This is true, it's kind of the point where the standards for "average" shift. But this is usually where I start my rewatch when I go back— The eye contact between Spartacus and Batiatus when Spartacus voids his deal by saving him is what sold me on the show early on.

Yeah, it's weird partly because I would definitely expect the Vikings to do that to someone before the Saxons.

Another cool take on the story is in Patricia C. Wrede's Book of Enchantments, which I'm going to try not to spoil. It's basically the story of Sleeping Beauty, but the prince failed to show up at the right time, so the curse persists and gets worse and the Keep is this terrifying place that all the surrounding…

OOOOCCCCCCHHHHHH!

Skip the pilot with prejudice. Skip at least to Lost Girls. I picked up at "Isobel" and that worked pretty well for me. The plot just moves like crazy and it's incredibly fun, although it's hard to work up the courage to share your love with the world because it looks like it would be vampire 90210. (Apparently…

It's always weird to see Gaston in villain groupings because I don't think of him as a "villain." Villains are more fun, but I'd say Gaston does more evil than most, certainly more than Beast. Gaston imprisoned the aging father of a 17 year old girl and threatened to have him permanently committed to an asylum…

Oh man now I hope that happens. I'd be sad not to have another Paul Wesley role, but we need somebody who's not supposed to look like a teenager now that… Alaric is gone. (I still don't like admitting it.) Time for Katherine to have a confusingly magnetic attraction to the college librarian who's also a vampire…

We're also due for an Elena-aged Stefan.

So, had a conversation with a friend while rewatching season one, and I'm not saying this is good, I'm just saying it happened. http://sloopy88.tumblr.com/…

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Yeah, that stood out to me too. Unless the deception is part of the spell, and it's important that they be freaked out and overcome this by their faith or whatever, but that's quite a stretch.

Yeah, I think if you don't enjoy the character and setting stuff the first few chapters would be pretty dire. There's a lot of setting up dominoes to spectacularly knock down (600 pages later).

It may just not be your thing, but out of curiosity, were you trying to read it as an ebook or in hardcover? I have a brick-sized paperback that I tore through pretty easily, but it took my sister repeated tries to slog through (I'm pretty sure she only kept going because I clearly was so excited about it) because…

Some old comment thread decided that he should be played by Tilda Swinton, which I stand by.

Good "vermin": Blaggut the rat is just awesome, Romsca the stoat pirate captain is alright and gives her life to save a hostage after getting to know him, Veil the mouse-raised ferret does have some good in him despite his apparent bad-seed-ness, and there's usually at least a couple Disney Bumblers who are…

I'm just now finishing the series and have been crying since Oenomaus showed up. Fuck the gods.

I would like to give you a small Pacific island for writing this.

My most optimistic option is for Jesse to take down Todd's operation like Samson, using Science.  I don't think he has much of a chance of getting to Walt.  I'd love to be surprised though.  I would love for Jesse to go to a farm out of town where he can run and play with the bitches every day.

These bright sides are getting pretty dark.

Oh good, some people to scream with.