Ah, and that explains why he was on the side of the road where the hitchhiker was standing.

I'm starting to wish I had stopped watching after Waterloo. This half-season is my least favorite parts of Mad Men (Don sidequests, office politics fed by strawmen rather than realistic confrontations between characters we know with stakes, on the nose dialogue, Glen) that make me feel punished for sticking with the…

Oh, so YOU'RE the idiot whose posts were all deleted by the time I got to this review. Thanks for clearing that up.

We saw hints of how hungry he was for respect — and how little he cared about anyone but himself — in season 2, when he hired Joan then replaced her extreme competence with an idiot man who admitted how unqualified he was for the job but was really good at slapping Harry on the back. It was episode 8, I think. (Also,…

I yelped, "oh, no, she's turned into Cheryl and can hear non-diegetic music!"

When I first read the books as a religious Jewish 14-year-old, I turned to my (atheist) best friend who had given them to me and went, "these books came from someone who once really, really loved his religion, and has been deeply betrayed by it."

The Quiverfull philosophy is *so* toxic. I have a lot of friends who grew up exactly like the Duggars. They are scarred for life, especially the eldest daughters, who essentially raised their younger siblings (because their mothers are too busy popping out kids to pay attention to them), and yet are constantly being…

You know, I've always had this mental interpretation that once Leela realized she had parents and thus unconditional love in her life, she was able to loosen up and be less of a status-seeker with her boyfriends and can open up to someone more goofball (because she's more secure about herself), but your interpretation…

I don't feel like Fry and Leela has to be the core of the show, but so many of the best episodes revolve around it — Parasites Lost, The Why of Fry, Time Keeps on Slipping, Sting, The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings, Bender's Big Score, and The Late Phillip J. Fry — that it kind of ends up filling that spot,…

Have you read Captain Awkward? She has a lot of advice for how to meet people in ways that are not hookup culture, and I think her work might help you figure out how to pursue what you like versus feeling defined by the things you feel like you're supposed to like that feel fundamentally hollow.

When I was 21-22 I was on OKC and I had a pretty strict limit of "not over 28", because I knew at that time my age/experience/preference was for people that were at a similar life experience/maturity level to me. I ended up revising that downwards, and eventually leaving OKC, because I was so tired of being creeped on…

Oh, I definitely read DU as young, female, and genuinely convinced that everyone on the AVClub is by default a misogynistic asshole who, by dint of the magic few words, can suddenly turn everyone into Feminists. Which, there's maybe some projection here, because I used to believe that! But I'm also someone who did my…

Oh, I'm the same way, and I'm pedantic enough that I will, normally, explain over and over again Why The Other Person Is Wrong. But this troll (who I always interpret as female) is always present, always with the same stupid bastardization of a really important topic, and always refusing to genuinely engage. If…

But all this time we wasted talking with the stupid troll, we could have spent talking to each other and had a fun, enlightening conversation instead of a passive - aggressive, repetitive conversation!

So, no, I don't agree with you at all, unless you mean the part about you proving my points that you don't actually want to have a conversation about the potential sexist implications of this article, you only want to have a conversation about yourself, and you only pay attention to sentences that mention Joss Whedon.

So you want to have a serious conversation now? How nice.

Dear little child, with all of your feminism 101, have you not heard of derailing? http://www.derailingfordumm… Because that's what you're doing — only it's to get attention. You've learned that mentioning Joss Whedon gets you lots of attention on the AV Club, good for you! Almost as good as a poorly-paraphrased…

Dear little child, I've seen your comments on many, many articles on this site. You frequently bring up Joss Whedon and complain about how he isn't criticized more. You actually managed to start a very, very lengthy conversation about Joss Whedon, probably garnering him more appreciation — there were some really good…

You know, one could make an argument that this article was (perhaps inadvertently) racist/sexist for focusing only on Shonda Rimes for killing off characters and thus giving readers the impression that she is "difficult" to work for, as opposed to merely doing her job using one of the common tools in showrunners'…

Oh oh oh I WANT THAT BADLY.