My guess is that sometimes they cut it for time given that the editing on this show is so precise.

Yeah, that's no small mercy. Hopefully next season they can find the drama within the existing characters in a way that doesn't neuter so many of them as with this season.

I loved Rosa's last ride, but as soon as Vee popped up by the side of the road it was just too much. I would have found her simply driving past much more dramatically satisfying, as much as I wanted Vee to disappear forever.

I liked this episode until that hokey ending, which for me went way beyond cheese and into a kind of silly fantasy that almost seemed cognisant that Vee had screwed up the show's plotting throughout the season and forced it into rote power-play dramatics.

The latter. And yes, racism here against Aboriginal people is insane to say the least - it's still deeply ingrained on a governmental level too - but that's no excuse for the people who are guilty of it.

Banks tends towards homophobia, Azalea is racist. Neither makes good music. The only good Iggy is Pop. Can't the song of the summer just be "Lust For Life"?

???

Iggy Azalea's a shitty idiot racist so maybe we should put a pin on hyping her any more.

As a gay, I dissent.

I don't think that phrase is intended to be read in a negative way. She's just in a position in her marriage where all of her thoughts and pain and happiness go almost completely unreciprocated. Calling her needy isn't a judgement, it's her reality; she needs, and he cannot provide it.

We did get it. I remember it airing either on Ten or Nine (it may have come on after Malcolm in the Middle? Which I think was on Nine). But it also aired on Foxtel at some point.

Child, I'm fine. You've evidently never once experienced actual abuse in your life if you feel so very attacked right now.

I said borderline incoherent, in the sense that it's individual elements ostensibly shouldn't fit into a whole when put together - it's philosophical leanings plus a talking dog plus a Lich plus princesses plus BMO etc. - it's all teetering on the edge of Dadaism in an amazing way. When it does drift further towards…

Darling, no one was abusing you; you were being told that your insipid insistence on assuming that the victim in question was some kind of hysterical harpy hell-bent on destroying the life of some noble male cartoonist is unproductive at a stage where he has already been fired from the network. Clearly this is not the…

…the fuck is wrong with you?

Incoherence is such a weird thing to dislike in a show like Adventure Time. So much of this show is borderline incoherent; it's that freewheeling mania kept just under enough control that gives the show its energy and ensures no two episodes are even that close to alike.

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This is very true. Although Sandra Bullock got her Oscar as the archetypal white heroine.

I think there were other performances on Cate's level last year but none of them were in films that gravitated even close to the Academy's radar (e.g. Paulina Garcia in Gloria, Suzanne Clément in Laurence Anyways).

Oh, I didn't think she was great, I just mean that it's the kind of baity thing I could have seen the Academy getting behind if it came up in the right year (thank god for Cate, basically).