As a non-GG diehard, the first 10 episodes of the show had many, many niggling little issues that kept me from fully embracing it. The back 8 improved many of those issues and did a lot better with stories for the girls and essentially found itself as a show. The back 8 is why I want this show back.

On the plus side, waiting until the kids are all 18 makes setting up the filming schedule much easier. Now they don't have to worry about those pesky time on set limitations for minors!

Seriously. Has he even read Posehn's Deadpool? It's horrible.

I have dutifully collected Uncanny X-Men since around issue #270, and I'm about to drop it for the first time ever because I hate both the team lineup in the book and Bendis' writing on it. Also, I'm trying to be more discerning about how many X-books I pick up.

Austen had a pretty long run on Uncanny, considering how much people hated his writing. I wish Marvel had similarly ignored the haters when they hired manga legend Kia Asimiya to do the art. He was great.

Joe Casey was my least favorite X-Men writer of the past 10-15 years, easy. Even Chuck Austen had a couple of story arcs I enjoyed. Casey was all garbage.

Yeah, it really was. I hated that they retconned the headshot Xavier immediately after Messiah Complex, and when they killed him in AvX he hadn't been a major or even minor character for several years. Just useless.

Jeffrey Jeffrey Jeffrey Jeffrey Jeffrey!!

Me too. I recommended Streetlight Manifesto a few weeks ago and got pretty harshly shot down. But, you know, Tomas Kalnocky's voice can be an acquired taste.

Nah, it was the musical digressions that turned songs like "Wintered Debts" from catchy ideas into great big messes. Also, the apparent lack of anyone in Barnes' camp with the ability to tell him "Exorcismic Breeding Knife" is terrible and, if nothing else, should at least be relegated to a crazy obscure B-side and…

And "Erase Me" on the new BFF album fits too easily into the category of Folds songs where everything is the woman's fault.

Having listened to all of Ben's solo material, I'm pretty sure that Darren isn't the one responsible for the misogyny.

Descendents, because their highs are slightly higher than ALL's best stuff. But not by much.

I was about 15, I think.

I pretty much hated Paralytic Stalks, so this description fills me with hope that Barnes is returning to actual songwriting for this one.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, usually. However, Les ran a Canadian-produced survival reality show featuring kid contestants a couple of years ago (which also ran on Cartoon Network back during their ill-fated attempt to break into live action programming) and I gave up on it after a couple of episodes.

Oh, it absolutely does, I agree. Especially since it seems to be the height of summer in the first episode. We're talking 9-10 months of planned competition (WITH NO RULES!!), which is a little ridiculous. The Out of the Wild shows were at least within about a month's walk to civilization.

Anyone tuning in unaware of the show’s central conceit would probably be a little suspicious at this point; this isn’t an unreasonable extrapolation of where the genre could be by, say, 2020, but it seems implausibly over-the-top today.

You know, they tried exactly what you're describing last year on The River, with mixed results. I'm not saying it's not worth trying again, but so far I'm on board with how they're doing it. I have questions regarding supplies and such for the camera crew and the host, but my wife thinks that's what the locked shed is…

Harper's Island was awesome, cheesy fun. It wasn't good, but it was like watching a great, ridiculous B-movie every week where horrible characters out of an unlikable soap opera got killed in terrible, amazing fashion.