@disqus_4oQgwTfiyZ:disqus , the submitted episodes are to help the voters, but they're free to watch the whole show and take it all into consideration, and clearly people watch GoT.  Fairley did sweet fuck all for nine of the ten episodes of season 3, and nobody was talking about her for nine of the ten weeks it…

I still love this show.  It embraces the Claremont style of storytelling completely, even down to how cheesy and melodramatic a lot of it is.  And you could argue it's still the most ambitious superhero cartoon in terms of serialization.

I look forward to the many attempts at pronouncing Chiwetel Ejiofor's name over the awards season.

Though we’re pretty sure the British also understand now that slavery is bad.

@disqus_oaLJ5MNIyo:disqus , I'd call that dubious.  That's really just discussing the degree of adaptation.

"Artistic intentions" are wholly subjective.  Adaptation and reinterpretation are either okay in principle for everybody, or they aren't.

More specifically, he said that he felt that the courtroom treated him as if he had done that, as I recall.

Only a couple of scripts have been worked on, as I understand it.  Depending on how they choose to go, they can excise/rewrite the parts of those related to Finn, or outright scrap them and start all over and address his death immediately.  It would hinge on how the network wants to handle this.

This guy apparently managed it without harming himself.

In a surprise followup story, it was uncovered the J. K. Rowling is in fact a pseudonym for Robert Galbraith, the true author of the Harry Potter series.

Count Tolstoy would be the most obvious one.

Shame on you, America!

They were actually skipping SDCC this year, so they dodge having to address that there.

On a trans-Atlantic flight home to Canada I rewatched Lincoln, which holds up pretty well from when I first saw it last year (it's a bit bloodless, admittedly, an unusual trait for a Spielberg film).  I then decided, purely out of curiosity, to watch Beautiful Creatures on the same flight, having previously discussed…

In terms of relative importance to the show, the most significant castmember death is and may always be John Ritter on 8 Simple Rules…, since that show was a star vehicle for him.  I'd place Monteith probably just behind that, in the company of people like Phil Hartman, and slightly ahead of, say, John Spencer and…

That and the time Homer's eyes crust over are the show's most shudder-worthy images for me.

When I was visiting London earlier this summer I saw the West End production of A Chorus Line (highly recommended, incidentally), and when they started "One" I suddenly realized that that was what the show was parodying at the end of this episode.

Holy shit.

It could be about how two artists with very different sensibilities failed to arrive at agreement, each having produced works that are widely lauded.

The movies have similar feelings about Lindsay, to all appearances.