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Gueuze Lambic
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If you're going Whitesnake, you might as well go full out with "Slide It In" or something.

Unfortunately, I'll probably die first.

"Box of Rain" by the Grateful Dead.

I think I was actually yelling at the TV, telling her to do it.  Or maybe I just thought it REALLY HARD.  I'm not even sure.  That's how absorbed I got into the episode.

He should have a cheekbone duel with Benedict Cumberbatch.

I've already read the books, and I didn't enjoy them as much as I'm enjoying this.  It would be a poor substitute.

"The End" by The Doors

"as I stew for ten months"

What else do you expect from a guy who's 20 and looking to prove
himself?  How many 20 year olds signed up to go to Afghanistan or Iraq
in the past dozen years?  How is "stay behind on DS9 and report on the
occupation" crazier than "go to Starfleet Academy so I can fight the
Dominion"?

Hannibal is a rootable character?  Murder and cannibalism aren't even the worst of his crimes at this point.

That was the lightbulb moment.  I think I actually saw it.

I'm actually more anxious for the next season of Hannibal than the final season of Breaking Bad, or the 4th season of Game of Thrones.  I am utterly shocked by this.

Is he going to do it in ALL CAPS LIKE HE DOES ON TWITTER?  Holy shit, that is annoying.  I'm guessing he does it to stand out from the other #Hannibal hashtags, but that doesn't change the effect.  You'd think a professional writer would understand that.

I think that even the Kira of the pilot would have appreciated (or at least begrudgingly accepted) Federation help against a Cardassian attempt to retake the station.

The best Gordon moment of the episode was when he said something like "If we cause a salmonella outbreak, we're fucked."  Uh, WHO'S fucked?

Which is why I chuckled when he had the nerve to call someone else a narcissist.

The episode's probably not even all that allegorical.  I think if Earth was invaded by aliens, the humans would mostly get over racism fairly quickly.  I mean, look at this country right after 9/11 (unless you looked "Muslim").  But people still have to hate somebody, and it might as well be the Irathients.

And here we always thought the aliens were after our asses, but it turns out they're after our balls.

Hannibal wraps in the next week or two also.  This is about to suck.  I might have to read a book or something.