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    I think the first episode back from the midseason break should just be 45 minutes of Pete Campbell reading his partnership agreement in full, just to clear up these highly relevant questions.

    The problem is also that you don't just have to model and render the Hulk — his entire environment must also be CGI, because Hulk interacts with every element of his environment. Every time he takes a step, the sidewalk needs to crack, and anytime there's a car in his way, the car has to crumble underneath his feet.

    All TV dramas tend to do the curtain call thing. It's not a bad thing, but I do wish TV shows were a little more realistic, in that sometimes a major life event (like a firing, breakup, or move) permanently removes someone from your life without a lot of dramatic fireworks. You don't always run into your former

    But why do they have to say he's dead? People leave their jobs all the time, and unless you're super close personal friends with your former coworker you never hear from them again.

    It's weird that he's been mentioned in every episode this season, but we haven't seen him. It's not that big an office.

    Yeah, if I'm reading this correctly, they have one woman in the entire cast, and she's 57.

    Don moving back into Lou's office would be better for Peggy's career, although of course she's always seen Don as an obstacle to moving up.

    Yeah, it's the Jaguar thing. While Joan prostituting herself out did get her the partnership (in the worst possible way), I think she really did tell herself that the action was necessary to keep the company afloat, and that it was an act of loyalty towards all of her coworkers that she cares about, in order to keep

    Well, I'm sure Roger can tell himself that once they all quit and founded a new agency in 1963, the Sterling referred to Roger Jr. rather than Sr. While they're still only named Sterling Cooper & Partners to reference his dad's work, they likely wouldn't have kept the Sterling name if he hadn't allowed Lane Pryce to

    I still think it's baffling that the writers didn't crack this basic structural weakness of the show's format — once you introduce Kim in episode 1 of the season, you have to come up with a storyline for her that lasts 24 hours. But the writers only seem to have realized halfway through the season that once Kim, say,

    I always thought it was kind of funny that even if terrorists hadn't decided to detonate a nuclear weapon on American soil that day, Kim still would have had an au pair adventure involving an abusive husband and a dead wife.

    My issue with that subplot was that a 65-70 year old divorcee or widow might be flustered by the basics of using the internet, and that's the demographic Woody Allen socializes with. But Jasmine was in her early 20's when internet use became common, and we know she wasn't rich before she got married. I felt the

    That sentence was poorly written — I meant to convey that it's pretty silly that Woody Allen presents Ginger's apartment as a hovel that Jasmine is reduced to living in, when it would actually cost about $4,000 to rent an apartment that size in the area. Since Ginger is the only person paying rent there, and since we

    Omar would have considered Chance a civilian. Man's gotta have a code, and so on. If Chance dented Marlo's ride, on the other hand…

    Oh, you mean the movie where all the working-class people in 2013 San Francisco talk like Italian-American dockworkers in 1956 Brooklyn? And a woman in her 40's is still confused by basic PC operation? And the supposedly dumpy three bedroom apartment Jasmine moves into would cost something like $4,000 a month

    I think the scale of Forrest Gump is what makes it stupid. Being There is a much smaller film, even though it ends with Chance being mentioned as a likely future president — we only really see Chance interact with a small number of people in a cloistered world, and they're all so similarly myopic that it makes sense

    They went to the FBI years ago, but never mentioned Bryan Singer's name:

    I'd be a little more sympathetic to the victim if he didn't wait 15 years to make his claims, and then time his lawsuit to coincide with the release of a high-profile movie.

    I never understood this stupid device. Why didn't they just have Josh Radnor narrate the story, and change the pitch of his voice or something in post? They just showed Josh Radnor in makeup narrating the story at the end anyway — it's not like the plan was ever to show Bob Saget as Future Ted just because he's

    They're not. They also could have said, "No comment — watch the rest of the season and you'll see why we made that choice."