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yeah but your opinions are shitttttyyyy!!!!?!

The confessions were really weirdly chosen. Ideally each character would have something appropriate and interesting, but Troy's has no impact and isn't very funny, Jeff's feels by-the-numbers, Shirley's feels really hard to swallow, Britta's wasn't even very interesting… how odd to fumble something like that, it feels

God, it was flat and mostly unfunny and just did not hold together well. The show has done this before; in Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, they had a therapy session through a different visual medium, just like this. But while this was mostly schlocky and oddly plotted, Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas was thoughtful

"Argo fuck yourself!"

I see no reason that Carell couldn't pull this off. He hasn't gone dramatic in much more than Little Miss Sunshine (Dan in Real Life doesn't count, but he did pretty much carry that movie) but he certainly pulled it off in that.

To be fair, the second season was actually guilty of sexism, and going by the show's T-Dog-tastic racial history it's not doing too well there either. But this kneejerk reaction to marriage, which at its heart is just a declaration of love and bondage, is pretty uncalled for and makes you look like a reactionary.

I didn't have as big an issue with the opening of this episode as you did; yeah, Rick should know not to trust the Governor, but he's unstable enough to wobble into doing it, and you did get the sense that he was genuinely thinking it over as opposed to other decisions characters have made where there's

You're all completely correct. I WAS JUST TRYING TO JUSTIFY SLOPPY WRITING OKAY

Also it takes time to disable cars. If the Governor is dead then the car doesn't matter, and if the Governor survives then she should probably get going ASAP

I think she just doesn't give a shit about the ones walking towards her, it's Zombie McGrabberson that gets her

There's something to be said here about the connection between victimization and likability. You empathize with Andrea while she's being hunted down, even as she continues to be Andrea

Yeah, I feel like Tyreese saw through that. At least I certainly hope he did, because that was a pretty obvious slipup by the Governor

Nerdlinger is total dead meat

I was hoping the Governor would get bitten and go into complete kamikazi mode on the prison, knowing he has nothing else to lose.

This was a standout episode for Andrea by not giving her much dialogue

I empathized with how obviously difficult it was for the writers to rebound after the S3 insanity. You could feel the strain when they have to work in stuff like "He kidnapped the Dean!"

Second half of S2 Pierce was darkly interesting and often really enjoyable to watch, I'd say. If S3 had managed to reconcile S1 Pierce with S2 Pierce the character would probably have more substance left to him, though S2 admittedly made that a hard job

His dialogue and role this episode was actually pretty insulting. A grand total of "I'm old and don't know what's going on" and "racist caricature voices" as he sat alone in the study room.

Fuck, they could have woven something interesting here with Chang trying to be liked and trying to integrate himself somewhere and faking Changnesia in an attempt to get a fresh start, but then they went back to Evil Chang. When they brought back his wife I thought they were looking at the history of the character and

Nah, I'm happy that the show is going against its normal instinct and NOT dragging things out. Like how the Rick telephone arc was just one episode; sure, it could have been a recurring thing, but contained to just one episode it was actually really succinct and impactful. For an example of the Walking Dead not being