The United States of Space

I'm not sure there are very many originally-created characters in Sandman. I think a lot of them are from the DC back catalog.

Eyyyyyyyyye on the sammich

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus , what are you implying with the phrase "bald BUT competent"?

And GOB says something like, "Never mind, that's not for us."

@avclub-989ca0fe3ec0682c7349593ff5feb4a4:disqus did you ever see JLM on Eli Stone? He did a bit of dancing on that show, since they had musical numbers every week. His dancing was slightly better than his American accent.

I am interested to know from the writers if Geoffrey is as surprised as the viewer is to have it apparently confirmed that Oliver is actually a ghost. He sure seems to be.

To me, the musical puts front and center the issue of accessibility. The show has been poking at it from different angles for a while. Oliver's plays are safe and comfortable to the point of inertia. Darren eschews accessibility in his R&J and ends up with a shitty production until he makes it more conventional. Holly…

EASTMAN! The man came out of the east to do battle with The Amazing Rando!

He's all right. Not sure if he can handle Sondheim! http://www.youtube.com/watc…

His demonstration of Ophelia's madness in S1 is some pretty convincing crying, though. So it must be an acting choice?

Adding "a case of the khaleesis" to my lexicon now.

Is Paul Cornell never coming back to Who? He wrote "Father's Day" and the Family of Blood two-parter, which are all top favorites of mine. I know he's busy with his comics career, but I'd love to see more Who from him.

Season 3 is a marvel. I think it is by far the most flawed of the three seasons (if you didn't like the R&J young lovers, oh, just wait), but the Lear production is so magnificent, it overpowers all the irritating crap. William Hutt is spellbinding, and Paul Gross gives the performance of a lifetime.

It's also a great contrast with the first scene we get with a corporate sponsor from the pilot, who calls the festival an "arts-skewed commercial venture." He's supposed to sound like a dumb, clueless suit, but that is exactly what the festival had become under Oliver's direction. With Geoffrey at the helm, it's a…

"A couple of new characters whom I didn't much know or care about getting swept up in the moment and having a brief fling"

That is excellent. You know this shit is on purpose.

I don't think it's foreshadowing (which suggests the writers already knew what they would be writing future plots about). I think it's just that when they were writing more episodes in later years, they remembered what had affected their characters in the past and decided to build on it. It comes out similar in the…

Thinking about Rygel's death here, has anyone catalogued all the times a main character on Farscape experiences some kind of death (heart stops, runs out of air, gets stabbed but then time rewinds, etc.)? I feel like it must be a huge number.

It reminds me of M*A*S*H, where getting to leave was always bittersweet because you might be escaping a shitty situation, but you have to leave behind people you'd come to care about (or at least get used to having around).