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Of all the shows AMC's done since Mad Men and Breaking Bad, I think the show's got the potential to be one of their greats.

Yeah, we've talked about this before.This kind of comes into play of the aesthetics of things, but I hated it when I read it in hardcover and loved it when I read it in paperback. And I think a lot of it was just the design of the book, and the way the print looked on the page. Anyway, I thought Devil May Care was

I think we're more or less on the same page. Our conversation's making me consider things I haven't before when probably I should have. I guess it's more me struggling to come to terms how I feel about it. I mean, I like the movie, but feel guilty about liking it, and to a degree even watching it. Just curious, have

Yeah, that's how I saw it.

Yeah, and I think with some time to work on Season 2, they'll be able to work out any of the kinks.

Yeah, plus, where's she getting the money to fund it?

Interestingly enough, in the earlier draft of the pilot I mentioned I read earlier, Gordon shaves his beard at the end of the episode. I think it works better in the season finale.

Mr. Greene, we're pretty good friends on here, and I don't mean this as a criticism or anything. I've seen Ghost Writer a handful of times and thought it was a pretty solid thriller. Had this nice sustained sense of dread, and I really thought it delivered at the end. So many thrillers have a hard time satisfyingly

Yeah, she is really hot. And her character's great. Another great incentive to tune in.

I watch Walking Dead. You're not missing much. The comic's great. The show's. . . all right, I guess. Course, I guess since pretty much everybody's watching it, it gives you something to talk about when it comes up.

What's your opinion of Moonraker?

Oh man, I could talk for twenty minutes. . .

I enjoyed the first episode, wasn't as thrilled with the second or third, but found that it picked up by the fourth or fifth episode and was pretty solid from then on out, until the finale. Best episode, by far, was the penultimate episode at Comdex. That said, I've been rewatching it since I've got it saved on my DVR

Across the nation, around the world. . .

Oh no, totally agreed. That came across for me, and made the character fairly solid in my opinion. I think it's just the blustering delivery in particular that didn't work for me. I agree he's an empty suit without much to back it up, and that that blustery deliver is in keeping with that and that character, but I

Probably in the minority on this one, but I absolutely fucking hate Skyfall.

Yeah, that's why I said for the later Bonds. Although for me while it applies to Connery (since I love Dr. No), it doesn't apply to Roger Moore so much, since Live and Let Die's certainly not his best. Granted, he looks great in it, but it's not his best.

Same here, though I probably wasn't all that good at it. Can't help but wonder if this game, more than anything else, was what introduced that particular generation to James Bond, as opposed to the movies. It didn't to me, but I can't help but wonder if it did for somebody else.

You know, with Brosnan doing November Man I can't help but wonder why he doesn't buy the rights to Devil May Care and make it. You know everybody'd probably go see it. And EON's already said they're not gonna buy the rights to it. Sure, since EON owns the film rights to the character he couldn't be identified as James

For me, I think it's a pretty solid Bond movie. It's not one of the greats, but one of the near greats, probably. Certainly Brosnan's best. (Seems like the best Bond performances, at least for the latter set of actors, occur the first time they play him, and I think this is certainly the case for Pierce. For one