Of all the issues with Desolation of Smaug, Evangeline Lilly as an elf is really not one of them. It kind of makes me wish I would just see more blockbusters which made up badass women elves running around killing orcs.

The Hobbit: There
The Hobbit 2: And
The Hobbit 3 Part 1: Back
The Hobbit 3 Part 2: Again

I'd still take del Toro's Hobbit over Pacific Rim, honestly.

It was available in HFR 48. I actually saw it as such.

Actually one also appears in "Captain's Holiday" as a background tourist, it was a reuse of the makeup from that episode.

That's just one interpretation though. The Ice is also the Others, the Fire is also R'hllor, and thus it's a fight between their cosmic darkness and light.

Yeah I'm surprised Habermas isn't mentioned at all as he's pretty much the first person who comes to mind (having briefly studied him does bring a bit of bias though.)

He was good, but we could have had more!

And I chose a relatively innocuous example to make it clear my point is a semantic one, @avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus.

See I don't read book Jaime as that at all. It's a wisecrack before he kills a kid (and really, feeling bad about trying to kill a kid feels a bit moot.)

This is true. I mostly tried to keep the conversation on the TV side of the argument because this is where comparing Walking Dead to Game of Thrones makes most sense, as two enormously popular genre TV series on cable channels.

Well everyone has an axe to grind, though if you believe Justman he basically had to trick Roddenberry into accepting Patrick Stewart as the lead.

Yes. Farscape's first season is decidedly rocky going and the pilot episode is nothing special. I'd argue it's the final seven episodes of the season (beginning with "Durka Returns", but especially the two parter "Nerve"/"The Hidden Memory") that make or break it.

Very good choice. Stewart is great in that. And it's one of the best examples of Capracorn idealism applied to politics, precisely because its price is so brutal.

Blink and he's gone.

Rick is a far more central character in Walking Dead than anyone is on Game of Thrones, though. A willingness to kill the protagonist is bolder and more unexpected than killing supporting characters, this is precisely the shock of, for example, Psycho.

Ned is the central protagonist of the first novel and first season of TV series (not for nothing Dinklage got a supporting actor win). It's not misleading to say he's the main character at that point, it's just observationally true. What Martin and the TV series does is make him the main character of an ensemble, so…

True enough. It'd just be like calling William Shatner American - he's an iconic part of American pop culture, his most famous work was made in America, but he's still north of the border.

Do! And I repeat my recommendation from the review, which is to wear too much so you feel uncomfortably hot throughout the experience.

Worf was a last minute addition to the show's cast and IIRC was one of the ones suggested by David Gerrold. (Gerrold wanted, and never got, a co-created credit for the series.) Worf was meant to be a very minor character - a backup crewman who would take over positions on the bridge of whoever is on the Away Team -…