Yeah, I dunno where we get the 'softer side of Westeros' slant from … it's definitely more like ' the rapey side of Disney.' Ariel as Melisandre reveals a lot of what's going on with the artist for sure. This can exist and whatever, it's a good look into the minds of some pop-culture fans. I dunno, like another…

Glad it worked in isolation, but also, another layer to how the end works is that 'they all die at the end' is a running joke of each series.

The 'locked room' speech, and analogy, in the context of the show too, is one of the few examples of philosophy in genre shows where you can't dismiss it as pop-psych or philosophy 101 or whatever. It was really disturbing.

I was just stoked for the three way (err) link up at the mid-season ender, Ollie says he took out someone up on Miruku before, Slade shows up in present day with an eye patch … and then you remember the pilot episode where he got off the island showed a deathstroke mask with an arrow through the eye. If they writers…

There's a bunch of these shots in the Girl Skateboards' "Pretty Sweet" done by Spike Jonze. HD slow mo + hijinks. There lots at the start in the intro, also featuring a huge tracking shot done by a remote-heli-cam and then a few more shots scattered throughout the vid.

I was a teen through the Thatcher years in the UK … and Abbot looks just as bad.

Obviously the parties are not exactly the same. But they all fall into a narrow range of behavior, which fails to seriously address the issues of our time. And, those options are an alternative to voting. If leaders do not respond to the needs of their voting electorate, which they don't, they can be pressured other…

Activism, civil disobedience, advocacy and protest are all vital parts of a functioning democracy, to name a few things you can do outside of voting. And when all the choices are bad, then focusing on those other options is simply logical.

A lot of weird comments on the ep. There is no Russel Brand type character on The Waldo Moment. Brand genuinely cares and wants to see wealth-inequality, healthcare and the environment properly addressed as key issues.

I thought the most effective part of the episode was how media PR and marketing forces, who think they are neutral or professionally amoral, appropriate everything and ultimately serve power. The scene where Waldo takes down the Newsnight-Paxman character was amazing … and then it all clicks from there.

B from me

If the writers knew all this when they put the Deathstroke mask with the arrow through the eye in the pilot. That's pretty fucking good. I'm so glad this show was allowed the slow build of season one, because it's paying off now. For a 'CW show' that was a dark, tense episode. And knowing what we know now … makes you…

Also, it's great how ahead the writers seem to be and how everything is paying off so well following a patient build up. As soon as I saw the patch and then heard the 'arrow through the eye' line, it immediately takes you back to the mask with the arrow through the eye on the island, from the pilot. And Ollie saying…

I loved the angry killer take of him in season one, and that although he's trying to get off it he's constantly compromised by being involved in violence itself. I would love a Green Arrow comics run where he's an eco-terrorist going after dams.

Yeah, I was on board by the second half but when the glades plot went the way it did, and they
were all watching from the rooftop at the end of the finale, I was genuinely surprised and blown away. It's all I could want in a TV show about superheroes.

At the start. You need all the build up and all the CW-esque parts. Then you'll feel the show starting to do things around the Huntress Two Parter …. and then when you watch the last sequence of the finale … you can be like "Oh … shit." Then season two, as the review points out, is committed to no resets and proper…

The raging arrogance of this reviewer centric write up makes me wonder if Sims hasn't touched the Asgardian Berserker Rod. It's affected most of the TV Club staff. It's a shame. The A. V. Club used to have a very specific style that involved a No "I" rule on interviews and the like that made it so refreshing compared…

Fun are the serial killers of modern bands. All the actions are there, all the tics and nods, but it seems to be missing something behind the eyes, seems to be strangely off. It wouldn't surprise me if they turned out to be alien impostors or cyborgs or something.

and I got the book in a swap with a dude from Belgium on a Shanghai to Hong Kong overnight.

Oh sure. I've been here ten years. Every city and town has a train connection. If you're going across provinces the time stacks up from 3 or 4 hours up to two days, although newer bullet trains have really cut it down. The standard inter city trains for longer journeys are sleepers and the standard berth is 'hard…