Michael is still more frightening than Ramsay (shivers)

It really did cut loose from the book for a while there, but then closed on the Cat-Jamie showdown and Theon and the Boy Corpses straight from the pages.  The Qarth stuff is strange but more exciting than ACOK, and I guess they wanted to have more drama there for Dany, and more "examples" of rulership and betrayal for…

Well the change appears to be that the Wildlings just captured Snow, so I think the further change will be that the Wildlings will next capture Qhorin, and the Halfhand will still tell Snow to kill him to prove his loyalty.  Different than the book, but gets to the same destination for the same reason.

Finally!!!!!

This is definitely not a satire, and clearly has affection for the original. Much of it - especially the last act - is played pretty straight, except for some 70s jabs here and there.

It's not a disco ball - they edit 2 scenes together in the trailer to make it appear he is dodging a disco ball.  He dodges something worse.  Briefly.

Yes Chloe is really bad, and I usually love her (especially as Hit Girl).  And having Victoria vanish so much is a huge mistake that hollows out the last act.

This is a wonderfully argued post!

Going back to the romance discussion above, wasn't "Batman Returns" Burton's best job at romance?  The Catwoman/Batman star-crossed love really worked and felt genuinely tragic.

Frid's cameo is 5 seconds long.  He and the other original cast members come to a "happening" at Collinswood, and Depp meets them at the door and says "Welcome to Collinswood!"  The others are helping to hold Frid up, poor man.  RIP.

(SPOILERS) I actually really liked it, but I completely admit that it fails in the final act.

It's Big Boo-tay!  Tay! Tay! Tay!

Blood Meridian is so insane and haunting.  Each time I hear Ridley Scott is going to make a movie out of it, I just start laughing.

Only on AV Club would we find such a long discussion on a post-Independence Day Earth, punctuated by a "why Obama sucks/No you suck" political argument.

"Shame" was good.

I was up and down on The Borgias Season 1 until the French invasion, which finally got the show moving (although if I had to hear Feore or Irons talk about it as "the apocalypse" one more time, I would have killed - I think that was the entire dialogue of one episode).  Season 2 has gotten much stronger over the last…

Well it's missing now.  ABC canned it.  So they killed the Bean after all.  Whose turn is next?

Which is the show that Sean Bean is on?  Is he going to have to die again?  Will every network get a crack at having a Sean Bean Dies show, just as all the movie studios have?

Maybe they will kill one cast member each episode.  That will improve things!

Or a singing Superman Jesus