"Also, while you're putting chocolate syrup on your sundae, you'll die someday too, no matter what steps you take to prevent it. Ooo - sprinkles!"

My question is, how long had Melissa been off her meds before actually having the breakdown?

The Day After was the first mass entertainment vehicle to seriously deal with the terror, helplessness, and inevitability of death surrounding a full-scale nuclear war as it happened. Most of the rest of the "nuke scare" entertainment was horror fare about mutations or Twilight Zone episodes featuring California…

I get all that. And I don't disagree with your assessment at face value. But again, it puts two elements of the canon at odds with each other. I think for your position to be true, a vampire cannot be a soulless entity animating and mimicking a dead body - it would have to be a dead person brought back to life with…

I dunno, Hubbard's writing is a lot less contradictory and boring than the Book of Mormon.

It's not unfair - it's an attempt to reconcile what happened in the show with the canon about the nature of vampires. If Spike indeed did all this altruistically, it blows up what we're supposed to understand about Spike as a vampire, not to mention the motivation for him getting his soul back (why would he be capable…

The drone crashing was telegraphed as obviously as Lewis' death, and yet I laughed out loud at both parts. Will Forte's humor just pushes all of my buttons perfectly for some reason.

Yep - posted the same thing a few episode threads ago. I think we're all in for a pretty gruesome slog as everyone else gets around to dying. And I can't wait.

Yeah, we all pretty much knew Lewis was going to die. But I have to admit, I thought he'd have crashed on landing or flown into a mountain or something. I have to give kudos to the writing staff that they went with the blackest humor possible with the sight gag of him abruptly nosediving into the tarmac. I may be…

I wish he would have mentioned that he based Spike's accent off of Anthony Stewart Head's actual accent. Until he mentioned that in an interview when the show was running, I never would have guessed in a million years that Tony's natural accent wasn't Giles' speaking voice.

The question then becomes - why did he do that? Because he coveted the Slayer. I don't know that I would attribute Spike's behavior to altruism - more to selfishness. He wanted the Slayer, this was the best way to optimize his chances.

Name-calling only makes you feel better about yourself. It doesn't affect me, and it doesn't change my conviction that trying to spin Donald Trump's own words and actions into liberal media bias is a sign of weakness.

Non-sequitur: Even after all of these years, the Thanksgiving episode where Spike, tied to a chair with Indian arrows shot through him, yells, "YOU MADE A BEAR!" remains one of my all-time faves.

If you read the Thundercant thread where he quotes an article from The Hill about media bias against Trump, they also have an update on Ivanka Trump's clothing line in their sidebar links.

Willlllllburrrrrrrr!

Citing biased media to point out media bias is a wonderful demonstration of circular reasoning.

Also obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

Stop crucifying this guy!

There's a hole in my hand that can only be filled by youuuuuuuuuuuu…

What if God was one of us?