Yeah. What if he had cancer? "I order you to find a cure for cancer."

Good question. I don't know if they have any other allegiances other than Theon's relationship with Sansa at this point. It seems like they could form an alliance with the Stark contingent, which could also benefit the Starks in their upcoming war with the Boltons.

Yep. They explode after they count to three, no more, no less. Three shall the number they count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shall they not count, neither count they two, excepting that they proceed to three. Five is right out.

My impression is that it's almost an exercise in how far he can spread the "main" characters before he has to bring them together for the climax/resolution of the story. I don't mind it, though like everyone, I thought books 4 and 5 were fairly weak by comparison.

The first time she shouted "Hold the door!", I actually started joking, like "Ho'd de do', Hodor!" Then they repeated it, and we watched him convulse and mutter the phrase, and I went, "holy shit, that's real?!?!" It could have been ridiculous, but both the young and old Hodors played the scene beautifully, and the…

I give myself points for calling the punchline to the Farewell Mr. Bunting well before it happened. I was wondering where it was going, but noticed the ceiling fan spinning in the wide shots. I was almost surprised at how accurate I was—I thought it might be more of a "blender" effect rather than a decapitation, but…

Funny enough, after seeing him for my third time around 2006 (?), I'd decided I probably didn't need to see him again. Cut to maybe last year, just before the album release, and I had the chance to see him for free, and figured what the hell. Great show. I don't know how many more times I need to see him—I'm…

I've been picking up all of his releases since Time Out of Mind (and hitting the highlights of his earlier career, too), but I think Modern Times is the last release I really still liked. I listened to Shadows of the Night like twice. It's too bad, because I saw him perform not long before that album, and still dug…

I know the album was touted as a tribute to Rick, but it seems at least somewhat disingenuous to me. Gilmour has far more writing credits than Wright does, including writing and playing Anasina, which is obviously supposed to sound like Rick. For a proper Rick tribute, they could easily have highlighted more of his…

No just Shining references….incorrect ones. The girls in the hallway don't say "Redrum", but that's what they do in the AB trailer. It's nit-picky, but it's not like this is an obscure, hard-to-remember reference.

I don't disagree with anything you said at all—I'm just surprised you went to 70's prog acts, possibly the least "cool" genre within rock—as Journey's antithesis. I figure most of the critics on the board lean more toward current indie, punk, or other critical darlings.

I'm now picturing Randy Newman covering Cars.

The little I've I know or have seen about Gary Numan makes him seem like a humble, likeable guy. Which makes Bowie's legendary dissing of him all the weirder. I think even Kraftwerk looked down on him as a poseur back then.

I don't mind them doing space stuff, as they've been doing it on and off for 40 years. But it's hard to imagine them doing it well. The Shi'ar stories are goofy by nature. They're fine, but they're goofy.

No, MORE mutants!!

Slow down!

This has me going back and listening to their entire catalog, chronologically.

I've seen the "career retrospective" and "elements of other albums" comments, too, and I really don't get it. There are, I suppose, similarities to other things they've done, simply by it still being Radiohead, who have certain tendencies. But I don't see it as particularly note-worthy or significant. Any band…

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But….wait! Should I try the veal?!