The part of the 'you trip, someone else falls into a sewer' dynamic that tends not to get covered is the perspective of the person working beneath that open manhole.

Ah, my favorite example of that confusion was My Secret Garden for The Secret Garden.

On the whole I like this, but I do think you're eliding the on ground realities of the post-war South.

Because you only saw her for a little bit at the end of the film?

SFW, NSFMH

But the best Jeff pairing was with Pelton and Seal.

I also love the eventual implication for both Jenna and Tracy that they spend so much time and energy on their abnormalities that it inevitably creates areas of perfectly strict normality.

Yup, Christian Democrats - a thing basically everywhere except, weirdly, the US.*

A flu fledging, eh? Hope this season's vaccinations cover that one.

If a Dr. McNinja TV show was commissioned as a follow up to a revived Middleman I would definitely know I was being 'Matrixed' as it were.

Oh man that would be too awesome. Literally too awesome - I would begin doubting that I wasn't in a dreamworld created by an evil wizard in order to distract me from my true mission.

I believe Edlund was involved with the first season of VB as well.

I like the final duel in Sanjuro a great deal, too.

There's been some work by economists - of all academia's creatures - that the trial by ordeal was a fairly rational process (in terms of economic choice):
1. Disincentives for participating in it were high - discouraging triviality
2. The people who conducted them were unusually informed about the participants, and not…

I've heard good things, the offline version is said to be more complete but also to be that much farther away from full on 3D fantasy future magic.

It's a greave matter that we describe this with as much accuracy as possible.

That's entirely inaccurate. Have you even read the book?

That's certainly true. The degree to which no one can cross the aisle even to escape a fire or slap a villain is dysfunctional at every level.

Excellent point, the standard drama really does require a hook to hang the hat on doesn't it?

Those are all also scandals of strategy - which are normally harder to mine for outrage (unless you're going after LBJ) - than scandals of conduct. Which does make broad sense in terms of what we ask our leaders to do, but can also be the height of injustice (man totally unchecked on unnecessary war does get dinged…