What with the wide shot of the island as a man, I thought it was Pi's way of trying to cope with the cannibalism. That's probably a shallow reading though.

I mostly agree with this. Also, a lot of what we think of as product placement is actually the show's legal department spending time and money to get clearances. Or Breaking Bad paying Denny's to shoot at their restaurant.

Him randomly playing video games might be my favorite thing about the show so far (I'm 5 episodes in right now).

From the pitch document:

1.) It's still fairly small compared to people watching traditionally.
2.) The advertisers wouldn't want to this, as @avclub-05193ed9341a61028129e2b83eb8b17a:disqus explains.

That's not really an issue, at least not online as @Ike1:disqus explains down below. Nielsen doesn't need to count how many people are watching stuff on Hulu or iTunes because Hulu and iTunes are already capable of measuring that much more accurately than Nielsen can measure live viewership.

@Scrawler2:disqus Oh, yeah, definitely. I was more responding to the Nate Silver comparison.

But a big part of the reason Nate Silver (and Sam Wang, etc.) could predict the results so accurately is that there's a bunch of different polling firms competing against each other that they then could average. Nielsen could be the equivalent of Rasmussen for all we know.

I think I understand where the AV Club is coming from with the F as a fascinating anti-accomplishment, but this still seems a weird show to pick on with The Following, Mob Doctor, Zero Hour (a show with actual so good it's bad potential) etc. pilots having premiered somewhat recently. I have no idea how it would work…

From the DVD special features, it seems that David Kemper was more in charge  after Season 1, with O'Bannon staying in America while the rest of the writers were in Australia  It was also a very collaborative show, with cast and crew making suggestions and offering rewrites on set.

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It was really bugging me where I knew her from, but it took seeing her name under the picture up top for me to google it and find out.

I half agree with this, but I think the show should have had Spacey turn and explain this to the audience. It just played as really weird to go unacknowledged.

Also, the real ratings (those used to sell commercials) are the C3's; commercials viewed within three days.

Now that I think about it, doing separate, comparative power ranking for the neilsons and the avclub might make some kind of sense.

I clicked this link just to see the people complaining about it. It did not disappoint

These discussions are reminding me how much I liked Kings.

I guess this is what we get for gaining Alicia Florrick?

Walter Bishop on Fringe could also fit into this. Though there the show seemed to suggest it was a manifestation of guilt.

I always sort of want to defend the plausibility, considering this exists.