I can vaguely imagine a philosophical examination of the point he makes at the end of the trailer, that his entire life is going to be judged on what he did during 200 particular seconds. But even then, there's not much to say - he got his fifteen minutes of fame, and for once it was for something unambiguously good.…

Of course, the water landing was also insanely risky. And it's possible that many other pilots would have preferred to try to reach a runway just because water landings rarely ever work.

That sounds amazing. I wonder if I could work out a visit to London in time to catch it - I was already thinking of trying to do the same for the UK production of Hamilton, so it might be possible to do both.

I read this earlier today. Fascinating and inspiring. Angels in America is such a rich, miraculous work - it shouldn't work and yet it does so well. It's amazing to read about the process of bringing it into being, and all the people who played a part in making that happen.

To be fair, a myopic tendency to see terrorist attacks on foreign soil as if they are wholly about the US is not a flaw unique to Donald Trump.

The folks at Lawyers, Guns, and Money have been talking a lot about the TTP and its potential problems, so if you'd like to do some reading about that subject that could be a good place to start. Basically, their concerns start with the fact that, like NAFTA, the TTP is likely to move American jobs abroad without…

Judging by the ratings, not very many people wanted Agent Carter. I don't imagine anyone wants Conviction either, since it's an unknown quantity, but it's not a bad bet to assume that you could convince a larger number of people to want it than wanted AC.

The truth is, Jaime threatened to kill a baby. And since he'd previously made such a point about how you should never make a threat you're not willing to carry it out, he probably would have done it. And then he made a lot of promises. Once he had Riverrun, both honor and compassion required him to keep those…

You did notice that this week Walder Frey mentions that Edmure is back in his dungeons, right?

Jaime has gotten steadily more honorable

Wait, really? I must have blocked that from my memory.

I was a bit disappointed that so few of the books Rory recommended were by women. And even then, it was like, Jane Austen, literally the only female author in the canon as far as some people are concerned. At least the book FLOTUS ended up choosing was the Ferrante.

It's possible that I'm misremembering, but certainly there's a huge drop in quality from the first season standalones to the ones in the fourth and fifth seasons. What you get, in exchange, is a much stronger overarching storylines (and some more interesting main characters). Like a lot of genre shows, POI started…

I've been thinking for a while about writing a long piece about Person of Interest, and now that the show is over I've started rewatching it in preparation for that. This weekend I saw the first thirteen episodes of the first season, to which my main reactions are:

Iain Glenn is also the villain (?) on Cleverman, a great show that more people should be watching. Especially now that the UK has chosen to voluntarily tank its own economy, so who knows how many shows they'll be producing in the future. We might need to switch to an alternate source like Australia for short-season,…

Robert Sean Leonard kills himself because he couldn't be in the school play. Ethan Hawke stands on his desk while weeping.

Australian SF show about a world in which humans have recently discovered the existence of a second sentient species on the planet, whom they call Hairys. They're either corralled into holding centers or left to live in The Zone, which used to be primarily inhabited by Native Australians, who exist in an uneasy truce…

I really wish WOT would at least mention that Cleverman airs on Wednesdays. It's turning out to be a really good, smart show, and a lot more interesting than just about any other superhero show that aired during the fall season. People who liked Underground, in particular, will really enjoy it.

I've never understood the consensus that Hillary is disingenuous/phony/a liar. And I've seen some whoppers on that front - including, in one case that I'm still flabbergasted by, a blogger at a site I respect and have a lot of time for seriously making the point, as if it were no big deal, that Hillary is matched in…

Especially since they'll probably dedicate it to his memory.