*raises glass in toast*

That's a perfectly reasonable explanation . . .

I'm not sure they consider them interesting characters in themselves, insomuch as they're enamored with what those characters allow them to *do* - stage long elaborate dance sequences, light the sidewalk purple and play with animatronic ravens, film a lighthearted homage to horror sequences complete with canted angles…

I'm sure it was because of scheduling conflicts, and I know that the 'eloping the night before' covered for major absences better than the massive wedding would have been able to, but I will never be able to watch the wedding scene without thinking "Sookie and Jess need to be there." It's utterly wrong that they…

Gilmore Girls has always done best when it shows small snippets of performance absurdism (eg two minutes of a film by kirk / the kid's musical followed by Kirk's rebirth piece being cut up with outside town goings-on / teasing the Revolutionary War reenactment for years before a 5-minute skit), and let the characters'…

Yes, but Jess also had *massive* abandonment issues (for very good reason) and had nobody to teach him what a proper emotional response to anything relationship-wise was. And, he is the only one of Rory's boyfriends to grow and make himself a demonstrably better person over his time. Not that it makes him 'more…

She's also always been at her most awful / incapable of even the tiniest bit of cushioning her brutal wit when 1. drunk 2. Rory isn't around to mitigate. Thus the funeral speech was completely in keeping with character, even if the lead-up was too long (and Graham has never been as good at playing drunk as McCarthy).

The original show had a thing for Fountains of Wayne, too; they did a lot of musical callbacks, even slight ones like that I think are working within the framework of 'this is a band / type of song we played a lot in the early aughts, but still works today'.

Agree, nothing is beyond him. Before, he had definitely walked that line where you knew he was quite dangerous but weren't sure how far he's push it. That veneer of civility was strong, and it wasn't as though everyone else had completely clean hands. But now? You'd believe him capable of anything.

That last makes a lot of sense, for sure.

I know having Bernard kill Theresa in the background, while in the foreground we see a host being 3D printed, is a commentary on how Ford is a god, both creating and destroying 'life' at his whim.

Sorry, replying via disqus often makes me forget where I am. Added a spoiler warning, thanks.

Ha! Yes. Slash fiction covers any bases regular fiction ignores. And then some. :)

I assume she nuked the Eggos with her mind.

Okay, I have now. And while carefully abiding by the 'no spoiler for following episodes' mantra posted by sir McNutt, I will say . . . wtf. Whatever they were trying to say [and I mean the whole season up to now, with the guards/veterans] was, at best, poorly executed and interpretable in several different ways…

Ah, I have not. I've been working and traveling in very remote locations which do not exactly support streaming video, and so I'm reading reviews / commenting as I watch. Watched this one and "People Persons" last night.

I took it as more a commentary on what both the military and being a prison guard do to one's humanity; the idea that the Abu Ghraib guards may have started with a statistically higher proclivity towards lack of empathy or abuse or criminality (just stats on who the Army tends to recruit / attract), but that the…

I think the main problem with this is they didn't give it a two-part episode. I think that could solve a lot of the perfunctory-characters-going-through-motions problems, show us more Henry including the news reports of his death, properly set up the way Joan and Sherlock were at odds on the case, and really give some…

Thanks for the feedback, and that quote.

I've been trying to piece together some of my thoughts on the show as a whole, and I've come up with an insanely long ramble about how Root and Shaw acted as dual agents who caused Harold to change his mind on The Machine: Root through technological arguments and Shaw through her humanity. It's super long so I'm just…