Really uneven
This piece was really uneven. The actual album is almost an afterthought, only briefly talked about, and then the article just ends. Did we really need another reflection on "Michael Jackson?" (Or a diversion in to mark-to-market accounting?) With this series, I figured we'd learn more about the record…

So far…
I much preferred the first season of Veronica Mars as a straight up murder mystery. This show is too quick to rule out suspects—like the high school boys being brought up and exonerated so quickly in a single episode. Also, that show had little episodic mysteries that allowed details about the overall murder…

Chang sucks
I used to not mind Chang so much, that is, first season teacher Chang. I didn't even mind when his main role was outsider wanting into the study group. He is really starting to ruin this show for me now though, since he's become something of a psycho and now actually has a central part in the plot. I did…

Conant is such a DICK. I was really hoping they would make him compete in the All Stars so that he could see how friggin' hard it is to do what they do. I think Zakarian is competing, so perhaps he will be humbled somewhat.

Seriously, listen to "Down By The Water" and sing "The One I Love" along to it and they match up perfectly. I couldn't tell when I heard it whether it was a blatant rip off or a respectful homage.

I think the problem with Cuddy is that the show has always just used her as a plot device, not a real character that we should care about. Turning her into House's love interest was the epitome of that, and when the writers decided they had played out that card they ended it. Trying to analyze her motivations is…

So many things wrong with this episode…
Let's start with the fact that finding video of a sociopath threatening to kill people and throwing pipe bombs is not really a moral dilemma in this post-Columbine, post-Virginia Tech world. The dialogue in the episode as everyone tried to downplay the seriousness of that was…

Subscriptions
How do subscriptions to things like Rhapsody count when the industry does all its tallying? Do labels get any returns on people listening to their bands? Do they take their revenues from those into account as an offset of shrinking sales and downloads? I signed up for Rhapsody this year and didn't buy a…

Yeah, I just re-read the part where you talk about the intersection of "uncool" and "cool" alternative music and the way people like to forget that they liked music that was uncool, which you obviously are not doing with this series. Point there is well taken. Maybe I'm just still bitter because no one ever…

Not usually…I think you've given some great reflections in previous posts. We are about the same age, so you've really brought back to me a lot of what I was experiencing with music in the early to mid-1990s. Maybe I'm reacting the way I did because in 1994 I really liked Live and just wasn't exposed to what are now…

disappointed
I've really enjoyed this series, but I think this installment is a real let down. Hyden says that he wanted to connect with why his younger self liked this music, but instead we get a hipster screed about why pop-alternative sucked and wasn't nearly as cool as the usual suspects of Pavement, GBV etc. I'm…

Please!
Please make a Camacho movie!

What I meant by literary was that Walt's actions leading to a plane crash was not very realistic, but it worked as a great device that brought home the themes of the season, of how he harms everyone around him. Bringing that down to earth in terms of basic "real-life" plot just didn't work for me; the newscasts, all…

A?
This episode was nowhere near the series' best. The plane crash as a literary-type culmination to the end of last season was powerful, but working it in as a plot-mover to start this season was tedious. Walter's double talk was laughable and annoying…we get it, Walter lies to himself and everyone else. The high…

Since Jann and Wain did a lot of the camera work, I actually think Holoubek ends up being the most expendable.

I found the dubbing really distracting, especially in the Barry and Levon sketch. That was probably the worst offender though. I also thought the music changes had a real impact. Without the right music, the timing of the jokes just seems off. A sketch like Pants is timed so perfectly to the Breeders' "Cannonball"…

I wasn't figuring that they would uncover so much before this season was out. I figured the unraveling of Walt's lies would be part of next season. Clearly the writers wanted to get beyond that and move into new territory. Which is actually exciting, just the rush to get there left me underwhelmed.

7 weeks later . . .
For a show that can milk such tense drama out of minutes and hours, I was really put off by the whole skipping of 7 weeks of time and the amount of action—Schuyler's detective work in uncovering Walt's lies—that gets unloaded only in dialogue.