@avclub-bbb04f2a70775131fa0397bbdb4c03de:disqus I can watch those at home!

He's Groomzilla!

Also, "In the Cards" is brilliant, because it is on crack pretty much from square one and just runs with it.

Well, there are plenty of more compelling reasons to disqualify de Vere. Like his being dead for a sizable chunk of Shakespeare's career.

Yeah, this charge is frequently brought against Shakespeare by people who think that it means he can't possibly have written his own plays. Curiously, many of them prefer the claim that Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford, wrote them, and that having abandoned his children (legitimate and illegitimate) and wife, murdered a…

Well, it does have this in it:

Iwan Rheon is playing someone who's only credited as "Boy" and it's pretty commonly speculated that he's going to be Ramsay. The Reeds are definitely in, though.

Margaery explicitly told Renly last season that she'd be comfortable with that! Although it doesn't seem like they ever made it to that point.

It'd be like being killed by the Tenth Doctor!

Who wouldn't like that, to be part of the music scene?

The giant lion with iron

Excellent fanwank, sir!

Oh, I know you're not. I just don't know that it looks all that wimpy if you know what's up. I recall reading somewhere that reactions to heavy makeup aren't that uncommon (one reason Trek recycles so many guest actors is that if you have people you know can physically handle that level of makeup AND act through it,…

I dunno, I thought Eris was kinda sexy.

@avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus Yeah, I've always wondered if his meltdown at the end was inspired by "Exterminate all the brutes" in Heart of Darkness.

We also learn that one of the Benzites in those episodes was the first one in Starfleet, so one does wonder how one around Sisko's age (and this episode establishes that he was at the Academy 22 years ago) has made captain…

@avclub-383d3906a81567a4790639391dc4ecd7:disqus There's a prion disease that can cause fatal sleep-deprivation. It's usually genetic (look up fatal familial insomnia, if you want to be utterly horrified) but there have been a few non-inherited cases.

Romulans also use disruptors! Although they don't all seem to work like the one in "The Most Toys" — that one seemed to cause extra-special internal-organ-roasting goodness.

Skin allergies are nothing to sneeze at, though. I had a dermatological allergic reaction to medication over Christmas and my skin still hasn't entirely recovered.

Yeah, you wouldn't think all those peaceniks would enjoy a warrior's drink that much.