I think that was more of a last-straw moment. She already knew she was leaving Desi, but that Charlie wasn't the answer either. The needle gave her an excuse to storm out in a huff, because she had already verbally committed to running off with him.

Who can blame Rick for hubris at this point? Without going into too many comic spoilers, one reason Comic Negan and the Saviors work as a threat is because we don't learn very much about them before Negan's appearance. As a result, Rick discovers that his surroundings are much more dangerous than he originally…

I'm guessing the decision to have Dwight shoot Daryl was made in post because they rewrote the following episode's script after shooting was complete, and were left without an ending for this episode.

I think Gilligan even admitted that they made a mistake in how they directed that scene. The last-second camera movement was just supposed to be a cool tic to underline Jesse's decision — they didn't expect audiences to question whether or not Jesse pointed the gun elsewhere before shooting.

There were some interesting ideas with the Four Supermen, and the mystery around which one was the "real one." But then (spoiler for the 90s), none of them are the real Superman, and the real Superman literally drops out of the sky and says "Hi", but thanks for reading, and enjoy the continued monthly exploits of our…

My wife watches both Supergirl and Gotham. At least Supergirl is pretty honest about the fact that you're never going to see Superman. Gotham is basically a series-long promise that if you watch long enough, it'll turn into a cool Batman show where he fights a fully-formed Rogue's Gallery, even though that will…

I don't think that's a reasonable assumption for several reasons:

I don't know if our opinion of Chuck could change — as you said, we've seen time and time again that Chuck is "right" about Jimmy (especially because we know where the character is going), but that still doesn't justify the two-faced way Chuck goes about undermining Jimmy. Or his total lack of appreciation for…

Given the large age gap between Chuck and Jimmy, there's no way their dad was a youngish man when he died. If Jimmy was in early adulthood, then Chuck was in his 40's and their dad was in his 60's at the absolute youngest. People die at that age.

Yeah, lots of people suffer several strokes, decades apart (my grandmother is one of them). It creates a sort of punctuated equilibrium, in that the sufferer does not gradually lose their faculties over time, but rather sees their condition get dramatically worse after each stroke.

I just realized that Jimmy is ethically gray, while Chuck is morally gray.

I agree with all of that, and I think Mel being aged out of the role is a necessary corrective to the problem we usually have in these franchises, where the male lead gets older and older but the female leads stay the same age. In real life most couples don't have a 20+ year age difference, and this only happens in…

I'm not about to do a word count on the four scripts, but Thunderdome seems to have by far the most dialogue. The other movies rely on visuals and action to tell the story. Only Thunderdome feels the need to explain everything to the audience in long dialogue scenes. Thunderdome may have the most quotable dialogue…

A thrusting motion would be a lot quicker than lopping off the head or arm — both of those motions require windup, and it would be possible for the sword to get stuck in a nearby zombie.

I know they played Carol's threatening speech as a voiceover, but are we really to believe that this kid wasn't a zombie meal waiting to happen? I don't know if I buy that Carol was really the scariest thing this kid had ever encountered in the zombie apocalypse.

Yeah, but then we remember that the show wasted something like four episodes on Glen's fake-out death, which means he couldn't be killed off without first reuniting with Maggie.

Let's not read too much into Rick's comments. He expresses concern about Glenn (and not Daryl et al) because the audience knows that Glenn is in serious trouble. We haven't seen what happened to Daryl, because that will be the focus of another episode. This is a pretty common problem whenever the group gets…

I also think that journalists have been a little too hard on King over the years for his public disappointment with the Kubrick film. I mean, everyone who enjoys film (and isn't named Stephen King) understands that it's one of the greatest films of all time, period. We all get it. Why do interviewers have to keep…

I'm pretty sure it means that Glenn finds a sewer escape hatch and Rick's assault rifle draws the zombies away or something lame like that. Because the zombie hordes are consistently shown to eat people whole, and Team Rick/Michonne has no idea where Glenn went. So I'd actually find it a much bigger stretch for…

I was thinking that too, but that would blunt the impact of the scene because Daryl has no romantic partner who'd have to witness all that. Maggie's helplessness is really what drives the scene in the comics. Rick and Michonne could shrug off Daryl getting his head bashed in without shedding a tear.