Not to sound like a Cracked.com commenter, but:

I don't know what to feel about this episode unless someone explores the level of female agency in the decisions made to advance the narrative and the character beats that get us there. (Did I do it right? Can I be an AV Club reviewer now?)

I think all them got the memo that "agency" had been so overused that it was useless. Same thing goes for "problematic". Two months ago, you couldn't read a thing without problematic making two or three appearances and now it's gone. "Agency" has been showing up less frequently, too.

"[M]aybe we should all just let people like what they like." That's a pretty good policy in life, actually. TV critics and beer snobs both need to learn that other people liking something you don't like has no effect on you liking your own thing.

There was a Carnivale mini-reunion with Debra Christofferson (The Bearded Lady) and Toby Huss (Stumpy) both appearing this episode. I don't remember seeing them before. Now they just need to convince Clancy Brown, Adrienne Barbeau, and the dude who played Samson to appear and the world will be correct again.

Our fair reviewer on the classics: "The Odyssey is such lazy writing. Odysseus must have teleported from Troy to a bunch of islands and then back to Ithaca because Homer didn't give us pages and pages of sea voyages. Also, he didn't spend any time fleshing out Calypso, Polyphemus, or the 108 suitors, instead…

"You have to earn these things, producers". That sort of remark plus the whole overly angsty moaning about how long it takes to get around this world pisses me off. Do you reviewers think if it isn't on screen then it doesn't happen? Did Dany really never interact with Tyrion except when we saw it? Bullshit. …

I have two vouchers and I honestly can't remember using TicketMaster since, maybe, 1997. Does MLB use TicketMaster? If that's the case, I should have way more than two.

Every time an AV Club reviewer doesn't like an episode, they normally speak about "character arcs" and "lazy writing" and "nuance": all shorthand for "it wasn't exactly what my shipping ass wanted". None of those were present in this episode's review and there was quite a bit of shipping in this with the whole BriJai…

A Terriers revival needs to happen. A Shield revival needs to die on the vine, since the show pretty much ended correctly.

They also got Alexander Siddig, a.k.a. Julian fucking Bashir, on board for three minutes of screen time spread across a couple of seasons. I like to think that is another way for them to defy expectations. Next up: Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen as the maesters who sign Sam into school and are never seen…

I didn't even like the first season but I watched the whole thing because Linda Cardellini is in it and she can do no wrong. Still, I can't imagine watching another 10-12 hours of this, even with her in it.

I Sansa beef brewing between these dudes. I can Cersei it causing problems over the coming weeks.

I thought it would be CGI but it's actually her. http://www.ew.com/article/2…

Hmm. Sorta. I am saying that people who favor character over plot are really just looking for a reason to explain why the episode isn't written exactly how they would have written it and they tend to be shippers. This is by no means a scientific assessment. Similarly, these folks tend to say an episode sucks…

I should have been more clear. People who write stuff like "[I]in its final hours, The Good Wife isn’t hitting with nearly
the same force it did at the height of its run—back in season five, when
all the conflict was so firmly rooted in well developed [sic], grounded
relationship writing and when characters mattered…

I think anyone who writes about plot vs. character is an inveterate shipper and I'll never change my mind.

It is a testament to how terrible the writing on SNL has become that I watched an entire episode with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and didn't laugh once. I did smile a few times during the opening sketch.

Wallahi, I am having a glorious time illicitly consuming alcohol (without driving) in the State of Kuwait, where I currently reside. First, while the countries they mention do not have kings, there are kings in the region (cf. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia), but that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Second, the…

EABOD, you ignorant millennial. I'm in my cups right now so I might be a bit more direct than I normally would be. If the author wanted to call out the Arabs-buying-Midwesterns sketch, he should have written "bigoted", not "racist." "Racism" means something very specific, which the SNL sketch does not do. If you…