I'm trying to think - which cast members have gotten their own, dedicated goodbyes?  I remember Ferrell had one, but no one else is coming to mind.  Did Poehler get one?  Fey?  Fallon?

I'm trying to think - which cast members have gotten their own, dedicated goodbyes?  I remember Ferrell had one, but no one else is coming to mind.  Did Poehler get one?  Fey?  Fallon?

I agree entirely about the merits and demerits of season 3; obviously this is a matter of taste, and obviously there are a lot of people here who think this season of Community was some transcendent experience, but the show bears increasingly little resemblance to the show I enjoyed so much in its first two seasons.

I agree entirely about the merits and demerits of season 3; obviously this is a matter of taste, and obviously there are a lot of people here who think this season of Community was some transcendent experience, but the show bears increasingly little resemblance to the show I enjoyed so much in its first two seasons.

But what did you think of this season of 30 Rock, Nathan?

While I recognize that the Dany arc is long (and it bends toward dragons dousing White Walkers in fire), I can't disagree.  The brutal medieval Realpolitik is my favorite thing about the books, and its decreasing role as the books go on made the later books a real slog.

You know, when he looks away ruefully after the faux Rickon & Brann corpses are hoisted, I thought, "well, that's a bit much" — but generally I think you're exactly right.  He's played the character's conflicted response to his circumstances very well.

The scene with the magician almost makes the whole Qarthian misadventure worth the time.  It was, come to think of it, kind of Lynchian.

There aren't enough failures in the world to burn through that Friends money.

Whereas this is my favorite line in the entire show.

@avclub-a452630477eb936fd36fc9a9542d4598:disqus  … don't tell anyone, but … i did.

I didn't.  Seriously.  I DIDN'T.

@gambrinus:disqus  - it sounds like we stopped paying attention around the same time.  I think I follow what you mean about new vs old ebm; there's not much common ground between Wumpscut and 80s era Front 242, frex.

I always thought of electronica as more of a marketing label than a generic one.  Or, it was only related to genre to the extent that the acts dubbed electronica were those that were relatively mainstream-friendly; it never would occur to me to label, say, Autechre as electronica.

Wait, what's new-style EBM?

We've had vicious network execs, and we've had idiot network execs, but I don't know that we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a network exec.

I'm pretty shocked that New Girl has become as good as it's become.  I gave it a shot because, what the fuck, it's Tuesday night, what else am I gonna do, read a book?, and I was pretty sure early on that still somehow managed to be a waste of my time.  Yet somehow (it's not all that mysterious, really; the writers…

I completely agree about Newsroom, but I'll probably watch it just for Sam Waterston, because it's Sam Waterston, and your fucking bowtie is stupid, all right?!

It was a pretty good episode, but man, Eli just doesn't measure up to Peyton as a host.  Which, you know, isn't a slight against Eli; Peyton was better than most actors, much less athletes.  The Little Brothers bit was very good, though, and Eli's maniacal laugh at the end was his best moment of the night.

Let's just say if I were her twenty year old son, Thebes would be suffering a serious case of the plague.