Although we haven't seen the baby, the "widow" of Ethan's partner supposedly has a newborn.

How… Oh, never mind. You're that moralizing troll from a few weeks back. *collapses thread*

I like your take. I interpreted Don's hugging Leonard as the first time in his life he was able to truly feel some one else's pain. Maybe because the pain so closely resembled his own, but I felt his gesture of an embrace came from a place of genuine empathy, rather than guilt or selfish regret.

I am not a superfan of Mad Men like many here, but one of the things I think it does very well, is portray the hollowness of nostalgia, and the way we view the past. Nostalgia for the past is like looking at fragile bubble. The surface reflection is shiny and distorted, and the inside is empty. "The Wheel" right? That…

Thomas, I am curious if you've ever read A Canticle for Leibowitz, and if you have, what your opinion is.

Eek, I just read my comment. I apologize if it came off as angry towards you.

I got some serious link-creep the other day and happened on a site that specializes in vintage photos. "Bring back nostalgia and momories." On the page for "everyday photos" from Detroit, a city about as far north as one can get, there were terrifying pictures taken in 1943 of a so-called race riot. In one, whites…

I am SO sad for Betty, and SO happy for Pete. They have always been my favorite characters, and I love them both.

Thomas, I have seen you take a lot of shit from people with shitty attitudes. I have seen them do it aggressively, and passive aggressively. Sometimes, it comes from snarling little bigots in sheep's clothing, and you've never really replied in kind. You've always replied with grace and patience. I think you're a…

But perhaps interestingly, Moses is shown the Land of Milk and Honey from atop a mountain, but God denies him entry and he dies never having reached it.

Gestalt and Catch Fire

You are so right. The 70s newspaper comic landscape was dreary wasteland. Scouts Honor would have fit right in among Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois, Family Circus, and God help us, Love Is.
Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and Bloom County saved an entire generation of children and young people in the 80s.

One of the band members, and I can't remember which, because when the acquaintance I know yammers about them I just shut down and pray to make it out alive, has libertarian views on social issues.
I think I irrationally hate the band way more than is reasonable because of that worshipful obnoxious subset.
That subset is…

Well, the Team Walt people were and still are, the worst. Philip and Elizabeth's acts are monstrous. They kill innocent people in the name of an ideology that is rapidly decaying and will soon collapse; but they don't know that. I haven't really seen anyone defend those acts. Breaking Bad was pure fiction. This is a…

I think it is parallel, in that The Center has no cumpuctions about secretly meeting with the children, and trying to influence them and gain their loyalty. I think the USSR considered children property of the state. And yeah, Philip looks like he is on the edge of complete collapse.

I am certain Jared's parents didn't know he was meeting with Kate, who was working to recruit him.

What a singular, stand-alone masterpiece that was. Superb.

1) Wrestling and weightlifting are Olympic sports. Its
participants are not skinny.

Christina Hendricks is popular with many people for I would think different reasons. You made a very narrow sweep regarding her popularity, being: she is overweight, and that appeals to the "obese."
You seem to find it offensive that an overweight person is represented on TV being anything other than disgusting, and…

Hey, here's an idea! Let's stop scrutinizing the bodies of others, in this case women, (it's really always women) whether they be fat or thin. How about that.