You're too kind. Thank you very much.

It's about right, given the number of characters, isn't it? (Percentage-wise, I mean…fairly accurate.)

Also, I "secretly" "ship" Daryl and Maggie so I especially liked that scene.

I thought this was a great episode — easily better than the previous two — and I keep coming here and repeating how much I like this show and how it’s sociology disguised as horror (the way Star Trek was 1960’s politics disguised as sci-fi) and how the actors don’t get nearly enough credit, and then I complain about…

He's "mini-Karl Malden"

I think she can afford plane tickets.

It was the principle of the thing.

7) If male genitalia are visible at any time on the show, spend two paragraphs complaining about how you "don't see the point" of "making the viewer uncomfortable"

That's the point. Star Trek was politics disguised as sci-fi; The Walking Dead is sociology disguised as horror.

So am I.

He's just blithely not reading the comments, and not re-thinking what he's already "figured out."

The king is pretty smart. They've established this clearly.

They don't get to keep the money they save by cutting costs.

Me too! I thought it was some kind of Michael Corleone "My offer is this: nothing" maneuver.

Right; I was just stressing the percentages.

No, there was a stampede of disagreement (which the reviewer evidently didn't see).

Well, if you didn't buy it, then you didn't buy it — I can't talk you into it.

You're being unreasonable. I've explained why it makes perfect sense, especially in the unusual context of a writer who

No, it isn't. Until you've read Unfinished Tales and the rest of the posthumous material, and compared the different texts of The Hobbit, and read Tolkien's letters to Allen & Unwin, you're in no position to argue about what Tolkien's retroactive desires were.

Right! And those aren't even necessarily "producers'" "meddling" so much as they're the same kind of welcome thinking that came from Jackson, Jackson and Boyens when they wrote the LOTR trilogy (in which they straightened out a lot of Tolkien's retrograde characterization and thinking).