I apologize for not being more clear. I don't feel that FFXII sold out or anything like that. FFXII was just about the best Final Fantasy they could have made at that time in video game history. What made it good was its willingness to borrow from games that stood on the shoulders of earlier Final Fantasies. My point…

Twelve was pretty good, but it was good by smartly integrating mechanics from MMOs and other sub-genres that rose to prevalence after the heyday of the JRPG. The very thing that makes it better ironically cements its status as second-tier. Once technology had reached a point that the walk-around mode / random…

I'm with you guys. Did all you people who want Victarion to be
this sophisticated gentleman warrior read the same books I did? His primary characteristics are :"I love smashing!" and "Thinking hurts too much!" Ray Stevenson? Johnny fucking Depp? Are you serious? He should be played by a wrestler who wants to branch…

Once again I am reminded that I am the only person on Earth who thinks that song just utterly sucks and always has. And they always use it for these big cheer-along moments like this. Same thing happened to me watching Six Feet Under: the totally earned emotion of the moment is completely overshadowed by my reaction…

Yeah I agree with some of the Moffat criticisms, but I thought Davies was terrible so it's bizarre for me to see people pining for
him. In fact, my biggest problem with Moffat is that he hasn't moved far enough away from Davies' style, though I have some hope that will change since the 50th anniversary episode made a…

Great script and problematic staging may average out to a mediocre episode, but an episode with a great script is still a hell of a lot more interesting than an episode that is just mediocre.

You make a good point, but by the same token a person with different priorities could prefer GoT to the Wire because it emphasizes plotting over didactism.

Goddamn if the AV Club isn't throwing up any possible Game of Thrones tidbit as a separate article because they've realized it's a page view goldmine. And goddamn if I don't click on every single one. And love it.

The Viper vs. The Mountain is much more focused and thus can be translated to screen much more readily than the Red Wedding. There's no way to replicate the feeling of loss from the deaths, not only of the major Starks, but also all the minor, but memorable and likable, Northern characters. RIP Dacey Mormont.

You do realize that it would be virtually impossible to differentiate characters in large battle scenes if they all have full helmets? Not to mention it would severely truncate the actors' performances. This is a situation where verisimilitude taking a backseat is the least bad option.

Am I only person with a soft spot for Peri? Sure, if we judge all female companions by the degree to which they buck the "helpless damsel in distress" trend she looks pretty poor. But I found her believable as someone stuck in a terrible situation. No one could resign themselves to inevitable and horrible death like…

The lovely location filming in the forest helped mitigate the general ugliness that was usual for the era as well.

The Sontarans were always best early on when we just saw one or two that just wanted to get back to the big war.
That difference in their motivation really made them stand out from other villains. They started fucking that up in Invasion of Time and the new series unfortunately followed suite. If the new series would…

I'm with Lupin Addams, I consider it several orders of magnitude more disturbing than execution. I've always found it hard to swallow that it was widely considered to be a more humane alternative. Everyone has to die, but fucking around with someone's mind like that? Unambiguously cruel and unusual in my book.

Prole Hole, I  agree completely with  your first comment, though not your second where you claim that "Rose" is not a steaming pile.

Prole Hole, I  agree completely with  your first comment, though not your second where you claim that "Rose" is not a steaming pile.

A  thousand times no! I know this won't win me any friends here but I loathe the new series. Can't you leave me one haven?

A  thousand times no! I know this won't win me any friends here but I loathe the new series. Can't you leave me one haven?

Mr. Greene  can you elaborate?  Because as far as i can see he is exactly that. 

Mr. Greene  can you elaborate?  Because as far as i can see he is exactly that.