So, “people who murder their relatives for easy cash that they spend on pointless impulse purchases, including some for their half-baked criminal schemes” is the answer to “who the hell owns a franking machine”.

I like to call it Skylar White Syndrome.

It’s been a while since I finished S3, but I remember really liking it and constantly asking myself “How in the world is this actually a good show?” Seeing this S4 trailer still makes me wonder that exact question. Like, this looks ridiculous and kinda dumb and I can’t believe I watched this. But... they haven’t let…

I rewatched it with my wife a handful of years ago - she’d never seen it. I thought it would be hysterical.

The absurdity of the premise is part of the fun, and they lampshade it occasionally. That’s the main purpose of Larusso’s wife.

Oh man how I could I forget about little league parents.

Well, I grew up in Minnesota where it was all about lutefisk eating contests which, while contentious, rarely led to violence or destruction of public property.

I get that and don’t get me started on how these kids have “black belts” but even Daniel and Johnny could have at least polished up their moves.  I know this is apples/oranges but Simu Liu had no real martial arts experience prior to Shang Chi but he made it look convincing. 

wtf world do you live in where this isn’t believable? I mean when I was growing up my high school got into full school participation karate fights that destroyed buildings multiple times. This is like watching a documentary to me.

Just think to yourself it’s just a silly show and you should just relax.

It’s all about suspension of disbelief. It’s a fantasy story set in a world very like our own. Would it be easier to swallow if there were giant sand worms or lightsabers? Not saying you’re wrong to not like it, but it’s just a matter of being able to accept the world as they present it or not. Because I think if you…

Not to mention HankPym dragging an entire building around on suitcase wheels, or all the Hot Wheels size cars that they expand. That thing about retaining the same mass has been bullshit from the beginning.

The “global warming satire” angle was really funny for most of the series run — until it came time to pay that off and there was nothing “there” when it came to the ice zombies.

TBF, I doubt the nearly 60-year history of Pym particles has ever once stuck with that when it comes to growth. Comes and goes for shrinking – Pym-shrunk people punch with the power of a bullet, but also can be carried around in someone’s pocket.

That was the joke.

Again, I think a lot of people didn’t grasp what the show was doing. The entire point is that people don’t work like that. Jaime is BOTH the person who loves Cersei and loves Brienne, the person who saved King’s Landing from the Mad King and pushed a ten year old out of a tower to hide his incestuos reationship; he…

I think the difference is if you are able to look back retrospectively and realize the “sense of justice” was always secondary and always really about a single injustice, slavery and that because she personally related to it in having never been in control of her own life. Which is good so far as it goes, she should…

And for others, again, this is all subverting the IDEA of narrative arcs. It’s calling BS on Darth Vader’s redemption, it’s calling BS on Aragorn’s becoming a good ruler just because he was a heroic warrior, it’s calling BS on the general model of seeking a *person* to fix things. The reason Bran ends up as King has…

One, it’s not readers it’s viewers here. I read the books, just like I read Wheel of Time, but the show Game of Thrones is a different thing from ASOIAF, just as the WoT show is different from the books. The knowledge of one can be interesting to compare to the other, but canonically they aren’t the same and can’t be…

Except it totally was, IN RETROSPECT. That’s the point. They were disguising the heel turn while at the same time making it obvious in retrospect.