You know instead of calling it just the "Emergency Tumblr" you could be cool and call it the "Battle Bridge" like on Next Generation.

Singer *created* the X-Men movie-verse....his absence is what derailed it in X-Men 3. His presence on it in First Class revitalized it. My hope is that there is no love lost, and Vaughn will indeed switch around to still be in the producer's chair and attached to the film. But more Singer = good news.

Maybe it just has flashbacks to earlier in his life before he got the adamantium.

I'm not too concerned about "ignoring" the 1984 "Conan the Destroyer": I always saw that as just one of several of Conan's subsequent adventures; I mean really, what life-altering events happened in Destroyer, on a scale of 40 years of a man's life? It doesn't mean it "didn't happen", just that they don't want to…

The *direct analogy* I'd use, is if they do it as essentially for Conan what "The Dark Knight Returns" was for Batman....which thankfully, seems to be what they're trying to do.

I can't tell if he was actually going to do this, or as you suggest, that he just got some sick thrill from planning it out in detail, as part of some domination-fantasy that he indulged in.

Yes, I checked, "Rimegate" it is.

Oh, I see

What you labelled "The Known World" should probably be titled "Asshai and the Jade Sea"

What you labelled "Slaver's Bay" is actually centered on Qarth, and doesn't show Slaver's Bay, which is further west.

Yeah, that's Sothoryos, not Central Essos; its got the Basilisk Isles and Zamettar and such.

correction: "Rimegate". WHICH IS IT?!

oh crud, they misspelled "Ramsgate" as "Rimsgate".

Yes! Getting this as gift soon.

I suspect he will be one of the Master of Lake-town's money-grubbing lackeys.

In a fairness for "Signs", the director said that the aliens were "counting coup"; i.e. intentionally doing something difficult to prove their honor or for the challenge of it; the equivalent of us hunting big game on an ammonia-based biosphere.

"what we call a (inaudible) doctrine" - it wasn't inaudible, he said "de fide doctrine". "De Fide" is Latin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_fide

The Battlestar last supper was an insult. They kept hyping that it needed to be "decoded" for all the "cool plot mysteries which we totally planned out" — at BEST, I think the hint in the picture was that there was an empty seat next to Tigh where Ellen was going to sit. That's it.

I clawed the flesh off my face and saw my father's underneath. Then I realized I wasn't asleep.

a return to glory for the Wachowskis? God give me the strength to believe.