Having just caught up, I certainly wouldn't call it awful, but I was surprised that it got so much top 5 love, and Sepinwall put it on his Emmy Drama list (no surprise with Appleby or Zimmer). It's much closer to "what HTGAWM or House of Cards should aspire to be" than "Peak TV" for me, not that there's anything wrong…

See, "vintage Tennant" isn't always a good thing for me, even though I like him overall

The clock is ticking on me catching up by the finale! Finishing S3 tonight! (Thank goodness for speed modifiers)

Fear Her, Daleks in Manhattan 2 parter, Voyage of the Damned, Planet of the Dead, all worse for me. And Tooth and Claw might be the most aggravating.

Late to this, but I strongly disagree with it. I'm not attracted to Ilana (no slight intended) and don't find her nudity anywhere as off-putting as Lena Dunham's. (The other factors have already been discussed before me)

Won't expand on it in this thread, but I'm surprised to see so much of that reaction to the finale, as it kind of bored me.

You could play that game with just about any fictional character though. Why did Walter White have such a big ego that made him incapable of accepting financial help and moving on with his life? Why did Joffrey enjoy torture and violence when Tommen can't hurt a fly? You're basically asking to know why someone is the…

Partially because we don't know the history yet, but aside from that, the "why" there shouldn't be any more "solvable" than that of an actual person. People are complicated.

You said "people read into what the storyline is supposed to signify rather than how it plays out." but the storyline *does* play out that way.

I don't think it'll play as well outside the theater, but I think it's a movie that you'll get what you want from it. People who want to hate it can certainly find things to dislike, but overall it's very good with great performances. Look past the "it's a rehash of the first one" criticism and you'll see that some of…

Except the theme of living up to the past (or making up for it) is in almost every major character's arc in the movie.

This writer guy, Todd Alcott (toddalcott.com) explains it better than I can. Excerpts (they look long given the cramped space of a reply section, but I only included a couple of his points):
-Kylo, it seems, doesn’t identify with his mother, the latent-Force-ified Leia, or his father, the devil-may-care Han Solo. He…

As someone greatly disappointed by it, my explanation for the RT score: Magneto's family is introduced with the sole purpose of dying, Magneto becomes a subservient character to Apocalypse which isn't like him, the Stryker capture scene is solely to show That Important Character, Jubilee/Storm/Psylocke have nothing to…

It's not I HATE YOU DAD, it's about how one could possibly live up (or down) to his family's legacy

I actually found Mornings on the predictable and rehashed side, as all stories about couples through time seem to focus on how the spark fades, replaced by irritation over annoying habits.

Not just a reply to you, but open to all in this thread: How do you use media that means something to you and then not associate it with the tragedy that you're using it to feel better about? When something bad happens, I find myself unable to watch anything out of fear that's how I'll remember it going forward.

Ah, yes, that one's up there too. They just got everything Joker wrong. Appearance and the great K.M. Richardson just wasn't a great fit

No, I think it's saying it needs to justify the run time, whereas network shows always have a little fluff, even with shorter episodes, because of season length.

"Who's for Chinese?"

It can't hold a candle to BTAS, but The Batman did a cool Ivy episode too where everyone gets replaced by plants. My favorite episode of that series. Great Barbara spotlight.