"that is until you enter the BATTLE ROOM, where there is no up, no down, and ZERO G's"

....I stopped liking them because they stopped working as hard.

Half the core writing staff from the first half of the show left.

Ron Moore actually openly admitted that, when he was writing the BSG finale, his attention was divided *three ways* between Caprica, Virtuality, and the BSG finale, so he ultimately just rushed off an ending.

Fans have a duty to criticize creators who try to pass off bad work on us: the Mass Effect 3 ending, the sheer lack of work that when into the entire second half of Battlestar Galactica.

desert spring?

Lynch's film was one of the worst adaptations ever made.

I loved Tron Legacy: constantly repeating that you didn't like it won't change the large number of folks who honestly enjoyed it.

Not that much different from having the Hong Kong subplot in The Dark Knight.

Lust for gold.

That's simply an odd closing sentence because we have no reason to believe they'd be more "dinosaur" or less, simply by using dextro amino acids.

I do think that, eventually, a Star Trek-level spacefaring society with artificial gravity, in which space travel was as commonplace as ocean travel now, would use prison ships and satellites to deny prisoners any chance of escape.

We'll have to check back next episode; they sort of imply that Stannis doesn't remember Melisandre's seductions, due to her magic.

I was confused on that: does "draining his life" hurt Stannis' health/longevity?

He suffers a fate worse than death, to the point that readers actually feel sorry for him by book 5.

the War of the Five Kings is ramping up.

Yes, you do need to have a map in front of you. Then again, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings made a lot more sense if you used the map they included at the front of the book.

Bronn's one of the few characters in the books who actually stands on his own merits and actually earns his way up the social ladder; i.e. he becomes Tyrion's retainer/enforcer by winning a duel at the Eyrie.

"Considering the episode was called The Night Lands, there was relatively little of Dany down under, but then again her adventures at this point are a little slow anyhow. "

Indeed on her appearance.