It's great to see "The Girlfriend" getting some more appreciation. (It's also my sister's favorite episode, so maybe I'm a bit biased). Definitely not my favorite Season 5 episode by any means, but respectable, especially in a season that felt tired to a degree. I suppose this episode for me is what "The Ghouls" is for you- aware of its flaws, but it tried something so out there and creative that even if the execution could be better, its sheer virtue will win me over. Your criticism of "The Puppets" is fair, and quite frankly, I agree with almost of all it, but I really do admire the ambition of the episode. Casting Carrie, the Halloween hedonist as established by "Halloween" and "The Scam," as the skeptic vouching for the return of classical Halloween is also an odd choice in my opinion. The episode seems like it's building up to something, but then it ends with no payoff. It has some interesting ideas at play (I do like the idea of the horror of old having to face they're not scary in today's cultural landscape), but the execution was just too fractured for me. "The Ghouls" was always a little too sloppy for my tastes.
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Great post! Glad to see this series back and kicking! Always interesting to hear different takes, though! Delete Lastly, I'm not really going to defend my stance on "The Rival" because I've already carved it all out, but I honestly don't think there's much credit to saying that Anais' characterization is too much of a leap: babies really aren't a lot like the people they become, and the idea that fictional babies should adhere to the same character traits as the characters that they eventually become just feels foundationally untrue, let alone cliched. As for "The Scam," I'd rank it higher for similar reasons: it's more thoroughly enjoyable than "Halloween," and once we get lower into the list, episodes are defined less by individual moments than their quality as a unit. Suggesting "The Puppets" to be in the top 15 is legitimately unfathomable to me because even if you love the puppet sequence to death, everything leading up to it is so, so weak, and an episode that ranks that highly should be completely consistent.
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Honestly, I can't really meet you halfway with most of the stuff we disagree on.