I agree with all except C, which I think is a bit off base.  Getting married or otherwise entering a relationship that the other person clearly assumes is (or even explicitly defines as) monogamous is an agreement not to be with anyone else, and intentionally violating that is still wrong, yes?  I mean, you can…

I thought for sure he would realize Don was deliberately sabotaging him, but he seemed quite oblivious after the meeting.  In particular, the line I quoted above was delivered in seeming disgust at Don's incompetence rather than anger at being betrayed.  Though of course it's possible I read it incorrectly.

And also, his chipper "Well, I'm off!" before getting absolutely destroyed.

Yeah, the way he totally torpedoed the guy's ad plans without him even realizing that's what was happening was fantastic.  "That guy is NOT a salesman!"

He's got opinions, man.  We're all entitled to 'em.

@AmaltheaElanor:disqus  is correct.  (I re-watched just this week.)

I got a Commando notification for THIS?

Yeah, we'd turn into Star Wars fans.

As far as The Assignment goes, I thought that the opening with the plant dying was kinda brilliant, as it subtly raises the stakes (at least in the viewer's eye) for the middle third of the episode.  Bashir gets something killed through his well-meaning attempts to help O'Brien, then the episode puts Rom in a…

This sounds exactly like the one they installed in my town.  There used to be this memorial flagpole literally in the middle of an intersection (with a small garden surrounding it).  It was set up as a four-way stop, but as the population of the area grew, it became more and more of a disaster area.  So rather than…

Correct!  We would also have accepted "(Washington DC.  Ugh.)"

NOT AVAILABLE 30 YEARS IN THE PAST.

Academically, I can understand all the points you make, but none of that bothers me because just about every joke History makes lands for me, and I spend almost the entire episode laughing.

"I still haven't finished my masterpiece, called Cats."

I also love that he signed it.

That is a whole lot of words about History, when "the best episode of Home Movies" would certainly have sufficed.

@avclub-c6447300d99fdbf4f3f7966295b8b5be:disqus   Yeah, I can buy that.  I actually was saying much the same about the current season of Justified until about three episodes ago, when it decided to become fantastic again.

I should clarify that my use of "effective" was meant to apply exclusively to the use of heavy serialization, not to the show as a whole.  I guess I should have said "effectively heavily-serialized" or some such.

If I can apply my collegiate degree in Fanwankology, one could reasonably assume that, since the Link would presumably be needed to undo the procedure, the Founders are not willing to make themselves that vulnerable for so indefinite a time period.  It would be a severe limitation of their abilities which would be…

Exactly, I think GoT is the only current show aside from BB that can be called both heavily-serialized and effectively so.