Veronica Mars. A Long Time Ago, We Used to be Friends.

Letter 2: Geez Dan, I know you're bored with this column, but "If your girlfriend is up for (sex act) with you, then she ought to be thrilled with the idea of going to a party where she'll be expected to perform this sex act with strangers while you watch" is not a sound or fair line of reasoning.

Part of it may be that if you map the sensory input parts of the brain, feet are next to sex organs. That being 'why feet, and not hands? or elbows?'

Also too:
Show: Where did this housebound invalid find someone to help him?
Me: Online.
Show: Obviously he teemed up with an addict from the doctor's office. Whenever I sit around my doc's office, I think "What if that person in withdrawal might help me later commit a murder, because I might suddenly decide that's a…

All season I've been cringing as Joan and Sherlock go around each other (e.g. to tell the commissioner "we totally want that certificate" "do not") for no discernible reason. It seems wildly out of character for both.

I feel like I'm coming back to check in based on the first few seasons, but we've really amped up every bad aspect of "CBS procedural" while losing much of the Watson-Holmes charm.

I liked Kitty—and that after loathing her for the first couple of eps, when she screamed Generic Sulky Youngster. The others, though, have all landed like lead balloons. (I liked Moriarty, both as her own character and for how well her role highlighted the details of Sherlock and Joan's relationship (same with Kitty),…

Maybe supposed to be symbolic of how you get married, your wife makes you get a new haircut and clothes?

Ugh. The instant we met a young person with a mysterious illness and devoted mother, I thought "Munchhausen's by proxy." And there were two people being interviewed, and the only other new person we'd met was Detective Guzman, and so by conservation of character and being almost halfway through the ep the killer must…

I think it would, especially as "flow of the meal" is an actual judging criterion—a bunch of heavy or too similar dishes in a row would be a negative, even if they were individually good.

You don't cull people without turning them into zombies first, to be mercied by other cast members.

In fairness, this show is about redemption of sins and resurrection of the dead and eternal life…

Pff. Musk is on Mars, with the new Martian Colony. Season 23 will be war between Z-Earth and Mars, which may or may not have a spiffy extra initial.

I have a lot (okay, a smidge) against the winner of Shirley's season. Her, Nina, or even the LCK winner I would have been fine with, but there were far, far too many "Nick we don't like your dish but… psych, the person next to you goes home!"

This is what "my foreign policy will be wacky and unpredictable, and the only way people will know what I'll do is to push and see what happens" looks like in practice.

Because they don't go up that height that fast, and with no practice/training beyond 'is a reasonably fit young person' (in this case one still recovering from a bad beating), with no ropes to hang on while they rest their shaking muscles, in impractical clothing and (for climbing) boots. For me that one landed well…

I can accept their survival on the "no dead body" principle. But 30 seconds of dialogue on how they knew where to look for 10K would be nice.

The Amish stood there and let them take it, nonviolently. Do you imagine any of that warm, cozy, we're-all-ethical turmoiling and explaining and no-violence would have appeared had the Amish said "screw nonviolence" and tried to resist being robbed?

Or on a giant flying wheel of cheese with zombies sticking out.

IF anyone on the craft is smart, then "Stun everyone in sight, gather them all up (including the ones falling off a cliff), sort them out when they wake up" is the obvious move.