That kind of confused me too. Platinum isn't any "purer" than any other metal. The purity comes from how you make it. Like wise impurities are often what makes metal useful. Alloys like steel and bronze are much more useful than iron and bronze for example. It just seems like they built an important plot point…

Yeah the platinum thing really lost me. Its a precious metal, really dense and malleable. Apparently its got a high melting point and its about as hard as Iron, but those things would probably be relatively easy to smash up.

Yeah the platinum thing really lost me. Its a precious metal, really dense and malleable. Apparently its got a high melting point and its about as hard as Iron, but those things would probably be relatively easy to smash up.

I don't think it was intended to be. I remember some interview where he described his fiction as trash paper backs for reading on the beach, and implied sales should be restricted to airports and train stations.

I don't think it was intended to be. I remember some interview where he described his fiction as trash paper backs for reading on the beach, and implied sales should be restricted to airports and train stations.

I keep hearing Rome brought up, but its a really bad point to make. Rome was cancelled purely because it was so absurdly expensive. It was well reviewed, got good ratings, robust DVD sales, costs were split between HBO and BBC, international audience. All clear indications it would stay on the air. But the way I heard…

Clearly these kids have never had jobs. Unless you're terrible at your job or working in dead zone $10/h is peanuts for working in a bar. Discounting dishwashers and porters.

Yeah that seems like a rather large omission

I'm firmly convinced that Pilkington is at least somewhat self aware. If only because I have a friend who's an awful lot like him. He's confused and angered by a lot, mostly jokes made by his friends. He frequently walks into extremely obvious jokes at his own expense. Constantly thrown into awkward positions. And…

Forgetting the obnoxious title of the TV special for a moment, a fair amount of the people involved in pumpkin chunking are engineers, mathmaticians or highly educated academics of one sort of another. Also the main event takes place in Delaware. So sure they're are farmers hucking gourds in a farm town. But there are…

I assumed it was a boar spear given the Commodore's hunting obsession.

That's my assumption. Was always my understanding of how the Kennedys made their money. Connections in Ireland gave them access to Irish Whiskey, Scotch, and to a lesser extent French wines and brandy. Seems like Nucky is looking to exploit exactly that kind of access.

He hands Jax back his ID at the end of that shot, implying he got said info by running Jax's ID. Which would be standard operating procedure in anything requiring a police report. They wouldn't even need to pull his arrest record, his ID would just be tagged in their system as on parole. I think they're also required…

Unfortunately the language is dying out anyway. The Gaeltacht are shrinking, and English or regional creoles are more commonly the actual language of daily use even in those areas. And apparently despite every student studying the language from childhood fewer and fewer people are actually conversational.

If memory serves it did actually happen. Was actually a pretty common common arrangement's at the start of radio, you'd pay for access to a venue with a radio/loud speaker set up. Sporting and political events for the most part.

You also seem to be misunderstanding the IRA's primary goals. These days they're mostly into running guns and drugs for personal profit rather than any supposed "cause". They've also been involved in running guns in the US (although usually East Coast) for a hell of a long time, both buying and selling.

Yeah it seems a bit odd. The Sons are long in the habit of buying arms from known terrorist sect, and have (in at least one case) sold those arms to a domestic militia group. It just seems like muling a bit of coke wouldn't be that big of a stretch. Likewise its seems weird that they've attracted ATF attention, and…

Chibs is actually Scottish, and his association with Belfast and the IRA presumably come about due to the "Americans don't know the difference rule".

Well certainly not all movies from the 30's are slow but, long run times and slow pacing we a much more pronounced trend from the 30's-60's.

I actually kind of like the pacing. I mean its incredibly slow but it reminds me a lot of the insanely slow pacing of older films. A big part of our image of this era is wrapped up in films from the 30's, and most of those tend to be slow as hell. So I just sort of chock it up to the shows obsession with early pop…