Yeah, this is probably just The Man Who Knew Too Much remake we've been hearing about.

Does anyone know if I, Claudius is still happening?  (Or was that just HBO preventing Game of Thrones competition?)

That episode was wrecked with awesome guest stars.  Jorma from Lonely Island, the little girl from Win Win, the lovely Kathryn Hahn, the Book of Mormon star, and then that guy who looks like he was probably on Justified (confirmed).  I hope the frequent casting of recognizable people won't get distracting, though.

Don't watch Easy Rider to get pumped for a road trip.

Saturday Night Fever and Oklahoma! (first Broadway show) named, I'd go with Roman Holiday, which I expected to be a romantic comedy a la It Happened One Night (which I love), but was a lot cooler than that, with no fast-talk banter, no character audibles, no manufactured conflicts and…that ending.  I'd say Princess…

Two amazing episodes in a row?  I wonder if Mad Men is taking on the typically 'structurally adventurous' seventh episode (see: Seven Twenty Three, The Suitcase) in two preemptive parts this year, knowing it can't outdo last season's.

I just expect Alice is gonna come back at some point and they're gonna end up together, which would be bullshit because fuck Quentin.

"IF YOU WANT TO GET RACIST ABOUT IT!"

In The Magicians series, Quentin is insufferable, sometimes horrible, and mostly meets the definition of a Harry Potter-nobody from Zack above.  It's probably fair to argue that the first book needs Quentin to be a dick, but I don't really see that changing too much in the second book.  He has some good intentions for…

I had assumed The Champs were already mentioned.  It's one of my favorites—the Robert Townsend, Questlove, and JB Smoove episodes are a great place to start.  The drops are a bit jarring at first, but then you come around.

She's already fallen in love with him via Han Solo and Don Draper, so I'd expect some study groupcest.

It's Becky Ann Baker from Freaks & Geeks!  That's awesome.

Gawwwd… This show is clearly gonna hit too close to home, right down to the 13 pounds overweight.

Not only was that height difference improbable, but also the one between Sansa and Shae.  She's only 13, yet she towers over Shae.

There's levels of plausibility.  Although this one was played for laughs, I think, so I don't really mind.

I see it as the opposite: that the gods/audience are bored with the same rituals/tropes and want humanity/horror films to break out of them.  That theory entirely hangs on my perception that the Ancient Ones are responsible for the tunnel not being blown (not Marty), so that the ritual was rigged to fail.  Plausible?

I bet Cabin in the Woods is Whedon's response to where a long-form Initiative storyline would've headed: After all the demons, vampires, etc. had been round up and neutralized, Sunnydale's Hellmouth nearly opened as a result to release it's "Ancient Ones," after which the Initiative's prisoners were repurposed…

Spoiler Space?  My God, Todd, your Game of Thrones idea is taking over the Internet.  Titanic retrospectives are probably going to appear in spoilery/non-spoilery versions in tomorrow's Sunday newspapers.

Richard Jenkins +  Bradley Whitford feels like what happens when you split Clark Gregg in two, Xanders-style.

Yeah, I'd agree with that; each culture having their own traditions, only one needs to succeed, but each still performed as failsafe.  Since America is #1*, obvi., has it's shit together, etc., other cultures have probably gotten sloppy, sympathetic and consequently made things a bit easier for their sacrifices. …