When did Peter get the office back- 2nd season? If so, having it up again in Season 6 works.

"Don't tell me Sonia's take is irrelevant!"

It's generally not as constant, fast, or heightened as the show portrays it.

That's a really good way of putting it. Like I said, I don't think Alicia is "wrong" to not love Peter anymore (if she doesn't, a question I don't think she could even answer). I guess it's just that she doesn't even see how the balance of power in their relationship has shifted. But ultimately, you're right; she's…

I think it's more that the two head partners at LG are doing all this backstabby bullshit at all. Shit like that just creates a toxic environment- different instructions from different partners, rampant paranoia, bunker mentalities, etc. Firms are competitive by nature, but I've worked at one where the leadership…

First of all, that Rand can only justify her personality with the most extreme examples of human behavior speaks pretty poorly for it. But second of all, I don't really know if that's true; there's certainly a strand of thought amongst Holocaust survivors that pities their captors, and I can see why; torturing someone…

"He decided to file as a candidate in order to keep Castro from firing him"

"if, in her heavily-abstracted-from-reality writings, she manages to draw a bright line between manipulative, exploitative, ends-justify-the-means capitalists and her heroes"

"But…it is clear you define a "winner" in this paragraph as "people who extort and manipulate and professionally win.""

Yeah, I mean- Peter fucked up bad. No one would blame Alicia for wanting to end it all at that point.

Well, that and there's a few Republicans that just for whatever idiosyncratic reason, do genuinely like her books (Paul Ryan, Alan Greenspan, etc.). And then, because politics is tribal, it filters down. But yes, honestly, Objectivism, at least as expressed in Rand's books, would sit pretty uncomfortable next to…

I understand where that impulse comes from (one might argue that HGTV has as much power over these guys' lives as the government does), but I think it's fundamentally unworkable in practice. I can't think of any good reason to force people to continue to associate or shackle their business to bigots, nor any reason to…

Yeah, that's taking it all a little too far, but there is something to the fact that so many of the conflicts are borne out of a particularly affluent, urbanized/gentrified lifestyle. It's not so much that these plots are a problem, just that the show doesn't reach for the universal notes in them.

Well, that's kinda my point, and I even referenced what he's done for her career. In fact, a lot of it has been done without her even asking. And I mean, if Alicia doesn't want his help, great, good, she should say something. And F&A is probably established enough now that she can survive without it. I'm just not sure…

You misunderstand; I'm not saying she's a female Barney, I'm saying she was what Barney wanted. And that's established pretty early on; the episode where they go to the cigar club together is in Season 1.

I understand if Alicia just considers their bond fundamentally broken now, but then there's a certain shit-or-get-off-the-pot element to it; if that's the case, just leave his ass. His political image ain't your problem.

In fact, she has an ethical obligation TO tell the prosecutors about that conversation.

It's a weird thing- as conceived, the characters are perfect for each other. Robin is more of a bro than most dudes, and Barney hardly even wants a second date, much like a house, kids, etc. They're just what each other want.

Right, but I mean, that's not the only other option.

Maybe. It certainly would have helped. But you'd still have Ted and Robin getting back together after the entire show did a really convincing job telling us why they should be apart.