I don't remember anything too beyond the pale — certainly not anything more graphic than Hand Banana. It might also have been that the series was just one short season without serious hope of more. Can't exactly run that in endless cycles like it's Inuyasha.

Sword Art Online is total crap, as is (in my opinion) Space Dandy. Adult Swim's anime buyer has been really disappointing.

The characters are never as interesting as Blue Exorcist but the action sequences are fun.

On the other hand, 50 Shades of Grey and The Mortal Instruments.

This is a really great post. Thanks for taking the time to have the conversation on disqus.

The whole thing just comes off terribly. I think the fact that he opens with a page-long screed about how unbiased he is only makes his biases stand out more egregiously. I can feel my high school English teacher frowning and writing in red pen: "Remember: Ethos!"

That's a weird excuse for the show. It's not like they were assigned these stories and had to go make three TV episodes based on them. They chose the shape of this third season, and for me it was an overly plotless and mystery-free one.

But it was a rich woman's dog, so it's guilty by association.

Related, the photographer was such an obvious mark I was sure he was a red herring. This was my biggest issue with the tap dancing cinematography — they put such a target on the guy's back. The mysteries this season are very limp.

It was a joke they've done before at John's expense, but then it worked because it served to demonstrate how little he understood Sherlock. But Lestrade? No way would he put up with that shit. Sherlock can wait.

"Patti LuPone: Bee Murderess" is definitely the largest gap between how fun something sounds on paper and how rote it was played on the show. (You can't play bee murder like it's Law & Order shit!)

I have to say, as someone who's been debating whether or not to pick up Elementary, and who has very mixed feelings about Sherlock, this article was unconvincing. "We learn more about the side characters' home lives," "weak episodes can fade into the background," and "Sherlock faces more lifelike consequences" are…

I'm actually very surprised that people feel this way, or think Sherlock the show is all about Sherlock the man. To me seasons 1-2 were very much The John Watson Show. I mostly only cared about Sherlock because John cared about Sherlock.

That's literally one character compared to nearly the whole main cast of GoT who are still alive. And, really, I don't think anyone particularly cares for/about comic book Rick at this point.

Well, I disagree. I'm just saying I personally find both things satisfying for different reasons. And re: authorial intent, and @avclub-4abf5e04b1dc5a9138289c1f400a1613:disqus, I think my point might have come off wrong: I don't think he personally things the world is an evil place where all good is automatically…

Unless this is your job, that seems kind of silly. People don't expect you to pass ultimate judgment on television, they're just making small-talk.

When I read the comic there were definitely enough likable characters that I always felt I had someone to root for. (I'm hesitant to say the names because I'm under the impression their TV doppelgängers are not well-liked and that's not really my point.) But I wouldn't say character building is a highlight so much as…

I was never really rooting for the Starks so maybe that's part of why I don't get it. And the fact that the characters are punished for their nobility is definitely not a good thing in my book. It's so authorial, like "Look at this big important point I'm making about the human condition." It feels heavy-handed after…

I don't watch TWD but I will say I think the relentless, dogged brutality is probably the greatest achievement of the comics. Unlike a lot of serialized media that tries to show the impact of war/constant violence, it truly does feel like all the characters are in constant peril. I don't know if that's 'misery for…

I don't know how much Peggy affected Don, but I know Don affected Peggy and her view of him as an aspirational mentor figure. I think his manipulation and power plays with her career were a lot more interesting than the scene in the hotel room.