It’s worse than Belichick. At least he has the courtesy to deliver his stuff in a robotic “Let’s get this over with” monotone. Garrett has to be all angry and strident about it.

Yeah, and then Michael Moore rather shamelessly ripped it off for his opening sequence in Fahrenheit 9/11.

I'd say at this point he's kind of following the typical path of retired showbiz luminaries: Giving occasional interviews where he can opine about whatever he feels like and showing up at various public events (some showbiz related, some not). Jimmy Stewart spent the final couple decades of his life doing this sort of…

Yeah, it's way more than that. Off the top of my head, he's accepted a Peabody Award, done a USO Show, done some Michael J. Fox fundraiser, showed up at a few Obama events, inducted Pearl Jam into the hall of fame, done a guest spot for a National Geographic show, done a bunch of joint appearances with Al Franken,…

I wasn't criticizing Letterman. I'm a huge fan of his, and I like that he's maintaining something of a public profile since retiring. I just find it kind of weird how the media still treats him like some recluse even as his public appearances have been relatively frequent.

How man more "rare" interviews and public appearances is Letterman going to have do before people stop calling them rare?

The season completed filming in April 2016. Ferrer died this past January, so he definitely shot all his scenes.

Eh, I'm a Wachowski fan, but their work is certainly scattershot enough that you can hate them without being a bigot.

Pleasantly surprised in the broadly comic direction they're going with the Mitchum brothers. Their introductory scene back in Part 5 made it seem like they were going to be somewhat dull villains.

I wonder when exactly it was that Ford settled on the crotchety persona for his public appearances? My assumption was that he's pretty much always been like that, but then I stumbled upon this old Letterman appearance where he's promoting Air Force One, and he's actually being enthusiastic, energetic, and…

So who was that dude that woke up on the dock at the end and was greeted by Branagh supposed to be? My assumption was that he was the Frenchman posing as an English soldier, but according to the Wikipedia summary that guy drowned on the tiny boat that got shot up. Was he just some random guy that hadn't been…

Why would he want to get out now rather than just waiting another year? Now he’s going to end up looking like shit when Lebron’s still able to get to the finals without him.

I'm basically in the "wait and see" camp.

The best metaphor I saw for this was someone on Twitter who said following GOT with this project was like a J.R. Smith heat check.

You're not dumb. You're not uncultured.

That midseason revamp of Law & Order: LA was such a strange decision at the time. The show itself wasn't that good, but it was performing decently. Then out of the blue they decided pull it from the schedule for a few months so they could overhaul the cast and then basically keep doing the same show.

It’s smart the way Lebron’s team is playing it this time. They’re making sure that when he leaves this time all the blame will go squarely on Gilbert. He’ll be unscathed.

It was still kind of a weird news segment. You'd think they wouldn't be able to record crime victims as they give statements to police.

I don't know. I have a pretty hard time believing it was an accident. Dekker refusing to play the character as gay was a pretty widely covered story at the time, so it kind of strains credulity that Fuller could make his reference as specific as he did (i.e. Heroes season 1) without knowing full well that people would…

Yeah, I'm not sure how "inadvertent" it was, considering that Dekker not wanting the character to be gay was a pretty major news story at the time. Fuller wasn't making some obscure, inside reference here.