Your honor, we're counter-suing the (deceased) plaintiff for repeadedly assaulting this innocent fire extinguisher with his face.

The only thing the Stairwell Fight didn't have that the Hallway Fight did was the goddam microwave sailing in from off camera and laying a guy out flat. That was my favorite moment of absurdism and levity in one of the best fight scenes ever filmed. OK, you could argue that there was a hat tip to 'Dodgeball' when Matt…

I enjoyed the episode a lot, but Mayakovsky sounded way too much like Gru. I kept expecting Minions, or for him to yell "Freeze Ray!"

That was a terribly written battle. Crossbowmen out in the open like that with no infantry support should have been turned into mincemeat. Lagertha should have just charged them and gotten them in hand-to-hand. But the show has the "Frankish" crossbow being absurdly easy to cock/span (in truth you'd need a loop for…

My guess is that Magnus gets used as the bait that lures Ragnar to his doom in England. Or maybe trying to save one of his sons is what convinces Ragnar, increasingly eclipsed by Bjorn, to try to capture lightning in a bottle one last time and return to the scene of signature victory. Guilt about the slaughter of the…

I'm curious to see how Hirst plays the Rollo-Founder of Normandy thing. The historic Rollo wouldn't show up for another 50 years or so (911), was Norwegian by all accounts, and got his duchy from a different Charles (the Simple) than the one ruling during the second Viking siege of Paris. But for the story's sake…

I believe Emilia Clarke's epic response to "Describe Game of Thrones in 30 seconds or less" was:
Blood. Death. Boobs. Dragons.

I loved Prince of Egypt and I'm a pretty devout secular humanist. I'm sure part of its success was that it was funded, written and directed by a bunch of liberal Jews who know how to tell a good story and are completely comfortable with the inherent contradiction of being a long-suffering Chosen People. Evangelicals…

Didn't the Norwegians already make that one?

I was going to make the comparison to hard core horror films, but this works, too! Look, Rob Zombie could give a fuck about the suburban mall multiplex traffic — he makes movies for his fan base, which expands only slowly and is pretty niche. Same for Evangelical 'cinema' — they say they want to use it as a modern…

I'm all for that it if Ragnar coming on to Karen is what it takes to stoke Matt's jealousy to the point where he might actually do something about it. ;-)

Not this Rollo, though. HIrst is playing fast & loose with the historic record to tell a good tale and compress the Vikings-into-Normans arc to fit within Ragnar and Rollo's lifetime. The Rollo who actually founds Normandy(Hrolf the Walker) was in 911, and he was Norwegian not Danish like 'our' Ragnar and Rollo

Yeah, the "OK, but I'm not going first" line nearly caused me to spit my morning coffee onto the TV.
Classic Elliot.

So instead of the Civil War Quentin is going to reenact the British conquest of India — but with monkeys!? And not figure out it's racist until Penny breaks his jaw…

So without spoiling the show or the books too much, what are Julia's options now? She can't teach herself magic can she? Does she try to get back in Brakebills good graces for helping save Quentin? Does she freak the f**k out because now all/both her pathways to magic are closed off? Does she go rogue with only Hedge…

My guess is they might handle it Game of Thrones style and kill Ragnar off 1 or 2 episodes before the finale.That way we have at least one full episode dedicated to the revenge Bjorn and Ragnar's other sons exact on Aella and the rest of Britain. With 3 of the 4 major Saxon kingdoms protrate before the Great Heathen…

I don't know if he'll replace the Seer since I don't believe Floki receives regular prophetic visions, unlike the Seer himself claims. But Floki's commitment to the Norse pantheon has never been in doubt, he wears the eye makeup and blackened ears the show uses to distinguish the Norse pagan priesthood, so I think…

Yeah, but this is ursus metaphoricas and its winter activity level scales to support the storyline. ;-)

Sense and Sensibility and Loincloths.
Cannot wait!

Agreed. A "The World of the Man in the High Castle" 30 minute explainer DVD feature would be much better than an clunky exposition dump. Although I do wish the show would follow up on some of the more tantalizing tidbits they keep dropping. I'm not a book reader for this one (I'm totallyw wrapped up in the novels from…