Me too!  I thought he must be going senile or something.  It's nice to have that mystery solved.  (I also haven't read another book of his.)

Well, it came out awhile ago, so many of the ideas apparently seemed fresher.  It doesn't have a strong linear plot.  There are a group of pilgrims going to see the Shrike (an alien life form made of knives who maybe grants wishes?).  Each of them has a story to tell of their link to the planet Hyperion.  Each tells a…

It's especially remarkable, when you consider that Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion are pretty liberal for being a big ole space opera.  The Consul's tale is environmentalist / pro-meta-human / let's ditch planets story. The priest's tale isn't necessarily anti-religious, but it's deeply questioning of religious structure…

I think he's trying to put Marco in the position he was in when bad things happened to him.  He was on a task force, ignoring his wife, his wife starts cheating on him, etc. etc.  He needs to stage the type of serial killing that will get a task force together.  Say he knows Marco's schedule and stages it for a night…

Jerusha Hess is also Mormon, as is her husband Jared, the Napolean Dynamite writer/director. The movie's also based on a novel by Shannon Hale a Mormon author. If you'd like to know about Mormon cinema (which is totally a thing — really, seriously, a decades old thing born from the BYU film program which was started…

I thought it was Janae's flashbacks were about how, if you're a girl, being good at something puts you on the outs with boys.  If you're really smart, boys won't date you. If you're really athletic, boys won't date you. If you're really anything that isn't super feminine boys won't date you.  So she tries to make…

I understand what you are saying from a storytelling perspective, but I once heard a film editor talk about how it's nearly impossible to edit together a scene of people really eating without messing the continuity up (food disappears from forks, disappears and reappears on plates, disappears on one person's plate but…

I found the racial presentation really strange.  Yunkai is supposedly known for it's "bed slaves" and we've met one.  The girl who passed around the coins between Daario and the other mercenaries was a Yunkai bed slave. And she was awfully white and well dressed.  Unless the next season is about the varying castes of…

It would be like the smart, funny version of Hamlet II.  Although the kiddie version of Macbeth the show gives us, suggests the portal to hell would be closed quickly. Those viscous third graders would be done with those demons in minutes.

I used to live by Lincoln Center and they ACTUALLY bring horses on stage for some of the operas.  They have them stand outside on the street with their handlers.  I have no idea what opera or anything, but it was always very jarring.

The Green Hornet is the Lone Ranger's great-nephew.  Actually.  Like, for real.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

It didn't look like he picked it up, but when they were running away, toward the camera, it looked like he was holding something in his left hand.  So I'm not sure if he "took it" in a poorly edited way or not.

Do you have a pressure cooker?  Making chicken broth in a pressure cooker is so insanely easy (and the result is delicious).  I imagine onion broth would be just as easy.  For the chicken broth I use chopped up carrot, onion, celery, and two chicken carcasses. Cover with water, lock the pressure cooker and cook for an…

OTK is short for "Over the Knee," which I've only ever heard with regard to sock buying. So that was a weird mental connection.

Lana mutters it under her breath at Cyril at one point.

It happens ALL THE TIME.  The first book has been written and sold to the publisher and then the agent starts shopping it around for a possible adaptation.  LOTS of books get optioned (though usually by nobody actors or producers).  It's only news when a major studio options a book and sends out a press release.  Or a…

I think the second book was hampered by making Dirk the main character.  In the first book, he's really more of a secondary character or even chaotic force of nature.  The first book has a regular guy get in way over his head with strange craziness and is helped out by Dirk, who really straddles the line of being…

THIS!!!! I find that to be an amazing flaw in so many shows. Mentalist and Lie To Me are the worst.  If you can fake "subconscious facial signals" then a trained person should be able to NOT do them.

That would be a great dynamic!  We can only hope the writers lurk here and take your advice.

I will say that the husband's plan felt like one of the Conan Doyle short story murders. (Secretly smuggle a pygmy into London to commit impossible murders? Bolt a bed beneath a vent and use a trained poisonous snake to bite people? Paint a dog with phosphorous and let it terrify a man to death (then steal another…