The writing was better than it got credit for at the time, and James Avery was capable of giving the show actual gravitas when it wanted to hit a particular moment. I always stop when I catch a rerun (and I might seek it out on Netflix after reading this).

I'm a child of the 90s, so I watched a LOT of these sitcoms. 'Fresh
Prince' is the only one whose theme song I can still sing off the top of
my head, all the lyrics correct. Always puts a smile on my face.

Sigh. NuDisqus is the gift that keeps on giving with these things.

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After Walt (Walt will always be Number One for me), I find Libby to be the show's most frustrating dead-end. The way they kept toying with coming back to her, both in statements by the writers and in random appearances by the actress here and there, just makes it worse.

That was a hilarious-for-the-wrong reasons subplot. As I recall, they got to hang out with the Blowfish backstage (off-screen) and Monica made out with a Blowfish.

I didn't love the way everything resolved, but the BSG finale felt emotionally right to me in a lot of ways. I'm just fine with that.

Is it worse than the TV adaptation of "Animal Farm" where Kelsey Grammar voiced Snowball?

Yeah, same. I dislike the whole thesis of this. It plays into the fallacy that "strong" equates "fighty." I don't think "ass-kicking" is what should define a good female character. Some of the ones mentioned are poorly-defined damsels, but others like Willow and Felicity play(ed) extremely vital roles within the…

Yeah, "Dollhouse" was the big wtf listing for me. The first season was ROUGH most of the way through. It took off in the last few episodes on the abbreviated second season, but by then it was too late.

There's a snarkier vibe in the B99 office in general, which is part of what I think helps. Boyle and Amy and Jake and so on also get busted on - if not to the degree Scully and Hitchcock do by everyone - which makes it seem less like the cools kids are just picking on the poor outcast.

I still say this season's better than last season so far, for me.

I view "Maternity Leave" as one of those times "LOST" actually answered quite a few questions, but viewers kept on asking them anyway.

In fairness to Chang, I never saw his character as particularly stereotypically Asian…because I always saw him as an awful, repellent, horrible character. But he didn't seem stereotypically repellent, if that makes sense.

Also Leslie/Ron on "Parks & Rec."

He was reliably correct about things I'm not entirely sure the writers wanted the audience to think too hard about, yet they had him there commenting correctly on them anyway.

I regained some measure of enjoyment of Sorkin after his cameo on 30 Rock. Some measure. "The Newsroom" means I will never regain the full measure.

I'm going to end up watching every damn episode of this show, even though I know I'll chew my liver and continuously want to strangle Maggie and Will while doing it.

I do like the comparison, though, and I think it's apt enough. Everything we've seen about Will McAvoy suggests he's an awful person in his personal life and a bully in his professional one, but the writers don't seem to mean to portray him this way. It's just how he comes across (at least to me). I find Don Draper…

See, I love the "Battlestar" finale because, as little sense as most of it made, it worked for me emotionally. I dislike "The End" because so much of it didn't (for reasons I went on about below).