I remember being 14 and watching the Defiant explode. It broke my heart. The series had done it before and would do it again, but this was the first tv show I watched where it felt like anything could happen. On top of that, it was such a big departure from "the Enterprise survives the encounter with one ship and in…

Nah. Floki killed someone for those rings. Except for Jarl Gabriel Byrne, Vikings don't bury gold. Even the girl who got put on the boat during the viking funeral gave her jewelry back before they cut her throat. Swords are everywhere here, but gold is what gets people raiding in their longships.

I liked that Lagertha seemed to be the only woman who kept it together. It informed so much on her character compared to the other women. Lagertha doesn't blink, faint, or look away. Lagertha is awesome.

All I could think during Floki and Helga's wedding was, "I wonder who Floki killed to get the gold for those rings?" I don't even know if there is a goldsmith is Kattegat, so my next thought was, "I wonder who Floki stole those rings from after he killed them."

The consumptive heroine is something of an overused trope in Japanese film and literature. They pop up a lot. If the heroine is not consumptive, she than killed by some other means. Its not every film or book, but enough where is it cliche to a foreign viewer/reader. I've lost count of the amount of times a frail…

HUMAN PILE!

Good looking out. For free, no less.

I listened to a recent interview with Maseo, it things just sounded dire. I hope they put something together soon, though. Hip-Hop is hard like that, an artist can have a gold or platinum record and still not have enough label support to do a follow up. I almost made a list of artists whose stuff I have been waiting…

I am going to use "Oh, this way and that!" in my conversations more often.

I hear more people speculating that George R.R. Martin's weight will get him before old age does. Either way, we'll get the end from HBO in good time and likely before his books come out.

Next season opens with everyone hiding from spirits and living on lion-turtles while sarcastically going, "Thanks Korra, this is much better than before!"

Different Dr. Dre. There's the producer and former member of N.W.A. and there's the fat guy who hangs out with Ed Lover.

Thanks a lot. Now I'm listening to "by your side" on loop.

Looks like Ragnar really cares about Athelstan. When Horik and Floki were talking trash about him, he wasn't looking too happy at all.

In that case, I like her even more.

"Jack Fletcher, had found the perfect English words that would fit into the Japanese mouth slots." PHRASING!

I've been saying the end of season 4 should have been the end of the series for a long time. So, its good to know I'm not alone there.

JEFFY, YOU DONE FUCKED UP NOW! BOUT TO GET THAT ASS WHIPPED!

Ragnar dropped some knowledge this week: "Do not fear death. If it comes, embrace it like your lying in bed with a beautiful woman."

South America is a good way to go, too. I usually expand west, rather than north, and try to get into South America as soon as I can. Then I focus on Africa. Only in Risk can the southern hemisphere be so powerful.