I wish they'd just give it a 2-hour time slot then, and add some pledge drive filler to the beginning or end.

I wish they'd just give it a 2-hour time slot then, and add some pledge drive filler to the beginning or end.

Huh, I guess I just don't buy it. She has two new memories - the one from the finale, and the "I love you" in her bedroom. Neither of those seems enough to reset the triangle.

I brought this up in my earlier comment, but I keep seeing the sentiment repeated here, so I'm interested in a real discussion of HOW the Damon flashback "resets" or "reboots" the triangle. How does this one conversation matter, in light of everything that happened after it?

I got that, I just don't think it really makes a difference. So she'll remember those things happening and when they happened, but he's said all the same things to her in many ways since both of those instances. I just don't see how the "when" of it really matters.

Like "Let's Go to the Mall?"

I really like Rose, and loved having her back for this episode, until that stupid car scene. Coupled with the Hitfix interview with Julie Plec (linked above in the comments), where she basically said that Stefan taught Elena how to live again, and Damon teaches her a new way to live, I just feel like this narrative is…

I guess it depends on what foreknowledge is required. If it's like, "Oh, that little character only showed up for 2 seconds but I get the point because I read the books - I know he'll show up again later." Fine.

Are you talking about Rue, or about Prim? I think your point is true for both, but it's actually a bigger problem with Prim, just because she is like Katniss's sole motivation for everything at times, and there is no weight behind it because we don't know her or experience their relationship at all.

I take your point about the defensiveness about new artforms, etc., but I disagree that a movie does NOT have to be taken on its own terms, because why shouldn't it be? To take just one example brought up in the article: The Shining. You don't have to ever read the book in order to LOVE that movie, and in fact most of…

That blew my mind, because Lana's face is basically Aisha's face. Like, on same the level that "Burt Reynolds" looked like Burt Reynolds. I suppose I might just see more of a resemblance because I know who's voicing the character. But Aisha is also tall and has a smokin' bod, so that's one hell of a coincidence.

I liked it too! A lot of writers take a very detached stance with the shows they review, and I find that can be pretty boring to read week after week. I appreciate it more when a reviewer is engaged enough to get mad (or excited, in a better scenario).

@avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus  I'm positive that there are many other Buffy fans who dislike Season 5, and several who don't feel the impact of Buffy's sacrifice as intended. As @avclub-7f7e803ee2d1481fd805f34086a52c37:disqus says, there really wasn't that much good stuff in S5. Looking at the list…

I'm a good lady, and I don't think I'm mad! Obviously season 7 is the worst, right? But season 5 is second worst, and here's why: it's so BORING. Oh my God, why is it so boring?

Seasons 4 of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alias. Those shows defined my high school and college years and I was obsessed with them for their first three seasons. Like, time-recording on the VCR, but still racing home to watch it live just in case something went wrong.

Was it lost completely? Or could you share it with us here?

I think the decision to keep the baby or give him to his grandparents would have been more morally complicated if Bryant Sr. weren't such an unmitigated asshole. Assuming the child survives to adulthood, I think a childhood in poverty with a mother who loves you would be preferable to having that guy as your dad. Look…

@Scrawler, You didn't think Matthew would break off the engagement? I definitely did. It had been three months since Violet told him about Mary's feelings, and clearly in that time he had not resolved to push his feelings for her aside (given that the episode starts with his quick refusal to throw away her lucky…

I like JG, but I disagree that he doesn't "strive to sound teen-y." In fact, I had a really hard time staying with Will Grayson, Will Grayson because of the "Well and but so" thing that absolutely NO ONE has ever said or ever will say. There are almost no YA authors* that don't try to incorporate some slang that…

It's not just that the giant leaps in time make certain things illogical, or the drama and emotion feel unearned (though it does both). It's that it seems to kill what I love(d?) about this show - which was that it was a drama mainly focused on minutia. It was small, seemingly insignificant events or moments that had…