If it doesn't get canceled, they can, like Tim Lieder said, hire an older actor to play David and continue with his story as absolute monarch. It sounds like Ian McShane is pretty excellent as Silas, so they'd have to find someone at least remotely comparable to him to center a second half of the show around, and I…

I went with my best friend to see a Japanese art film called "Eros plus Massacre." Before it started some film geek gets up and gives an intro about how awesome the movie is and how we're all so much better for watching the movie than for watching it on DVD or some nonsense, total elitist snobby bullshit. Then the…

@ piper, way way way back up the thread:

@ warren perso - "squanadered" - the 2000 presidential campaign?

I think part of what made people call Watchmen unfilmable was the complexity of the graphic novel: it's doing 200 things at once. It's very intricate, and there's a lot there that comments on a broad variety of subjects. I think this is why, for me, short stories have always made better sources for movies than…

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I don't think anybody else has posted this yet so here it is:

I like both Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut, both of which I think are underrated, but I love Killer's Kiss.

Well, Claire had a baby everyone wanted, she's manifested in odd places (like in Jacob's cabin), Charlotte grew up on the island, Penny is Desmond's constant, Danielle is fairly oracular, Alex is significant in that she ties Ben to Danielle, Bea Klugh seemed to know a lot about Walt and his abilities, there's Sun and…

I think what Ben said was "I got sidetracked."

Sylar reminds me of the "comics" my friends and I would write/draw when we were 10.

Dude, Hayden Christensen was pretty decent in "Shattered Glass" and "Factory Girl." He sucked in Star Wars because he was working with the shittiest director ever - George Lucas (as far as directing actors go, anyway).

Got to agree with Ellie here - I was going to say that "Ted" is a pretty weak episode, but I remembered how creepy John Ritter was - total closet abuser vibe - and that the first time I watched it [spoiler warning, I guess] I thought he'd really been killed, which I thought was pleasantly dark. "I Robot, You Jane"…

That would make more sense, Emperor Jim, if Mahmoud actually wielded some kind of relevant executive power, which he pretty much doesn't. And if he were actually interested in Jihad, instead of simply being a figurehead for crazy Islamic revolutionaries. Don't be sorry, just be smarter.

I'm with sad girl here. I feel that anyone who says that someone on this show is "just a bad person" is kind of missing the point.

Lyta: I don't think that's quite what harpie and tchotchke were saying, though they probably could have expressed it better. I think you read a lot into tchotchke's post that isn't there.

+1.

Foe's been on my list for a long time. I've only read Disgrace, but it's a book I re-read occasionally to remind myself how good Coetzee is.

She could always be younger than 28. But I think the reference to her "birth certificate" was intended as a reference to her (as-yet) unheard original name, not her age.