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  • Community can have some really great writing (dips in season 3, but recovers in 4).

    30 Rock, Parks and Rec (particularly picks up once two new members join the cast), the Good Place, and Brooklyn 99 are all usually pretty light hearted and fun.

    Scrubs can be very funny, but also has some somber episodes where you’ll find some of the best writing is the series. Generally more fun than grim though.

    The writing quality in how I met your mother was good for the first few seasons, but dropped off in the latter half.

    Friends was pretty consistent, but not as good as some of these others, for me at least.

    The Oreville is inspired by Star Trek, particularly shows like the Next Generation. That’s a good series with some great episodes, but has some filler lower quality between. Not as silly as the Oreville, but some are still fun. Others are interesting or exciting in a variety of ways.

    I haven’t watched What We Do In The Shadows, but it is on my list for the same reason you asked the question.




  • By the same arc do you mean a character overcoming an emotionally difficult moment in their life? While that’s true, it’s also true for hundreds of other stories.

    Of course it uses the same premise, that’s the point of this story being told as an “inside out” film.

    I feel that it should be judged on how well it can help the audience emphasize with the characters (not the emotion characters, but the human girl) and the trials that they are going through while also being entertaining, educational, or thought-provoking. In this regard I think it did a pretty good job of showing how tough puberty can be. As a parent of a kid about to hit puberty, I think it did an excellent job of discussing these issues.





  • I also want more choices, such as provided by ranked choice voting. However to say that our elections aren’t democratic is far worse of an insult to the sacrifices of the labors of prior generations. Voters may still choose anyone that they want, and that ability to choose is better in our system than it is in many other places in the world. It’s not the best though, and I would like to see us get there. But it is not fair to say that our election (run by the government) is no longer democratic just because an independent 3rd party is now going to register a different person on the ballots than their initial polling suggested.


  • It would be great if we had a system like that, but we never have and it is not part of the constitution. Political parties have always been allowed to choose any candidate by any means that they want to put on their ticket. They could even choose 2 people, but that would be a bad idea. This will continue to be true as long as we have first past the post elections (and the electoral college). Ranked choice voting would solve some of these problems.

    The democratic election happens when we vote for the president. The primaries are basically large state by state polls. No one’s ability to vote was stolen and everyone who votes is still allowed to write in a name if they choose (but that is akin to not voting given our current system).