Gothic Fiction Geek Pedantry:

The love for House of Cards makes me irrationally hate it, rather than simply find it to be a poorly crafted piece of technically competent television.

Oooh, I forgot Continuum!

Neither, since it takes place "at home", and declines to make political statements.

Seasons 1.5 — 3.5 of TVD are genuinely good television, with Season 2 being genuinely great television. Season 4 is tremendously weak, with some notable exceptions, while season 5 is uneven but definitely better than season 4.

I LOVED Continuum this year. It's batshit-crazy plotting speed reached a new level, and I think it's fantastic that it doesn't really bother to remind you of what happened earlier.
Hell, there's a lot of stuff in the plotting that simply isn't fully explained until more than a season later, or even not at all… But…

ENLISTED MOTHERFUCKERS.

There are eight names listed there, not five.

I highly recommend watching Perfume's performance at the 2013 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. It utilizes transforming dresses and projection mapping, and it's absolutely fantastic:

Also agree.

I agree completely. The comment sections are becoming increasingly preactionary.

Wanting to have sex is weak?

I felt the opposite. To me the lack of in-text engagement with it was the point. The writers wanted viewers to think about a situation where both main sides were ideologically blind to each other's point of view, and the bystanders (e.g. Carlos) didn't have enough knowledge or information to do anything about it.

Whenever he shows up in anything the word VANCOUVER should start flashing repeatedly all over the screen.

This is also sort of a cultural issue. For various reasons, Canadians don't tend to be as concerned about government overreach as Americans are. I'd say that the notion of government as being facile, self-interested, and ineffective is probably a much greater cultural concern than the state becoming too authoritarian.

I agree with the "chosen one" idea, especially since they're playing it so that Alec has more or less run towards the idea of having a special destiny, whereas Julian has actually moved away from his natural path due to the whole "you're Theseus!" vibe.

They were completely mindless. He would have been liberating thousands of vegetables into a society that doesn't exactly have a great social welfare system.

A society can't take on a vestige of something that it's never been.

Do you mean the 21st century? But no, you're not one of the only people who remembers. (On the internet, the answer to that question is always "no".)
Literally one of the last things that Sonya did was to tell Julian that tens of thousands of people have died because of what he started.

The bronze age and the modern age are different things.