I fucking love Fiona Apple.  With her records though, I've encountered a very weird phenomenon - namely, each successive record seems to completely nullify and invalidate her last one.  When the Pawn is probably the greatest piece of music I've ever heard, but when  I tried to listen to When the Pawn… after EM came…

The rudder being on the wrong side has got to be an editing mistake - like they flipped the footage or something because it looked better going right to left instead of left to right.  I know nothing about Vikings really, but as soon as someone mentioned it I was like, "duh, starboard." so someone in the film crew had…

I love that line.

The license was evidence that Drew was still alive. It's evidence that Arlo could use for leverage against and/or protection by Theo Tonin and the Dixie Mafia. The trustee he killed might have let the cat out of the bag (that Drew was still alive) before Arlo was ready.

I think Colt's gun down the front of his pants means exactly what it did before: he either has the safety on or no chambered round - i.e. he never planned on shooting anyone and was just posturing.

Great episode?  Okay, maybe the capering was great but the ending was absolutely typical contrived TV garbage that I'm sick and tired of seeing.  No one thinks that Peter is really going down, so his whole arc is a goddamn distraction.  There's no drama there.  Fuck you, White Collar.

Galleys just look way cooler than generic sailing ships.  I can't help but wonder if they were afraid of running into a "reality is unrealistic" scenario where the average viewer rejects the idea that they used oared vessels because it "doesn't seem realistic."

Both Stannis's and the Crown's navies consisted of war galleys, and I think the royal flagship was a dromond which is just a really big galley.  
On the show, Stannis was definitely not sailing galleys.  They were wind driven generic looking old-timey sailing ships like the conventional image of the Mayflower, the…

I don't know how it is in other places, but where I live, an autopsy is apparently paid for by the family unless it's automatically done, for whatever reason, and I don't live in a place near as crime-ridden as Chicago.

Holy shit, so it IS a prequel of sorts to Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales.

First thing I though when I saw him.  "It's Jax……"

Yes, yes, yes.  When I first read about it, I was convinced it had to be an actual adaptation of the Saxon Tales, and was quite disappointed when it wasn't.

It's been previously established on this board, however, that "viking" is a title and a verb, not a race.  So they are vikings as long as they go a viking from time to time.  And they can be vikings without matching our own Scandinavian viking ideal.

OH MY FUCKING GOD DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE SEA BITCH.  Of all the things that GoT changes from the books, the ships are the one thing that I have chosen to hate.  How does naval warfare work in GoT? There's no gunpowder and so ships of the line are out and without galleys you can't ram and board.  Obviously,…

They mentioned bulls at one point something like "grab the bull by the horns."  I'm no expert, but that seemed an unlikely thing to say.

Every time I see a commercial, I can't help but think, "Don Draper would not approve that!" and commercials would be a whole lot better if ad companies simply applied the "Don Draper Blink Test" to every idea and pitch.

I literally mean that it doesn't look like it was physically possible for Rachel and Mike to be having actual penetrative sex in that scene, and that always seems to be the case on basic cable, except for maybe Shane and Lori in the woods from The Walking Dead. There was little to no actual hip movement on Mike's…

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That kind of "sex" never looks right on basic cable.

I honestly don't remember it being stated outright, but I think we have to assume she did go to Harvard.  Obviously in the Suits universe, going to Harvard Law, then getting a job as a prosecutor is something that happens.