Endings are tricky. I think Elmore Leonard said that at the end of Get Shorty. If you don't have a good plan, or really, any plan at all, you can get stuck just repeating the same thing over and over again, creating a narrative Möbius strip that doesn't satisfy anybody. Though most people will agree that a bad ending…

I don't think Ray's problems are as dramatic as a gambling or drug addiction, I think it's just a matter that he got comfortable in a situation that couldn't last forever.

Yes! Can't believe I forgot that.

I cannot argue with your "short fiction" paragraph.

HBO's Girls will not be seen this week, so they may bring you Lena Dunham's unofficial sequel to Woody Allen's Interiors.

Brian M: That's kind of a perfect. Now I'm thinking that "Sympathy for the Devil" should play whenever the NA are around that table. 

dcp: If I'm reading things correctly, destroying the alternate Earth saves both universes. Not destroying the alternate Earth means they collide and both universes are destroyed.

So did I, actually, though I can't think of what dialogue they might use.

I've always relied on the kindness of the comments section.

Could be raining.

I see that still and I feel like he should be breaking out into a theatrically-staged musical number.

NBC should just make a sitcom about their own network's dismal failures. I'm thinking a half hour long, single camera, starring Tina Fey as a writer trying to make it in television, and Alec Baldwin as some sort of ultra-critical, right-wing corporate blowhard who winds up mentoring Tina Fey's character.

I love going into a movie knowing nothing about it, because I am the kind of person who will start building the story from the trailer. It's nice to be shocked once in a while.

So here's my theory.

I know I'm asking for the impossible here… but couldn't they just eschew live-action altogether and just make a theatrical animated feature?

I'd pay good Canadian money to see that.

TheCloser: Um… no, not really.

Not only should Frank Miller not be allowed to help, I think we should get to watch them change it as he looks on helplessly.

I don't know. I don't want to know.

Because DC has a massive fear of success?