I was only trying to highlight one of the many ways in which the show depicts everyone as always slighly in over their heads, unable to have definite full justifications of their actions or controls over their destiny. In my mind, the problem of the justification of war was a subcase of the problem of any…

Well, of course Rob is a "good guy", not mistreating the prisoners and all, but does the pacifist nurse approve of Rob's war ? How far can any war be just(ified) ? I'm asking that question because I believe the show is asking it through that nurse.

I feel like having a downer episode like this one with so much maleficience is used as a good opportunity for the show to play with the blurry line between delusive self-justification vs chess-player pragmatism. As said in the review, Joffrey's sadistic fun is clearly poorly justified, but it's not useless either ;…

@The_Tuna To be fair, part of the smugness might be part of my being French, and then you would not need to apologize in any way (I'm open to any cultural backlash).
The thing is : French tv, when showing American tv shows, does it by showing at least two or three episodes in the same night. As a result, you always end…

That was something of a half-joke, sorry. I'm myself half-drunk, as anyone in Europe should be by now, and any drunk European man will prove his friendly spirit by punching the said friend in the face, as I was abruptly intending to do.

As I said, I'm not a native speaker. I can't help looking smug when I speak english (I'm French), but I don't mean to.
I just wonder : the season 1 had a sweet equilibrium in quality that has been lacking since then. Since the second half of season two, i always expect to be disappointed when watching a new episode.…

I'm what could be described as a big casual fan of Community, in that that show helped me in a difficult time, but I find it every time harder to relate to those "normal" episodes of Community where pretty much nothing is said that wasn't said before, so i wonder : how do you guys hardcore Avclub fans manage to keep…