East Coast and West Coast airings?

Or like Bad Girls' Club with fewer venereal diseases.

Avant-garde stop-motion animation pioneer.

Norbert Leo Butz as  DiMaggio next season please. And Ivy is probably on shaky ground accusing Karen of not having to work for her breaks, given that her mother is Bernadette Peters. Even if she's trying to make it on her own, that fact must have gotten her an audition or two early on.

With Jack Davenport wearing a very Captain Jack duster, I was thinking maybe Steven Moffat could take him back and put him in Doctor Who or Sherlock.

I do wonder if she has a brother who's STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF AFGHANISTAN.

Ellis should have been first up against the wall.

@avclub-c5aecbdb52a3d4b3be40d5fb46c3386d:disqus Actually, given that the hybrid was "mitochondrial Eve" I think the most likely course of events is that the alien microbes hitchiking on the Galactica crew killed off virtually all of the Earth Humans and Earth microbes killed off most of the Colonial survivors.

@avclub-e14267dedd4e1d0cc0093bc13643fd59:disqus, Watch a few seasons of Coupling to get some perspective on Moffat writing female characters.

Whether this show succeeds or fails, I'm sure Mr. Maron will handle it with maturity, grace, and a zen-like equanimity.

I wonder if the  "elegaic" tone you mention is a particularly British reaction to Apollo; the idea that once it would have been Britain doing these things, not the Americans.

Clearly a Firefly revival should happen on a premium cable network, since thanks to Homeland we know that Morena Baccarin will do nudity.