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I Will Follow - A Gilmore Girls Retrospective

daft or unrealistic happens.

T.J: It pays to advertise, right? I want to put a sign up on the shelves to let people know who did ‘em. Shelves by A.J.

Luke: A.J? Why A.J? Why not T.J?

T.J: Because I’m going in the Yellow Pages and I, T.J,want to be up at the top. T puts me after everything but U, V, W, X, Y and Z and I think a few others.

any kind of skills or intelligence, yet surprises us by get

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lI had a really, really amazing introduction planned

out for this piece. It was full on incredible, award

winning stuff. Would have probably got me one of

them awards that Cormac McCarthy has where he

gets a load of cash to be set for life and just has

to release a book once a decade where everyone

gets brutally murdered. However, ruminating upon

it, and prompted by a thought inspired by a tweet,

I’ve forsaken it in favour of talking about spoilers.

to the end of the second season you probably shouldn’t

Phew. That got out of hand quickly. It was just meant to be a paragraph when it started in my head.

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self contained of the books, and as such transferred

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ning the defence of the city in the preceding episode.

hears all the details of this epic bloodshed second hand.

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den is.

the saga’s great side characters.

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great to see their callous brutality brought to life.

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the books off, the non readers geared up on the sheer

scale but keeping the action taut and claustro

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girlfriend skips his chapters though, alleging they’re

-­Robert Donnellan

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4:00PM

THIS WAS BASICALLY A PRETTY RUBBISH DAY. I’D JUST GONE DOWN TO LONDON TO SORT OUT REAL BORING VISA STUDYING ABROAD STUFF, I’D ARRIVED IN AT 3.

HERE’s HOW MY RUBBISH EVENING UNFOLDED, STALKING JESSE PINKMAN...

4:10PM

Aaron Paul.

4:20PM

station pot noodle in hand 5:00PM

station.

5:00-5:30PM

Whiteley’s shopping

hungry decide not to

7:00PM

depressingly thrash De

to head into looper get a

friends.

7:45PM

f PRETTY SURE HE’S HERE NOW

WHAAAAT??VERIFY

run back, three stops back on the tube from shepherd’s bush to queensway. get there and we missed him by just a minute. my friends spoke to him for five minutes and tell us

he’s pretty much as cool and humble and excellent as you’d expect. and get a photo:

feel cheated out of the hours they put in as opposed

sneery kind of attitude, as if it’s lacking in substance;;

WE HAVE TO GO BACK : A LOST RETROSPECTIVE NESTOR WATACH

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such as the skeletons, the four toed statue, and far

blinking teasingly back at you.

deployed to keep things fresh. But not only did the

used to iconic effect.

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cast is utilised to perfection throughout the episode.

throughout the episode.

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episode seasons. Frustratingly, in hindsight, it feels

be necessary stuff.

despite this, each season still had space for total noth

oppurtunity.

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played throughout the series felt a little rushed.

better.

of those seasons.

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LINDELOF: “There were certain things we knew from the very beginning. Independent of ever knowing when the end was going to be, we knew what it was going to be, and we wanted to start setting it up as early as season 1, or else people would think that we were making it up as we were going along. So the skeletons are the living — or, I guess, slowly decomposing — proof of that. When all is said and done, people are going to point to the skeletons and say, ”That is proof that from the very beginning, they always knew that they were going to do this.”

and far less anachronistic conclusion to certain enig

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stroy.

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enough credit for the things that they did get right, and

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but it’s an episode in the classic style. Why the

the point.

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a sinking ship. Before the cold openT

hospital setting has been done to death a little in re

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episode of its return, the story

but you can’t electroshock the

out and sticking it onto people’s

urges of her old profession and

Estes to endanger soldiers on

ingly struggling to countenance his dual allegiance.

So, at the end of the episode, Carrie has returned

to suburbia, but I very much doubt she’ll be stay-­

ing put if she catches wind of Saul’s discovery

gets it spot on to make waiting for next week’s ep-­

isode seem like an excruciating brand of torture.

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that total nadir, but only into a rut of general crap

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tion, no laughs.

gggggggggggggggggggg

season, the beginnings of a decline are start

grandfather’s life support on, has no consider

sode could be liked the occasional dud that has lit

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BEST QUOTE:

“He’s being kept alive by a respirator. As per the will, the only living blood relatives, the ever-­charming Dee and Dennis Reynolds, are the only people empowered to decide whether or not he stays on those machines.” -­ lawyer

“Are you saying that we have to decide whether that old Nazi bitch lives or dies?”-­ Dee

era. When that opera sang out on the day of the

he’s gay.

this and typically goes on to realise her hypocri

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instead of the usual sarcastic aggression. After

triarch.

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BEST QUOTE:

Once again, I’d like to apologize for punching you in the head. It really was the only way to save you since you were bound and hooded…which leads me to my second apology.” -­ Phil

of 30 Rock.

our to double the glare.

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all Breaking Bad on us. Walter White has certainly

Episode 1: Episode 2:

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things fair by snapping one daughter’s tiara in

ordeal.

that’s brought along, there is an auction to help raise

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nee unannounced. Ben takes to his knee and pres

certainly has potential for another classic recurring

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‘‘Am I interrupting something important?’’

‘‘Impossible. I work for the government.’’

Do you have a friend who you criticise

really annoy like like someone rubbing sand-­

criticises them you feel compelled to rigor-­

ferent.

ing to actually clear the prison of the baying hordes

at the end of the last season about this no longer being

season but his ponderous inability to kill the sur

Walking Dead’s ongoing success that it does ac

that little bit higher.cell block, but look to plunge further into the pris

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alcoholic, terrifyingly spontaneous of the second,

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gets it’s hard to get so caught up

throughout.

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the less patronising dialogue about

ally being a christian, and respond

particular, but also Alison Pill and

are archaic shells of characters, all clearly highly intelligent and good at

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Anthony, and the pandering and ineffectual nature of