Exactly this.

I don't think she's a villain at all. Part of the point of the whole show is that Lorelai is a kid raising a kid. She's still rebellious and makes bad decisions and resents her parents. A lot of the show is all about Lorelai reconciling with her parents through Rory, how Rory teaches her how to forgive them.
Lorelai…

One thing that probably isn't made enough of when ranking these seasons is that S5 and S6 only had 13 episodes a piece, which has the tendency of accentuating the less-good episodes. When you only have half the usual number of episodes, filler feels unforgivable. I think the good-to-mediocre ratio in S5 is probably…

Come on then, let's hear your defense of Revolutions? My half-hearted defense of it consists of the following: It's better than reloaded, and it has some very interesting IDEAS, which they seemed to not bother crafting into a plot.

I am mad that as a Cloud Atlas devotee I'm lumped in with the frankly insane Matrix Reloaded defenders.

Two new Rabin pieces, one on Total Recall, one on Todd Hanson's appearance on WTF, which is apparently going to be an ongoing piece about the greatest individual episodes of comedy podcasts of all time. Here's hoping for a piece on Spaghettageddon sometime soon.

Yeah I get that. I think they do a really good job of putting us in the characters' heads on the whole, but at the same time, the whole thing can seem very directionless at times.

It's such a great show and in many ways it was an incredible episode that I never want to see ever again.

Does anybody else here watch Outlander? and if so, can we never talk about this week's finale please.

The Month Of Tom Hardy Driving Cars , a surprisingly good month in terms of number, if not quality, of movies watched:

Yeah, it was totally a shock to me too. It's rare that we see an episode of Louie that's not trying to highlight a particular emotional or memory or character trait. And when he does that, he tends to make the point clearly and with a punch.
I thought this one was going to be about Louie learning to take himself less…

The direction wasn't quite enough to make up for the script problems for me. Though it did blow me away the first time I saw it.

Same. It's the first louie episode in a while that's made me just go "huh" afterwards. Didn't provoke any strong emotional reaction, didn't really see the message, nothing. Maybe that was the point?

Yeah that doesn't help. It isn't really what ruins the narrative, the script does that all on his own, but it sure makes for some uncomfortable watching.

Oh man, it really did! What was that episode even about?

Super 8 looked great, hit all the right nostalgia notes, but had a shoddy script, which prevented it from really being as good as it could've been.

Yeah, STID's problems all come from an abysmal script. But there's nothing really to recommend the direction either. The action sequences are mostly chaotic and dull, and the expository bits are flat.
I'm not sure that the screenplay's failings are due to it's overly referential nature, but more due to the fact that…

Oh really? I liked the original a lot. I do think Crowe's take was more coherent though. And Cruise is great in it.

Mission Impossible 3 is his only entirely successful film. Everything else goes from OK, but on very shaky ground (Star Trek) to abysmal (STID).

Will do!