That make-up case is going to reek of booze now.

That cut between Philip answering the phone "This is Philip Jennings", and Aderholt hanging up the phone "Got him!" That briefly freaked me out.

As an aside, I always considered Locke's Two Treatises of Government to be the first articulation of Republicanism. It's true, Locke doesn't rule out monarchy, but he does show the need for the separation of government into judicial, executive, and representative branches; thereby laying out the architecture of…

Short answer to your very interesting question, no. While ideologies undeniably have power to shape and affect human affairs, they don't kill anyone on the battlefield. While a hypothetical Scottish Republicanism could have mobilized more Scots to fight, it wouldn't have compensated for the materiel superiority of the…

They better not cancel X Company. That show provides me with many different species of boners. If Delphine does come back it should only be to explain to Cosima that she has to go back in time to kill Nazis.
I also miss Helena, both for levity and violence. I have a feeling she'll be coming back soon to make her wrath…

Elizabeth should have corrected Gabriel on not having used the English pluralisation of "perogy"; "perogies". I wonder if that was intentional on the writer's part or just an oversight.

The Jackson Pollack joke was stolen from Two and a Half Men.

Walking Dead? more like Balking Dread!… A D- pun, I know, I just really don't care for anything in the whole Zombie genre.
Also, I'm not a big fan of The Bible. That book is preachy as fuck.

Pretty much anything in the zombie genre is profoundly boring to me.

Yeah, that's a common misconception. Over the summer of 1945 the vast majority of Japanese cities had been destroyed by conventional bombing. The fact that the Americans could continue the strategy of urban annihilation, but now with fewer bombers, didn't change the strategic situation for Japanese leadership. If the…

Only 160 pages, but it's a brutal read. Just heartbreaking to read those accounts and realize later that the American propaganda justifying the bombings was BS.

Wow, gender parity in a GJI. Kudos!

I initially was annoyed with Claire in that last scene because I didn't think she did a very good job of explaining why it was so important that Frank lives ie. if Claire never meets Frank, then she never goes to Scotland, never falls through time and therefore, no bearn (sp?). Then I remembered that she had gone to…

So no duel a la Barry Lyndon? Claire is being such a buzzkill.

See, they could have had Dayne using a two-handed great sword. It would communicated to the audience that he's a super special sword guy, looked cool, and would have been tactically appropriate for the task at hand (defending an entrance from multiple attackers).

Not to mention the weird cosmology wherein season can last several years, or fucking giants riding mammoths. But be that as it may, I reserve the right to quibble, because this is the internet and quibbling is fun.

Yeah, she could warg into Nymeria as well. I feel like the Arya/Jhaqen training storyline is less compelling without Arya's secret warging powers.

I don't think she was particularly bad in that episode. However, I think that was literally the first time that character has smiled in the entire series; it was unsettling. I didn't even recognize her at first.

yeah I also had the "ugh, dual wielding" response initially, but at least he put on his helmet. GOT's systematic aversion to headgear is puzzling to me.

I'm surprised "I'm sorry science babies, I didn't know to feed you liquid nitrogen" didn't make it into Stray Observations.