I see it pretty much exactly as you explained it. Yes, people reacted to the UFO, and those reactions technically changed events—but none of those changes represent reality upended. Everything that happened as a result of UFO distraction could easily have happened in the normal course of events—as you said, Lou…

Alternatively, they've all been top-notch episodes of television, so why downgrade any of them? It really isn't necessary that we have a perfect scale of each episode relative to the others. It's been an A-season.

Yeah, that story is very well done and not a fun read, and it's super hard to feel any sympathy for the character despite their obviously massive suffering, because that person is just so god damned self-absorbed.

I very much enjoyed the first book, despite some of the flaws mentioned above (those criticisms are fair, though it's possible that Rothfuss may subvert Kvothe's super-badass greatness by making him turn out to actually not be the hero of the story—I doubt it, but it's a possibility yet; it's also uncertain as to…

Which one would you like him to express? Why is it a problem that Oliver appears to be level-headed and doesn't seem to espouse inflammatory opinions? Is he, as a comedian, required to be revolutionary? He's used his show to increase awareness of a lot of fairly terrible problems that most people ignore or are…

Celine is worse than Blanche or Lillian. They were born into their world and had little chance to be decent people. Celine is trying to become one of them.

I always liked how awkward Pimpbot 5000 was with his switch-blade.

Nobody has good memories of Scrappy-Doo.

Put a sock in it, Roy!

It's part of the Holy HBO Triumvirate along with The Sopranos and The Wire.

It's funnier because Garfield does it out of his warped sense of obligation to the upstairs people, causing him to be almost totally blind to the horror of it despite his gentle demeanor. Hamish would probably enjoy it.

Agreed that Jordan plays a woman exceedingly well. This one wasn't quite as pretty as Meegan, but close.

I had a different experience with his Who Charted guest host time. I hate to say it (because I love Kulap and Armen is apparently her friend, and she was really supportive of him), but I found Weitzman's timidity to be extremely grating during those episodes. He just seemed so uncomfortable that I was kind of…

Manhunter is certainly dated, and it seriously pales in comparison to this show, but it's got its moments. The tiger scene is amazing (much better with the live animal than the CGI in Red Dragon), and Noonan is simultaneously creepy and empathetic. The brightness present in so many scenes feels effectively…

I re-watched Manhunter a couple days before this episode, and while I still found the movie enjoyable, I found both Armitage's performance here and Will's recreation of the first crime scene far more effective than Noonan's and the parallel house scene in conveying Dolarhyde's inner life as well as the events in the…

I…pardon you.

Exactly this. In Silence, Hannibal explicitly ties the death's head moth to "Billy" transforming in his dialogue with Clarice. Which is another iteration of Dolarhyde's "becoming", a through-line between these stories. So it should be no surprise that Fuller, who has appropriated material from across the series for…

Yeah, I took it that her attempt to leave was either born of desperation from the sudden realization that she was not really in control of her actions, or that it was unconsciously self-defeating—that she wanted to make it clear to Hannibal that she wanted to go, but that she is still too compelled by him and curious…

He actually says pretty much exactly that to Bowen Marsh and the leaders of his Ceasaring. It's at the end of a chapter where he is discussing his plans with his captains. The mutineers just seem to ignore it.

Mathis' cutting rebuke to Don had a kernel of truth, in that Don's talents were always heavily accentuated by his looks and his charming personality, but Don actually at least used to have an actual talent for understanding the way people perceive the world—it's the same ability that allowed him to build his Don…