I love early Lackey, like Arrows of the Queen and its follow ups, and the Last Herald Mage trilogy, which has a gay protagonist and was very enlightening for 15 y.o. me. I’ve reread both series over the years, and they seem to hold up, although I haven’t read them for a while.

Illusion is great! 

YES. I loved Uprooted. One of those books I started and then couldn’t stop until I was done. Kids had to make their own dinner.

This is the absolute truth. Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy is unrelenting. 

I am so mad that nobody has made a Miles Vorkosigan movie or tv show with Peter Dinklage, and now he is getting too old. He’d be perfect. 

Lois McMaster Bujold is my favorite author (excepting maybe my avatar’s creator!) and I am so glad she is first on this list. Paladin of Souls, the second novel in the Chalion series of books, is one of my favorite books, ever. I also love Robin Hobb and Naomi Novik, and I read Nimona back when it was still a web…

I have moved internationally three, count ‘em, three times. The first time was the worst, as my fiance and I decided to box up our stuff using a shipping company that built a custom crate for your belongings. So, they picked up our stuff, built the crate sight unseen, and shipped it (literally) over the ocean. When we…

Can anyone do me a solid and compile a list of beers like this that are easily accessible in Ontario, Canada? I am always at such a loss when I head to the LCBO or the Beer Store, since they are mostly craft beers I have never heard of or Keith’s or Molson. Please help!

Yeah, I have never noticed clapping in the middle of a movement, so I have no reference for that. But I have played with an orchestra where the conductor was such a tight ass that he would hunch his shoulders and glower if anyone in the audience so much as coughed between movements, so I really hate when the “Don’t…

Yeah, I have never met anyone who thought she was being serious. The line isn’t dinged because of that. It’s dinged because she delivers it like a bored teenager asked to read in class. She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

I am a longtime professional musician, and I have always thought that the stricture of “no applause between movements” has really outlived its usefulness. It makes an audience nervous to applaud because they aren’t sure when the end is coming. Having a conductor briefly turn to acknowledge it before turning back to…

The direction this episode was stunning! That bar fight was SO FUN, stylized and dance-like. My favorite part was all the stuff going on in the background, especially the old guy at the bar nonchalantly brushing the broken glass off his sleeve.

My favorite part of the proposal scene is Amenadiel trying to figure out where to put his other hand, finally settling on a jaunty cocked elbow that looks not at all natural. I laughed out loud. He is such a dork.

I love the dynamic with Chloe in the episode since, as you said, her arguments absolutely sound like someone rationalizing an abusive friend. It makes me uncomfortable to see Chloe siding with the priest in this, but I can see both sides in this argument, which is great from a storytelling perspective.

So happy to see this show back! And in such fine form. And I’m not just talking about Lucifer’s ass. 

“Wouldn’t that be great?” Love this movie. Was on heavy rotation at my house when I was a kid, since it was one of my parents’ favorites. Have to show my own kids soon! “Refund?!? Refund!! REfund?”

Thank you! Yes! All of this! Character investment is now high, and killing them off without concluding an arc would be a purely cheap thrill at this time. I appreciated how all of the deaths in this episode had meaning, because as you said, after investing 8 seasons in these characters, there has to be something else…

I’m glad I’m not the only one! I loved The Dark World, and always kind of shrink when people in reviews toss it off like it’s garbage. Same with Age of Ultron, which I also enjoy very much. I, too, like most of the movies and can rewatch any of them happily (except maybe Ironman 2). And Captain America: The First…

I moved to Canada 10 years ago, and can confirm. I will never forget going to an open house in a small town just outside of the large suburb I live in (which is one of the most racially diverse places in Canada) and having the real estate agent tell us, with a smile, “There’s no brown people out here!” My husband and…

This is so true. Any criticism becomes WWIII. It is crazy.