I live in LA, and tomorrow night the WGA is presenting a screening of the finale followed by a chat with Sorkin himself. I'm lucky enough to have a ticket, and I'll be VERY interested to see the audience questions he gets about this…

After a great setup, this one fizzled a bit in the third act for me. The prison break plotline invited comparisons to ATLA’s “The Boiling Rock,” and unfortunately for LOK, “Boiling Rock” is arguably the best episode of the first series.

Lots of people will have cause to mutter, "Jesus Christ!"

Just as long as it's clear that these props are being sold off to protect this club.

I think NETWORK works better because it's cynical enough to be suitable for the subject matter. Sorkin can't help but be idealistic, even about something he doesn't understand.

As I've noted elsewhere in this thread, I didn't actually mean for mine to be the first comment. I feel bad for doing a shitty thing, but I'm leaving it up because deleting it and rendering your critiques of me without context would be a shittier thing.

Did you see his acceptance speech for that? The first thing he did was link himself to Chayefsky and NETWORK.

First off, I didn't realize when I posted this that it would end up the first comment. If you're annoyed seeing it right at the top when you scroll past the review, trust me: I feel like more of an asshole.

::shrug:: My information was season one, and the first two episodes of season two.

*Confirmation bias minus

Haha. Nah, my roommate actually made a very strong case for it, but this review seems to indicate the presence of basically everything that made me fall out of love with Sorkin's work.

Oh, thank God. My roommate was giving me the hard sell on this season, and I was almost tempted to actually go back to this show, but this C- has vindicated my reluctance now and forever.

So I'm not the only one who saw the thumbnail image on the front page and thought it was Ned Stark, right?

He may not be the bantering kind, it's true. But when it comes to dethroning an Earth monarch, Zaheer did it with infinitely more style (while also confirming nearly a decade of fan speculation about airbending in the process).

I think you're undervaluing the fact that he's motivated by principle, rather than just greed or entitlement. Unlike Azula, whose point of view we could shrug off because she was so obviously evil, Zaheer was an engaging presence because deep down, the uncomfortable truth was that he had a point.

Not that I don't appreciate the agreement, but you should know that my upvote comes largely thanks to your brilliant screenname.

Right, I'm seeing conflicting definitions of Whale; some sources, for whatever reason, conflate it with the threshold moment. In that case, I'd put forward her escape from the Equalist rally when she and Mako had to rescue Bolin from Amon.

In Book One, the threshold/belly of the whale moment was her stowing away aboard the ship to Republic City. And come to think of it, ships themselves can be quite evocative of whales.

Honestly, I think Korra also follows the Hero's Journey pretty closely. The difference between the two shows is that Aang's was a single journey across sixty-one episodes, while Korra's now taken three separate journeys and is currently undergoing a fourth.

I definitely wasn't frantically refreshing the AVC front page in the hope of find this review ready and posted, no sir.