The idea that more than one woman would touch Erlich with a ten-foot pole requires a bit more suspension of disbelief than I can muster up.

I figured it was only a matter of time until they pulled the "ditzy fake geek girl flirting with nerds to make them do things for her" thing, but it's a disappointment nonetheless.

If this were the first ever remote indication of Ginsberg being potentially attracted to men, you might be right, but as I said, I don't think it is—I've always gotten that vibe from him. You're right in that there was much more open support for homophobia then, which is what makes it all the more noteworthy and…

That sounds like a reasonable way for it to pan out. I don't know where they'll actually go with it, or if it'll ever be mentioned again, but it would work for me. I am on board with any plotline that involves people throwing money at poor put-upon Jared.

It would be awesome if Jared had the stones to do that, but I can't imagine him suing anyone for anything. Maybe Erlich could put aside his hatred of the guy and start pretending to care about him in order to try to convince him to sue and walk him through the process, though—that could be a funny episode.

I was wondering about that too, but I think the quoted four days was referring to driving time, like, what it would theoretically be if the car were to somehow drive across the ocean bottom. The shipping container presumably traveled faster, and the rest of the episode took place over the course of a weekend, so I…

I'm really sorry if I made it sound like I thought his being bi had anything to do with his mental illness! I don't think they're linked; I just think that he happens to be both bisexual and schizophrenic, and that his repression of/shame about his sexuality—not the sexuality itself—was a source of unhappiness, and so…

I hope you're right. It would definitely never be consistent for the character—it would be totally antithetical to everything we know about him, honestly—but I'm starting to lose faith in the writing.

I always thought the show did a good job of providing possible alternate explanations for that stuff, though, even if it did ultimately prove to be a fakeout. It was always more a question of "what type and level of mental illness does he have" than "does he have one at all," but I still maintain that the Martian…

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't immediately descend on anyone remotely critical with their Snotty Moderator Claws. I have had the dubious honor of being responded-to just so they could tell me how dumb I was.

Maybe they'll get enough of it out of their system in the regular recap that it'll be at a tolerable level in the style post. I mean, Ginsberg wasn't wearing anything that noteworthy that I can remember, but I'm never good at picking up on all the stuff they do, so we'll probably get paragraphs about how his baggy…

I have never missed one of those, but I'm going to have to take a pass this week. The self-satisfaction will be suffocating.

He's a mother hen.

Christ Jesus. Which of Matt Weiner's family members did Ben Feldman run over, exactly? That's a hell of an exit.

Weiner seems to be going for broke with the tired violent-crazy-person tropes, so a lot higher than I'd like them to be. Fuck.

I guess I was always hoping that what they were doing was more of a Billy Pilgrim thing, with the horrors of Vietnam triggering the latent PTSD from his formative years in WWII—not that that's very different, but it would have given me a little more hope for him, for reasons I can't totally explain. Paranoid…

I've read Ginsberg as being probably-bisexual ever since one of his early episodes where he was checking out the Chevalier Blanc guy's ass while Don and Stan made homophobic jokes, and there have been little bits of possible support for it sprinkled in since then, like his quick the-lady-doth-protest-too-much…

And I always thought Tom and Lorenzo were being insufferable smug idiots with their insistence that he meant the Martian speech literally and was therefore a ticking schizophrenic time bomb.

That was Matt Weiner alternating between furious masturbation and revenge for whatever terrible thing I presume Ben Feldman must have done.

Oh, boy. Well, I won't be a dick and spoil anything, but, uh, brace yourself.