I was thinking the entire cast of "Friday Night Lights", starting with Kyle Chandler as Stu, and…well, Kyle Chandler as Stu.

Will the A-lister who plays Tom Cullen go full retard? (M-O-O-N, that spells "never go full retard".)

Slow clap for your reviews of this and 'The Pacific', Todd, especially the latter. For an excellent read about the U.S. Army in WW II Europe, try Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy.

"The mandible, Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the mandible!"

Right? "Bono" is just so…so…earnest. I look forward to more. (Edited to add an obligatory "holy shit if this IS Bono we are through the looking glass".)

Right now my girlfriend is hearing this song for the first time. She's digging it. One more thing I owe ya for, Alex Chilton and Chris Bell.

Agent Jack "Boots" McBrownshirt

I'm just wondering what exactly Kenny Baker would contribute to a table read.

Guessing we won't be seeing this show adapt a Serpieri story.

Beavis and Butthead really didn't want to act; they wanted to direct, and here's the result.

Halfway through "Declare" by Tim Powers, which reads like an Alan Furst - H.P. Lovecraft hybrid. It's way cool, as the kids say. Concurrently: "The Outpost" by Jake Tapper, a nonfiction account of an Army unit in Afghanistan for whom things go terribly wrong.

Pacing and throwing Barney under the bus aside, I didn't hate the original ending, which probably has a lot more to do with the fact that my marriage ended over a year ago, and then I reconnected with a girl who I thought (at the time, 18 or so years ago, pre-ex-wife) was The One (and, as it happens, is). I can see…

HeliX (to be used in the event that the show makes it to season 10)

This is a bit, right?

Lawrence Kasdan writes, Joe Johnston directs, Timothy Olyphant as Indy. I've solved all of the problems. (Takes long drink from whiskey bottle, smashes it over Nazi hired gun's head.)

I heard he was dead.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Rise of Darth Crucifictorius

SHUT UP YOU GUYS OR HE WON'T SEND OUT HIS SCREENER, WHICH UNAPOLOGETICALLY CROSSES EVERY LINE IMAGINABLE AND IS RELENTLESS AND WILL BE SO BRILLIANT AND LOVED/HATED/CONTROVERSIAL AND TALKED ABOUT YOU WONT (sic) BE ABLE TO DENY IT.

No love for "Seaquest: DSV"? (ETA because I've got it: "Seaquest: DSV: SVU" about a team of cops investigating only the most heinous sex crimes that occur aboard a giant future submarine.)

Went back and watched "Silence of The Lambs" between seasons. Mikkelsen gets more genuine chills out of a slight smile than Hopkins does with all of his hammy glares and whatever that "thhp thhp thhp thhp" noise is he makes.