We'll keep you to it!

Ah, the version of Master and Margarita I read a few years ago didn't have any notes at all. It was a fun romp, but I guess I should reread it with some annotations one of these days.

His girlfriend is Jeff Bridges.

Well, I think one of the rules of the original universe is that ship phasers don't work at Warp speed.
Not sure what that says about the nature of phasers in general, though, or hand phasers in particular.

I liked the movie's tight focus on that specific event (though, indeed, it makes the title not fit very well), and my problem actually came when the movie went off to other things towards the end.

I love Lord Jim's narrative style, the "yarn told by an old sea captain". Rambling, jumping back and forth in time, forgetting things, remembering them later, going off on tangents, pondering the meaning of things… And Conrad employs it masterfully in this work.

Having been on stage a few times myself I'm always more inclined towards positive feedback, unless the production was really terrible. So, if the audience around me does an ovation I'll probably go along with it, even if I didn't find it that great. I do commend you on your strict artistic sensibilities, though.

They were popular in West Germany, too, and the West German versions are more present in Germany's cultural memory nowadays, actually. Both movie traditions have a common root, though: 19th century adventure novelist Karl May.

That might have been my favorite scene in Henry IV Part 1 as well.
Do you plan on converting your current game into EU IV? Or just playing a bit of EU IV next in general?

I also have had my share of Middle Eastern traffic. When I was in Syria a few years ago (that was, um, before the civil war, obviously) the ride in a crappy taxi through the late night traffic in Damascus immediately upon arrival was quite a memorable experience. As was weaving through moving cars as a pedestrian at…

Yeah, but that seems more like early Christianity instead of an established church.

Interesting. Religion is not really a focus on the TV show (haven't read the books).

Huh, he looks like a clergyman. I didn't know there were Catholics in Westeros.

Cahokia! You might even be able to interest a US audience in that.

"Lose a lot of the cast along the way". You mean, in the Indian Ocean?

8 minutes? That's gotta be in the cold open.

Point taken.
But imagine the comedic possibilities of dropping the Dowager Countess into India!

Would you settle for British India? I recently read a Kipling short story that featured a beautiful, accomplished courtesan in whose house the local dignitaries were always hanging out, plotting and scheming, aside from doing the more obvious things. It had a religious riot, the independence movement, the British……

I'm from Germany, actually. Don't ask me how I watched it. ;)

Wait, this doesn't sound like a movie about the Silk Road at all!