There's also this to be said: I very much hope I will always look down on and despise racist and misogynistic fuckwits, wherever they tell me to stick it.

Britisher here.

Aw, Hell……. YEAH!

The best twist was in After Earth, where he took one of the most engaging, charismatic actors available and had him sit the film out, stoney faced, on screen.

The spells? Probably not, though it depends on their theology.

Hello again.

Presumably because he hired a sex worker.

I don't know why they killed Denise, except that they wanted to include that particular death.

Or, Zach understands all this and just thinks it's a bit shit.

Once again, the 'no true Gen X'er' fallacy rears its ugly head. Tch.

I wonder if we'll get a TWD spin off set in, say, Holland, where everyone's co-operating and getting shit done, and not caving in the heads of their fellow humans at the earliest opportunity.

Would that it were character driven. It's plot driven. Characters act as the plot necessitates.

As I recall, with the dumpster fake-out 'death', there was only worry and such from Maggie, not any sort of confirmation and subsequent mourning. While (to Maggie) Glenn was missing, there was no solid reason to suppose him dead - he'd proven himself to be a capable character.

I think Lincoln is too good for this show (as are many of the actors). I think his performances often way outstrip the dialogue and character work given to him. The Negan arc in particular, where he was given a boost and subsequent crash didn't feel at all justified in narrative or character, but Lincoln sold it…

"I think my problem, and maybe others as well, is that I essentially stick around for what I think the show could be. I feel like I mostly tolerate it, sometimes like it, and every once in a while, really love it."

Negan poses with his bat in a phallic manner, gives us a Rick facial shot, and refers to it as his 'dirty girl'.

If the show had any guts, they'd make it all a Rick coma fantasy.

Personally, my enjoyment varies from episode to episode. The show veers from beautiful and brilliant to tedious and terrible, usually within the same episode - what makes a given episode good or not is often the balance, rather than it being all good or all bad.

I think, as others have said, AVC is taking the Christmas special as the first episode of S3.

Maybe it's my being raised in and living in Britain, but I don't really want to know how the person serving me, or (other way round) the person I'm serving, is doing. I don't want to tell someone how I'm doing, either. It's none of their business. There's a chain of shops around where I live where the checkout people…