You and every single garage sale from the late 80s through the early 90s,

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

This is some pretty hackneyed writing.  A series finale is not "a rite of passage" nor is finishing anything, ever, a way to "rest on its laurels."  One does not express a quirk, and having an uncompelling lead is neither a quirk nor interesting  "A painful need"?  "Zeitgeist of a micro-generation"?   A series always…

This is some pretty hackneyed writing.  A series finale is not "a rite of passage" nor is finishing anything, ever, a way to "rest on its laurels."  One does not express a quirk, and having an uncompelling lead is neither a quirk nor interesting  "A painful need"?  "Zeitgeist of a micro-generation"?   A series always…

Yawn.  Worst episode of the season.  Every season.

Yawn.  Worst episode of the season.  Every season.

I think there are ethical considerations as far as piracy is concerned that aren't entirely addressed here.  I agree with you nearly 100% about television and film, in that the enormity of the budgets needed to make this kind of quality programming necessitate a very strong, zero-tolerance approach to piracy.  But…

I don't think you could be any more wrong.  Replace Johnny Cakes with a woman and I think the plotline loses all of its defenders, more than its detractors.  It was a tangent storyline, taking a character that had previously been little more than set dressing and spending a significant amount of time, in the show's…