George Wallace did force his wife Lurleen to run for governor while she was dying of cancer so he could get around term limits and have a puppet governorship. I can only imagine how that affected the children.

The Joker is actually an agent of Boss Smiley, my favorite DC villain.

I don’t Stan Star Wars. I never bought toys based on it, and have done very little reading in the various spinoff media. So I really didn’t appreciate how much of this kind of character development went into creatures that appear briefly on screen but also appear as toys and get spun off in comics and books until I…

I was really disappointed that the official posters were so much more in the tradition of the original trilogy. I guess you could say this is all part of the film’s difficulty balancing creating something new and trying to cater to nostalgia

The article brings up fan campaigns saving shows, as a good thing, but I have to see that as part of a double edged sword. Those types of experiences essentially turned fandom from trying to connect with people who like the same things you do into an unpaid stealth advertising campaign/market research group. That’s…

If nothing else, it’s good to have a from the time reminder that Bush wasn’t good to remind us that he wasn’t better. 

Worse, it’s release led to the circumstances behind the infamous Citizens United decision.

I keep wondering how awful we’re supposed to think Mrs Wheeler is. During the first season she seemed decent, if a bit of a conformist. In the second season she was a NeoCon who wanted a teenager to fill her romance devoid parts. I really admire Cara Buono as an actress, but what is this character. 

I can see them knowing they wanted this type of character, but he just doesn’t seem real in any sense.

It’s so bizarre how they know what they want the reaction of the character to be, but don’t seem to know how to earn it. 

Younger already did a plot about with an obvious GRRM stand in. Seriously, when does Younger come back?

Everybody knows that the Night’s Guard is woefully understaffed and regularly refuse to do anything about it, so in this example Ned is also indicative of a different systemic failure.

Yes, but the more his perspective gives about Jaime’s time as Aerys guard, the more it seems like an indictment of the system. Not only was Aerys executing people in cruel and unusual ways on whims, considering blowing up Kings Landing, nut he kept Jaime and other’s close to him to essentially be his hostage (trying…

I’ve always maintained that’s Ned’s biggest flaw wasn’t his honor, but that it was way too tied up with dogmatism (his first scene he executes someone for abandoning the Night’s Watch completely ignoring the claim about White Walkers! Doesn’t directly lead to his downfall, but does show how blinkered he could be.)…

But he also wanted to be a member of that family and was essentially their hostage for half his life and he had to be ind denial of that as they took him to executions. 

I think within the universe, the way characters are freaked out about his “kingslayer” status is because it’s indicative of how their whole feudal monarchy system is un-tenable.

Also he didn’t have the political sense to give the Mountain over to the Martell’s for justice of his crimes against Elia an her children. In addition to being the right thing to do morally, it needed to be done because it was during a civil war and after that’s over they needed some demonstration that the Seven…

I thought that the pre-Theon overtakes Winterfell parts of A Clash of Kings had some interesting learning to live with and accept his disability points that didn’t make the TV show. Then they go on the run and large parts of his plot are about getting details of other characters stories, often cryptically told. I…

I rewatched eXistenZ the other day because it was about to be taken off Hulu and I wanted to see how well it held up. Kind of disappointed to see it in the “also from 1999" group. Still would like to talk about how it holds up. (It retrospect  it’s surprisingly optimistic about role play, but maybe more about film…

I’m going to make a hard disagreement with Tyrion. Between using Wildfyre in the Battle of the Blackwater and killing his father he’s too hubristic.