Not even a little bit.

Is that it? He made people laugh. If he was a different kind of celebrity, not a comedian, with a similar end . . . we wouldn't see the same type of mourning? I truly don't understand. A woman cried in my office yesterday. I was perplexed. I am perplexed.

I'm not saying he's a Kardashian or anything. But I really don't get how we mourn celebrities. Not trying to offend anyone, I just honestly don't get it.

I feel bad for the guy and his loved ones, but I don't really get the heart-breaking loss to . . . the entire planet. I think we've gone a little too far as a culture with our celebrity worship.

Not kidding: I know that guy. That exact guy.

I'd watch the miniseries. You could probably pick up the show with 33, but the miniseries was pretty good. Worth watching. I remember approaching the BSG reboot with little more than curiosity and being kind of blown away with that first effort.

Agree. That her death is nearer in time to the death of a more relevant celebrity makes it worse.

What does this have to do with Robin Williams?

The Sarah Palin thing is hilarious. Mostly because she is going to make a small fortune from it.

The guy in the middle looks exactly like a guy I work with. Only the guy I know has an even larger head.

And people get blinded by their own perceptions. I think season 4 of The Wire is by far the single greatest season of television ever made. And I'll fist fight you over it. So I get why people are so passionate about TV shows, even stuff that I think is massively overrated like . . . . aw, heck . . . I'm not going…

And that certainly makes a difference. I think Breaking Bad was great, so the so-called zealots don't abrade so much.

When people become fanatically devoted to a TV show, that seems to be the gag response to all criticism. "Too stupid to get it." I'm seeing it a lot with The Leftovers these days. Lost fans, honestly, are the worst in my experience.

I haven't heard many say they hated Lost because "they were dead the whole time." I know more than a few people who resent the hell out storytelling aspects such as devoting a bunch of early time making Walt the most important figure in the universe, only to then basically write him out of the show and stuff like…

Another movie written for someone's idea of a clever title?

That's the gas.

Yes. But people eat it up, so expect a lot of it.

He might win a Tony posthumously.

What? People spouting on a pop culture site is the reason shows get canceled? If Extant ends up being cancels, it'll be about ratings and demographics. Nothing else. Especially at CBS.

I know. In one episode they had a vacuum cleaner that was a robot. A robot!