Eve Myles's accent
I enjoy how her Welsh accent asserts itself during her conversations with Rhys. The more frantic the conversation, the thicker it gets. It reminded me of a scene in the documentary John Barrowman did a while back; as he speaks to his dad on the phone, he drops into a steadily thicker Scottish accent…

Stannis was initially introduced as being pretty much the exact opposite of Robert, physically and emotionally. Where Robert had become a fat drunk who loved his whores, Stannis was a lean, hard teetotaler who wanted to ban prostitution in King's Landing. Where Robert was indulgent and gregarious, Stannis was…

My mom sang to me a lot when I was young, way back in the '70s, and "Istanbul" was one I heard a lot (along with "Mairsy Doats" and other semi-nonsense songs). It took me a bit to connect the TMBG version with the one I knew, but was delightful when I did.

So, are you the cool Gaetti that would go boozing with Hrbek and the boys, or the born-again killjoy?

A surprising number of people just keep the water running while they do whatever it is they're doing in the sink. I was baffled by the huge amount of water used by the average tooth-brusher until I realized that lots of people leave the water running the whole time they are brushing, rather than just when rinsing out…

Cersei's lecture to Joffrey a few episodes ago about how hard Winterfell would be to conquer and hold shows that she knows that the Lannister hold on the throne doesn't necessarily extend all that far beyond King's Landing. It's not just the Starks she needs to worry about, it's the Baratheons, Tullys and Arryns as…

I really hope that there are factions within the Dothraki, like there are everywhere else; people who aren't happy that a pale Westeros is their queen, factions that had hoped that their daughter would marry the Khal. Robert could try to exploit those factions to assassinate Daenerys. It definitely shouldn't be an…

Living in a city with a significant Somali population, and constant ongoing investigations revolving around young Somali men who have disappeared and perhaps gone to Somalia or the Middle East as radicalized Muslim militants, as soon as they identified Bennett as Somali I thought they were hinting at this sort of…

Emerald Forest
How about having John Boorman direct a gritty reboot of "The Emerald Forest", with his son Charley in the Tarzan role, but with motorcycles!

Fuck, do I hate Requiem for a Dream. As I've said elsewhere, it's like being hit over the head with a sledgehammer, and not in a good way. One of the most unsubtle movies I've seen. The first half is over-the-top super-stylized drugs are cool and awesome, the second half is over-the-top super-stylized drugs lead to…

While certainly a niche product in the US, the Laserdisc also had a pretty long, successful run, nearly 20 years. At their height in the late 80s/early 90s pretty much anything that came out on VHS that wasn't porn came out on LD as well (and due to the weird VHS pricing policies at the time, LDs were cheaper, too).

"Before that Freddy was in charge of killing people. And by 'people' I mean Germans. What was it, fifteen of them?"

They didn't explicate well enough for me that it was his son playing the game, but I didn't care that much. As soon as I saw Ruck there at the match I knew he was recruiting his next subject. Having seen "Murderball" it seemed an odd place to seek out someone to be "fixed." Once he settled on someone in the stands…

We wouldn't have "2012" or "The Day After Tomorrow," either. Judge humanity's relative wealth as you will.

I wish someone would build actual airships. It might take days to cross the oceans, but in pure style and comfort…

And I'm pretty sure it's a '69, not a '70. Gearheads get nerd rage, too!

It's been a long time since I watched the first UK season, so the Chris/Angie storyline seems a bit tangential in retrospect; I'll have to re-watch soon to re-evaluate that bit.

I prefer to compare Abed vs. JJ as the best-written Aspegers characters I've seen on TV as opposed to Abed vs. Abbud vs. Anwar as middling-at-best Muslim characters.

Who's Laverne & Shirley? Sounds like plain old Yiddish to me.

A theme running throughout the entire show is that in societies where women have no official power, they exert their power through unofficial means. The women who can't sublimate themselves and disappear in the background (Kathy Marquart is the only one I can think of that's given significant time) either learn to…