Drogon's roars translated: "Around the survivors a perimeter create!"

Meanwhile, Gendry paddles on.

Oh. I see. Very good, carry on!

Viewed from the context of the Henry family (who the reader/audience is expected to sympathize with) he's a bastard for having an affair with Joyce, wife of the gloriously slain prodigal son Warren. Also he's a gloryhound who takes unneccesary risks, and displays his ruthlessness by machinegunning a bunch of helpless…

He was raised a Kiwi so any real trace of his brogue has long since slipped beneath the flattened vowels of that accent. But he knows the cadence and pitch of the Belfast Protestant, and I feel has it spot on. It's like steel being ripped.

Sam's accent is the one he was born with, and is modelled directly on the late unlamented Ian Paisley. That's how hardcore Nord Iron Prods sound.

It's Tonys Weekend? Urge to kill…rising…

I really liked Winds of War / War & Remembrance and Bostwick's roguish Aster is one of the more memorable characters - especially when he hooks up with Sharon Stone's Joyce, the sexy widow of his XO's brother (things sure got convoluted in that story). It was like the last hurrah of that great age of the TV…

That synth score and the chiaroscuro lightning gave the whole thing a real giallo feel, don't you think?

Nana Mouskouri, maybe? She got played a lot in my house when I was a kid. I know she was popular in her day but it was quite a surprise when I discovered she was largely considered a joke in my modern world. I still think you're cool, Nana!

Probably about 1,000 are commercial - man, nobody ever bought those.

Wikipedia says some 10,000 titles were released for the system; even concedeing that 99% of them were forgetable crap, that leaves 100 or so solid genre-definers.

Sometimes I forget the Commodore phenomenon never happened in the U.S.

Literally hundreds. The C64 library in itself would pack out the list.

From the wiki: "Nightmare" evokes the modern word for a female horse but the terms are wholly unrelated. The word derives from the Old English "mare", a mythological demon or goblin who torments others with frightening dreams.

Went through a very bad patch of this as a small kid, mainly due to dramatic changes in my personal life. It was the Hag for me, the infamous "nightmare" herself, that I saw. Things passed quickly enough, but nearly three decades later I can still recall the experience with a vivid dread.

We've gone from slaughtering nubile teens to slaughtering obnoxious ones.

MCLEOD!

And Lyle!

Note how the Wagner swelled as we got a good look at our masked man? Not that it signifies anything, but I thought it was a funny coincidence, given the initial speculation he was the Phantom of Opera.