Alienz.

Qohen Leth… cute.

Just want to say: Anki is great.

Loved that that was Tom from the Bluth Company. Guy's had a rough go of it.

I actually think it made a lot of sense, considering she's close in age to Portia de Rossi, the character she's "twinned" with in this season.

"That doesn't mean anything. Those are just words."

I like the "Mozart's friend" line a lot, maybe especially because it says so much about the weirdness of that relationship. Dwight can't come up with "Salieri" to complete that pair, which is just as well - but the envy-alongside-loyalty dynamic is pretty definitive for Dwight's character, at least over the following…

Can we get a "ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY FLAP INTO MORDOR" up in here?

Can we get a "ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY FLAP INTO MORDOR" up in here?

I'm not sure I have quite as much trouble with the timeline and plotting issues. Seems to me like Mal stashes YoSaffBridge in the crate because, as usual, he can't actually bring himself to strand her to die (just like they don't at the end), with the intention of dumping her wherever it is they're delivering the…

I'm not sure I have quite as much trouble with the timeline and plotting issues. Seems to me like Mal stashes YoSaffBridge in the crate because, as usual, he can't actually bring himself to strand her to die (just like they don't at the end), with the intention of dumping her wherever it is they're delivering the…

Maybe not a "mask" so much as an appropriation of a role/label that's been thrust on him by his circumstances? I think you see in the pilot episode that he takes some joy in sort of embodying the archetypal characteristics of whatever role he's been handed - tough/funny/inspiring sergeant in the war, crabby/rascally…

Maybe not a "mask" so much as an appropriation of a role/label that's been thrust on him by his circumstances? I think you see in the pilot episode that he takes some joy in sort of embodying the archetypal characteristics of whatever role he's been handed - tough/funny/inspiring sergeant in the war, crabby/rascally…

I actually got the impression that the excess of Chinese came more in the context of the flashbacks (and out of Simon and River in the present), and it made me figure that Chinese (for more than brief profanity) is a marker of higher socioeconomic class, in which case it's a useful way to differentiate characters'…

I actually got the impression that the excess of Chinese came more in the context of the flashbacks (and out of Simon and River in the present), and it made me figure that Chinese (for more than brief profanity) is a marker of higher socioeconomic class, in which case it's a useful way to differentiate characters'…

The villagers evidently weren't thumping Exodus 21:16 too hard, I guess.

The villagers evidently weren't thumping Exodus 21:16 too hard, I guess.

This one's related to both the empty coffee cup and the food thing: has there ever been a scene in film or television in which an actor portraying a character brushing his or her teeth is actually using any toothpaste?

This one's related to both the empty coffee cup and the food thing: has there ever been a scene in film or television in which an actor portraying a character brushing his or her teeth is actually using any toothpaste?

Interesting - I'll have to see if I can catch this movie. I wonder how "ham-fisted" the depiction of racism is in cultural context; I spent a couple of months in Trnava, Slovakia, and even in that brief experience, I found racist attitudes toward Romani to be pretty shockingly explicit and omnipresent.