Kenneth Brannagh even caught that one. 

I could live with the ending, or I could live with Old Steve himself showing up, or the knowledge that a huge number of King stories are part of the world, but not all three of them.

He's the pen name of a lady, but I think I'd like to read about a cross-dressing merrie English bandit.

There's so many plotlines that become pretty independent of each other that they can swap a certain amount of stuff around, too. There's some things like the Jaime stuff your talking about where you could push it up or move it back. They're really already done that with Theon in season one.

Robin Hobb has several series that take place in different parts of a fantasy world. I'm thinking of jumping into them based on how cool a prequel short story she wrote was called "Homecoming" in the Legends anthology.

They're probably going to have to split a book into two seasons at some point, probably with "A Storm of Swords."

This is what I've heard also. I wonder if he looks at it like a crazy insurance policy? I've also heard that he's told the HBO producers some things about where the series is going that we aren't privy to.

Cornwell's The Warlord Chronicles is the best King Arthur fiction I've read. It probably benefited from the same thing mentioned above with the Baroque Cycle. Cornwell sticks with the basic structure of the Arthur legend, but messes with almost everything else. (Lancelot pays bards to talk up his prowess as a warrior…

RIP, you magnificient bold bastard
I wonder if he could get away with making season 2 of "Terriers" disguised as this Criminal Minds bullshit and have the network not notice. They could Donal Logue and Micheal Raymond James and have them hunt for semen stains on dead people for the first 10 minutes of the show, then…

Ben Folds

I had a high school English teacher who told us that a satanic cult ran Grand Rapids, Michigan and people all over were afraid to speak out.

As a member of Nuanced Views, Local 8472, I have a complex opinion about Peter Jackson.

Honestly, there's something great about just watching a movie with almost no expectations or knowledge of what its about and be surprised by how good it is, as much as the plot. That used to happen for me in late high school, but now I'm too plugged in to pop culture so it's much, much rarer.

"Also, these guys are totally wrong: The Usual Suspect is a terrific movie filled with the best performances from everyone involved."

Marcus Bachman, is that you?

A "Transformers" that consisted of a static camera shot of two robots punching each other for 90 minutes would have been better than the one we got. At least I could see some robots fighting, instead of Michael Bay's abstract version of action scenes.

People have totally mastered driving in two dimensions and now have no problems ever. We should absolutely give them a third to contend with.

I always hear it as Lady I'd Sure Like to Wear a Hoop Skirt and Own Some People Hoop Skirt Optional.

If we don't do David Lynch's idea, which was plant grass at Ground Zero, fence it and raise buffalo there, the terrorists have already won.

Aunt Sassy, we hardly knew ye.