Really, really going to miss this column. It’s the last of what the AV Club used to be like. Very excited for your Age of Heroes column next!

I finally quit the show halfway through the episode tonight. There really is no humor. Everyone hates each other and the only gimmick the writers have left in their book for attempts at humor is to have everyone scream and yell their lines as loud as they can. It’s become just an unbearable watch. These episodes…

The amount of people here saying “I haven’t seen the movie yet, but here’s what I think about it” is embarrassing.

He gets fired and gets half his face burnt off. It’s not as though the film does not ‘punish’ him.

It’s a good film and well-acted. It has it’s own politics and never asks you to co-sign on them. Most cops are anti-black because it’s ingrained in the system, just like most cops are less inclined to believe in date rape. it is what it is.

So, we complain about the trend of movies bowing to audience expectations, and then we slam movies for not being as woke (or the wrong kind of woke) as we expect them to be?

I can’t imagine anyone having sex with this man willingly.

CBS: We’ve Been Airing Versions Of The Same Four Shows For The Last Twenty Years And No One Has Noticed

There’s only one obvious choice to replace Trebek when the time comes: Ken Jennings. He’s personable, funny, obviously smart enough and would bring a sense of continuity. Plus, they could add a twist to the annual Tournament of Champions by letting the winner face Ken in a double-or-nothing head-to-head match.

Myself and at least a couple other people have been using the ‘Modern Family’ comments to discuss ‘Speechless’; and I’ve occasionally seen some discussion on ‘The Middle’ and ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ too. :)

Requipping:

B is what undermines almost all government conspiracy theories, including fictional ones: they just happen to be run by people who are all-knowing, but suspiciously just to the extent that allows the narrative to continue to work.

“So, the government is not above murdering anyone, from top-level politicians to…

It’s cut like a movie trailer, the music is way off base, Duchovny’s reading of already-terrible lines is abysmal. I’ve watched every episode as it aired since season two, so I’ll probably see it through, but wow, let this be the end.

Yeah. Those two popped up last night and I completely forget why.

Chris Carter’s problem is he is to concerned with trying to add more mythology on to stuff long since past that he overlooks the fact it would be better to tie up loose threads. Whatever happened to the Alien bounty hunter? 2012 colonisation? And so on.

Especially because En Ami is one of the show’s best episodes overall, and was a wonderfully understated way of suggesting CSM had more layers than we’d ever seen. Now, with one stroke, we know his real name and that he’s a fucking rapist. Carter is literally actively destroying his show’s legacy.

There are so many, many reasons why this episode will be hated. And most of them are totally legitimate. Carter’s inability to just accept the Mulder/Scully relationship is the center of the show chief among them.

I found it tolerable because My Struggle II was such a complete shitshow. This episode wasn’t good, but it was way better than that one. And as a bonus it pretty much retconned it.

Just 5 more months and the moffat era of convoluted scripts and endless preaching will finally be over…

Sooo….they kind of gave Bill the same send-off as Clara? I honestly don't know how I feel about that. I mean, talk about your not-really-girlfriend-turned-puddle-god-alien-thing ex machina.