TWO deus ex machinas. The ENTIRE story of what happened to Julie is given to us by a guy they stumble upon in no time at all, a guy who apparently has spent decades being upset about what happened and wanting Julie found, but for some reason never decided to tell anyone. Why not write an anonymous letter to the police…

Agreed. That was all a bit too convenient for me. She’s running away from this horrible past, but makes it to a convent that’s a short drive away from the people chasing her? And then she spends her life living another short drive away from those same people (Hayes son was able to drive and pick him up from her house…

Agreed. The show made the mistake I see a lot of shows/movies making- it wanted us to care about a struggling relationship surviving, but it never gave us a reason to root for them. Hayes and his wife spent the vast majority of the season fighting and arguing and bickering, almost all of it about the case itself.…

I’m not sure how coherent this season was now that it’s over. A lot of loose ends that weren’t tied up, which is fine, but there were loose ends that were tied up in ways that undermined what came before. I really don’t see why the show implied that Hayes and his daughter had some huge falling out that has had…

We’re not gonna mention the coach falling on his face at the end of the clip? Okay then...

The paternalistic garbage argument always struck me as pretextual. The real reason was that the NBA recognized that young pros were more marketable and valuable to teams if they’d been exposed to national attention by playing college ball, and the NCAA recognized that they were losing out on billions of revenue by…

How did the Nats fuck over the city? Navy Yard has become one of the go to communities in the city. Heck, Forbes listed Navy Yard as one of the 12 best neighborhoods in the world to live in. They had the misfortune of completing the stadium right around the time the entire global economy fell apart, but once the…

The Dreadnought’s Admiral’s comments are a prety great encapsulation of how dumb that scene was. He points out that one lone fighter is too quick for their anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down, which if he was aware of (as well as presumably everyone else on all of the FO’s ships) then why does he wait to scramble the…

Your counter point is literally the only legitimate defense of that scene that makes any sense. The people that try and find logical or physics-based explanations (“they’re magnets!” being the most prevalent and clearly dumbest one) twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain it away. I don’t think the filmmakers…

Sure, but you’re premise seems to rely on this notion that one can choose between lots of second rounders and a few top five picks. Why not use the second rounders to obtain other assets you’re more sure of (like free agents)? Or, as Ernie says, use them to get cash, and then if you actually want to draft a particular…

I’m with you until that last paragraph. Isn’t the fact that you’ve got a VERY small chance of actually drafting a halfway decent player in the second round evidence that you might as well use that bargaining chip to make improvements in other ways? I’m a Wizards fan, so of course I think Grunfeld is a moron, but on…

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Who the hell thought paying Chris Webber to call games was a good idea?

“I’ll never understand why reporters waste so much time and effort (not to mention readers’ and viewers’ time) asking questions which will either produce rote answers or solicit zero new information.”

“it is probably very annoying to come to work every day”

So he’s essentially sullenly saying he should make tens of millions of dollars to play a game without ever having to participate in anything he finds boring or meaningless or have people be upset with him for silly things. And he’s saying OTHER people need to grow up. Give me a break. Part of being a grown up is…

I love how she framed it as if the officer was victim blaming, when what he was actually doing was cataloging details that are entirely relevant to the determination of whether a crime was committed. Pointing out that the victim admitted that she engaged in behavior that made it legally permissible for Brown to…

Sure, but I think your read on WHY the inconsistencies are there is more generous than mine. For people to point it out and realize how inconsistent he’s being would require the writers to have intended his character to be a hypocrite who was driven by moral motivations. I don’t think that’s what’s happening at all. I…

“If there’s ever an occasion where, thanks to bad writing, he does, he pays for it - usually by turning himself in.”

1) He said maybe after explicitly chastising Clark for what he did. He told him that “we had talked about this. You have to keep this part of you a secret.” The whole framing of that entire conversation is that Pa Kent was clearly admonishing him and telling him his actions were wrong. He follows up the “maybe” with…