@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus Joffrey is the Lucky Strike client, Lee Jr., an aggressive egomaniac letting his id fly free. Theon and Pete are guys who have no idea what they want, they're just trying to be whatever they think someone else would think is impressive.

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus But that's sort of the whole point of their motto: other people sow, and the Ironvikingassholemen reap it all. They think work is for suckers, real men just rob everyone.

I really like that the show used Rast, who's always seemed like just a pathetic bully, as the main mouthpiece for the not entirely unreasonable point of view of the mutineers. He's still a bitter asshole, but he's kind of lost his bluster now that he's sure they're all doomed, and everything he says about their…

Theon grew up with the Starks, so I figure he'd be familiar enough with the nearby Northern strongholds to know if this was Deepwood Motte— it's not super far from Winterfell, about the same distance as Torrhen's Square where Theon had sent some of his guys on a decoy attack last season.

Wow—indeed, I didn't make the connection, but that is a pretty memorable moment, with a similar OH NOOO effect and this horrible feeling that these fuckers really were pretty clever, and that I probably would've been suckered by them too. I think the main difference is that the Dustin Hoffman character has no idea why…

@avclub-c2023af23a02a04d9f58966bafd8969a:disqus Yeah, I think the review missed the boat there. The point wasn't that Theon went in a circle and ended up still fucked; it was that Theon is only able to tell the truth about himself when he's just gone through hell and thinks he's confessing his sins privately to some…

Wait wait wait. I just assumed Unreliable Narrator was kidding. There really is an Alan Dean Foster novelization of Dark Star? Or are all of you people just playing along with the gag??

I'd love to know what O'Bannon was really saying in the muted bits, and whether he made a gesture.

"The whole thing drops, like it's not important" - well that was the joke, wasn't it? No one on the crew takes Pinback seriously. So either he's already told this story a million times, but they're so jaded by their own hopeless situations that they just don't care, or else it's really the first time he's ever…

It's the best five-dollar alien design ever. It's clearly a beach ball and it has no visible teeth or tentacles or anything, except those big duck feet which look just organic enough to make you wonder what kind of awful orifices might be on its underside. So when it finally jumps up and attacks Pinback, there's a…

O'Bannon may not have had more than one acting role in him, but he's so great as Pinback. The video journal segment, where we fast-forward through the last 15 years of his life and see him gradually transform from a totally different character into this childlike nut, is great in so many ways, especially because we've…

I dug the book too - just be aware that the movie is very, very different; it's really only an adaptation in terms of the basic premise and the tone. But it's brilliantly done.

It kills me that there don't seem to be any Topor collections in print anywhere. I have one old French paperback of one of his books of drawings, and when it finishes falling apart I don't know where I'll go for my densely crosshatched ink drawings of shape-shifting genital hallucinations.

Huh - I missed that one - just seemed like every time he used it, no matter how sensible in context, I saw a ton of snarky defensive bullshit saying he just didn't have a sense of humor etc.

@Kumagoro:disqus No, it's not because you're a newbie, it's because it's still a mystery at this point. Theon doesn't know who they are and the audience isn't expected to (though there have been a couple of hints).

I watch it with my sweetheart, who's hooked on it too, but she sometimes gets a little squicked by the gore (despite being tougher than I'll ever be in most real-life situations). So after a particularly horrifying episode, we sometimes watch half an hour of My Little Pony as a chaser. There's no way that could…

No, I don't think they were trying to hint that Cat had any mojo— just that she's a believer in a religion that involves a lot of prayer and guilt. She doesn't think she has special powers, she just thinks the gods might do things for anyone who prays hard enough, so she feels awful for having had those bad thoughts,…

It's been mentioned a couple times before that small groups of wildlings do periodically cross the Wall and do some minor raiding— Osha was originally with one such gang. Also, as the Night's Watch leaders complained to Tyrion in s.1, the Watch used to be a serious army but it's now a much smaller and less seasoned…

Yeah, I like that even while he's delivering all this despicable dialogue in a made-up growly language, he doesn't look like he's trying too hard— he's just a businessman who doesn't really enjoy making sales pitches to confused foreign people, and he knows that his translator knows the drill, so he amuses himself by…

Is it really so hard for people to understand what Rabin was talking about when he used that phrase? Or is the idea something like: even though there's a very common kind of cliché movie joke where straight guys get totally freaked out by a guy making a pass at them or thinking they're gay, it's totally lame and weird…