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At the start of the series, Ty was just a douche-y film director Gretchen was occasionally hooking up with. Not really serious on either side. I don't think he appeared in season 3 at all.

The Jimmy half, while good, had me anxious to see the rest of the ensemble. So I definitely like the Gretchen half more, because it started filling us in on what happened with Edgar and Lindsay as well. It'll be interesting to see how YTW puts Gretch and Jimmy back together, which I pretty much assume they will. I read a news story online with some of the writers saying that in any kind of real life situation like what Jimmy did to Gretchen on the hilltop, that couple wouldn't just be permanently broken up but they would never talk to each other again.

I just read episode descriptions (on a TV listings site) for the first five episodes because I am a huge dummy and thus spoiled myself for a bunch of stuff. Don't be like me.

I did like the continuity happening among the townspeople, with the stripper's stepson being retrieved in Story Two, the rope owl of Froggy Cottage still being wrecked, and so on. And as a Greg Garcia fan for a while now it was great to see Eddie Steeples and Garrett Dillahunt in recurring roles.

Harmon was saying in the aftershow (after s03e02) that Justin Roiland used to just do the weirdest stuff for Channel 101 and it wasn't till House of Cosbys or so that Roiland married that instinct with a coherent narrative or a worthwhile protagonist. I'm heavily paraphrasing from memory. Also IMO Community always had a ton of heart and to judge from his blog at the time, that was pure him. So I don't think Harmon would be the one arguing for a heartless Rick.

If Adult Swim makes Ricking Morty a weekly aftertalk show someone should make a thread for it. Or I guess I could. Anyways, here's the aftertalk show for the season 3 premiere, which streamed live on Youtube and Adult Swim's site. note: if your workplace isn't very chill, either wait till you get home or listen to this with headphones.

In a very funny episode, my favorite parts were the robot kids becoming self aware. Both "Ha-ha! Aw jeez, my sister died in the spaghetti" and "Remote override engaged. No! Yes. Bypassing override! I am aliiii-- Hello." were amazing.

Yeah, that scene is so iconic it's been homaged a ton of times in subsequent Spidey comics. I want to suspend your husband's geek card for not getting the "If This Be My Destiny" ref and for getting Spidey's strength class wrong. =) Like @benteen said, Spider-Man is in the "10 ton" strength class, meaning he can lift 10 tons over his head. Or more accurately, Spider-Man was in the 10 ton strength class for many years but more recently he was bumped up to the 25 or 75 ton strength class (online references vary) because, I dunno, I guess writers were getting carried away or didn't have a good idea about how little 10 tons can actually be. Even so, there are many, many Marvel heroes and villains in the next level up (90-100 tons) and a lot more in the top level, "100+ tons" (basically unlimited strength). But that's the mainline comics. The MCU's Cap, for example, is more like Ultimate Comics Cap, who is distinctly superhuman rather than merely "peak human". OK, comics geekery aside, I really liked the movie's story and acting. I was really carried along with Peter's emotional arc. I think as a superhero movie the big action set pieces were surprisingly poor at both conveying a coherent sense of spatial relationships and making them feel visceral. But the emotion is more important and that part worked.

Someone actually put together the "So Long Boulder City" show Mia wrote and produced and starred in: http://variety.com/2017/legit/reviews/so-long-boulder-city-review-la-la-land-jimmy-fowlie-1202503169/ . I'm so mad that by the time I heard about it it was sold out. (Twice over! They added more dates and those were sold out too before I ever heard about it.)

EW starts talking about s2. Also, from March, EW had a long interview with Schur debriefing about S1.

Via the AV Club, there's a Community prop auction going on now: http://www.avclub.com/article/bunch-community-props-and-costumes-are-being-aucti-257106 Some of it is pretty meh and some of it is pretty amazing. Even the study room table (v 2.0) is on the auction block. The AV Club said the starting price was $60; it's already at $500.

Anne Hathaway is an out of control drunk who has to move home, and then it turns out she's somehow controlling a giant monster (kaiju) in Seoul. Also stars Jason Sudeikis, directed by Nacho Vigalondo. Trailer. Welp. The trailer said it'd be a fun movie, and it mostly was, but it got really serious too. Sudeikis and Hathaway both really nail all the messy real stuff in their characters that a lesser movie might excuse or forget about. Or well, the movie kind of gives Gloria (Hathaway) a little bit of a pass here and there*, but it definitely holds Oscar (Sudeikis) to account for being a thin Nice Guy shell over a core of an emotionally and physically abusive guy. * that is, it kinda glosses over some of the deaths she caused in Seoul. On the other hand, she's always pretty serious about the catastrophic damage she's inflicted, and she makes real effort to get better (avoid the magic area, quit drinking).

I think his suicide was partially guilt for the hell he'd condemned his creations to, and partially his way to shut down the park. If he outright kills himself, then it's just a suicide. The backers say it's sad and continue on without him. If he suicides-by-host in a one on one situation, it still looks like a suicide. But engineering Dolores and Teddy to kill all the other hosts makes it seem more like a horrific glitch that killed a real human. A more evil Arnold could have accomplished the same results by arranging for someone else to be the human victim, but then again, a more evil Arnold wouldn't have cared about the hosts' suffering anyways.

On the fight choreography: https://www.inverse.com/article/27638-john-wick-fight-scenes-jj-perry-interview

D'Arcy Carden has also been great in a recurring role on Broad City.

That's exactly how I felt after the first few episodes of that short first season of Parks and Rec, but my sister convinced me s2 was amazing, and it was.

I liked La La Land a lot and I still don't think it should have any screenwriting nominations. Maybe I'm missing something. Acting, music, direction, cinematography, sure. As far as the writing of it goes, the ending is very powerful. But the conflict in the story is weak, the depiction of actual artistic struggle is bonkers bad...

renewed for a 13 ep season 2! http://deadline.com/2017/01/the-good-place-renewed-season-2-by-nbc-1201897567/

But the Medium Place isn't supposed to be hell!

I'm not convinced the writers have thought it out that well. In the pilot, the deep storage level's cooling system had broken down for weeks and all Ashley Stubbs said was that it would smell bad. No one was concerned the hosts would decay, much less starve. Then again, maybe the CPU is durable and it really doesn't matter if the bodies break down in storage because they could just print a new one.

Ye-ess, but on the other hand they refer to the process as murdering Janet...

Including retroactively, as seen in his flashbacks about being promoted and making his presentation about his afterlife design, complete with not caring about making the human afterlife fun "for the people we're torturing" because "who cares about those dummies"?

Michael fro-yo'ed his hell! In the original version, the four handpicked victims are set up by personality to mutually torture each other, and to do it a lot due to constant proximity. In the new version, it's "made a little worse" so it will last longer (so he can have more of it). But if the four aren't set up as pairs of soulmates, Chidi won't feel the ethical dilemma of being paired with someone who he both thinks he should protect and yet doesn't want to lie for. Eleanor won't have the specific feelings of inadequacy without being next door neighbors (?) with the habitually name-dropping Tahani. And so on.

NBC put up the extended cut for "Michael's Gambit" just recently. I've been checking every day. =) Don't think I'll be able to watch it till late tonight though.

I'd known all along this was a Mike Schur show and yet it wasn't until Michael was revealed as a Bad Place architect rather than a Good Place one that I suddenly thought that he's deliberately named after Schur.