The Season 3 opener has to be one of the most remarkable and unfortunate examples of backpedaling that I've ever seen.

Agreed. Five minutes into the bright, cheerful Season 3, I turned it off and never went back.

Me too! I had been promising myself that I'd get into her music someday, but that's what finally forced the issue. Love her stuff.

Michonne was a living breathing comic book cliche and a good example of why it's a bad idea to create a needlessly mysterious character defined by her nerd fanservice weapon, who withholds very basic information that could immediately benefit her and everyone else.

And his death is worse than After Earth.

The Season 2 finale of Millennium featured a ten minute nervous breakdown montage to the tune of "Horses" by Patti Smith.

Munch is the Worf of NBC cop shows.

It keeps the franchise momentum up and creates and perpetuates secondary markets for licensed products and ongoing syndication revenues.

Lisa has been made obsolete by the internet.

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AVClub: Do you like Twitter?
HDS: Yep. 
AVClub: Do you follow any of your former co-stars?
HDS: Not really.
AVClub: What about Twitter do you find most appealing? 
HDS: Lot of room to express yourself.

The worst part of the translation is the switch from shooting the series on Kodak Vision 3 film stock, to what looks like an iPhone 4S.

I agree that they kept piling things on, when they really needed to stop before the end of the second to last season to give themselves enough time to resolve at least most of what they had introduced.

It annoys people because making a movie look only one, predefined way feels so obligatory now.

Watching Only God Forgives was like going into cinematic detox. It was so rich and unlike the stale, uniform look that's ruled Hollywood for years now.

I barely remember it at this point, but at the time, I felt like the plot pivoted a bit too hard from the story Clancy was telling, towards the ending that Clancy wanted. It's been almost 20 years since I read it, so I might be talking crap.

He should apologize for the terrible color grading, instead.

Deep Space Nine went out as it should. You felt like you had followed a massive cast of characters through a long, transformative experience and nobody that survived it all finished the series as the same person they were in the beginning.

It was the perfect end to the series. Quiet and contemplative, removed from the chaos that came before.

It's challenging to get him to start responding to a different name.