@avclub-19db33a7920e55ba3a32ab69d87f65b8:disqus in your last reply you said she was nowhere near saying it was natural. Now you've changed your tone. Anyways, the therapist has approved of the feelings she believes Deb has for Dexter. Saying they're "understandable" is saying they are normal. Actually, it's a much…

Response: OH MY GOSH I WAS WRONG! It was fairy-tale-alternate-life all along. You finally made a monkey
Greek style chorus of bystanders: Yes we finally made a monkey
Original speaker: Yesss you finally made a monkeyyy out of meeeeeee

That's an interesting point (about Emma being dead). I understand where you're going, but Regina has to have her memories in order to have that connection to real-fairy-tale-world (seriously, does it have a name?). It would, or course, be better to give her legitimate depth. The whole "Snow white did something evil to…

@avclub-f688ae53ecd9ab39288ac465aa4f86d8:disqus is this a result of lowered expectations or an example of solid episodes?

"Yet your not biologically related… given your past trauma it would be understandable for your to develop complex feelings for him."(29:42) This easily translates into exactly what I said above. 
Close enough?

I'm liking your comment because you wrote "fairy-tale tail" and for that reason alone. That sentence fragment deserves one million likes.

I didn't watch any of those except Entourage, which became very romcom in the last few seasons. I don't hate romcom, so it didn't anger me much. Also, I always enjoyed it, never LOVED it.

I WANT TO READ THAT! (I know I'm late on this. I figured no one watches simpsons anymore and only happened into this episode via following Gaimen on twitter) New plan: twitter-harass him into producing said sequel. Seriously, he actually reads and responds to tweets occasionally.

For someone obsessed with the first 11 or so seasons of The Simpsons, and horribly sad the writers didn't just end it in it's glory days, is this episode remotely worth watching? Every time I've tried to watch a new episode in the past 10 years I've been disappointed.

haha, you are not allowed to implore fake sense upon the writing team!
This is a world where cut outs are too cliche, but getting saved at the last minute is a must-have!

The whole pulling-out-hearts thing: when she pulled out her dad's heart I remember him dropping to the ground, you know, dead and whatnot. Is my mind playing tricks on me, or is this just a MAJOR inconsistency?

We're talking about a TV show here. Objectification is allowed and encouraged.

I was looking at it thinking the same thing. I tried to ease my mind by convincing myself that the hair and make up people screwed up and it took too much time to fix and or notice. To me, that makes more sense then how ridiculous it was/is.

I love how for the sake of this show the word "died" must be in quotation marks.

It's okay, I thought he was British (which is weird, because I actually know a lot of British people). I feel like his accent changes from time to time. Is that jut me? Also in that demographic btw. Definitely true.

Something that made the Trinity season so interesting was the death of Rita. I don't think Batista has as much of an impact on the audience as Rita did. His death would have made Travis' sociological tendencies hit home more. It would have had more of an impact on the audience then anything in this entire…

In the first few seasons the VOs worked to define his character. Now, they just say what's going on, or what is already made abundantly clear about his emotions.

Joe Driscoll is his real father. Season one. He sent in a test. Brian aka ITK offed Driscoll.

I want to see that happen.

Fine so, she's telling her the feelings exist and Deb should explore them. It's not literally "Kiss you're brother". It's more: "You know, Deb, you have a crush on your brother. It makes sense, you're not related. I'm not wrong am I?" Forcing her to examine the situation, giving her a go ahead to explore those…