I loved it right up until Chris Tucker showed up and his supremely annoying character took over.

"I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me."

Dude, he still has a mouth. Try to keep up!

This is a cheesy-looking TV production, about a news story that everyone's already familiar with, starring a guy whose last starring role was 21 years ago. How much do you think this could possibly contribute to global anti-Jewish sentiment?

I guess we'll find out. I already thought the Kingsmoot and the overall Iron Island story was cliched when I read the books, and that was before there were 20 dozen TV shows about the Vikings. I hope they'll find a way to make it fresh and interesting. At least it can't be any worse than the Dorne scenes from last…

I'm very blase about broken limbs; must be all the Steven Seagal movies I watched growing up, but this still looks intriguing. And has Patrick Stewart ever favored us with an American accent before (aside from that time on Colbert)?

What did who say now?

It was the 1950s; most likely, the romance scenes were included in a cynical attempt to lure in a female audience.

I thought Queeg came off in the movie as a once-competent officer who had been promoted one time too many, and was now in a position that he couldn't handle, but certainly not a 'bad guy'.

Exactly! But still, good luck streaming it outside the US.

Science also can't tell you if Mozart is better than James Brown, or if you love your mother more than your father… but here's the thing: IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO.

Yes, it was basically a publicity stunt put together by the business leaders of Dayton, Tennessee when they read that the ACLU would pay for the defense of anyone arrested for teaching evolution. JT Scopes, the local religious leaders, and pretty much everyone else in town was in on it from the beginning. Frankly,…

A bouncy castle, of course.

Alex Graves also thought there was nothing rapey about that Jaime and Cersei scene. He's the last guy who gets to decide what is and is not a dumb idea. He's also not on tap for Season 6, so it doesn't matter anyway.

If you're going with, "if it's something stupid from the books, it won't get adapted," you need to explain all the Iron Islands bullshit we're getting this season.

I want to believe this, I really, really do. I want to believe that Sophie Turner sat D&D down and said, "Enough of this crap, I've got the X-Men movies now, and I'll be fine if I have to walk away from this gig, which I will do if all you've got for me next season is more rape, abuse, and crying." Let us pray.

No way… Ned was a dead man as soon as he agreed to be Robert's Hand. Ned died because he deluded himself into thinking that he could go up against the Lannisters and Littlefingers of the world despite his pesky ideals and principles. Sansa had nothing to do with it.

I remember reading an interview with Reiser after Aliens, and he joked that Burke would be back for the next movie; something about how you never actually saw him die, and maybe, just maybe, that alien he ran into was the same kind of yuppie scumbag as Burke and being two of a kind, they worked out a deal.

Jeez, thanks for pointing out that's it's been 17 years. Suddenly everything aches and I can't remember where I left my keys.

I just had the strangest dream that Paul Reiser did a Random Roles and they didn't talk about Aliens or Whiplash, and Beverly Hills Cop rated one quick paragraph at the very end. Fortunately, nothing like that could ever happen in real life.