And Omoo!

It's a reflex!

@avclub-e57dbebc740250d2c4a370cf6ccb35f0:disqus Yeah, she won an Olivier Award for it and everything.

Qyburn is Anton Lesser! He's got impressive Shakespearean chops, so I'd assume he's in it for the long haul.

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@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus I think the real-world reason was that Duncan Regehr's schedule often precluded his involvement. There's also some stuff coming up you'd think he'd have been in on. It doesn't really make sense in-universe, but since I'd rather watch Louise Fletcher than him, I can't…

…Brooks did a one-man show about Paul Robeson?

Yeah, I remember seeing it first-run and when Sisko mentioned "the coming war with the Dominion" I went "…SHIT'S GONNA GET REAL."

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all the washing machines were destroyed in the course of the orgy

Yeah, last week someone posted a quote from Ira Stephen Behr to the effect of "'Rapture' made us realize that the audience actually really liked the Prophet stuff so we ran with it," and of course what they picked up is the non-interesting side of it. It's not the Epic Celestial Combat that's compelling, it's the…

And the movie whose name we do not speak! By way of Irving Berlin!

I have! You can actually get it on DVD from the UK if you have a multiregion DVD player. It's pretty amazing how it makes King Lear even bleaker. Paul Scofield is brilliant in it.

One of the coolest things I've ever seen done with the storm scene was the Donmar production starring Derek Jacobi, where they started it with the usual sound effects but then when Lear started speaking the sound cut out and he whispered the "Blow, winds" speech.

The McKellen one is amazing. I cried all through the second half and for an hour afterwards.

I actually did have a piano teacher who told me I had stupid fingers!

I use "I am gonna get you SO MANY LIZARDS" way more than really necessary.

@avclub-32b63dd70d870580128d83e930199e1c:disqus Generally, though, you drop Rs when singing, even with an American accent, because it's not a very attractive sound, so it's always felt like a legit rhyme to me. Although Fry doesn't actually do that here, so I don't know why I hear it that way. Years of vocal training,…

Dan Castellaneta's delivery on "STUPIDER?" is so beautiful.

I had a social worker tell me once that that was how he got his adult literacy class to do their homework.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus I kind of hate myself for knowing this, but Ray Steele is actually the name of Anastasia's dad. If we can tie this in with Dan Brown somehow, we may be onto a Grand Unified Theory of Terrible Books.