Probably the worst example of that lately was the Khan reveal in Star Trek into Darkness, where they don't bother incorporating the reference into the story.

I was disappointed by the final scene as well, and was surprised to see all the raves about it around here. It was more the placement within the episode than than the scene itself. I think I might just be getting oversensitive to the HEY REMEMBER THAT THING YOU LIKE school of recent TV and movies.

That worked quite well as a close-ended miniseries. If anything, it was six or seven episodes too long (the weak parts being in the middle, not the end).

You got a source on that?

The entire show is on Netflix Instant.

I knew I recognized that from somewhere.

Can we agree that ABC is the shitty network now? (No I don't think Agents of SHIELD has really improved.)

Nope, it is, with this latest episode up.

I haven't used the service in a couple years, but back then it would be around 3:00 a.m. central time.

Only some of them do, and that's because they're incorrectly filed as a regular TV Club articles (Babylon 5, The Simpsons, Doctor Who). TV Club Classic articles only show up in the fancy picture boxes and don't have their own, easy to locate place on the main page or the TV section.

As a non-show watcher, sometimes recap reader I had it in my head that Max was a man before clicking on that tumblr link up above.

Probably actor availability. I think he's also a series regular on Law and Order SVU.

Yeah, that's what this Wired article seems to be saying.

Regarding your second to last paragraph, Cobb's totem does work in a way entirely different than everyone else's, which is something I'm surprised more people don't bring up when discussing totem theories.

The reason you're supposed to pick something unique so that no one else knows its special property. For example Joseph Gordon-Levitt's die is weighted in a way only he knows, so no one else could copy it accurately in a dream. Mal is dead, so Cobb can use it as his (remember, dream Mal is just a part of Cobb's…

“Who gives a shit if people judge you?” he continued. “I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids – who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn’t that what we say?

“Gay marriage – love who you want?

He added: “If it’s your brother or sister it’s super-weird, but if you look at it, you’re not…

From that show's comment section I remember someone pointing out how it used real life products to say things about its characters. For example how the Sopranos were well off enough that they always bought Coke rather than whatever was cheapest that week.

I kind of enjoyed how few fucks Fringe gave about trying to properly integrate any of it.

This reminds me of Spike Jonze's short film I'm Here, funded as a promotion by Absolut Vodka, which seems like the most benign version of this.

I'd put it this way. Kind of like an actual dream, dream logic storytelling has the responsibility to at least make a kind of sense as you're experiencing it. I can't pinpoint exactly where my issue was, but this was one of the few episodes of the show that had me going, "wait, what?"