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Jordan Orlando
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Not bad at all!

Because it's a well written show?

Because no matter how wily you are or hardened you are or experienced you are, at some point you'll let your guard down in some trivial, fleeting way and you're toast.

He'll get around to it. He's ashamed.

It was totally, totally awesome. So many people just don't "get" this show at all.

It's going to be so great when he's acting as one of Rick's trusted underlings. (That's exactly what happens in the comic, by the way. The comic version of Abraham is awesome.)

Its quite clear that they start by making you eat human meat, as an indoctrination routine. It's very clever. Almost exactly the same plot element is in Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (a long-form sci-fi novel about the aftermath of a comet strike hitting the earth).

Well, if you can't remember, then stop dissing the episode! It made perfect sense, damn it.

I think it's totally clear that they have a "public image" based on who they think they are and what sort of "code" they like to imagine that they're living by, but in reality they're just a bunch of monstrous creeps. I mean, look at the KKK and how they always say they're "not racist" and are just trying to protect

Yeah, that's what was so brilliant about it! I thought it was great casting. So believable.

Can't you guys get your head around the fact that 1) the show is doing its thing very well and 2) you must be missing something, or, it's just not your kind of thing?

I thought it was witty!

I think it means "Alive."

"[T]hat grimness is always going to hold the series back in the end, I think; it’s a show about ambulatory corpses that rarely finds the absurdity in anything, and that constant march towards despair and destruction, combined with the knowledge that every season brings with it the promise of more familiar faces

I was trying to think of an alternative to (ugh) Bradley Cooper…and I realized: Are we just living in an era where there just aren't any Harrison-Ford-style matinee idols?

John Huston's The Bible is an interesting but flawed movie. He doesn’t do the flood but he does the binding of Isaac (which is very good).

So, you didn't see The Counsellor?

"You want me to meet your parents…/What will they think of my appearance?"

We call it "I've never," because we're snobs.

Yeah; that 5,000 watt "moonlight" that Peter Jackson constantly gets away with. (Nighttime Middle Earth is lit up like a stadium parking lot.)