"she's been manipulating three Kings now" — yeah, she's the manipulator Cersei tries and fails to be. She can play everyone w/o sneering at them or having a tantrum.

I'm confused by a few things (everything) with the plane crash. Didn't it go down a while ago? How did the guy on the plane stay alive that long with such a mortal injury and no food and water? How did Alex keep Marcus alive?

I know this bit is incredibly old and passé (I think I saw it on an HBO comedy special decades ago), but the fact that Crystals' dad ran the Commodore Music Shop in NYC and his uncle started the Commodore record label forgives it somewhat, to my mind.
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I was massively disappointed when Enlightened got canceled a couple (?) of years ago, but Togetherness seemed to get more and more flabbily-written and -conceived as it went on. Also seemed like the kind of show where everyone has an infinite amount of money and free time (despite Brett's brief stint as an Uber…

Yeah, jesus, that was ridiculous. That little girl was waving her arms around like there was no tomorrow, and she was in absolutely NO pain, just a li'l mopey because her parents didn't get to the hospital first. The whole episode was grotesquely cutesie and terribly-written.

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Season 7, Episode 1, Scene 1:
"Now—if you don't want to end up like this watermelon I just pulled out and smashed, you'll give me half of your stuff from now on. Or..do I have to throw some eggs on the ground?"

This is one of those "the Mono version of Sgt. Pepper is the definitive one" kinds of things, isn't it?

Exactly—and not just being caught by other gangs, being *killed* by other gangs.

Mister Señor Love Daddy in Do the Right Thing fills this role a bit. Maybe even Wolfman Jack in American Graffiti to some extent…

I like them both, but the Warriors still works more for me. The Ducky Boys from the Wanderers were really creepy, though!

And Greek Chorus!

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Trivia: Ice Cream Girl was Kim Richards, Real Housewife of Beverly Hills.

I think the secret to understanding its greatness is not to try to see it as "realism", since it's a stylized myth/fairy tale, somewhat like Night of the Hunter, which i didn't appreciate on my first viewing.

I remember news stories about violence at theaters when it first came out in 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
I saw it on TV a few years later and immediately thought it was great (and made a few skeptical people watch it).

The only question is, why was she hanging out with the Orphans, the losery-est gang in NY? http://mentalfloss.com/arti…

Yeah, sadly the effed-up version has not been "thankfully suppressed" (correction, please!). I was hoping the real version had finally shown up on Blu-Ray. I had to scramble to get a copy of the original off Ebay after the garbage edition came out.

I suggest "Yakety Sax" for the soundtrack: https://youtu.be/ZnHmskwqCCQ

It would be a good thing if the writers could discipline themselves from letting newly-introduced characters work *really hard* to get eaten. It's implausible in FTWD, but just insulting at this point in TWD. Didn't Tina get herself bitten *right after* wristwatch walked backwards into a non-moving walker?