Yeah, there's no question that they always intended Ted and Robin to get together eventually and went "holy shit, it's gonna blow people's minds that the kids look the same as they did 9 years ago" and planned things from there (which makes that whole Robin flying away from the beach scene even more ridiculous in…

It annoys me to this day that the creators could have been so off the mark with how they ended things. The entire fucking show was spent showing us how Ted and Robin are ultimately not right for one another, they each find happiness with someone else, and it all gets undone in the final minutes. It used to be a show I…

The easy answer is Dexter, which for me ends on a dark but thematically great note following the resolution of the trinity arc in season 4. No "Hello, whore" or Maria Laguerta memorial bench or Masuka's pointless daughter or that weird incest plot line or Lumberjack Dexter.

It's certainly possible that I'm judging it too early, but The Great Indoors seems like someone went "Hey, what if we remade Community with Jeff Winger as an outdoorsman, except instead of realizing his flaws and becoming a better person when surrounded by a group of misfits, he just makes millennial jokes."

"Well then how am I supposed to get back at him?"
"I don't know, kill yourself in his office? I always hate that."

The DNR thing was a huge misstep that the show just completely brushed over. Whether or not Ben's excuse about being in the zone was BS or not, he made a split second decision he believed to be in the best interest of the patient. Bailey, on the other hand, made an emotional decision because she felt so bad about…

Then again, considering both Deadpool's penchant for violence, pop culture references, and breaking the 4th wall AND his relative anonymity for people who don't read the comics and only get their mutant/superhero fix via movies, if "It's another superhero movie" is as bad as criticisms get, there's still plenty of…

Don't worry, I loved that trailer too and only had it on call because it's an old bookmark.

Though not a SB spot, this trailer for Man of Steel is up there for me.

This one?

Alright then, that confirms it. This guy killed a cat. Nobody's disputing that, and it's a horrible thing that happened. But Steven Avery killing a cat is clearly the thing that matters to you, not the fact that he and another person may have been framed for a completely unrelated crime. I'll stop responding to you…

Your main thesis point, judging from the multiple comments you've left on this review mentioning it, is that Avery killed a cat. This is apparently a serious enough offense to you that you're willing to write off the possibility of his innocence in a case that has nothing to do with the cat and also involves a bunch…

All of the shadiness surrounding Avery's own trial aside (the cop who "found" the key having been deposed in Avery's lawsuit, the inconclusive DNA test that wasn't marked as such because the investigator wanted to "put Avery in the garage", the missing voicemails, etc.), what happened to Dassey is on a whole other…

As far as the Astra-Alura business (alien cultural differences aside of course), I imagine Kara is mad at her mother because in the end, Astra ended up being totally right and Alura's reluctance to listen and see the warning signs drove her to extreme measures to prove her case. It's not too hard to side with Astra…

The only thing that would have made the last scene better is if Kilgrave hadn't found the height chart in the house. As soon as we see "Jessica" on the wall, it's immediately clear what he's done. It's not like he'd just go around buying the houses of random Jessicas. They'd repeated the street name stuff enough to…

I thought the season overall was pretty great, and I'm looking forward to see how they deal with Smith being both new BFFs with Hitler and hiding his son's illness. The science fiction aspect could certainly use more definition and concrete answers, and I'd be a little disappointed if they took the Leftovers route and…

David Tennant is so charismatic that for a moment I was almost rooting for this show to become a buddy cop series where Jessica tries to turn Kilgrave into a hero. Then he told the "willing" servants to cut one another's faces off if he didn't come back and I went "Oh right, he's a monster"

Fair point, and just by your references, it's clear to me that you know more about the history of the character than I do. My gripe is that I've seen and loved and hated enough comic book movies and television shows that I find who knows the hero's identity is, unless relevant to the seasonal arc, pretty meaningless.

The problem I have is that I can't think of a single person who cares just how Kara, or Barry, or Oliver, or Clark super-friggin Kent keeps their superhero identity a secret. There's nothing to be gained by keeping central characters in the dark, and it makes the show seem like it's stretching for plot. It's a basic…

It may be a more recent thing, but it's also why the quality of those shows is generally better. The audience knows who the hero is from the very first moment of the pilot, so it just devolves into a waiting game that gets less entertaining as the "oh, Superman was just here" type contrivances come along. How is the…