Oh wow.  Oh wow, I wish I could like this comment twice.

@avclub-c156902f5b20b572848be18c11634dfb:disqus  thank you!  hopefully by next Monday I will know.  If I don't mention it, though, assume I didn't get it…

@avclub-70bfc4b7c3a9c57e00e2dc7aa4daa67e:disqus  That makes sense.  I didn't read Unseen Academicals, because I think the wizard stories are his least compelling.  I can't really relate to any of the characters, so I stopped reading along that track.

September sounds great.   My summer TV must-watch shows are Shameless (season 3) and Mad Men (season 6).  I've been spoiled on a lot of Game of Thrones and am trying to decide if I feel like catching up.   On the one hand, Sansa Stark for Queen of Westeros.  On the other, there is so much *new* television out there…

Elementary also!

Hey Franko, how you doing?

What are the smart cool women you know watching? I would like to be considered a smart cool woman, you see.

I've seen this happen for Twilight a little bit, but mostly by feminists on Tumblr, and we all know that's not a serious place for media criticism…

As much as I like Gilmore Girls, did it really receive all that much love from the critics?   I assumed that all the love was from female audiences and their friends and their blogs/fan sites.  Happy to be corrected, though.

I'd agree with this.   I laughed a lot at 30 Rock during most seasons, but I appreciated it most during S7, when Liz started getting some personal life validation/satisfaction.   I got tired of her character as a continual punching bag.

I really enjoyed this article, and it makes me want to take a second look at Grey's Anatomy again.   So you should tell your boss that this piece worked for at least one reader…

Disappointed in you, Hat.  (Becuase we often have the same taste!)  It was a good article making an interesting case for a complicated, flawed culturally relevant TV show.

(belatedly)  ME TOO

I also think that Thud and Snuff were better upon their second readings.  If I didn't love Vimes so much I wouldn't have bothered, but I think Snuff is great especially as it deals with Vimes-the-father, which is less actiony or fantasy than his earlier stuff.  But very poignant and great for the development of the…

What I especially loved about the Aching quartet is how much Pratchett has grown as a writer.  He has always been good at one-off gags, punchlines, and biting satire, but as he's gotten older (perhaps wiser?), his novels have started to have deeply poignant themes about change and maturity and power and success.

Exactly the way I plan to see it!   #freelance life

"This is an intellectual self-defense mechanism that stops me from making dumbass arguments that Candide is a brilliant show if only it was edited in THIS precise way."

Me too.  Clearly I'm not enough of a Doctor Who fan.

I'd have watched the Newsies dance a little more, if we're talking old winners.

I make no apologies for my love of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (good God why are his titles so long) but yes in hindsight his work is rather embarassing.