I certainly wouldn’t call Anakin’s character arc well thought out, but it’s pretty clear. The dark side tempted him. He was unable to control his temper and fear, so he gives in to evil. There’s even a pretty clear build on the temptation of evil.

Is the acting or writing great? No. But his character development makes…

The books are pretty exciting and well paced from a storytelling stand point, but it’s really the themes and world building that make the series magical. Granted, I was a kid during my first read, but there are parts of HDM that still sum up the nature of existence perfectly in my eyes. That one scene in The Amber…

Obviously. Have you ever watched a student film? Or something truly no budget? There is a kind of bad that blows away bad Hollywood or Indiewood. But no one watches those movies.

Only if you spent absolutely no time idolizing Tyler Durden.

One thing Gilmore Girls always did well was show both sides of an argument. You understood why Loreli reacted petulantly to her mother and you understood why Emily reacted forcefully to Loreli. No one was right and no one was wrong. The characters were simply trapped in their narrow POV. The way we all are.

I really didn't get any aggression or one-upping from their interaction... At all.

Midge got on stage after the music went out and the crowd got restless. I saw it as an attempt to help out.

Can you be willfully ignorant if you don’t know you’re ignorant?

It certainly feels as if we're supposed to read it that way, based on the crowds very enthusiastic reaction. I have to imagine a Black crowd in the 60s would be a lot more scandalized or upset if they read her jokes as saying Shy is gay. But the audience is laughing easily. Not a single sign of tension anywhere.

Seriously, why are you so angry about it? So many people are so angry about Midge’s standup in a way that really weird. It’s not as if the show is presenting her struggle to tweak her routine as a virtue. People are mad it’s too easy for her and mad she’s not a perfect standup.

Damn, TV standards are harsh. Ruth Wilson isn’t drop dead gorgeous but in the real world, she’d be one of the more attractive people in any given room.

I know I'm several months late but OMG dude could you be more condescending? Let other people have their interpretations of the show. Yours isn't the only worthy one.

It’s still misogyny if you’re a woman.

TGW is one of the smartest shows of the decade. I can give its low placement a pass as the last season goes off the rails, but it’s easily the most nuanced legal drama of the decade (if not longer).

I prefer it, generally, but it just doesn’t stand on its own when half the show is “Breaking Bad Minor Antagonists:T Prequel.”

I have long argued the last episode ruins BB, though I honestly think it’s just a good show, not a great one. It's much more soapy than people like to admit.

I thought I recognized something about her design.

I’m glad Diane is getting help, and I’m glad to see more talk about the treatment of depression, but why must it be so narrowly focused on taking SSRIs, no matter how the character feels about that? I really don’t like this trend of TV shows dismissing female character’s concerns over side effects of anti-depressants.…

She is much more polite than I would have been.

Yes but we’re all a part of the system. The system falls apart if people don’t buy content