That… strikes me as mildly amusing, right before my higher brain functions kick in and chastise me for that terrible thought.

Entirely true. However, for every chilly and hilarious anecdote that involves my 97-year-old great grandmother asking my grandmother if they "have diets where you live," there's a constant buzz of my mom telling me I HAVE to lose the extra poundage I've gained.

Let's make a provision about the "family member" item you mentioned:

AC/DC is one of the few bands that can make the same album every time, and I'll still buy it on principle.

Does Dave Franco fit into this somehow?

There was no way I could let Clem walk away without shooting Lee. Not only was it the "humane" thing to do, but I couldn't let Clem risk running into Lee in the same way she (SPOILER) passed by her zombified parents as she dragged Lee to safety. She's still a child in every sense of the word in that season, but the…

Having Kenny note later that he was proud of [me] was incredibly touching, and made his descent into madness that much harder.

Yet at the same time, Alvin Jr's presence complicates everything. I began to notice a pattern of behavior regarding the baby's safety and Clem's safety. Kenny always leapt to protect the kids in the group, and he (unfortunately) stopped seeing Clem as a child by the end of Season 2.

Jane started to see Clem as a surrogate for her (*SPOILERS HERE*) sister. You know, the one who Jane left behind when she had emotionally and mentally given up. From that perspective, the pragmatic thing would be to do anything to remove the "unpredictable" threat from the group, which was Kenny. Manipulative or not,…

I wanted Luke to live. Even when he was banging Jane at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME, I still found it in my heart to forgive him. He was a genuinely good person, and his death was a brutal punch to the gut.

I felt weirdly proud of that decision, even though it was a unequivocally stupid one. I ignored the fact that a young girl has to figure out how to feed a newborn baby, and just hoped she remembered to keep her hair short like Lee told her.

I've got a feeling that the Kenny ending is canon. Having Kenny survive worked as a nice test of loyalties during the story, but the writers seemed to like Kenny a lot.

It's weird how little of an attachment I had to the baby, but I also kind of expected "Alvin Jr's death" to be the absolute breaking point for Kenny. That would have been a ruthlessly dark moment, but it would have been the perfect illustration of the finality and lack of hope within this universe.

Selling out seems to be weird attempt to assign nobility to art, especially since non-commercial art is arguably worthless (not saying I support that view, but I see some of the logic behind it).

It's not to say that this the standard these days, but the networks will occasionally remember that they produced quality news at one point and proceed to cover events in a respectable way. I will admit my surprise though, in seeing newspapers like the New York Times wade into web video content and immediately surpass…

Periodically, ABC/NBC/CBS will get it right and produce some meaningful, deep reporting. It's far more common than the cancerous cable news networks.

Yes.

Bastion and Madworld are my two killer soundtracks, for entirely different reasons.

"This is a TV network and it's probably run by assholes."
-NBC orientation film.

Comparing outfits like Al-Jazeera, the BBC, and many other international organizations to American cable news is like comparing a 100m dash run by Usain bolt to a three-legged race featuring your drunken aunt and your angry conservative uncle.