I thought perhaps he was weak, and began chewing a “no capture” disintegration pill, saw his chance, and spat some at her.

I come from the distant future to say: When you overlock a CPU, it overheats. That’s the risk. But it runs faster. It is consistent with what we’ve seen from the Machine that it could cause all the CPUs in the cluster to overheat at once because it wants to overclock them, the same way that it would cause wires to run…

THANK YOU. I’ve had a hard time with the new films because of this oversight. The rebooted She-Ra does something similar and mines it for ALL the incredible complexity, gold, and even humor. It’s not that hard!

Yeah, I went into this having heard this is the weakest episode of the 5. I think I would modify that to say: The last ten minutes are regrettable and terrible. More than the first half? Totally fine and funny. The whole Rick-hangs-with-the-dragon sequence is so great. The glowing collectibles, the sarcasm, the zoo...…

Like Montezuma!

This was a laugh out loud moment; I can’t remember the last time a show got me to laugh out loud, hard, by myself.  (It may have been this one.)

I appreciated the bold choice with the dementia. In Noah’s perspective he was totally childlike and lost. In Whitney’s perspective, respecting him as an authority figure, he was totally lucid. In reality, it was something in between. But I think it’s intentionally sad that some folks perceived him as totally…

For what little this is worth: I disagree; I’ve had and seen these things work out. Sometimes you learn things and you try again and it can be okay. Noah got kicked enough times that he learned some legit humility. He doesn’t feel entitled; he feels grateful. That’s new. Helen’s been good enough to make it work for a…

On what went wrong with Joanie: For a scientist, she really didn’t vibe being motivated by intelligence and science. She could have been an antihero, like a great villain, the kind where you understand why she would totally kill for her vengeance, would totally destroy everything. And be compelling, even sexy (in a…

Yes. The secret isn’t forgiving and forgetting and smiling. The secret is knowing the worst of someone and deciding you love them because you do, not because of their perfect flawless amazingness, because that’s not real. Noah went from being all about the surface characteristics and the myths and wound up…

I refuse to stand for Diane being called awful. Mr. Peanutbutter yes. But Diane is just very human and flawed, and the show is unafraid of showing it. If Diane is awful, then basically everyone I know is awful, but at least Diane is trying, and not everyone I know is!

“Read a book!”

It took me this long to realize that Amy Winfrey directs Bojack and also made Muffin Films. “You don’t like muffins!?” Existential and adorable, dark and cutesy wootsey and cannibalistic. Also, Making Fiends was always nice. But anyway, hooray.

I think it was specifically “In spite of everything, me still believe people good, fire bad.”

Right? @Gwen you mentioned the fires elsewhere, but here in LA this episode feels like the nightly news.

I was rolling my eyes at it, but it did introduce (without hitting us over the head) the yang to the yin: For her, to move was to die. To stay calm and trust was to live. I thought that was an interesting counterargument to Noah’s catch-phrase.

Right? Maybe she eventually went back to her seat, where her computer and coat and jacket etc. were still hanging out with that nice middle seat guy, I guess.

I honestly think that was what they were going for. Especially in Helen’s perspective, the interviewer was, I think, intentionally the worst. (And I like Busy; I’m talking about the character)

Well, I get why this show would do that. Because if it isn’t ambivalent and complicated, it’s not The Affair. It would be unlike this show to do a #MeToo story with a clearly good or clearly bad guy facing it, no?

I don’t remember the show that well, but sure, I feel like he would be fun to camp with at Burning Man