What a revelation it was when Queen came on the scene in 2010.

[some publicist takes detailed notes re: how to craft effective statement the next time his client gets caught in moment of unguarded honesty]

There are too may potential ulterior motives in play for us to be sure his apology is sincere. Anyone with half a brain can recognize this, and so it's an insult to our intelligence for him to even bother issuing an apology. Only by acknowledging this fact and refusing to issue a public apology could we be certain…

Exactly. We can't know, because there's a lot of money and fame at stake for him and so he has every reason to issue a fake apology. That's why all this fawning over him for his supposed sincerity is silly.

"The usual non-apology apology "I'm sorry if anyone got offended by what I said" would qualify as just that…"

Yeah. Shit's getting surreal lately. First of all, the fact that some clown is following this guy around harassing him all day is ridiculous. Second, the idea that this warrants a public, teary-eyed apology is way over the top. I'd like to hear a celebrity someday say, "Yeah, I'm guilty of [offensive act]. I'm…

The problem with the word is that it's so uniquely hard-hitting from a purely vocal standpoint. It's one of the more forceful SOUNDING nouns in the English language, but unfortunately it also has a highly epithetic meaning. A tragedy, really.

Re: GK's stray observation: Not sure if this was mentioned elsewhere, but the Stan-on-the-bridge scene is his "crossing the Rubicon" moment. As I recall, he stops halfway and then the scene ends. Later we learn that he didn't complete the figurative crossing.

Hi. You probably get this all the time, but YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!!!!

She can definitely be solid in supporting/cameo roles, e.g. her appearance on Friday Night Lights. She just doesn't have leading-lady chops. Which is unfortunate because, like I said, she's great to look at.

Or when they got all indignant when they found out the bogus propeller plans were planted. Although I suppose we the viewers are supposed to recognize that their emotions are biased and hypocritical in these instances.

I haven't seen any of Hannibal. I hear it's excellent. There's definitely an art to making characters sound sufficiently tough without breaking out the big guns, vulgarity-wise. One show that did it well was NYPD Blue, and on network TV no less.

I could be wrong, but I think it was revised at some point today.

It always makes me cringe when they rerun the "scumbags who killed my friends" line during the intro/recap sequence. "Scumbags?" I know it's basic cable and all, but couldn't they have come up with some stronger language coming from a guy who routinely snaps necks without a hint of remorse?

Having skipped over the end of the article to get to the comments, I was in the clear until reading this comment.

You?

Alicia Witt might be the hottest redhead ever, but there's just one problem - she can't act. That's why her career never took off. No way you can follow last season's amazing cast with Witt in a leading role.

"If a screenwriter is pointlessly eschewing female characters because of laziness and bad habit, that's something that they should work to improve."

"…you just don't like it for unspecified reasons."

I respect your viewpoint and I feel like this debate has run its course. I don't really have anything else to add. I appreciate the discussion.