… if you think it was due to the YiP we got Nixon… well.

Sanders run was hardly a marginal affair, otherwise none of this is pertinent as he would have no effect that needs to be accounted for by the DNC and Clinton now.

Then they are theater? Fine, then it's about acting it out, dissent and all. So the Sanders supporters and all is on point. That would explain all the empty speeches too. IF they're not theater, if it's about actually confirming a process that led to a platform and candidate - and televising it to a nation - well,…

I don't need to turn that into anything for my point. Normally their candidate's positions are absorbed or influence the platform. But I am addressing now that it is set up so everyone should behave as if it is business as usual, and that is not the case.

This sort of pisses me off too. I mean: I don't really get why I should identify with Silverman's self-serving remark either, especially as it's not to some abstract audience interrupting her but to people who did the grunt political work and paid the delegate fees and ARE following tried and true tactics associated…

Definitely makes sense. Also with the father's role getting some presence again for such a transition, just as a way to show change, how he deals with it and at points offer some moment or two of human guidance like he did when he heard about Kevin.

I like that reading, it makes sense in relation to boundaries but it makes me wonder if Steven's fusion is partly confusion, because maybe he's just reacting to a new experience of feelings for Connie as well, not just Stevonnie, so both (Connie/Stevonnie) bring him to the anger he has. I mean, that kind of anger is…

True with relationships as his working-material and also research area in a way, but that returns me to how the episode bothered by introducing his motivation with the whole intense need of "love>marriage" as the aim to fix.

The documentary though, which is funny in itself.

Your point made me recall the last episode with Peridot, trying to teach her shape shifting, and then Steven made one of his cat fingers - we know how that turned out the first season - and then we are shown that he tries to shape shift back, can't get rid of the cat finger (although he has been showing off…

First of all, I enjoyed the episode for the other characters being expanded upon. I especially appreciated how Sadie grew and the implications in her dialog when Steven / Lars came over to watch the movie. But there is just something uncomfortable in this episode, when you realize Steven knows what fusion is, we've…

Although I miss his old show, I could easily understand him stopping because of that problem of playing a character and actually wanting to try to be "yourself." But a Late Show host is still not "being yourself." Especially as the show has been going through growing pains, I don't think he has gotten the hang of who…

Yes, and his character doesn't keep saying practically every episode that he's catholic. That gets grating as even a gimmick. Still I prefer to see Colbert even half-firing then the other late nite hosts. The new cold opens are better suited but I get the feeling he's still trying to find the format.

Yes the fact that alot of the writers remained could be an issue, as another voice has to be shaped in the end. That detached quality is definitely there, without a payoff (like to suit the purpose of being the center of a dynamic ensemble for example, where you want someone in the middle of it all like that.) And…

Great interview for Noah, but still when I watch DS I feel he still sounds too constructed around his show/writers rather than his own insights, which seems probable as certainly I don't know what insights he should have into the American political system. Never thought I'd really start to watch the Nightly Show but…

And oddly enough, Merv was mega-rich from ownership of his program plus key game shows, so the kissing should have been towards his direction.

four years? eight seems like a rule since a while.

I don't know if it is the more stalwart trait of "optimism" that really differentiates the two approaches to main characters in comedy. Isn't it probably closer to the surface, the equivalent of resolving to "have a nice day" in the end of whatever just happened, bad or good. Sincerity is thrown out the door for…

"sad cautionary tale" sort of describes alot of comedy relief.

Any of the Baldwin brothers, preferably Stephen no matter what.