Ah, I finally got the damn comments to load correctly.

And I can’t fathom how people still convince themselves they’re being “nice” when they’re being obviously passive-aggressive.

Yeah, I wouldn’t say “ready to do the right thing,” but when Sally and John aren’t there, he tells Tom to call the cops. I think it’s only after he realizes that they’re gone that he decides he might as well do the right thing because in his own fucked-up way he cares about Gene. Then Gene kills him.

Just the one who insulted me unprompted three days ago and has kept on going since.

Yeah. I mean, I understand the need for ads, but when they reach the point where your site no longer has its basic functionalities working because of them, maybe try to fix that. Although at this point I’m not sure any of the Kinja sites give a damn about functionality.

No idea, but I figure at best it could get the restaurant shut down and at worst it could send him to prison.

Looks like today is not the day either.

Yeah, that was my conclusion too for essentially the same reasons.

It more than just Jade showed and interest and Nate was back, there were subtle moments all season where she was supportive and encouraging without expecting anything in return.

Hell, and it’s bad enough with fictional characters; you see the stuff like the unhinged open letters the Taylor Swift fans are writing about who they think she should and shouldn’t be dating, and you really start to wonder about some of these people’s relationship to reality.

No, it’s because despite the longer runtimes, the show continually still skips over important steps in the storytelling or puts them off-screen, or doesn’t address obvious conflicts or storytelling possibilities in the plots it sets up, or puts its characters into meaningless stories that don’t serve the characters…

Speaking of the culture change, I haven’t seen any reviewer mention that Ted’s “thank you” / “fuck you” speech to his mom is a direct reflection of what Jamie told him he wanted to say to his dad. That’s a storytelling mode the show works in well for me: Ted has influenced Jamie to grow and be a better person; the…

Yeah, the moment I knew I was really on board with the movie was when the van blows up in the background while MacGruber is bragging about his team and his homemade C-4.

What does that have to do with anything other being knee-jerk rude and insulting to someone because they criticized a TV show? If only ten minutes of a nearly-70-minute episode of TV are at an A level, I agree with not giving the whole thing an A. So what? 

Yeah, I kinda always had the impression she had him young and his dad split pretty quickly after. (I guess it wouldn’t be impossible she was older, but given how quickly his dad left the picture, something more unplanned than that makes more sense to me.)

One of the reasons why so many viewers aren’t sold on Nate’s redemption arc is because we haven’t been given the catharsis of watching him or the team/Ted/Beard work toward change or forgiveness.

It’s really bizarre— between that and Schur’s book on moral philosophy, he really does seem to approach morality as entirely consumer-based and something you can balance enough Good Points vs. Bad Points against to measure your moral standing.

You remember that Futurama “Anthology of Interest” segment where Leela kills Farnsworth then starts killing everyone else on the Planet Express crew to cover it up? I imagine something like that, but with Dennis, is a possibility.

“an efficiency expert shows up and shakes up the office hierarchy”

Now I’m wondering how Keeley fits into this.