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It could be worse. I watch Al Jazeera as my primary source of news outside an hour of Daily Fox News Hatewatch courtesy of The Five, and I'm sure its ratings make MSNBC's look like Fox News. The only network that gives Al Jazeera some respect is Daily Show using clips from it when they want to show actual news…

Well that's just like, your opinion, man. *puts on The Dude sunglasses*

I'm sure that's why the season premiere declared Lead SWAT Vampire to be named Vaun instead of Mr. Quinlan. I had made the assumption it was Mr. Quinlan last season too(we all did), until the season premiere properly named him. But there was a very distinct looking vampire in the post-season premiere season preview…

On the bright side, with Vaun's team gone, that paves the way for the very cool Mr. Quinlan, who I assume was that really cool looking vampire in the season premiere's post-episode season preview, wielding a sword with a human femur for a hilt. The Ancients are bringing in the big guns now that the SWAT team is dead.

I actually thought Gus was the one who shot the UV lights, guess not. We saw bullets hit the mounting device that was rotating them around the room. It didn't work at all. Palmer seems to have encased them in a material that isn't going to be broken by a simple gun shot. You think he's going to make an anti-vampire…

What's that last sentence? "How know how Carl was." is kind of jumbled. It was a joking comparison to Carl then? I love Carl and it's an insult to drag him to Zach's level. :P

Remember his wife's heart that he kept nearby? I don't think he kept it just for sentimental reasons. It's actually very clever when you remember it. It explains how he sustained his vitality before the Master showed up with a constant supply of vampires. We can assume he trodded very carefully on experimenting with…

I was surprised the blowjob sound got by standards & practices. This is cable tv, slurping blowjob sounds are pushing it for sexuality, very risque for FX. FX allows more manass than a gay bar, but no sexual sounds. Very bold.

As I always say, Carl was never this bad. He was a background prop in TWD's equivalent season 2. He had an "annoying glowering hateful" phase for the season 4.5 premiere, but it lasted all of half the episode and a zombie getting the upper hand for him to grow out of that. It's like the people who insult Carl didn't…

Yeah, like William Lee said, they did try to shoot out the UV lights. They were armored from mere gunshots and the shots did nothing. Palmer planned ahead for that. So you can revoke that criticism of Gus for that scene please. Gus is still awesome!

There's a Star Wars alien language book by Ben Burtt that has a great appendix on how he actually devised the languages for Episodes 4-6 and 1(it came out in 2001). The language parts are very tongue in cheek(asking a Sullustan about getting a haircut, since despite being a bald species they are excellent barbers),…

I think this thread needs to be pulled farther in defiance of odduck said. Clouds of CO2 and one-use toilets is just the tip of this time frozen iceberg. Maybe they started using empty swimming pools as toilets for the 6 months, The Last Man On Earth style?

I heard Key as the testicle guy, but where was Peele? Did they both voice the same alien? *edit* And I read below that he was the other testicle guy. I stand corrected.

Space Dandy had a great version of Schrodinger's Cat in its multiverse episode. They found one incarnation of the crew where Meow, their cat-like alien sidekick, was a Schroedingian. He was a cute little kitten inside a box, and each time they opened the box to look at him, he was alternating between dead and alive.…

Yes but he also wasn't a snappy zombie killing machine in season 2. Remember how in season 3 he casually walked up offscreen from having cleared the prison infirmary and having gotten life-saving drugs to save the freshly bestumped Hershel. Or in the season 3 finale when he killed another boy. Carl amped up massively…

I enjoyed First Peoples. I really liked all the stuff on our near-human cousins who branched out across the world ahead of us and that we proceeded to mate with the second we met back up with them, like prehistoric Captain Kirks. I didn't know most East Asians have Denisovan genes in them that help them survive in…

Carl hasn't been terrible since season 2 of TWD. He's grown a lot and never had that impetuous child phase Zach has, making him one of my favorite TWD characters. Carl is the bar by which I compare other kids on monster horror shows, which for now is just The Strain's Zach.

Young Palmer wasn't in the season premiere last week, so your non-realization wasn't just you. I actually didn't realize Palmer couldn't walk, mistaking his season 1 non-walking as just his being too busy dying to get out of bed. It made me wonder if he got cured of his walking between the flashback and the present. I…

Richard Harris looked like I expected Dumbledore to look. When I read the books, I saw Richard Harris' Dumbledore. The long beard, the soft kind voice, the gentle eyes, perfect. Michael Gambon just looked constantly pissed off at everyone, with an angry scowl on his face and a weird hippie wizard outfit.