One more great finale and I’ll probably stop...

Halt and Catch Fire. Amazing show all the way through with an incredible ending. It may have wrapped up a bit too nicely in some regards, but I loved it for a multitude of reasons.

Oh! I nearly forgot, but Cowboy Bebop had about as perfect an ending to a series as possible. Again, it’s not a traditional TV show since it’s only a single-series show, but it did a great job of wrapping up the series.

The truly great finales (series finales, I might add) that come to mind besides You’re The Worst for me would probably be (in no particular order);

Good finales are well-written, well-acted, and well-executed; perfect finales are all of the above, and most importantly, have earned every beat they try to hit. This 1000% falls in the latter, and will very likely end up as one of my all-time favorite comedy finales, considering that it truly managed to sum up…

Initial thoughts...

I loved the ending. All of the plotlines seemed to resolve and make sense. I also thought it made a great point about the institution of marriage as opposed to the sentiment of staying with somebody because you chose to. It was perhaps not the emotional landmine that Edgar’s conversation with Jimmy…

I mean...you might be onto something there.

I don’t feel like your first argument really works. In point A you’re saying the Joker doesn’t need an origin story, and in point B you’re giving an example of a bunch of talented people making an incredible Joker origin story to universal acclaim. And Killing Joke is very much a Joker story that Batman is in, not the…

Why? The Joker is an incredibly popular character for a reason, he’s awesome.

I think it read as a straight-up autobiography that he may have made up. From what I remember (it’s been a while for me as well) there was just enough ambiguity for that to have been a possibility, and yet it read sincere enough to either be his origin story or at least have some shades of truth to it. Which I like,…

Perhaps...

That said, I think it still works. As a story, it looks like it provides some depth to the character. Also, depending how they work it, they could provide enough ambiguity so that it is just the recollection of a mentally ill criminal making sense of his past through the lens of somebody literally insane.…

Awful good!

.....I’ll show myself out. But seriously, and with all due respect, I think this looks fantastic. To each their own.

I feel like I’m all on this despite myself. On paper, the concept looked like a dumpster fire. In execution...it looks what they described it as. Namely a fantastic looking case study of a man who succumbs to mental illness and becomes a villain.

While I like the ambiguity of the Joker in the comics, I think The…

Have you ever heard of anything masculine-coded as someone’s guilty pleasure?

I mean...Chasing Amy? If there is proof Kevin Smith has something meaningful to say about the comic book industry, sexuality, complicated relationships, and some poignant insights, that kind of proved it to me. At minimal, he’s certainly capable of that.

I would also say there were a few salient pieces of commentary in …

On one hand, I’m not sure how likely that is.

On the other hand, I think you should be a writer for the Hallmark Channel.

The difference (or a possible difference) was that the Targaryens were this very inbred line of monarchs. Since pretty much all the Targaryens are dead, and since Dany’s infertile, the bloodline (and hence the madness) ends there, and those three dragons are all male as I recall (and one’s a resurrected ice zombie) so…

I think you mean why on Westeros...

Anyway, that aside, that is a weird question to ask. It’s important to the story and how we view the characters. Those details matter insofar as our interpretation of the story goes. I mean, otherwise why would any story matter? I mean, why are we here discussing it, or even…

I think you meant Viserys in the last comment not Rhaegar (no judgement, just helping your argument).

I am basing that on how he treated Dany. He was an asshole to Dany, sold her to Khal Drogo for an army, and as I recall he said he would have willingly let every Dothraki and their horses rape her if it meant he would get the Iron Throne. I did not take that to be much of an exaggeration, if any. He seemed cruel and…

Interesting observation. My question would be, should that be enough cause for concern for Varys and Tyrion? After all, compared to her brother Rhaegar, not to mention her father, she is pretty tame. I think Dany is acting more in accordance with the times and what is customary while still being open to influence.…