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I remember in one of the first episodes of Lost that TPTBs were hailed as geniuses because Kate was shown in an unmatched bra/panty set. Multiple doctorates. Which never happens and is a waste of time, money, and resources. No professor is going to take on anyone with a PhD for another PhD when they can easily be hired as a postdoc.

It's the same thing in movies now. "Dark and gritty" somehow = 'real' and 'dramatic.' It's a cheap writing hack. Although I would point out that True Detective really wasn't about the murder at all. It was a framing device. And there was a scene involving a murder that was actually comedic. It's the same thing as when they write "drama" for women and always throw in sexual assault. Because there's absolutely no drama in a woman's life than the threat of rape. Or she fucks some guy that she shouldn't.

Is that someone we should know about? Because I have no idea what that means.

Karen was literally in the process of getting married and walked out on Bill. Not that Bill was anything great, but if you're at that point on your wedding day, you've had those doubts a lot longer than just the five minutes before walking down the aisle. Bill might have been douchey, but you don't do that. The only thing Hank did was really bad was Mia. I still think he should have been found guilty. Other than that Karen always gets mad at him when he has sex even though she screams at him that they aren't together. I don't get it.

Better Off Ted would have been a *perfect* fit for netflix if that was available at the time.

I think that's the joke. You never hear about the warden only what they decide or say secondhand. Like potus on Veep.

Undeclared? I think they ran 13 episodes, but the cast is a modern day who's who of comedy actors. I'd add Party Down, but I don't think it was intended to be long running. That Steve Guttenberg episode is a comedy clinic.

Didn't Fox also air Alcatraz out of order as well?

Eccleston is the best overall actor out of the three imo. I don't think the restart of the nuWho would have worked if they kicked it off with DT as Nine. They needed CE to be able to really pull off that early doctor guilt. I'm bummed he didn't want to participate in the 50th because I think his very important contribution to the success of the show cannot be understated.

Where else are you going to keep your houseboy? He can't be having the run of the place! There's no way I buy MF's "I just want to help!" She's Michelle Forbes!

TPTB really dropped the ball with the world building on Almost Human imo. And it doesn't help that Fox aired the show out of order. But there was a lot of interesting stuff there.

I think a lesser show would have had the Felix clone. Felix is 'regular' but close to the clones, and Art is just a cop. It's our way into the show and it also grounds the show. It was probably a deliberate choice in this way to have Felix and Art interact so much. My instincts say no. Usually the show will try to tip off the audience ahead of time. This seems likely given how the show shot the canister and then nearly directly she discovered the coded book. I find it odd that the military wouldn't want women, however. Unless the clones were being designed strictly as infantry. When they introduced little Charlotte clone, I thought for a minute that Michelle Forbes was the older clone. Which doesn't make sense because Sarah et al., are all adults are are always going to look like they do now, but there was a shot of all the three of them that looked like future, present, past to me. It was weird. If TPTB didn't kill off Helena, then they weren't going to kill off Cosima. Typically, it's been a tv-thing to kill someone major off to show that a show is "real" and there are "stakes." Game of Thrones notwithstanding. I don't think a show actually has to have a a major death to be dramatic. Usually, it's jarring and mostly OOC because the character just does something rash that gets them killed. The show isn't bleak; it's more adventurous, and about identity. So I don't think a ton of character deaths works. One can't find out who they really are if they're dead. Duncan made sense; the guy was pretty defeatist since he left the house. Rachel I can go either way. She was slow-burn nuts going into the back end of the season and I don't see where she would go from this.

It's known that Dorian is invulnerable, and he previously fucked the hell out of Brona when she coughed up blood on him. So that he has some blood fetish isn't OOC from what I've seen from the show so far. It's been shown overall that he's extreme and into risky things like his orgy party and drinking absinthe.

The character on the show with the PhD knows everything about everything. And it will be in something esoteric like astroquantum string theory because 'mechanical engineer' is too obvious. Despite that PhDs have a pretty narrow scope of expertise. And there will always be the inevitable "book smarts v street smarts" conversation.

I think Orphan Black is definitely sci-fi B movie, but I don't think it's cheesy. I understand the criticism. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's getting tons of coverage because TM is so awesome, but what's really good is that it's actually pretty mainstream *and* a scifi show. For me, that's worth supporting despite the legit flaws. If this show is successful, then that opens the door for more scifi content.

What I really like it the options available for tv watching. I can watch The Daily Show in the morning on my computer because my cable puts them online. I don't have a dvr, so I can't record everything. I can also use that service on my phone. For sports, you can pretty much watch live streaming on every platform. If you want to save up and watch the last two episodes of Game of Thrones at one time, you can. Look at the how successful Breaking Bad was because of netflix. It's a pretty great time that there's a lot of tv. I'm not a rewatcher, so it's great that there's original content year-round now.

Maher also works the comedy circuit pretty hard for someone who's got a weekly show. He's always announcing three or four places at the end of every show. And it's not big venues either. He seems to go everywhere. So, he seems pretty busy.

The movies TPTBs can not like the "direction" of the tv series all they want, but the fact is, there's been 17 overall successful seasons of it. If people are seeing news about a SG movie, it's not crazy for the default thought to be, "oh they're making that tv show into a movie." It's not like the original movie, which I liked, was this super blockbuster that everyone talked about. I think I knew 5 people who saw it at the time. Not that an upcoming movie must follow directly from the tv show; it's their concept and they can do whatever they want with it. But it seems short sighted to me to completely ignore a and disregard what is a pretty sizeable fan base. Would they really have decided to reboot the movie had their not been years of success on tv?

I (white guy) got on one of the only women-only cars. "There's a lot of women here today. *beat* Uh oh." No one said anything though!

Don't forget, they've been friends for a long time, so there is a level of familiarity there. People just dating don't act like that, but they know each other fairly well.

I find it actually funnier that he has high-school-boy-hair-that-hasn't-got-his-license-yet, but *everyone* is down for fucking him.

Well, he's already killing and making threats.

That's what I meant by sustainable. You look at the last three seasons of Lost and they were only 16 episodes I believe. I do think there was considerable network interference for those other shows though because the networks have to jam in their tropes. Flashforward didn't have to be a cop show. V should have embraced it's camp but again, cop show.

The NRA deserves what they get. They went a long way for that joke, but they deserve what they get. I like when TDS uses PBS News clips because that's really the only news program left. Can we get off the canard/strawman 'well the likelihood of whatever happening isn't ever going to be zero so we shouldn't bother to do anything about it.' That's not a legal argument. That's actually ignorant. Zero risk just isn't attainable. We do things to reduce risk for lots of stuff all the time. That's why OSHA was invented. In the 70s. And let's not forget every codes of ethics ever and now all have some provision saying 'you aren't supposed to speak as an expert in things out side your area of expertise.' I'm finally convinced that the resistance to climate change by congressmen has absolutely nothing to do with a legit belief in "science controversy" or genuinely just not knowing enough about it. Four former EPA chiefs confirming what is widely accepting in the field. Who served under republican presidents. This is just part of the general 'oppose Obama' m/o. I wish someone would actually call them on their BS. Because all this oppose everything doesn't protect Americans, and actually violates their oath of office. They should all be impeached and thrown out on their asses.

Oh, please please, I hope Dorian makes an absinthe joke in mixed company in front of Ethan.