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The whole idea of shutting the lights and cameras down on the bridge before dumping the body was, I think, an unneccesary credibility stretch for that early in the show. Better, I think, to have the body dumped in some dark blind spot that the cameras couldn't see.

I'm kind of curious about the show that the Bridge is based on. I would imagine that, if the concept is exactly the same, the culture shock between two European countries full of blond, Nordic people wouldn't necessarily be that… shocking.

And then the show can marginalize two black actors instead of one? What a great idea!

My process of emotions concerning the Watchmen prequels has almost been like the grief process: Anger, Outrage (at JMS' stupid comments), Mild annoyance, Apathy, Hopefulness (when I heard that they weren't all garbage), Schadenfreude (when they fell behind schedule and the bad reviews rolled in), More annoyance

The thing is, I own all 3 seasons of Arrested Development. I bought them for some ridiculously low price a couple years ago, but have yet to watch them all. I'll get to them. I'm working on five seasons of Dexter right now, though.

Netflix shows:

You're not alone. I watched a couple episodes early on, and it was clearly trying too hard to be outrageous. The idea that, when it started, Breaking Bad was compared to Weeds (because of the suburban drug trafficking angle), is nearly incomprehensible now.

Well, that's certainly what they became. That, and the Black Dossier seemed to be a tremendous "fuck you" to DC.

My 10-year-old son actually liked Green Lantern. I know, but you were young once, too. Anyway, he often asks me, "When are they going to do a sequel to Green Lantern, Dad?" I don't have the heart to tell him that there is almost no chance that that steaming pile would ever rate another movie.

Despite my typical wrong showrunner/wrong time misgivings, I think the only chance of this show playing would be on FX.

Vaughn wrote the pilot. That's it, so far. He desperately needs to put some time in on this thing.

I accused White House Down of being a degraded copy of Die Hard. And now here comes RIPD, a degraded copy of Men in Black.

So… fucking… conventional…

Early on, I dared entertain the idea that Junior would just let her go this week. He'd just look around, and acknowledge, "you know, this whole scheme isn't going anywhere," and just set her free. Wouldn't that be refreshing?

?!?

Three episodes, and the seams are starting to show. Here's a question: A big deal was made in the pilot about the dome bisecting a cow. But how come no similar damage was sustained to the building at the cement factory? It appears that, when the dome enclosed the property, it retained its structural integrity. I

Yeah, well… the level of self-mythologizing among currrent rappers is pretty funny. Look at Drake: "Started from the bottom…" Acting on a PBS teen show? In Toronto??! Hah.

She may still not be up on Jay-Z. He is, after all, old. It seems to me that she leans to the more ratchet-leaning rappers, like Juicy J and ASAP Rocky. Oh, and Snoop Lion. But he is ageless.

That is really fucked up, but not entirely unexpected. Those not-Harmon guys really bungled Glover's character last season, making him more Abed's sidekick than equal, and clumsily ending his relationship with Britta. He had to feel he had little to lose.

Sex leaves a lot to be desired (yuk, yuk). I admittedly only read issue #2, and could parse nothing from its seemingly random events and sketchy characters.I don't know where he could take the series from there, but find it difficult to care.