Glad to see a fellow 'Richard III' fan. I don't meet enough of them.

Love Benjamin as much as the next guy but whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what was that about 'Home Movies'?

If only I could get him to leave that damn sunbeam…

That's fair. I'm still left with the impression that it was the interim time that did it, given that it looked like the pursuit of al Zuhari was well underway by the time Baxter was killed. But Scott and Stonebridge's vacation timeline leaves this possibility open, too. I guess I always imagined Dalton as aloof enough…

Could very well be true, but it's still no closer to sincerity as a depiction of homosexuality. Might be even worse, actually, now that I think about it.

Hmm. You bring up a valid point, I think, if you look at some of the women who have been on the "good side" of this show — Katara, who's very maternal; the saintly (and mostly dead) mothers that commenters above have mentioned. But then you always have counterexamples — Toph, most obviously, who shares a lot of…

I share your disappointment in that respect, definitely. But I think it might have been motivated by the fact that the creators weren't sure, early on, if they'd get a second season. Meant the story in the first had to be self-contained, with just enough of it left to tell that they could keep it going, if they got…

True, and I do think they deserve credit for having gone — I'm sure they anticipated that response. Still, I'd have been happier if the show provided some example of nonnormative sexuality that wasn't burdened by an individual's position as an enemy in its universe, or else part of a ruse, as with Richmond and…

I think they’re leaning a bit too heavily on that period of time between seasons to explain what seems like a pretty drastic shift in Dalton’s character, one I felt a bit too drastic to be reasonable. But maybe that’s just because I really enjoyed Dalton for her competence. Which isn’t to say that even the most…

@avclub-a61f27ab2165df0e18cc9433bd7f27c5:disqus : Fuck, Pökler and his daughter. Reading that section of 'Gravity's Rainbow' was one of those moments that made me acutely aware of what's palpable in the background every time you read Pynchon's writing — just how powerfully that deeper heart beats under so many of the…

You're probably right. I'll admit I haven't done that yet. And reading comments from other folks also reminds me that 'The Last Airbender''s debut was far from perfect, and so it may not be entirely fair to judge a complete series against a fledgling one faced with the burden of matching such high expectations.

I had the same knee-jerk reaction to the stuff about Korra's dad. It felt like yet another instance of this show's occasionally flimsy and troubling plotting. Then I EDITED: had a theory, but other folks in this thread are much better viewers than I am and it turned out to be totally off. Never mind.

Yeah, with this show and the stuff in 'The Search,' I'm starting to think of  'The Last Airbender' as the only Avatar series in my headcanon. Everything they've tried to expand the universe with just seems tepid in comparison ('Korra'), or utterly wrongheaded ('The Search'). 'Korra' was a particular disappointment for…

Holy fuck, this trailer is horrible!

True, and well-put.

This might be silly — and shooting fish in a barrel, given the masculine edge with which the show's marketed — but the gender politics of some moments of Episode 2 kind of bugged me. Stonebridge saving Martinez, Scott and Kamali saving Rebecca, Locke saving Dalton more or less twice (once in Lebanon, and again at base…

Oh, AT&T's customer service. One time our house lost its Internet connection — we found out later it was because a squirrel ate through one of AT&T's wires, bizarrely enough — and we called for a technician. It was a Tuesday. They told us to expect someone on Thursday, some time between the hours of 8am and 8pm.

damn it, cannot unsee

"If other shows have 'bottle episodes' where all the action takes place in one setting, then you might say that Six Feet Under has 'bottle-up episodes' (forgive me for that)"

Agreed about Hank; just a fantastic fucking character. But the comparison with Dean — I'm thinking it has a lot to do with the way their characters and circumstances have been written, as well, which makes me inclined to go easy on Dean.