My grammar was unclear. I meant that I was limping, because despite all the Sturm und Drang of the finale I was still reeling from the fact that I’d spent weeks sneering at two ridiculous internet theories about the show, each of which I was convinced couldn’t possibly happen because they both were so stupid...and…

That’s exactly what I’m so sick of. “Oh boy, have we got the goods...just wait.” I fell for that with Lost, Galactica, etc. etc. and I’m profoundly tired of it. Nobody ever actually has the goods except Vince Gilligan.

I love sci-fi; I love HBO series; I love AI stories (especially the ones being referenced here); I love westerns; I even dig the original movie (with some reservations given its period limitations). And I admire all these actors: Wright, Wood, Harris, Newton, etc. And the music’s great, and the tech and other design…

I feel stupid for not realizing that was an actress, Ex Machina style...I thought it was a good robotic mannequin like in the Radiohead video.

A secret second set of books, I meant to type.

I don’t do “camp.” If I like it, it’s good; if it’s good, I like it; if I don’t like it it’s bad, if it’s bad I don’t like it. I don’t keep a secret set of books of my taste.

I thought it was great — but then, I genuinely like this show, which apparently puts me at odds with nearly all of the people watching it, or at least, all the people watching it who are associated with The AV Club.

Right, which, for some reason, is the kind of development that makes Walking Dead viewers around here conclude “This show sucks” (rather than “That’s actually interesting”).

That’s the crucial plot development in World War Z — everybody realizing this.

He did a Danny Torrance with the tracks.

This episode confirms one final time that, while Karl may have been a reasonably interesting character, Chandler Riggs is just an awful, awful actor and absolutely had to go.

The “point” isn’t some Aesop’s Fable lesson about character. The show doesn’t have a “point” in that sense — it never did, nor does it need to (as Zack Handlen never understood). It’s a long-form fantasy/horror epic, which, like nearly all post-apocalyptic fiction, is working as a meditation on human society and…

1) Whom did Negan find on the road and welcome into his car? (Someone who looked awful, according to Negan. Am I forgetting something obvious?)

The article linked above about Jurassic Park makes the same mistake, discussing how Spielberg “smartly made the exact opposite judgment [as Crichton], turning the story from a cautionary tale about scientific hubris into an adventure yarn that wasn’t just appropriate for kids, but meant expressly for them. While…

This is a good article but it’s marred by two common misconceptions: first, the practice of giving directors credit for what happens in their movies (the USS Indianapolis speech isn’t in Jaws because “Spielberg” added it; there are writers — not to mention that this is a bad example because Shaw ad-libbed so much of…

It was a fucking mistake; I’m sorry.

I apologize. Of course I’ll do it right in the future — I just couldn’t remember how this worked compared to other comment systems I use and by the time it was posted and I realized I had it wrong, it was too late.

I am <i>so</i> glad to see Zack Handlen depart! It wasn’t that he didn’t “like” the show — he didn’t understand the show, even back when he was enjoying it.

I don’t think this episode’s getting nearly enough credit.

The idea is that laws governing privacy and correspondingly limiting criminal investigation — as well as intrusive private-sector “spying” (like Amazon does, or like increasingly exhaustive credit checks do) — are vastly more important and protective than…

I don’t know — I can imagine quite a bit.