One point I haven't seen mentioned: when Kim resigns, she makes very clear that she and Jimmy are not partners at law, to which Hamlin tells her how smart that is.

Mike's body was dissolved in acid, so his family will never really know for sure. Kaylee will find out he was drug muscle wanted by the feds, though.

Jimmy would have lost Mesa Verde eventually. He's a ticking time bomb and Kim knows it.

If they had just shown the death, we still would have been hanging in suspense to see what happened next. How do they react, what demands does Negan lay out, what is Rick's next move?

The artwork in the comic really did drive home the idea that Rick's group had spent too much time cloistered in their tiny Alexandria place, and were completely unaware that they lived right in the middle of a thriving larger community.

The long-form format might have worked if they were willing to set an end date about four seasons in. Serialized drama cannot be at its best when it's open-ended like this.

Also, Eugene is the only character who really got a "last day on earth" sendoff during the hour, when Abraham finally gave him the validation he wanted and sent him off in the RV alone (with an uncharacteristic swelling music cue).

Having spent my 20's living in Williamsburg and hanging out with an incestuous clique of artists — nothing about Marnie's appearance at the play was off.

I disagree with how rationally you're laying this out, like there are rules regarding how much time has passed, whether the "victim" has moved onto another relationship, etc.

They basically could have cut out the last five minutes of last week's episode and skipped the production of this episode, and it would have made absolutely no difference to the season's plot.

I always thought the Empire was pretty forgiving about the fact that Han Solo attempted to assassinate its second-in-command. I mean, Han didn't know that Vader could absorb laser bolts with his mind. That was like firing a full round at Himmler.

But how could the writers have possibly have thought this was a mystery?! Maybe this would have worked in the early 90's, when most viewers didn't have access to DVRs and didn't discuss their favorite shows on the internet.

The prequels all feel like we're watching a story outline written on a cocktail napkin. The narrative beats are there, but the characters practically say "Narrative beat" at each one. While Lucas had some interesting ideas about how Palpatine might go about corrupting Anakin while overthrowing the Republic, at no…

Not only that, but the Queen of Naboo is clearly not just a ceremonial head of state, but also the head of government — responsible for ratifying treaties and allocating military resources (as we heard in exciting detail).

That couple was one of many examples of "inexplicable survivors" the show has portrayed. When Morgan comes across that couple, it's been — what? — two years since the zombie apocalypse? And they have absolutely no ability to defend themselves from a lone attacker in the woods? I'm not buying it. People like that…

Ford needs to get over himself, if he is really the one giving the suits a hard time about this. Audiences aren't the ones demanding another Indy movie starring Ford. Audiences have gotten used to six Bonds, five Batmans, and a few dozen Sherlocks. Ford literally got to ride off into the sun as Indy over 25 years…

It's just not possible to make a good Indiana Jones movie with Harrison Ford at this point. It's not so much about learning from past mistakes, it's that Ford is clearly too old for the role. He was too old in the last one and that movie is already 7 years old! They can recast (which, I agree, is probably out of…

Let's not give the Darabont era of this show too much credit. It's not like anyone thought to smear walker guts on themselves at any point in the rest of the first season, even though there were several times this could have saved lives.

I was thinking the same thing — shouldn't we have seen this conversation?

The release of the zombies directly led to the death of one series regular, and the horde almost devoured the very person they were trying to save. It's kind of weird that Travis and Madison don't seem to have anything to say about just how badly this plan backfired.