I still say 5 was better than season 4. But it's bizarre that Hardhome wasn't the one getting the direction or writing wins (did get Dinklage's win, though) despite my thinking that Mercy was also great, and just annoying that Dink wins a second time versus his competitors or even other cast members. Harington was…

I knew a pair of ex-Mormon twin brothers in high school, and while I'm sure their family being excommunicated/severing themselves was ultimately over a myriad of ideological differences, it was hard not to think it was simply about the family being accepting of one of the brothers being gay.

It's pronounced tuh, tuh, tomatoes.

Although Hirsch was in this episode!

I had stopped watching AT before that episode. Go figure. Guess I shouldn't have judged based on what little I knew about it, questioning why it's this one that AT finally won for. I'm intending to watch through the end of season 6 before I stop entirely, so I'll get to that one eventually.

I've only watched the first episode so far, and through the whole opening my thought process was "are they actually going to open with. . .?" before realizing that they'd cut back to it at the end.

Basically, Roddenberry and other writers went into the show intending to have a gay character*, and specifically intending Geordie to be gay. Levar Burton, being the delight that he is, was all for it, but a combination of exec intervention and the one writer Rick Berman being a homophobe got it aggressively watered…

The only issue with that, which it took my mom of all people to point out, is that I just can't imagine the guy with a gold/blonde wig. He'd look silly.

I played it on the 360. It was less the visuals (the game is beautiful looking usually, but I don't care much about game graphics) and more the visceral fun adventuring spirit that I felt it tapped into really well, that worked for me in a way the dull affair (for me) that is Skyrim and the other ES games never did.…

See also: Levar Burton and how Geordie was supposed to be written before execs and Rick Berman.

I'm definitely with you on a lot of this, but adventuring in the Hinterlands got me to fall in love with DAI, and those positive feelings only went up from there.

I remember how compelling I thought Countrycide was when I was 13, which should say everything.

Funny story: The script called for me to say yes, but I gave it a little twist.

Six or seven episodes in, halfway through a first season of a two season show, seems far enough in.

*Appears in a puff of smoke* Did someone say asexual teenager?

"I told you she was soft on full-frontal nudity!"

Someone said howitzer!

I loved Connor from the start, he's a great character and Kartheiser gave a consistently great performance. I admittedly came to Angel with some Mad Men induced bias, but nevertheless. Hope you enjoy the show.

3 out of the six scenes in the first season's opening credits were in the show, and the Cthulhu one is the only one that carried over from season 1*, so I'm holding out hope.

I briefly was the dungeon master of an online hosted and organized game (different than the one they do over on the TI) with some internet friends in high school. God, I'd love to try that again, with more stable and easily scheduled people.