As soon as you figure out that telling someone that their idea is stupid and morally juvenile is not stopping them from doing anything.

Oh please. If the south "won" and seceded, they'd be a undeveloped country and the North would be complaining about illegal southern workers right now. We know what happened to agrarian societies with a peasant workforce - we just look at Central and South America. The South should throw a parade every year in honor…

I camped a lot as a kid. My family did a lot of backpacking. I still go rarely (maybe once a year?). Camping is fun. I've never encountered anything or anyone scarier than a bear. But bears are rare.

I just assume that every noise is a bear.

You don't like him but you know the deepest secrets of his heart?

They just … die.

I grant you that movies, on the whole, have to be tightly written because of the tiny amount of time they have to use. But one of the delights of long-form story telling is the freedom to digress, to flesh out your universe on a grander scale than you could do in the shorter time-frame a movie has. This is part of…

Your point seems extremely muddled. You're not in favor of "rules" in art but people need to follow the "craft" of art. What's the difference?

So the "craft" of literature is not rule-bound but the "craft" of screenwriting is fixed in stone?

Never seen it. Sorry. I'm not really a Lynch aficionado.

It transcends "all books"? That's ridiculous. One of the "rules" of art is that you can't make rules because, whenever you do, you can find someone who breaks them to create something remarkable.

Oh totally - Rory's character arc makes a lot more sense if you imagine her a few years out of college. And I would have just done that, except ASP realistically aged/matured everyone else. All the other characters (e.g. Lane, Paris, Jess, even Logan) have all grown up and behave like people in their 30s. So Rory…

I suppose it goes to how you define "will" and what you think it means. I think Fear Factor is loathsome, but I'm fairly certain that few of the contestants were selected in their teens to be contestants on Fear Factor, housed in a locked building for years, and then put on the show after years of "education" by Fear…

Well there is the fact that it sounds like a lot of them weren't "women" when they first interacted with him - they were girls. Teenagers are laughably easy to manipulate. Is it any wonder that the slightly older versions of themselves aren't magically able to break away from their abuser?

Or she's still in a coma?

Yeah - seconded. And, Broadchurch is infinitely less twee and self-important, for what that's worth.

I think there were many directions they could have gone - say, Rory achieves her dream of being an international coorespondent but questions whether she wants it to be her life? Or Rory struggles to square her serious ambitions with the realities of an industry that is struggling financially? Or Rory, now in her…

It's absolutely nothing like Sherlock.

Elizabeth Pena (the voice of Mirage) passed away, so I think that she won't be back.

It's definitely a huge advantage. It's the same as in the arts - not having to live on your art makes making art much easier (though wealth might insulate you from inspiration). GG could have DONE something with that reality. Instead, they told a story about Rory whining because she was expected to try at things.