Yeah, story wise he is way too close to home for him to continue on as the Big Bad past season one. I wouldn't mind that role being taken by Ivan Kaye's King Brian Blessed I.

Been done: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

I thought it was aiming for the Sam and Max reference.

Why do people like making dark, edgy remakes of Alice in Wonderland? And no, you are wrong, the source material doesn't have dark undercurrents, it isn't about drugs, it isn't a political satire, it doesn't have pedophilia allusions, it is a goddam goofy and funny kids story and can we, as a society, for ONE GODDAM…

Wait, is Gabriel Byrne coming back? Shit. I feel like there is a constant tension in the show to see if his plotline can sink the others.

It is basically just 200 pages of him giggling and waving his knife around menacingly. There are some good eyeliner tips, though.

On dresses and back to slave girl, that was probably the most fetish fuely without being pure fetish dress I have ever seen. Straight down the middle, cut along the sides, AND all connected back to a choker? The HBO CEO of Tits really earned his bonus on that one.

(I'm using surrealist in a colloquial sense)

Honestly? I hate this movie. It's surrealism is completely self indulgent and often serves no purpose than itself, and while it does have satire it is of the extremely obvious, look-it's-Jesus-getting-spit-on variety. I'm not against surrelism in film—hell, 8 1/2 might be the greatest movie ever made and I love Suzuki…

I won't say I agree with everything he did. he was often too conservative in his film tastes, prejudicing the well made old over the new or unique. He frequently judged movies on externalities, like politics or his opinion of a genre rather than the strength of the film itself. He could be obtusely impercentive,…

Dude, Alan Rickman as Marvin the Paranoid Android.

On a lark I checked the tumblr tag "Vikings" and judging by the density of shirtless Ragnar and leashed Athelstan it seems the show has acquired a pretty large female (or gay male) fanbase, which is cool and somewhat unexpected. Or maybe tumblr is just always like that?

Jarl Haraldsson's problems started from the beginning: literally from the beginning, because they named him Jarl Haraldsson. Basics of Scandinavian nomenclature, motherfuckers, do you know it?

Does this mean for sure regular Vikings coverage?

I'm still in shock that Marvel is actually using The Mandarin as their next enemy, and then having him played by the really not-at-all Chinese Ben Kingsley.

Well, TODD, this is early modern weapon humor, NOT Medieval humor. The halberd didn't see wide use until the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century.

I think a better way of saying it (because freedom of speech does isolate you from consequences to an extent) is that just because I recognize your right to say something doesn't mean I have to give you a soapbox and megaphone.

I think Disqus is acting up again. I was trying to write about how, but seriously, he was making the anchor visibly uncomfortable and when I tried to fix SPAG that happened.

"Keep and eye on your babies, 'cause I'm comin' for 'em."

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