I'd mind it a lot less of Rickon got shot despite his best efforts. But he knew damn good and well that he was having arrows shot at him and he didn't even try to avoid them.

The point, I think, is that whatever plans Jon had went out the window as soon as he let Ramsay manipulate him—just as predicted—and did exactly what Ramsay wanted him to do—just as predicted.

I think Salvation was a movie that—with the exception of Yelchin—was kind of ruined by its casting.

Of course. Cities go blue, towns and rural areas go red. There're a billion nuances and permutations in there, of couse, but as a rule that's seldom wrong.

If you think Donald Trump wouldn't have two and a half minutes of sweaty, porcine sex with a Japanese waif young enough to be his granddaughter, well, you just don't know Donald Trump.

For some reason I thought they lived in Delaware.*

Middle America gets (unfairly) singled out because an electoral map of the United States reliably looks like a vast red field enclosed on either side by two thick blue lines. There're some swing states in there but that's the gist.

I agree. He manages to be somewhat warm and winning while most of his co-stars are trying to remember how to act like a human.

It's funny how that's probably Ewan McGregor's worst performance ever and he still looks like Lawrence fuckin' Olivier next to Hayden Christensen.

You know, I think the episode of BSG with John Hodgman is the one episode I've never seen? At least I have no memory of that at all.

I liked that he complained that he wanted to "hear X-rays and smell gamma rays," which sounded pretty stupid, and then he complained that our species was so limited that he couldn't even articulate his shortcomings without sounding stupid.

Just a passing observation: it's my belief that Baltar's primary motivation is self-interested cowardice, and he's generally for the human race if they won't hurt him but he's fine with the Cylons if they promise not to hurt him either.

Yeah, thirty pounds would have been about right. But they gave him a spontaneous eighty pounds of pure chub which looked all the more ridiculous because Jamie Bamber normally appears to be carved from marble.

Gemma Arterton reminds me of Leelee Sobieski in that she spent about twenty months seemingly starring in every single major motion picture before vanishing without trace, never to return.

The original Mortal Kombat is a reasonably fun, cheap, schlocky Enter The Dragon ripoff with four-armed monsters and evil ninjas. Nobody should ever call it 'good' in the normal sense of the term but it's an enjoyable watch under the right circumstances.

In the very first Warcraft game the Orcs were just evil, full stop.

Not peons, at least not in the first couple of games. They just want to be left the hell alone.

Grad students literally wrote dissertations about how The Matrix Reloaded is actually a great movie, you just have to understand the philosophical underpinnings.

Another thing they have in common: I don't think we've ever seen either Raylan or Bullock be afraid.

There was a great advice column that made the rounds a few months ago about a couple from Vancouver who were feeling squeezed and looking for financial advice from the resident expert.