The beginning (pilot) and the ending (last two or three) episodes of Awake were quite good, making me wish for more episodes, while everything in between was mostly irrelevant (except the parts where he sees random penguins or short people), and made me wish it had been a movie or miniseries or cable drama, the better…

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Nicholas Cage might have been a just about perfect fit for the faux-serious, goofy, but not-far-enough-over-the-top-to-be-great tone of that show. Or the pilot, at least. I couldn't watch any further.

We take that as a compliment.

Whaaaat? Careful, movie universe—-you're playing around with my hopes and dreams.

Duel, not dual.

The previous trailer got me excited. This one has me dubious again. So freaking much going on. On the other hand, I'm a big fan of both time travel and Peter Dinklage. I'm rooting for this to succeed, but I'm by no means convinced it will.

"reduces all of its characters to props in an object lesson"

This is what I always suspected about pop music, that strange, lively, hypnotic Ouroboros that proves ad infinitum, ad nauseum, ad ridiculum that the zeitgeist is, in fact, incredibly shallow and incredibly dance-inducing.

Am catching up, but still a little late; anyway, here goes ….

If you don't like Season 2 better than Season 1, perhaps the show and you are going in opposite directions? Nothing wrong with that of course; you're entitled to your own opinions on what entertains you best naturally. The way I see it, Season 1 is the most "normal-sitcom-y" season of Community, and it eases the…

Agreed. I watched it live for once tonight, and was peeved at the commercials for seemingly taking away chunks of that precious half hour, more so than I would have been on Hulu for instance, nonsensically enough.

Yeah. This episode was pretty decent, but it really could have used a couple classic weird Donald Glover reaction shots.

Hmm. What a very Abed way to think about TV shows.

And the way that Dewey says "Thanks" at the end of that phone call with Boyd, like they are having some sort of normal, non-criminal, non-threatening conversation. That had me doing the proverbial laugh-out-loud.

Tell us about Community, dangit!

This one's tricky, because I think you can make the case that texting at least is not very visually appealing/efficient. I'm of the opinion it does not make for very compelling TV, even when they try to jazz it up as in Sherlock. With calling at least you could cut back and forth or use a split screen.

This.

I got this. I laughed. But I maintain that TVtropes.org is awesome.

Sounds like someone has been watching a lot of cop dramas, haha.