That was pretty fucked up, and I didn't particularly enjoy watching it. It was borderline Seventh Heaven-like in the way every single storyline adhered so rigidly to the Theme of the Week. Joan and Greg's was the least tied up in the predator-prey motif, and even then when Joan brought up the rape it just felt like it…

He was always my default favorite bloodrider, for having the nicest name.

There are several black people mentioned in the books. I mainly remember because in a few cases he does that thing I've only seen in fantasy novels of claiming that someone is literally black as opposed to very dark brown.

Blaise Zabini. NEVER FORGET.

This week in Things You Don't Often See in a Kids' Show: The heroes openly discussing their plans to take a hostage. They even call it that!

Exactly. It's no excuse to say that the main characters are just that cut off from the lives of black people, because all we'd have to do is follow one of those lives outside of its interactions with the white characters. The show didn't choose to illustrate sexism by pushing female characters to the sidelines and…

I wrote a long comment about this the other night and then didn't post it because I was tired and worried that I sounded like I subscribe to a Farrakhan-esque view of race relations in this country, but the gist of it was that I've always thought Mad Men placed an odd amount of emphasis on Jewishness and…

That's season two, actually. And yeah, of course there were moments like that on the show, and in everything Sorkin's ever done. But on Studio 60 they were worse and more frequent and there was nothing more sophisticated in between them. I just don't want another Studio 60. *curls up and rocks back and forth*

And the script?

This is what has me worried:  On The West Wing, they knew what the opposing viewpoints were and that it's quite rare at any level for debate to actually change anyone's opinion, and while the White House came out on top more often than not, and sometimes in a wish-fulfilling manner, for the most part they didn't act…

That's really going to intrigue the press after your killing spree.

That "hey!" reminded me of Ken saying "You know, my mother's heavyset" like it was "You know, my mother died in a concentration camp."

Scruffy believes in this company.

I completely skimmed the Stannis-related chapters the first time through the series, and then of course I had to go back and reread those parts specifically because shit didn't make sense. But it wasn't easy. I have so little patience for Melisandre.

You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner fuckin' year at the Fire Lord's palace. I got a disfiguring burn scar! The old man grabbed my ponytail and said, "Hey, smoke up, Zuko!"

Okay, tell me where in the Bible Satan is characterized as the type of figure you can trap in a hotel room.

ACE

Well, that makes sense, then. (So maybe he really didn't get it when he saw it?)

I'm sick of them as a trio. I need them to split up and work on different things so I can figure out which of them, if any, I still like. And they should do it now, before nature takes its course and Ricky accidentally paralyzes Karl in a prank gone wrong or Steve gives a bitter, drunken interview about Ricky being an…

I don't know how serious you're being, but I really would like to know from the "can't we appreciate his artistic contributions even though he turned out to be a bastard" crowd how exactly they find it so easy to rise above the controversy and separate the art from the artist in this case, where so much of the art is…