Tom's so right that the Furies go down way too easy considering their introduction and unsettling silence.

Delightfully pan-racial skinheads, too.

Not sure they would even need to—isn't one of the major premises of the whole "Purge" idea that it basically did away with crime for the rest of the year?

Then they'll just murder his stock of chips and magazines.

Not that "protection" might mean much in this context anyway.

Which, naturally, would lead to civic and political leaders going out to murder people in the street as a helpful example. "See? The water's fine!"

Murder, duh.

Damon's a fascinating case because he has that 'everyman' quality in spades.

Impossible to imagine DiCaprio as the lead in The Martian, at least for me.

"The Colour Out of Space" seemed to be a remarkably bang-on story about radioactivity considering when it was written: from the tainted drinking water to the family slowly dying to the fruit that grew abnormally large but tasted like ashes.

If the Leafs ever got genuinely good, their fans would be completely insufferable. But as long as they're rooting for the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight they have my amused pity.

The Cowboys serve a vital function of giving the other 31 teams, who normally can't agree that water is wet, someone to hate and revile. It's pretty great.

That sequence was especially well-directed because, as Zack points out, we pull back from the Galactica under fire for a really long time, really a longer time than seems appropriate for anything but a death scene.

I remember that ending scene with All Along the Watchtower with the Final Five all acting sort of weird and demented in various corners of the ship.

Hell, Zack's own classic Star Trek reviews attracted a significant (if not overwhelming) readership: my own first comment was regarding some episode of TNG or other.

Brutal. Accurate, but brutal.

Fair enough. But the point stands that it was far and away more graphic than basically anything else you were going to see in that period and timeslot, particularly on Channel 7 or whatever.

The effects on that shot were so completely gory and unexpected—particularly for late 80s network TV around 7 p.m.

Having seen him fight: nah. He has a lot of experience in a melee but most of the people he's killed have been, well, inferior. That's to say, wildlings and foot soldiers and people without a lot of schooling in the really fine points of swordsmanship. So he's pretty good, all things considered.

Westerosi C-SPAN would be pretty awesome, although the ratings probably dipped when they stopped having their important meetings in Littlefinger's brothel.