Good point.

I'll say Herzog and Kinski. What do I win if I get it right?

JOHN TETI: "I DO STILL INTEND TO DO THE FIFTH SEASON"

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Jerodast, and I suspect you're probably right. I do believe it was John's intention to finish the final season, but then he was put in a position where he had far more responsibilities on the site due to his promotion, plus the site itself, as you say, was starting to turn into…

Could John Teti post on here if he intends to complete his analysis of the series, or if he's decided not to? Just so we know whether or not to keep checking in each week?

When the scene started of Jimmy and Kim getting ready for bed, Jimmy climbing in on his side, I realized that there doesn’t really seem to be much sexual chemistry between the characters. And in fact, not only do they not make love in the scene, but I don’t even remember them kissing goodnight. They obviously have…

Breaking Bad ended before Gilligan wanted it to. In fact, Sony had to threaten to take the series to another network before AMC agreed to an 8-8 final season. And Chase wanted to end The Sopranos after 4 seasons, but HBO pressured him to add more seasons, because the show was getting HBO so much attention.

Something I really love about BCS is how the show uses long scenes to move the narrative forward, rather than jumping from one location to another. The length of the scenes gives the characters’ dynamics with each other time to evolve within that scene, and it must be especially fun for the actors to be able to…

I
loved the series of reversals in the woodland shooting scene. As they’re laying out the rifles we think it’s
going to be a mob battle, but then we realize it’s actually a hunting trip, but
then it in fact turns out to be a mob shoot-out, it looks like the Kansas City
gang is getting slaughtered, but then the Kitchen…

Why would a kiss on the lips not be a
violation by that reasoning? He didn’t
have her permission for the kiss. I
think what Matt was doing was trying to find some way to continue to communicate
with her, on a physical level rather than a verbal level. Was that a good idea? No.
But was it rape? No.

Except,
you can. If the husband and wife normally
have sex with each other pre-coma, it’s not rape to have sex post-coma. The consent has already been given so many
times before. The idea that Matt might
have raped Mary is, to me, ridiculous, an attempt to be patted on the top of
one’s head for being politically…

I don’t see Matt having intercourse with Mary as rape. Let’s examine the two possible scenarios. If she did indeed wake up and agree in that
window of wakefulness to have sex with him, that’s not rape. If he only imagined she regained consciousness
and had sex with her, I don’t believe he was doing anything she would…

I know they can’t mention every horror
series, but it would have been nice to see some reference to Way Out, Boris
Karloff’s Thriller, True Blood, Dexter, and Hannibal.

Youse guys…

Thanks. I hadn't had a coffee yet. :)

I read somewhere recently that the rightfully celebrated Steadicam shot of the two of them entering Casablanca through the kitchen wasn’t in the original script. Scorsese had originally intended to film them going in through the front entrance, but the nightclub owner wouldn’t allow it, so Scorsese had to use the side…

I suspect it must be difficult writing for almost any TV series, particularly in
terms of overall arcs and plot moves within the series, because unlike a movie or novel, where the writer knows how it will end, and how many pages/scenes they’re going to take to get there, with a TV series how long that series is usually…

Delighted to see you’re back, John.

Great points. And of course Nate and George really do have a lot in common in their failures to achieve a sustained connection with a woman, and their willingness to overlook their own faults. If they had met under other circumstances, who knows what friendship they might have developed?

I agree the comic book crew are portrayed a bit more broadly than SFU normally did. There’s that one scene in particular, when two of them sneak into the parlor, trying to steal the comic, and we get a shot of George sticking out his foot, so they’d trip
over it, that seems almost cartoonish in tone (unless of course…