Gallagher's injury is relatively minor - not career threatening. After his first start he's been very inconsistent.

As a non-follower of baseball. This makes me laugh and laugh.

As a non-follower of baseball. This makes me laugh and laugh.

Does it make you think of Gallagher the comic whacking himself inadvertently with a watermelon mallet?

Pretty much, yep.

Pretty much, yep.

More reviews of standup comedians ought to read like sports items.

"Carrot Top couldn't control the joke zone and his wildness effectively sank the show."

"Carlin's a crafty old lefty who can pitch to both sides of the plate."

"Pryor mowed through the audience with a breathtaking mix of power, speed and taboo-breaking stuff."

"Bruce was thrown out of the game for calling the umpire a c***sucker."

"Newhart phones it in"

But I didn't mind, in a more general sense Penny getting killed, because (1) she bugged the SHIT out of me, and (2) she wasn't a character; she was a one-dimensional object to be attained. She was a frickking PLOT DEVICE. So kill her off, whatever.

Yeah but... that was the problem. She existed only to cause Green Lantern Dr. Horrible the Super Catalyst Man Pain. J Wee Wee went all Ron Marz. Which, oh Joss Whedon, NO.

But I didn't mind, in a more general sense Penny getting killed, because (1) she bugged the SHIT out of me, and (2) she wasn't a character; she was a one-dimensional object to be attained. She was a frickking PLOT DEVICE. So kill her off, whatever.

Yeah but... that was the problem. She existed only to cause Green Lantern Dr. Horrible the Super Catalyst Man Pain. J Wee Wee went all Ron Marz. Which, oh Joss Whedon, NO.

I know it should bother me more, but it really doesn't. Possibly that's because I was annoyed beyond belief by the character.

But also, in a less-than-45-minute story, titled "Dr Horrible's whatever," nobody's going to be as fully developed as Dr. H. Captain Hammer was one-dimensional. Moist Dude was one-dimensional (though I loved his date with Bait and Switch). Everything and everyone in the story was just a foil for Dr. Horrible. Everything got short shrift at the expense of being Dr. Horrible's supervillain origin story.

I wasn't even surprised when Penny got killed. Every "twist" ending like that makes me think of Lindsey in whatever episode it was where Dru re-vamped Darla, saying, "How did you THINK it was going to end?" Well, duh. It's Joss.

No, no one else is going to be as developed, but I cannot stand the WIR trope, and feel that if J Wee Wee wants us to think he's Enlightened Feminist Man, maybe he should avoid it. Or do something interesting with it, rather than just doing it by the four color textbooks.

If this were the only time he'd pulled that, I'd feel differently, but the soul-sucking lack of agency has happened in his other shows, and doesn't give me much hope for Dollhouse, to be frank.

but the soul-sucking lack of agency has happened in his other shows

I'm more bothered by the fact that he can't come up with anything new, after 3 shows and an Internet thingie.

Does the comic book count? Because he killed a Slayer in battle who had been developed past just being identifiable as One Of The Innumerable Slayers. She was also Xander's love interest, but her death didn't act as a plot device for him to have mainpain or turn into scary veiny Xander or anything like that.

(I realize one secondary character in a comic is not the same as a track record of killing off characters who were fully developed, simply to push the plot forward.)