I feel it's a testament to just how good this show and Emilia Clarke both are, that the denouement to the slaver storyline was so clear from the start—- with the big reveal that Dany spoke Valyrian and didn't intend to give away Drogon both so dead obvious—- the whole time you just knew what was coming—- and it was…

"Especially since it ended with Roderick just laughing maniacally at nothing." I think you mean laughing monomaniacally at nothing. Good grief that was stupid.

Can't say I'm surprised that 'Alphas' got canceled. I am surprised, though, that it only got two seasons, while something like 'Sanctuary' got four.

You know, at first I thought you were joking. Then I looked it up, and that's what actually happened.

@avclub-7e9d7bf9fca0d81a31df4f127d2e945d:disqus : That's true. One thing I always liked about the Pevear/Volokhonsky, though, is the fact that they began the project determined not to neatly assimilate things like Russian syntax into English convention, so a lot of Tolstoy's idiomatic, signature language and its…

@avclub-7e9d7bf9fca0d81a31df4f127d2e945d:disqus : That's true. One thing I always liked about the Pevear/Volokhonsky, though, is the fact that they began the project determined not to neatly assimilate things like Russian syntax into English convention, so a lot of Tolstoy's idiomatic, signature language and its…

It's probably not as good as having someone come in to speak to you about it, but consider reading the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation? Volokhonsky is a native Russian speaker, so the translation itself is pretty great, and the glosses that she and Pevear provide are more thorough than what you'd get in, say, the…

It's probably not as good as having someone come in to speak to you about it, but consider reading the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation? Volokhonsky is a native Russian speaker, so the translation itself is pretty great, and the glosses that she and Pevear provide are more thorough than what you'd get in, say, the…

I think Troy is this season's MVP, for me.

Definitely agree with you on the final episodes. "Not Fade Away" is superb. Do regret, though, not being able to see the planned sixth-season Illyria-Fred interplay; and the loss of Wesley left me a little miffed, even with his role in "After the Fall."

House M.D. It's going, now, but it could have benefited from getting the axe a few seasons before.

Wynn's panicked "What do I know? What do I know?" made me smile. Love that all Quarles's rig got from Raylan was a "That's cute." "That one you can keep," that dead silence when Limehouse cut Quarles's arm off — and that goddamn ending — so many good moments!

J.D. Cronise of The Sword uses some Game of Thrones references for their songs. (I was actually listening to "To Take the Black" while I was reading this.) Their music's not really that great, though.

I read it in Dave Foley's: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I'm of Sikh descent, but not terribly committed as far as the religion goes, so this doesn't bother me much. That being said, The Golden Temple is of enough spiritual significance to people I know that popular culture is much better served not using it for a joke—- the humor simply doesn't translate—- especially such…

Was going to say "No, this show sucks, watch Community 100 times instead," but—-

I mean, I know it wasn't just for that. It just didn't seem like anything else because they woke up fully clothed, pretty much exactly as they'd been the night before. Yeah, network television, but would you really take the time to put your clothes back on if you'd had hot wolf sex and then killed a rabbit in the heat…

The episode was good, but I felt that like the others, it suffered from its predictability, perhaps even more so because of how much I was expecting from the premise. There were a few moments that not even Silas Weir Mitchell was able to salvage, like the run through the woods, apparently to kill a rabbit?, which was…

While I'm not sure I share your opinion on The Sopranos, I know exactly what you mean about the apologist thing—- I was also one of the people who actually didn't mind season 3 all that much, found it watchable, argued for its merits with other people, and now I'm like, this is the thanks I get?
The Sons against a…

It's a real story. Mark O'Brien was an actual guy, a journalist and a poet, who came down with polio as a child, lost most of the power to breathe on his own and the ability to move most of his body, and ended up in an iron lung for his entire adolescent and adult life. He depended on a sex surrogate because his…