Season 1 DVD case refers to it as Greendale, CO. Also, Pierce is from Cheyenne, Wyoming and Chang is from Fullerton, California apparently…

BTW. The song playing during one of the montages is one of the most popular songs in Japan right now. Terribly addictive. Stranger music video than anything I've ever seen http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I knew nothing about Miyazaki films unitl about 3 months ago. Since I have watched them all. Worth the investment.

The only one I felt like I really missed in the mix was Nausicaa. One of my top 3 Miyazaki films.

Is Burt a Leaf fan now? LOVE IT

How did a room full of smart people think that he had cut the arm off so he could open doors? That seems pretty basic.

They are lightly dressed for what I assumed was winter

Et tu brute!!!

Todd VanDerWerff sent me here…

Wonderful little callback with Rudy's last line. "I can feel it in my nutsack" Very similar to Nathan's line "I can feel in my anus"

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I'm hoping for Revolution type deal. Mediocre/terrible first season followed by a revamped and really enjoyable second.

the best part of the episode for me was realizing the guy was standing over behind Coulson for a minute of dialogue before they draw attention to it.

The first season was conceived as a 12 episode miniseries. They didn't intend on having a further books so they told a self contained story. So when they were given three more books, suddenly they could start to tell a larger story. They aren't going to be one continuing arc but each book will open up future plots.…

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

Techinically it should be Jinora ex Machina

I also read somewhere saying that the tree was too convenient. What did you expect, its a giant tree between the two portals. It has to be pretty remarkable. I am also sure that Korra's astral projection had something to do with harmonic convergence. Unspeakable spiritual energy abounds once every 10,000 years.

It was tophs ability to sense the earth within the metal that made her uniquely capable to inventing the technique. Its a rare skill and the follow up comics explain that only certain earthbenders are capable of learning.

Its just manipulating plants by bending the water inside them. Katara then learns how to rip the water out of plants which is a prefered method.

That was actually the original concept for the show. Aang was going to be frozen for 1000 years or something like that. and Momo was a robot lemur. Appa was a polar bear dog