But the Terminus people do not know this because they don't have DVD sets of season 1 of The Walking Dead.

I was thinking that so much of the excitement of these early Season 5 episodes just comes from simply seeing all the characters actually together in the same room, again — illustrating how really brilliant it was for the show to split them up. By emphasizing how fragile their bonds are, the bonds are made that much…

As opposed to most batteries, which are permanently affixed to the ground or floor and can't be moved

They'd anesthetized him. (I refer you to Eric Idle's monologue from the "Have you got his leg" sequence in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.)

Other people don't want to see spoilers!

I maintain my crazy fantasy that he's a deliberate Steve Jobs parody.

So does Tara have a big crush on Maggie, or what?

Wait, he makes your latte in his mouth or in your mouth? Confusing syntax, man!

Yes! I was thinking the same thing. The way he played the two scenes, I was absolutely convinced that 1) he's gotten bitten under the waterline and 2) he was hiding it from the others (the way he hid his boozing) but was crying over it.

I'm not expecting anything I say to be taken as anything other than my opinion. There's nothing imperious about it. My vitriol is well-founded (again, in my opinion) because I do not like or respect her work and I want it to be diminished in its evaluation; I want it "knocked off the pedestal" it's on. Yes, I…

Did I ever say anything about myself, or ever compare myself to her? I compared her to a bunch of writers I think are vastly better to her (in several places up and down this page). What does my own talent or lack thereof have to do with any of this?

Respectfully, you're misrepresenting what I'm saying (deliberately or not). I'm not advocating that she, herself, be punished for having "the audacity of being successful." You're imposing an agenda that's not there, and, in so doing, revealing something of the confused roots of your own thinking.

It's not just that the content is "young people struggling." That was the content for F. Scott Fitzgerald; for Woody Guthrie; for James Baldwin; for John Lennon; even arguably for Dickens.

Because that's how culture — any culture — works; that's the essential give-and-take of appraisal and criticism that's fueled the world of arts and letters for literally thousands of years. This review that we're all responding to is part of that equation, as is any assessment in any legitimate venue (like AVClub,…

But there's nowhere else to go with the stuff, pro or con, because there's no subject matter beyond self-appraisal according to superficial external indices.

The gender specificity is a double-bind I couldn't avoid, since Dunham et al plant that flag in the gender topic so conspicuously, suggesting that I should mention other female writers (and Didion might be my favorite writer of all time, edged out barely by Capote). In other words, the politesse of the discussion…

Once the word "visionary" is introduced, all comparative bets are off.

Any relation to Tintin's "Red" Rackham? (Or the illustrator Arthur Rackham?)

It's been extremely uneven…but I have to say I've loved the whole thing.

It's his managerial style: focusing relentlessly on the details like shell counts, and yet able to turn around and make a glib speech whenever it's necessary.