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Every time she calls him, "love."

Well, that's something you've got.

Just watched The McCarthys.
The ending? Where the Mom sends her sons out with a plate of cookies and tells them each that they're her favorite, and then reminds the daughter she'll "need that plate back"?
That's exactly my family's dynamic.

Anyone calling someone else an imbecile should at least know how to spell "inane" properly.

…Okay.

So, my information is antiquated, to quote Smaug; one of the more interesting of Tolkien's characters.

You're right, of course.

I'd argue Steven King is a better author than Tolkien, and bollocks to W.H.Auden, sad old fucking drunkard that he was. I don't like King's work, at all; he doesn't know when to stop and let be, but he is a better story teller and stylist than Tolkien ever was on his best day. That J.R.R. was a great scholar, cunning

"LOTR is regarded as one of if not the most influential works of fiction of all time…"

Yeah, I thought that. Having to chop out Liv made the ending a lot more jumbled and patched together.
I also liked that the original pilot also showed John stubbing out a cigarette, even if we didn't see him smoking. I guess some shadowy cabal of network suits put the kibosh on that.

If one scrys, or can be scrying, there should be a… what? nominative case? Scryer, possibly?

I didn't realise cockroaches were native to England ( I have never seen one,and I've lived here all my life.)
Oh; it turns out they can live here, but the cold winters and let's say "moderate climate", help control their numbers.

C'mon ; Henry totally knows Barry is The Flash. I suspect Iris is going to figure it out in a few more episodes, too, although she may keep it to herself.

I knew a cannibal, once. He was a regular Anthropophaguy.

Yeah, I have read the books, (not all of them, admittedly. I ran screaming from The Silmarillion at about page nine- halfway through the second sentence)but I really don't remember anything about that stuff. I do remember Tolkien using the eagles as a Deus Ex Machina when he'd written his characters into a hole and

I'm totally buying that whole fan theory that Gandalf's plan all along was to use the eagles; hence his words, "Fly, you fools!" before he plunges into the abyss after the Balrog.
That being said, this Hobbit debacle is really getting wearing. Unbelievably, they've just released an "extended" cut of Desolation of

"Ray Palmer, who may or may not be shaping up as a live-action, clean-shaven Hank Scorpio"

Pixie!

"The scenes of the happy Diggle family give me a lurking dread that they
are going to kill him off as a plot device. [I really really hope I am
wrong.]"

Okay; having consulted Laurel's favorite search engine, I came up with this: