Huge Rachel Bloom fan, that guy.

I haven't read Monarch of the Glen yet, but that being his "real" name is certainly heavily implied in the original novel, thoughI didn't get the sense it would have been on his driver's license, so to speak. I suppose it would have given away the game if it was, though, so it's not something I fault the story for.

Per wikipedia- "[chinotto] was known in antiquity as a dark hued, bitter tasting variant of orange juice, and was considered refreshment"

It will be easier to list the things Andrew Jackson liked-

I actually found the question of Shadow's name even in the book to be a little confusing- he tells a story about how he "got" the name as a kid at one point, but nobody ever, not even in the prison scenes where a warden wouldn't use an inmate's nickname, refers to him as anything else.

Having just re-read the book, I think it's pretty clear early on that something weird is going on, but it takes some time for it to become apparent that the dreams and such that Shadow is having are in fact literally "real" in some way.

To be fair, that line is straight out of the novel, which isn't to say it wasn't a little painfully on-the-nose. Interestingly, I think it came off worse in the show than it did in the book- in the book, it's more of a vague threat, since Technical Boy just lets Shadow get out of the car and walk away. With the show's…

guaranteed to take audiences on a ride through the United States of Insanity…

I loved how loud he was during that scene- it was clearly even making Shadow a little uncomfortable.

I have to assume that when he says Andrew Jackson, the architect of the Trail of Tears and someone who personally shot at a man to death over a horse race bet, had "a big heart" he's making some kind of medical assertion regarding an unusually enlarged arterial valve.

Interestingly, continued exposure to latex makes it more and more likely for a person to develop an allergy to it, so it's entirely possible that it just came on suddenly and got worse and worse.

Tough, but fair.

I just finished my re-read of it this afternoon and as I said to someone else, it was almost great but he doesn't pull off the big climax scene very satisfyingly and so it instead settles for being very very good.

I've only seen a few episodes of Red Dwarf, I'm afraid.

No no, you're supposed to reply "explain how!" and then we all have a good laugh at another semi-incoherent Simpsons reference here at the AV Club.

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"I remember sitting with the writing staff and saying ‘I really think…that when Voyager gets damaged it should get damaged, we should stop repairing the ship, the ship should be broken down more and devolving a little bit more.’ One of the ideas I had is that they should start developing their own culture within the…

And if you leave gold just laying around, you'll wind up with Ferengi all over the place.

I always wanted to see Moore's original vision for Voyager, where the ship would go through so much that it eventually returns to the Alpha Quadrant functionally unrecognizable as a Starfleet vessel. He later adapted that idea into the BSG reboot, but it really could have made Voyager cool.

The entire production of this show has been a clear disaster from the start. The fact that they couldn't even get it off the ground in time for the 50th anniversary (despite announcing it two years beforehand) is frankly embarrassing.