This is as I feared, a fancy looking hodgepodge of other works. I will see it, though.

@avclub-6848a392fb12291765da3c2835379cdd:disqus We've all moved on but you it seems.

You do see me using the word "pattern" repeatedly, do you not?

Oh, but it is. It's even earned a TV trope. There's no definitive indication that the stories are "completely consistent," simply that they are versions that may or may not be "the truth" and in the end we find out the real culprit. How is that not the pattern shown in RASHOMON? If anything, the writers, realizing we…

The further we are in time from the film and book, the less strictly the TV shows adhere to the RASHOMON pattern, and it's really the pattern they mime as a story telling tool, rather than the theme indicated by the conflicting tales in the source material.

Seems that if a show is on long enough, nearly everyone of them of lesser mettle, especially in the detective and speculative fiction genres, will get around to this kind of RASHOMON -style format. In the end, of course, the culprit is a "surprise."

I will be so glad to see this meme die off. Unfortunately it seems to have more life than the odious "welcome to arf."

Other than the welcome appearance of Michael Hogan, this was the very last chance I'm giving this show, really; pure stupidity in furtherance of plot. She was even stupider than the father of the spike-kid bumped off in season one.

@avclub-f8665a36d5a911922da81a12443887ed:disqus  Not quite. Mother Fucking Snakes on a Mother fuckin Plane opened at #1 that week ahead of Talladega Nights.

Studios didn't count on "neckbeard" fans for sales, they count on them for free media.

They got blindsided, or either they weren't paying attention, too busy hiding profits. Either way, their fault. But isn't this the same thing people busted on Spielberg and Lucas for saying last week?

In the end, speculative fiction that's televised most often makes these types of stories about one person or a small group in the end. ST:DS9 had a consistent, persistent society of bigots, and of course Sam Beckett faced at least one bigot a month. I find that TV generally handles the subject poorly like poor Frank…

"I kind of feel like you're maybe being oversensitive"

I liked how Seward's cell buddy was like a Greek chorus initially, providing some insights into Seward's inner conflicts. Then they went and ripped of a prisoner bonding scene from AMERICAN HISTORY X which, while well executed, was kind of a lame direction to go. Well they had to give us a reason for Seward's…

No, I mean, Coppola is pretty vapid.

Nah, generally you can tell why MDA likes or dislikes something despite his odd obsession with whether Hong Kong action movies will be remade.

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No

This show never lacks in the worst in speculative fiction cliches and now we have the rebel invaders AND a god race on board to help the hapless humans (and surely said god race will reveal their TRUE INTENTIONS). I think one or the other would have been fine. The writers lost their way last season when trying to…

Allison was already knee deep in paranoia thanks to her *situation,* not her disposition. Walt was never shown *doing things* that made us think "Oh god he's nuts." It was the slow reveal of his character over time that has shown us what a psychopath he is. Nothing like that with Allison. There hasn't even been one…