Ah, but what about Trapper John, MD?

As a big fan of MASH, I was always curious about AfterMASH, but never looked into it beyond bare premise summaries and the theme song. Thanks for this detailed consideration.

No mention of "He's my brother"?

That's exactly what they left out. Any quirkiness or specific character traits.

The way I thought of it was "The son has a greatly increased role" rather than "the mother's role is severely reduced," for the simple fact that the mother is still pretty strongly characterized. Just not quite as strongly as in the original.

It's not bad, it's just not good. It's inconsequential.

I have a review of it going up later today at Flickchart.com/blog. We don't do letter grades over there, but I'd say C+.

"…the curse of being the quiet kid can be lifted if you spend your time listening to what the people around you are saying and make sure that your silences are only interrupted with legitimate questions or well-considered one-liners."

Community grade of B+. For a given value of "community."

Presumably he meant Skype or some kind of highly-stable internet telecommunication method.

“I can’t feel like we should end the show where all these people work, all these animators, people who aren’t necessarily in the public but have worked here for a long time, because one person doesn’t want to accept a deal of that magnitude,” he says. “I don’t think it’s right to end it.”

GoT books (and by extension, the series, which I haven't watched either). It's finished when he says it's finished or when he dies, whichever comes first.

It came back today because a report came out. Reports take time I guess. The report apparently says very little about Brady, but most people who are writing about it are saying "It says very little about Brady, but I think it says Brady knew about it!"

I told myself I did it out of hope. "Maybe tomorrow this whole thing will end and they'll find a cure and get to him in time." But I know it's not so… And I haven't hesitated to put other people out of their misery since then. I guess I, like Clem, grew a little that day. :(

That might be cool. I think I'd do it, but I guess I can't say for sure.

I left Lee alive.

Plus the deaths of both parts of a romantic couple is suspiciously convenient.

I don't think she was going for realism, but even in realistic fiction, literature isn't a matter of rolling dice.

But realism isn't exactly the standard here.

It was a moronic death, though. Fans are very often morons, but in this case it was the writing that was inartful. If she really feels it was a mistake, I think she's right to say it.