Truth! They BS'ed us for years that "they have a plan!" — and it wasn't just the opening credits (though that is a *massive* point) — week by week, in every podcast, every press junket at the Paley Center or Comic Con, every Q&A, they'd *adamantly insist* that their was a plan. "Hey, is the birth of the hybrid baby…

I wrote this some months ago but it is very relevant here:

The Final Five reveal was an insult to our intelligence.

I honestly think they COULD have done the one year timejump well; that wasn't Season 2's fault, it was Season 3's fault for not following up on it.

Dear God, thank you Charlie Jane; I'm going to put your BSG quote into its wikipdia page.

Actually, I had no problem with "the boxing episode" - real ships actually do that, and "Unfinished Business" even gave us the flashbacks to the missing year we'd been clamoring for (odd how divisive that episode was; some hated…

X-Files began the Chris Carter Effect other shows have fallen into; rather than giving some answers to at least some plotlines, they just kept spinning it out and making it ridiculously complicated. For a long time, people ASSUMED there was an equally complex answer...because surely, they're not just making it up as…

Fringe was okay; out of a five season show, constantly on the bubble of cancellation, the worst that can be said is that Season Four sagged...but then it found renewed strength in Season Five, by consciously proceeding into Season Five as "the final season", addressing thematic points about morality vs science they'd…

My whole tape is just me staring headlong into the camera and saying "Get your ass to Mars!" over and over again for 5 minutes straight.

Hoster and Brynden feuded for 30 years not because he called himself "Blackfish", but because Brynden refused to ever marry; even when Hoster set him up in potentially quite beneficial betrothals to the likes of House Redwyne. There is *significant* speculation that Hoster may have refused to ever marry because he is…

It was honestly worth watching from start to finish, bits were slow but they got better.

According to background materials, they said that Old St. Louis has been physically buried under layers of churned up dirt - notice that the Gateway Arch physically looks shorter than it is in real life, the ground level is physically higher. They go into the ruins of St. Louis on salvage missions, but it's said they…

No, you're thinking of that movie, "Oblivion"

Not in dialogue, but part of the story is that the terraformers went haywire during the Arkfall disaster; the Himalayas were leveled, it's snowing in Tanzania, and Antarctica is a tropical paradise. It's not in the pilot dialogue, but it's part of the background: Earth got pretty messed up by the terraformers.

No. Normal TV shows rush against deadlines, but words cannot express how...if you listen to the podcasts for each episode, it became apparent that this wasn't "normal" stuff going on...truly, frantically taping episodes together, making last minute changes to entire character reactions in the editing room; i.e.…

"Oh also, the pilot has that scene from the books where Bran spars with Prince Tommen while Arya wishes she could join them." — they actually did film that, we've seen screenshots of them in padded sparring armor.

I realize it's been 10 years since the BSG miniseries, but RDM hasn't aged well; he looks like a man who carries the stress of having the later half of the series spiral out of control. I mean logistically; when you listen to the podcasts, they explain in shocking candor how they were filming and even editing…

On the one hand, yes Margaery is obviously play-acting to be nice to the commoners...but on another level...that's what "ruling" *IS*. One of the basic requirements of rulership is "try to keep public opinion on your side, even by cynically giving the mob their bread and circuses"....the point being that the…

Dear God, I actually has this question for a long time, before Colbert even asked.

Mormont is a Lord Commander, not High Commander.

Lab animals are either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.