So good.

Me:  "Hey, an 'A' review of a show I don't watch!" *ignores completely*

It wasn't consistent at all with her prior portrayal, but she was never portrayed consistently.

Someone pointed out to me – and I think that they're right – that Fraction actually only moves the main story forward when it's being drawn by Aja.  You can remove every non-Aja issue and still understand the main plot of the book perfectly, and not miss any essential moment.

Can you or someone else explain to me the appeal of Kate/Noh-Varr?  I know that the internets are championing the casual sex, but for the life of me I can't understand the progression from

Karen Gillan is a comedienne?  As in standup? Sitcom?  Why have I not heard about this?  Question mark?

While Marvel definitely has a few exceptions to this, you're mostly right.  Humberto Ramos is another divisive artist who gets constant work for the same reason.

His covers are actually pretty good when he goes for a concept-cover that doesn't feature people. He's definitely done pornstar covers (his various Ultimate covers were egregious), but his Iron Man covers have mostly just been really high quality renders of things.

I feel like there are multiple Canadian networks that use those two shows to pad out their programming.  FX Canada is just going with the flow!

Huh…  I was wondering what the Canadian rights situation does.  I'd love to see what an internet-formatted soap was like, but alas I only have the two basic cable packages, and thus FX Canada is out of my reach.  

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There is, however, a danger that the characters can become too broad and undefined for the comedy to work as well.  This season and last season worked largely because they blew up their characters' attributes, and made them cartoonish-yet-knowable.

I agree with everything you're saying here.  If they excised the Alex/Dave breakup, or had gone with a more easily doable wedding concept (that didn't require a cold-opening full of meta jokes to justify), I suspect the episode would have been stronger.

I transcribed the articles from the newspaper that Max was featured in during last week's episodes!

"You guys look like Venus and Jane Williams."  - That may be my favourite one liner of the season. Great wordplay. The first episode got top marks based on that alone.

Mr. Sims, mentions that Happy Endings has always been about abrupt changes, but it's actually carried its themes pretty consistently for the most part. The Dave/Alex relationship, in particular, had a remarkably consistent two-season arc until it suddenly stopped.

She had her elements of pragmatism, sure, but she also ended up tied to a chair and tortured because of needless bitchiness. True pragmatism, as Katherine used to show, is the ability to make people into your allies.

I know.  It was nice for them to bookend things for us in the audience..

Can we all just agree that Allison is the best character on Orphan Black?  Because she is.  Don't get me wrong, Sarah is great, but there's something about Allison that's terribly a unique…  It's hard to write uptight soccermom without coming the character coming off as either a caricature, or as realistic-boring.

New characters having not worked previously is irrelevant to whether they'll work in the future, when they're introduced naturally as part of a shift in environment.  Alaric was introduced this way, as a replacement for the dead history teacher, and it worked great.