Now that Revolution is cancelled, I hope Ben Edlund goes back to writing for Supernatural. The writers they've had this season have been fucking dreadful.

I don't get the YA for adults trend, either, and yet my 39 year-old self will cop to very recently enjoying the shit out of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Maybe it's just the pee-wee dystopia and urban fantasy stuff that ticks me off. EDIT: Also, Sherman Alexie isn't really a YA author, anyway.

I have clearly defined and sometimes strong pop culture tastes, but I can't take one or two things in isolation and pronounce them dealbreakers. That said, I do find political stridency of any stripe to be very unappealing.

Right. Because the publishing and recording industries totally aren't accountable to corporate forces.

As my Jewish friends are fond of saying, Jews for Jesus are properly called Christians.

It's true that politicians who claim her as a hero now tend to overlook her militant atheism and unconditional support of abortion rights. However, a lot of her "philosophy" merely grew from a very justifiable bitterness over the Bolsheviks' shabby treatment of her secular Jewish family during her childhood in Russia.…

That's something I never understood, either. It's proficient, enjoyable stuff, and I even own a few of their earlier albums. Sure, fratboys love them, and nobody likes fratboys (or at least no bien-pensant music afficionados with carefully curated playlists do). But having a Neutral Milk Hotel album in your collection…

Funny thing is that it was set in Baton Rouge but shot mostly in New Orleans.

I will watch for that reason if nothing else.

I think that's exactly it. And then there are writers who give twentysomething characters the musical tastes of thirty- or fortysomethings.

Shame about The Tomorrow People. It was just starting to get watchable, mainly thanks to Mark Pellegrino.

I think the stubble is there for a reason. Clearly Dean is growing the Beard of Cain.

It was. It only jumped out at me differently because I live in New Orleans.

Completely wrong, too, unless this past football season went down differently in the SPN universe.

If Chuck was God, then surely Becky is Metatron.

How that you mention her, I just had a thought. Maybe this entire season is just Becky's fanfic magnum opus.

That would be my fondest wish, but I no longer trust the writers to do that capably.

Agreed. This season was sloppy on the front, and the mess just kept spreading. The Mark of Cain came too late in the season to be much help. I think it all went wrong in the last ten minutes of the S8 finale. Surely the could have found a better way to feature Misha Collins more prominently without introducing all the…

Dean's story is just about the only thing I've found enjoyable this season. (Well, I did like the Abaddon v. Crowley struggle but not its resolution.) I couldn't give a tin shit about Metatron's lousy fan fiction or the angels, and Misha Collins has largely gone to waste this season, despite ascending to series…

I think I'd have a bigger problem with the show's treatment of women if I'd had high expectations in the first place. As soon as I saw Mary Winchester immolated on the ceiling of Sam's nursery in the pilot, I had a pretty good idea of what I'd signed up for.