Thanks to that video I'm going to be watching the final episode of Breaking Bad with that voice in my head every time Walter White opens his mouth.

I figured Skye had to join SHIELD if only because otherwise Coulson locking her in a room where an agent with Level 6 clearance had been given a truth serum would have been incredibly stupid. Just think how much intelligence she could have gotten out of him. I mean, it's still a stupid move, but at least now you can…

> The first hurdle any art must jump through must be entertainment (maybe
some of the works of Joyce and Beckett are the exceptions)

There were rumours that J August Richards was going to be playing Luke Cage (obviously proven incorrect), but a more street-level series would work well on a smaller TV budget.

Barry Windsor Smith covers!

@avclub-efb3d8be0319721ef751da0b05d9f6a5:disqus "So I find myself legitimately wondering which characters fall into the valley between those two competing needs."

Uatu - "Conceivable that they may introduce a similar character but with a different name and more grounded look." Like a bald guy with a fedora maybe?

@markmays:disqus Coulson being the Vision is a theory that's popped up elsewhere as well. I like the idea, especially with the Scarlet Witch being introduced in Avengers 2.

@avclub-1e850f6bef0bc36ca1f64e95ff1cbd2e:disqus I saw Steranko's name flit past in the "special thanks" section of the credits.

This idea of innovation being defined in terms of ironic self-reflexivity is something that's grown out of the postmodern/poststructuralist schools of cultural theory. It's a very narrow definition of innovation in my opinion.

Man, what a stereotypical portrayal of theatre nerds!

I don't think anybody in this thread who likes the show has suggested that someone who doesn't has to continue to watch it. If there's another show more compatible with your (the generic 'your', not the particular 'your') sensibility, have at it.

I dunno about the Powers comparison. Events seem to get away from Walker and Pilgrim more often than not. And the comic, despite Oeming's cartoony art, gets dark. Real dark. Much darker than Marvel will ever let its universe, especially the cinematic universe tailored to the mainstream, get.

@banksofnoon
She's a Cathollic raised to be a "good girl" and is uncomfortable in situations that require her to lie. She's a scientist with a PhD in microbiology who works for a big pharmaceutical company. (She hasn't been a waitress for a while.) She rakes in big bucks and feels comfortable being the primary…

One of my top 5 comments in this thread.

@avclub-b750f74544cb00c138079607276995e9:disqus The teaser (the best cold open the show ever did) where Leonard and Penny are in bed and he says "I love you" and she's clearly clearly unwilling to say it back. Oh man. Funny as all get-out, but the feels, the feels for Leonard. The feels.

You know what's really sad?

They've pulled the "leaving in the season finale" trope at least three times now. They always come back at the start of the next season though.

Until a couple of months ago I had no idea that The Cheesecake Factory was a real thing. I thought it was a fictional restaurant made up for the show. I had no idea it was product placement. It's like when I discovered that Harold and Kumar went to a real place too.

It's okay. It really doesn't meta.