@avclub-64070488d259ab27e18091dc01340e3a:disqus : he also has a habit of tossing out big statements without supporting them or, apparently, even thinking them through.  I still don't know what his explanation is of why "drama is fundamentally subtextual," as he asserted in one of his Cannes pieces this year.

This is true.  @avclub-79f37254d46ff0eb4aef4db413a7aec6:disqus made the excellent point a few weeks ago that The Shield's view of what was necessary to keep us safe changed, because the country's view changed.  What fascinates me is how Shawn Ryan's view on this evolved and changed as he worked his way through the…

Thanks for the support, and may you find shelter and less anger soon.  That said, I'm totally fucking embarrassed to say I haven't seen Sons and I know I need to add it to my post-Breaking Bad watch list.  My description of Sutter came from hearing about his Twitter blowups and some behind-the-scenes activity in The…

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To object to Mara, one has to think that how Shane lives with the Strike Team—having Vic bang on the door at 3 in the morning to get him, spending your day off back at the Barn rather than home with your pregnant wife (both of which involve doing massively illegal shit), so forth—is somehow normal and proper.  Vic…

@avclub-ba7ca22b615f4f8a1743406d3550c93a:disqus :  way to live up to your name there, pal.  No such movie.

GODDAMMIT THAT'S MY JOKE!  http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Yeah, I'm using the terms as ideal types (and Sophoclean is an even better term than Greek), so I mean them to be reductive.

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Whedon has openly stated that his position is existentialist, and that sentence is as succinct an example of existentialism as you will find.  The Firefly episode "Objects in Space" is based on Sartre's Nausea, I believe.

pw!'s observation about the Strike Team's ability to get away with everything plays into a crucial element,

The dialogue. It's often just pedestrian; it advances the plot but that's all. I often don't notice it because the acting is so strong, and the actors make it work. It's at its worst when the writers try and be Aaron Fucking Sorkin and come up with something clever. It's why I've been highlighting good dialogue (and…

Nothing prevents them from doing that, and I suspect that's exactly what they're planning to do once Ronnie found all the marked bills and removed them, but finding $7000 missing became the new problem.

Wow. Yeah, this belongs in The Portable ZMF.

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“I really don’t like this.”  “Well, you’ll pretend.”

A question for our little community:  what do we mean by pulp?  Is The Shield pulp, and is that good or bad?

I noticed that today and I am encouraged.  Keep us classy!

@avclub-bb0b7438f271b0e808c92b613a2d3926:disqus :  a lot of the reasons appear in the fourth thread of this http://www.avclub.com/artic… and there are more criticisms of Snyder in general and Watchmen in particular scattered in the comments.

Well, I don't think any of us are gonna top that.