Yo Disney, Tomorrowland didn't make money because it wasn't a good movie. Just make good movies.

I'm not sure if any of you readers also frequent Deadspin, but they published a story recently concerning traffic numbers across different sports related blogs and felt to need to include The AV Club in that category. Like Grantland, Deadspin, SB Nation … and The AV Club? I guess Teti's Block and Tackle and pointing…

The lightning bit at the end was what really sold me on this. Ay-ya-ya-yah, indeed Wario.

Yeah, you're correct! From my cursory research, it looks like they used a green area adjacent to BC Place, which is the stand in for STAR Labs. The production almost certainly has an agreement with the city of Vancouver to use those exteriors for basically nothing.

I feel like I'm coming off like a jerk and I don't mean to. Let's compare this finale to Arrow's season 1 end-er. They shot all over the place, their flashbacks were on location and used tanks and explosions. They shot exterior at night. They had CG shots of multiple city blocks being demolished. Clearly not a bottle…

You're exactly right and I'm not being sarcastic. The main thrust of the plot, the majority of the episode, takes place entirely on sets that are factored in to an amort budget. The non time travel parts of the episode, including the CG of the reactor wide shots, are being reused. They (physically) went nowhere, they…

An episode where 90% of it was shot on set in an interior location to save money due to budgetary concerns that have arisen from expenditures on other episodes? Like shooting most of the episode using existing sets, the majority of which were STAR Labs and having only two exterior scenes? I mean, I could be wrong,…

I'm just super impressed that a superhero show managed what is basically a bottle episode for its first season finale.

For the record, I think this question has as much value as wondering who is falling in the opening credits.

Look, I'm just happy there's no mystery surrounding the ending of the series. For a show that attracted speculation and wild theories about what the characters ultimate fates would be, leaving them in moments when they are happy was a welcome sight.

If the entire show, all seven years of it, was leading up to Don witnessing Leonard's monologue about his desire to understand his desire… then I am supremely OK with that. Brett Gelman was just an added bonus.

The fact that I understand everything going on in this conversation means I should probably spend less time on this site anyway.

When Peggy first hears the music and is walking alone through the office, for three wonderful shots, the show became the best and only horror drama set in a 70's ad agency.
Ryan Murphy must have felt like someone was walking over his grave.

"Come on, once more from the top!"

What's On Tonight? THE MOTHERFUCKEN AVENGERS IN IMAX 3D IS WHAT. Give that shit as many B minuses as you want, I'm still gonna be first on line for it.

That Sonic jab might have been the comedic high of the show so far.

Agent Elephant Ontheplane

The bookies are factoring in the writers' temptation to have Eddie nobly sacrifice himself only to have The Future Man be like, "Sike! I'm really descended from his cousin or brother or something."

Last three episodes, character perma-death odds:


Barry Allen: 1000/1


Iris West: 500/1


Eobard Thawn: 250/1


Caitlin Snow: 200/1


Cisco Ramon: 100/1

For those who missed it, Clickhole published the definitive oral history of Mad Men this week. Christina Hendricks really put it best when she said, "To me, Mad Men is about a group of men and women who work in advertising in the 1960s and run into various problems."