Touché. Though if they do exist, they exist for something likely unrelated to public TV fees.

Its influence, especially on younger viewers, was enormous, and not wholly positive. In a 2006 study published in the American Politics Research journal, The Daily Show was found to have fostered an increase of interest in political participation among its fans—as well as an increase of overall mistrust of…

I definitely figured Rachel was manipulating Jeremy in that scene, the only thing I wasn't yet quite sure about was whether Jeremy would make some sort of confession and go to jail for the rest of them or whether he'd kill Yael and Coleman.

Have you met 2016 in the real world? I'm kinda having doubts about being here or in GoT.

I must admit I watch quite a lot of their nature and science documentaries. I have not found any other outlet which comes even close to them in that area, in my opinion.

Interesting. In Switzerland, we've adapted a different path: Every household and company residence just pays the media fee (we have a system with public TV and radio which is very similar to the BBC, and it's also funded via a special fee, though some parts of the fee also go to private media companies), no matter…

There are workarounds for that without breaking encryption, apparently. I'm no expert on IEEE 802.11, but apparently, the iPlayer app could send a broadcast packet specific to itself and their van could detect that if it goes over your WiFi network, even if the network traffic itself is encrypted. Or so I've read. I…

Just FYI, in this very same series, David Attenborough let the following sentence over his lips:

As opposed to covering up the circumstances around Mary's death and getting Romeo shot?

I'm never going to be able to hold too much of a grudge against that show because it introduced me to Odette Annable (Yustman back then).

What's the MCU's stance on time travel? Or de-aging? Or cloning? Or magic (especially now that Dr. Strange is coming into the fold)? Or just straight-up throwing continuity into the wind?

Indeed. Easy as (Hot)pie.

I would be more interested in a Prequel about the Long Night and how the Wall was built rather than Dunk and Egg. The Long Night was so long ago that there would be way more freedom in story telling and more uncertainty about how things will go (assuming they don't tie Bran back into that somehow in the current story,…

Yeah, I think the capability of humans to understand the Why? of it does make a big difference, good point.

I don't think it would get me to not watch something, but I must admit that when I first heard about a "Big Death" (TM) coming in the middle of season 3 of Person of Interest, my first thought was actually "Don't you dare kill the dog!"

I don't mind focusing on Kilgrave. But if so, then the season should have been several episodes shorter IMO. Dragging out that plot to 13 episodes got tedious as hell to me.

Instead, Coleman and Yael get to be white knight saviors who uncover the truth.

Yeah, I think therein possibly lies a bit of a cultural difference between the US (or at least certain parts of it) and my country (Switzerland, for full disclosure). For the most part, the relationship between the people and the cops is pretty good here, as far as I know. And I'm not just saying that because my buddy…

I don't disagree.

I've met quite a lot of people who were handed pistols as their service weapons (mostly soldiers, not cops, since that's where I've spent time) and who were bad shots with them (though most could handle a rifle competently enough). Also, one of my best friends (a former cop) has relayed to me on more than one occasion…