Zack_Handlen

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• A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.

  Ajax I interviewed McCullough a couple of years ago and asked him about Sgt. Hatred; he seem mostly invested in the character because he liked the challenge of making a pedophile funny. Which I sort of respect, but man did ...

  May 17, 2013 - 9:46 AM

• A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.

  Yeah, this has bugged me a little more with each passing season. Like you say, the show is about a specific kind of male immaturity, which means that there's at least some intentionality behind the omission, but it still ...

  May 17, 2013 - 8:34 AM

• “By Inferno’s Light”/“Doctor Bashir, I Presume?”

  The oddness of the build is one of the reasons I liked the episode. The shift makes sense, and I appreciate it when the writers try and do interesting things with tone, especially when those experiments work as well as ...

  May 17, 2013 - 7:46 AM

• A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.

  Wow, I mitigate that sentence a -lot-. Well, to save you time and unnecessary psychic hardship: I'm not huge on the first few episodes, but I love the show, and strong believe Todd will love it too. That's ...

  May 17, 2013 - 7:39 AM

• A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.

  While I'll give you points for correcting my mistake, being a dick about a line in the opening paragraph which I -immediately- mitigate makes it harder for me to take you seriously. But you have two first names, so ...

  May 17, 2013 - 7:18 AM

• A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.

  " They come up with some minor thing and then develop it later." To me, this is really the best (and maybe the only sensible) way to build a mythology. Yeah, it's cool if you set up a few mysteries ...

  May 17, 2013 - 6:52 AM