“M*A*S*H* is the story of a man who’s constantly depressed because he saw a chicken die on a bus this one time”.
-Sammy B

It reminds me of the people who tuned into Lost’s last episode then hurriedly typed their reviews “I haven’t watched this for years and I tune in and I don’t understand anything!” 

Sam just says the stupidest things, sometimes. 

Barsanti with a disingenuous, ill-informed, and just bad take; film at 11.

If you're down to nitpick my obvious point then I'll counternitpick by pointing out how commonplace it once was to release chapters bit by bit in papers and such before we settled on the modern conception of a novel: it's how Dickens published his work, for instance. That modern books have chapters that release all at…

I’m having a standalone day today. Nothing I do today is going to be canon going forward. Gonna get weird!

You are fundamentally unfit to review this show, or any other MCU property. Not only did you ignore the obvious hints of where the show was headed (included from the trailers before it even premiered), you miss that WandaVision, the first such show, was in fact largely a beautiful stand-alone meditation on grief, with…

“That’s the problem, though: If the upcoming season finale is really good, you won’t be able to recommend it to someone who hasn’t seen at least one or two of the other episodes that set it up.”

“It’s like you’ve actively ignored what is playing out in front of your own eyes only to pretend to be surprised and disappointed when the things teased for weeks play out exactly like they’ve been teased to.”

To be fair, chapters in a book are intended to be parts of a complete story, there’s not necessarily supposed to be any resolution within every single one of them. Also, they all come out at once, and also also, they have a finite end.

You also have to criticize the work that exists, not the one you wanted them to make.

He is the Marvel version of the Kristen Wiig SNL character who’s always saying “Don’t make me sing.” The dude loves to interfere. He solemnly swears it off like I do Oreos at the end of each package but both of us are tearing into another one next week. 

Somewhere out there is an alternate universe where The Takeout just published an article with the headline “The McRib proves that McDonald’s will never serve anything but fast food,” or something to that extent.

You also have to criticize the work that exists, not the one you wanted them to make. The show established The Watcher and explained his role and vows, and then gradually showed his disenchantment with those limitations. Yes, it was obvious almost immediately that Uatu would interfere with events, but they did the…

Everyday I wake up, and all the problems that I was trying to avoid by going to sleep the night before are still there. In fact, some of them have gotten worse to varying degrees! Why can’t I just have standalone days, that don’t have any connection to the larger Yellowfoot Universe?

The only way you didn’t see this coming is a complete ignorance of the source material. The Watcher, for all his monologuing, is constantly interfering with events that he observes. The whole “I cannot, will not interfere” was basically a Chekov’s Gun line, of course he can and will.

But if every story is just part of the next story, why bother paying attention to any story at all?

No, it never seemed like this, because the MCU has never once suggested, in word or action, that it was going to do anything discrete when they’re playing with stories that have been heavily interconnected for decades. Especially once they realized that not only had they figured out the formula for an shared universe…

I think what’s crazy is that they teased a crossover in the trailers for this show, and you have spent weeks in your reviews where one of your complaints is about how they’re standalone episodes and don’t seem to be crossing over only to complain now that it has laid that cross-over out. It’s like you’ve actively…

“No criminal intent,” and yet he was trying to assault the cyclists with his vehicle?