Daniel Bryan

I think the key is "slow". Maybe when he finishes what he plans on doing, he won't in a position to shoot himself.

Dexter used to have a daughter, so I don't think it's safe to presume anything here.

Because there's nothing meth-heads care about more than the possible harmful effects of meth.

Then you haven't been paying attention.

I'll second Community. I don't hate it exactly, but I do just watch out of some weird sense of obligation, even though it's not the same show, and not really very good.

Glee as well for me. So terrible, and so hilariously unaware of how terrible it is. I used to hate watch Dexter, but somewhere during the last season it stopped being fun to even do that anymore. Now it's just infuriating to watch.

I've not read the books, but I'm surprised that anyone thought Dany was actually going to give away one of her dragons. There was only one way that was ever gonna end.

Breaking Bad (The best TV show ever.) Community (The first comedy I've really loved since Arrested Development) Supernatural (Not high art or anything, just characters I like kicking ass and having adventures, and I look forward to it every week) Game of Thrones (Probably one of the few people who loathes the books, but loves the show. Great acting, directing and setpieces, and it's just awesome to have a high-budget fantasy series on TV) Adventure Time (This show is pure distilled fun. The only reason it's not higher is because I only get 11 minutes a week) 30 Rock (Not nearly as great as it used to be, but still one of the sharpest, smartest comedies airing) How I Met Your Mother (Similarly a shadow of its former greatness, but it can still hit all the right beats when it tries) Doctor Who (I still like the Doctor and the premise, but this season has been sort of a letdown) Glee (I don't watch this because I'm a musicals nerd; I am, but that will actually just make you angrier at this show. I'm just a sucker for extensively choreographed dance numbers) Dexter (Man, this show. So close to being good again, and then BAM, right back into awful, without even any Yvonne Strahovski nudity to show for it. Showtime, I am disappoint.) I don't watch a whole lot of TV, so I'm pretty sure that's every show I watched this year on any sort of consistent basis, and the last two are mostly just for MSTing purposes.

Every terrible simile in "Drops of Jupiter" by Train, where he describes a girl who "acts like summer and walks like rain". I don't know how one walks like rain, unless it's in some sort of slanting motion, which probably indicates some serious spinal problems, but she also "listens like spring and talks like June", whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. These don't even work as metaphors!

Of course they should. I saw the title and thought this was a joke thread.

Okay, so I lied about not watching this season. I've been hatewatching it with my friend, but that last episode was, dare I say, actually good. Solid writing and acting for Deb and Dex (for the most part), Batista and LaGuerta being competent at their jobs and providing great fuel for Deb's story, Quinn having a interesting storyline with the Kashkas, and the whole Isaac plot zipped right along. Very tight. It won't ever be the great show it was, but this has potential as a pulpy crime drama with a twist. And yes, Ray Stevenson is killing it. Only two complaints. The conversations with the Natural Born Killers girl being very poorly written, and way too on the nose. And the last scene bothered me, because while she's come to terms with Dexter being a killer, Deb seems to have accepted that Dexter was actually the Bay Harbour Butcher way too easily. There seems to be no conflict within her about the fact that Dex led Miami Metro in a cat-and-mouse game, was being hunted down by Lundy, and framed and possibly killed Doakes. She seems too okay with that.

Really wanted to like that. Really didn't. It was really bad. Didn't at all buy Deb's reaction to her mild-mannered brother ritually murdering a serial killer. Nor Dex's blasé reaction to his secret being out. After 6 years of him voiceovering at us about this earth-shattering day, it was like, "Hey, she bought it! Problem solved, back to murderin'." Remember when he used to not kill every single murder suspect in Miami? Especially when he just got caught by Deb killing someone; how big an idiot is he? Fucking stupid. Everyone on this show is so stupid. I knew the opening would be a fake out too -- it's insulting, at this point. Just... blah. I didn't watch last season, but I heard good things about the premiere and wanted to give it a shot. Needless to say, I won't be watching this season either. Last scene was good, I guess. They're both still good actors, they've just got shit to work with.

So my girlfriend wants to start watching Doctor Who: would it be safe to just start at the beginning of the Matt Smith era? Or even the first episode of the current season? Going back all the way to the beginning of the revival (good as it is) seems like a lot of time and effort, and investing in a load of characters and plot-lines that are going to be long gone by the time she's caught up. Plus, the old episodes aren't really representative of the current stuff; they're basically different shows. If you're trying out the show, you want to see if you'll like Matt Smith's capering, and going back to moody Eccleston isn't really going to let you know. She can always go back and watch the older episodes if she wants, but I'm wondering if having seen the later stuff and knowing none of it's going to last would spoil the experience (and stuff like Daleks and regeneration, which could be quite cool for someone who doesn't know it's coming)?

It's kinda crazy that, to me, Mike is now the protagonist of the show. Walt's the villain, and i'm actively rooting against him for the first time. Hell of a transformation. Masterful storytelling.

Since she identifies as a woman, it would, yeah.

Almost as good as Obi-Wan's "Only a Sith deals in absolutes!"

Ah, they're fairly terrible, now. If they weren't Star Wars films, they'd probably be regarded as even worse. Not from the die-hards who see them as the worst thing ever done to humanity, but the average person wouldn't even look twice at crappy sci-fi like the prequels if it wasn't for that nostalgic connection.

What is with everything after the first minute being so grimdark? It's a fairytale, lighten up a bit!

Gave up on this show a few episodes back, but decided to watch this one 'cause I figured they were going to do that ending and I wanted to see it. Five minutes in, I was already regretting my decision, thanks to, "I can offer him death." Dialogue that bad is actually painful. I'm actually really disappointed that I had no reaction to the cliffhanger. Last season's finale had me on the edge of my seat. But I couldn't even care about this, probably because it came about as a result of a terrible, inconsequential plot and all the characters acting like complete idiots. Oh, Dexter. You used to be such a good show. :/

Not cool. Not cool not cool not cool.

Yay! The show's terrible now. Just unfunny, unwatchable crap. I really hope it gets cancelled so I can stop hearing desperately nostalgic people say that "It's not as good at it used to be, but it's still better than anything else on television!" I mean, I loved it when it was the best show on TV too, but it hasn't been that in a decade. It hasn't even been a good show in a decade. It's now been awful for more than twice as long as it was great. It's time to let it die.

The more I think about it, the more the ending seems like a cop-out. The whole season's been built around the Doctor's death, and then it's just, "lol, it wasn't actually him." I didn't see it coming, but only because I thought the show would be better than that. It's cheap, lazy writing. Why did he marry River? What was the point of that, other than to justify the title of the episode? And why all the needless secrecy? I get he wanted people to think he was dead, but once the four of them were alone and, y'know, the universe was disintegrating, he could've just said, "Look, I've got a plan. I'm not really going to die. Trust me, I'm the Doctor." And if it was the suit doing all the work, why did the the Silence even bother with the whole River Song plan in the first place? Literally anyone in the universe could have done that. The whole episode was just pointless faffing about, while a bunch of crap happened for no reason, and no actual payoff at the end. I think Moffat's best when he sticks to small, self-contained stories. When he tries for larger scale stuff it just becomes a big nonsensical mess.

It annoyed me that they went to the whole crazy mash-up alternate universe thing again. Really, two season finales in a row? Come on, now.

Some really nicely written and directed scenes this week, albeit wrapped up in the usual Glee retardedness. The kind of stuff that reminds of when it looked like the show would be dark comedy, instead of farce. The whole class president storyline is pretty unbelievable, considering everybody hates Kurt, and hanging up those posters around that school should logically lead to him getting the shit kicked out of him. Hardly noticed the lack of music, which is a good sign. Although, if Blaine was going for Bernado or Officer Krupke, why did he audition by singing a Tony solo? Oh, and I will never forgive Idina Menzel for making Quinn get rid of her pink hair. That shit was hot.