It's certainly a great precedent.

I think the particularly incriminating thing being his incidents such as his strenuous objections to Reagan visiting a cemetery that included SS graves.

Eh, to be fair, the rational reasons for doing a thing as an American with political opinions are reliably less important than the importance of hating the other party as a social signifier.

He and B16 did actually hang as young POWs, I believe - it may have been in another context - Gunter described him as 'Real Catholic, but a nice guy.'

We all do.

I do love the totality of regret and acknowledged folly that encompasses.

Deacon's can't get married again after they become deacons (some diocese may vary) so it would still involve at least some awkwardness.

I actually think WW would have been a real challenge for Whedon. It's one of those 'too similar to bridge the distance'/'there will never actually be a presbylutheran church' things.

In terms of the tropes - maybe, but I think those are all, at best, temporary objections. There are any number of cinema genres that already accept those or even more outlandish tropes (and the original superhero suits were drawn from athletic costumes so it's not like they're in bugs bunny-land in terms of…

I might make the argument that both are (or can be) writer's mediums were the big screen is more about direction, but I think you could also look to the size of the stakes involved as skewing things a great deal. You move an animated show a little bit one direction and it doesn't work out, there will be other chances…

Eh, I think, in a similar fashion to the other big 2, there have been ample demonstrations of her as a great character repeatedly. Also ample demonstrations of her as a poor character.

Damn right.

Do we need to link to that massive starships scale reference poster again?

Unicorns is always virgins and only care for virgins. Don't you know your tapestry-ways?

Essentially, as I understand it, Homer is the last man. The natural end of a terrible history that destroys everything noble and good in humanity. Grimes is the inevitable rage at this descending night, and the final funeral sequence is the inescapable end - the last man looks back and laughs (or sleeps and begs for…

When this came out I was watching the show in a communal setting and one member of that community was a maybe 30% off-kilter political philosophy grad student. He had a few decent points visible through the static of general discontent, but for this episode he truly outdid himself.

There are a few specifics I might quibble on, particularly your argument with regard to tradition and support, but while I largely agree with your analysis the major problem here is that it's largely irrelevant to the specific problem under discussion.

Was this the show that had the episode where one of the married couples was trying desperately to find a mattress that struck the right balance of clean and soiled for their respective needs only to find it in their house once they'd broken up the party their teenage kids had been throwing?

That's not the popular imagination of it though. People who've never seen a Nun do anything but hand out sandwhiches to the homeless still think of rulers whizzing past habits.

I always thought that was a point of the show, to show the problem of disconnection for/among the American elite.