Even worse was seeing my proud battleship get downed by some random barbarian on horseback that I'd been to lazy to squash a thousand years back:-(

Wow! Where does a guy go for forgiveness when the friggen SPACE Pope has excommunicated him?

Definitely looked like they were expecting a backorder - the whole series so far has been groundwork and world-building, with the assumption that they'll get the chance to fill out the story later.

Hey, no need to bring Agents of SHIELD into this. Leave Agent Beef-flex to his own show's comment thread!

I love the way that the writer had to search hard for a way to use the phrase 'The 80s were a disease' without then using the phrase 'the cure', in an attempt to posit anyone other than The Cure as the kings of 80s goth:-)

From an Australian perspective, I strongly suggest that Americans tread lightly on the 'Anglophile' thing. Every 2nd show of yours screams 'GO AMERICUUUUHHH FRREEEEDDDUUUUMMMBBBBBB!!!'

An automatic would be significantly less useful than a single-shot/semi-automatic weapon. It would make it even harder to get a head shot.

Can both NBC and Kring give us all written and legally enforceable guarantees that they'll stick to the original idea of each season have a different cast, each running as a mini-series with full character arcs ala season 1?

Not the entire human race. Hitake and Sutton argue about it in last week's episode. Sutton says outright that the reason they desperately need a cure to be made is because they DON'T want to wipe out the normal humans - just to 'thin the herd' enough to take power (presumably by having a monopoly on the cure). Hence…

Apparently each season will be set in a different location at a different stage of the outbreak, with a couple of characters from the prior season (though not necessarily the same couple of characters - e.g. season 2 will have a couple of characters carry over from this season, season 3 will retain 2-3 characters from…

It would be hard to do a film about a competition that's just 'walk as long as you can, get shot if you fall under the minimum pace, be the last one left walking'.

JR drank cheap bourbon? 4 yrs is bottom shelf for whiskies.

I can only assume that the version of Titus Andronicus must have been shortened to:

That outlay is what I'd expect from a UK-censored Trading Places. Easy enough to take out the swearing while keeping the meaning of the lines, but the 'n-bombs' are plot-critical (it's why Eddie Murphy realises they're going to screw him), and the toplessness isn't sexualised other than the inherent sexiness of JL…

Of course, it's mostly the US that buys his music. From my vantage point in Australia, Canada just seems to have a well-ironed program of dumping all its worst musicians on the US. 'Fly away now Justin and Avril - there's a place called the US where, uh, 'special' children like you can be happy…[you locked the boarder…

The Beatles are representing that 'state' known as England.

"George, the British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe,
while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in
Tanganiki. I hardly think that we can be entirely absolved of blame on
the imperialistic front."

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In the book they've already got that. The guys who get killed and rise as zombies are slow-moving corpses, but there's also 'actual' whitewalkers who are intelligent, fast and only partially vulnerable to flame (I think at this point, Sam's the only guy that's managed to kill one - in the books, his fight with the…

I think you can kind of glean that a little with Joffrey - he plays the comic scenes where he gets taken down by Tyrion/Twyin like a guy who knows his humour (and knows that everyone wants to see his character slapped into oblivion).