I agree with you about the sprawl working for and against the narrative in general. Though I am looking forward to more forward momentum, the slow conversational scenes on this program are also quite entertaining. Few large-scale dramas do character-building quite as well as Game of Thrones (look to Walking Dead for…

I think there was a lot of it around 2000 also (Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Beyonce, etc.). And wasn't there something like this going on to a lesser extent in the late '60s? I wonder why this trend gets occasionally popular.

The willingness of so many people to devote so much time to watching something they dislike is a concept foreign to me. I enjoy the AVClub, and the commentators here are almost always the most polite and thoughtful crew online, but the tendency of comments to veer towards either "I said I'd quit before but this time I…

I think it popped up a few times early in Season 3, particularly when they were clearing houses in the first episode.

Last episode, in which the Governor stalked Andrea, also appeared to be mid- to late-autumn. It's been a semi-gradual transition, if memory serves. The timeline is a bit muddy, though.

Speaking of the game, was that building that Rick, Michonne and Carl explored, prior to meeting Morgan, the building Lee and Clementine explore along the railroad tracks in Episode 3 (I think) of the Telltale game? The cage that was hanging open inside appeared be the cage in which Clementine was attacked, and…

If a viewer wanted to be generous, he could say that the picture was shown under the zombies as they came towards the door, so it's not impossible that it was slightly behind where they ended up.

@inko8:disqus She found the fishtanks when stopping the altercation between Michonee and Andrea

Yeah, the inability of characters to have a simple conversation is beginning to grow more challenging via vis willing suspension of disbelief. Andrea's unwillingness to even state who she was or reply to questions at either the prison or Woodbury when confronted with armed guards was an especially egregious example.…

I genuinely don't know if the writers intend to make the Governor roughly as reasonable as Rick, or if it's just a consequence of dubious storytelling. Because the Governor is a pretty terrible guy, but Rick seems even less able to lead. Somewhat baffling.

There is a truly unnerving film short that I saw before a screening of The Company of Wolves at a small independent theater in the UK in 2008. As I recall, it was made by Kathleen Brennan and set to the music of Tom Waits, and involved a toy being menaced by a wolf puppet, or something along those lines. It's worth…

This movie actually came out in the early '80s, but is it possible that you're thinking of "Something Wicked This Way Comes," based on the Ray Bradbury book?

Gosh, I think I read that book when I was young too, and have wondered about it for years. It would be pretty amazing if anyone else had read it too. I could be wrong, but I think it may have involved a theory of math at some point?

It's my favorite movie by Wes Anderson also, though now that I think on it, it's the only movie by him that I've really enjoyed. Perhaps for the same reason that most of his fans don't enjoy it as much?

Good call on the vanished wonders. Getting to see Zeus at Olympia would be a treat. Or the Temple of Jerusalem before the Romans tore it down in the 70s AD. Although my personal favorite, the one thing I wish was still standing, is the Crystal Palace from London's Great Exhibition. Possibly the most beautiful…

I agree wholeheartedly with this. There are a few movies and TV programs from when I was a child that I can't remember enough details of to even ask the internet about. Titles would be cool, but I'd settle for rough plot synopses, so I could know what it was I once watched. Though I'm sure virtually none of this media…

I'd speculate that it has to do with the high value of irony and sarcasm in satire, though this is truly uneducated guessing. Both irony and sarcasm are, to an extant, discouraged in conservative circles and encouraged in liberal circles. This may have to do with the disparity in education between the left and right,…

This is an interesting question to me, because we don't tend to like thinking of movies as a historical document, but are fairly content looking at Renaissance-era literature and art as historical documents. Boccaccio's 'Decameron,' for example, can be used as a useful source for the Black Death in Italy, and Dante's…