I think Dan is trying to establish that "neutral ground" as his working space, so that he can be closer to Salina/incoming traffic. The flower-pot thing is him attempting to take control of the space.

He's pretty great in In The Loop. But if he had been cast, the Jonah character would have to be different… slightly more obsequious, less of an aggressive asshole. I like the Jonah we've got.

I liked that answer so much, @avclub-f3b234429025ae8ac1d316583a794194:disqus , I got you this.

My favorite element of the Amberverse was definitely the way it made Peter seem like a key, important part of these people's lives. The first few episodes do an excellent job of showing the gaping holes in the characters where Peter should fit - they're lonelier, harder, sadder.

Holy crap, this article was like a Bat-signal for the AV Club's vast army of "Um, actually…" trivia pedant commenters, all desperate to slay ambiguity and, in the process, prove their worth as human beings. (The Shining dog-suit man is explained in the book, by the way. YOU'RE WELCOME)

Aw, don't be so formal. His name is Phil! We know that, because they repeated it several times to make the cheap emotional manipulation of his death more obvious!

So, Season Four. What's the verdict?

I hope whoever cast Dean Winters in those got all the stupid advertising awards they can eat. Stroke of brilliance.

Seriously. I love this show, but nobody throws the sort of super-clever-horribly-profane brilliance that Ianucci works in like Peter Capaldi. They need to bring him on, at least for an episode.

It absolutely felt like Hale was just tossing her stuff based on what the person looked like, with JLD coming up with awesome responses. So much fun.

XIII is almost stunningly badly designed and written, but the core combat, focusing on Staggering enemies and switching your characters between their different roles on the fly, is one of my favorite of the series. It almost makes up for the game being such a weird, corridor-running slog. Almost.

It's in the jar of jellybeans.

I've had so many arguments about this with people who were completely turned off by the movie because of the sci-fi elements (instead of, rightly, by the poor execution).

The problem with the shittier "domestic" Battlestar episodes ("Black Market," "The Widow King",) was that the people writing the show clearly had no idea how the fleet actually worked. They would just invent elements of backstory as needed - oh, one of the 12 Colonies was entirely rural and farmed all the food!…

They have to represent things, OR BE INTERESTING. The Bombadil interlude is long and deathly dull. If it's not representing some externally interesting point, then we're being asked to take it as something entertaining on its own merits, and it fails on those.

In the end, she gets the last laugh, though. Because I would sell every boring-ass Captain America story ever written for one more issue of Nextwave (the greatest comic ever written).

Two-word rebuttal:

How could it be anyone else?

I have this horrible mental image now of someone hearing the term, watching fucking Garden State, and then actively modelling her "personality" after the archetype.

He was saying fuck you to the people who set him up to die so they could save their own skins. Fuck you to a system that churns up its own young people to self-propagate. Fuck it all, if the world requires the ritual murder of the young to survive, the world dies.