That would be Steven Yeun, not Steven Yeu. Dude's been a regular on the biggest cable show since the jump: Get his name right.

And now you're the senior copy editor for the AV Club, so everything worked out okay.

Just by the way, here's an odd thing. I was going to post here that Cenac and Stewart probably don’t have massive lingering animosity toward each other, because Cenac appeared as a guest on The Daily Show last August to promote his comedy album “Brooklyn.”

I thought it meant the AV Club is peddling backs, which seems like an awfully curious thing to peddle.

It makes perfect sense. The grammatically nonessential clause that's being set off by dashes clarifies the meaning, but if it's removed, the sentence remains logical and grammatical:

How is it a mess? The meaning is perfectly clear, and that's an entirely appropriate use of the em dash.

Good. Anything that throws a wrench in this trend of taking audiences for granted is a good thing. How about making a good movie and letting the response to that determine whether audiences want more? Crazy idea, right?

Yes, B.G., "four months should be enough time," because four months from now will be October 17. At which point Colbert's show will have been on the air for over a month.

…And let's not forget Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, who added many of the lighthearted/funny bits of dialogue ("Let the Wookie win," "Will someone get this walking carpet out of my way," etc.) to a script that desperately lacked them.

Well, he did appear in a low-budget indie recently: Chef. Granted, he was helping out his buddy Jon Favreau (who got RDJ's resurgence rolling in the first place), and sure, it was a fairly star-studded affair in general, and okay, it wasn't a big role, and… yeah, forget I said anything.

Doesn't really matter when we all saw it, just that we eventually did. The pre-taped talk show sketch still kills me every time. Not just a brilliant idea but also perfectly sold by Cross.

On a podcast I was listening to last week—I think Firewall and Iceberg (Hitfix), wish I could be sure—one of the critics brought up a rumor that Gilligan had planned to consult beyond the pilot, but then a CBS exec hit him with one of those tone-deaf notes he hasn't had to concern himself with in years, so he said…

Yeah, he loves her, and she… has great affection for him. Tale as old as time. I think they've hooked up in the past, but she's responsible and career-driven, so she doesn't see a future with him. Thus it never got serious on her end. That's that impression I get, at least.

Watching A Knight's Tale last night, I suddenly realized the cute blacksmith girl in the heroes' crew was a young Lydia. That was wild.

You are a saint.

For what it's worth, the novel by David Benioff was titled The 25th Hour (including the article), and his manuscript was optioned for the movie before the book was published. I'm guessing the studio just lopped off "the" because that was especially fashionable in Hollywood at the time. (And still to some degree now.)…

It sounds like Battle Creek will be a bit more like a straightforward cop show with some quirky Gilligan touches. And there's no doubt he and Shore have done some work on it since CBS bought it. Not everything Gilligan's involved with needs to have the weight and reach of Breaking Bad. Hopefully it will just be a…

I've always liked my magical mojo as stronge as possible.

I think Yost has said that was just a metaphorical tease thing, not something that actually will be part of the narrative.

Yeah, I found it odd that Raylan Givens got name-checked in the review but there was no mention of Erica Tazel. (Possibly meant to mention it in Stray Observations and forgot?) Cool that she got a cameo, though.