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Can’t be as bad as Minor Threat, right? Though if we’re talking marketing, let’s talk six degrees of Turtle Bacon – Turtle < Escalade < Cadillac < Super Bowl commercial < Led Zeppelin = 16% increase in sales the following year!
I will say that it’s been a long time since I’ve listened to/heard Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California” (strange, I know!) and that I enjoyed this particular decision as a finale send-off song thing – as much so for the fact they already came to California, and now they were headed to Paris, but in some other kind of way, circle of life!
D’oh! Sorry teacherman, late to the party! Please defer any upvotes for KITTY HALFTIME SHOW to its rightful owner (see below!)
Let us not forget, KITTY HALFTIME SHOW !!!!!!
I’ll see your Metreon and raise you Alamo Drafthouse – Austin – full disclosure – never been to SF 
The season premiere was rather perfect – it really captured the solitude and quietness of nearly everyone being dead and/or zombiefied – it also set the stage for good acting – I’m looking at you Morgan – and yes, it had WALT!!!! and Grimes was good in the opener too – the zombie who just wanted her bike back, Morgan’s being torn over sharpshooting his wife, for these reasons and more, the premiere was really, really good.
That being said, over the next five episodes, it’s seriously gone downhill. Granted, this has been discussed at decent length as the last five episodes have come and gone, but now with the finale being the main (worst) offender, had to pipe up a bit more.
About the zombie who just wanted her bike back – we learned last night that zombies have no meaningful brain activity – the idea that Grimes, Morgan and others wondered if there was any semblance of a former self buried beneath the zombie is now dead on arrival – I think abandoning this idea so early on really deflates the emotional baggage aspect.
Other gripes – last night killed it on breaking the ‘show don’t tell’ rule – lots of general questions delivered like they were lines off a script and answered in very simple and easy to understand, yet kinda vague, terms. I can’t stand how sad sack Amy is – always crying or being depressed – I get the sense that somebody has to be feel bad about this, but they pile it on so thick with just her character that each of her scenes feels way too melodramatic.
In any event, if this series intends on committing to just how dire and hopeless the situation at large seems to be, I can get behind that – could make for many good (better) episodes to come. I have no knowledge or background with the comic, does that matter? I guess not. There’s just something about this series that makes it increasingly hard to take at face value – like the shower scene montage – that was honestly laugh out loud awkward.
As for finales that GOT IT RIGHT – Boardwalk Empire – excellent, excellent showing.
Profile pic aside, my Lost-radar was sonor-ing all over the last few minutes of that episode – the science guy is kinda like Desmond, only not really at all, because he looks way too much like Kelvin…who’s the hatch guy *before* Desmond..and who also wore a hazmat! Uncanny, really – that and Grimes channeling Locke with banging on the door/hatch, losing all hope, and being pulled back from the brink of despair with the reveal of…Christian Shepard opening the church doors?
“If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant.” – Daniel Faraday
Such excellent clues!
Like Springsteen, The Who and (Artist currently known as) Prince before him, I believe that Maru should perform at the Kitty Halftime Show – his box slide alone should be a friendly reminder of the Boss’ enthusiastic slide into the camera in 09 – also, KITTENS!