It's kind of both to me. As in, it's satisfying to watch, and I feel Marty and Dana are sufficiently justified in their actions to not just sit there shouting 'stupid selfish idiots!' at the screen, but the ending is unquestionably a negative one. Humanity sucks; we should just give up and save what little soul we…

Yeah, that bit that's impossible to scratch! Hey, maybe the zombie yanked it out to have another go and then tripped over his feet and impaled himself on his own trowel, thus giving Marty a distinct advantage.

I loved Lily asking Ted if he knew what this was about. That just seemed like such a natural friend moment in amongst all the wackiness.

You bet Barney would have told them as soon as they were old enough to understand human speech. I can just picture Ted's face when his baby daughter's first word is 'stripper.'

Yeah, it's like by repressing it he just kind of got stuck in that phase. But to be fair, Ted's in love with being in love as well, so he's not the slowest developer around…

That's a damn good point. Hmm. I really don't know what makes most sense here…

I've just noticed though that it gives us YAY? - which seems appropriate, given the mixed response…

There are enough good YA novels that are less like the training-wheels version of an adult story and more like a condensed version, with all the side digressions and social commentary taken out and the story just boiled down to its most personal core.

Yeah, I think Susan's omission is because she's obsessing about being a grown-up and no longer has time for childish things like faith in invisible lions, which is understandably presented as a negative in the story given a) the story and b) the target audience. It's just unfortunate for CS Lewis that his shorthand…

What I really want is to find another Tomorrow When The War Began. But I accept that's probably asking a bit much.

I'm surprised recent episodes are working for you if you find season 1 slow, to be honest. It took me a while to get into the show, certainly, but ever since I've assumed it's basically moving at the same glacial pace and no-one coming in from outside would understand it. I guess episodes have got a little more packed…

But I still think he'd say no to another invitation. The point of dinner parties is to share anecdotes about yourself or listen to those about other people. Don doesn't like people asking him who he is, and he doesn't like people bragging about who they are. He enjoyed himself here because a) Ken wasn't bragging, but…

It's interesting though to wonder whether Pete thinks Don knows. He probably wouldn't suspect Peggy would tell anyone about even having a baby, since she didn't tell him until way afterwards, and I guess he'd assume she just came back to work on her own, rather than needing a Don pep-talk. So… both Don and Pete know…

Hah, excellent catch. I remembered Marvin disabling the police ship on Magrathea by just talking to it, but had forgotten about the similarly suicidal bridge. Ah, Marvin.

I think she's sort of aware of it, but just sees it as an inconvenient facet of him which he should really try to grow out of and which she can combat with being supportive. And weirdly, it kind of works (or did when Pete didn't just see her as an extension of the house and baby).

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Oh, I'm definitely enjoying the discussion too, or I wouldn't still be here! (I saw it last Wednesday, but none of my good friends have seen it yet, and I was overflowing with thoughts and squee so the AV Club lost out…)

I definitely agree that they are prolonging the tropes and that somehow this is important to the elder gods, even if they are the only ones who see it. (Except they're not: everyone who works in that facility goes home to a family and unconsciously spreads the low-grade evil that's now embedded in their frame of…

Er… you're kind of missing the point that these posts were transferred across from the non-spoiler review comments for me by the helpful Mr Ryan after this Spoiler Space thread was opened up. So I was originally trying to not spoil people who actually hadn't seen it and might legitimately be reading the review thread,…

The thing about individualism and not killing your friends has been in his work since the start of Buffy, though. The difference is that Buffy would find a way not to kill her friends and find a way to save the world. I mean, take "The Gift." She absolutely decides that a) killing Dawn to save the world is not an…