User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Dress/@comment-30307603-20171015033913/@comment-31194372-20171016053423

I mean, this is a very nuanced argument for a then-unnuanced show. The characters are not being deployed with thought placed in how they operate so much as they're weighed for their capacity to carry out the show's fleeting necessities. Trying to apply rationality to something deliberately far-fetched just doesn't work, especially since Season 1 hardly emphasized that grounded sense of reality that makes later season's more high-wired episodes seem effortless. (For the record, I think the bigger question is whether or not Anais' room actually exists.) Also holy crap, I'm the one defending Season 1 now. Woah.

And yes. We have talked about this. The rate at which people interpret my lazy jokes as carrying inherent meaning still astounds me, though I'm flattered that I apparently bear that power. But feel free to disprove me because it seems like the show could use a bit of clarity, too. I like arguing people at the expense of a consensus that even remotely favors me!