All I know is when I was growing up in the Seventies in Orange County, a car pulled out in front of a motorcycle going down Beach Blvd at a reasonable speed, the cycle hit the car and the couple hit and flew over the car. They lay unmoving on the street until I went to school, I have no idea if they survived.

Pretty much any car sold in America can break 100 mph.

So people are just going to bat for writers just - because writers? It may not be a great job (there are FAR more that are FAR worse), but if anyone is not doing a great job at it and they get called out - so be it. Heigl was absolutely right - the writing on the show was shit. She won an Emmy for acting - how many…

If you make “fuck you” money, then it just doesn’t matter. I’d just buy something new and spiffy too! But I completely agree. For sure for me the best performance improvement I could make to a bike is losing a whole bunch of weight off ME, not the bike - I am literally twice the man I was in high school... The whole…

It’s 27%:

Maybe the writer and/or the studio thought Trudy sounded more “relatable” than Gertrude. I remember reading about her, too. I got the impression she was the inspiration for the character of Velvet Brown’s mother in “National Velvet”.

I don’t even want to think how slow that must have been. I had a 1980 Pontiac Sunbird with the Iron Duke and it was sloooooooooooow. And that’s going to be much lighter than a Camaro.

Just a few days ago, up in Albany, some moron driving an ATV on a pedestrian path hit a student, and now she’s in the hospital in a coma with a TBI. Alexa Kropf, University at Albany student from Floral Park, in medically induced coma after hit-and-run - Newsday

Mrs. F. always called him Pacey on that show too. 

How does Hargitay not have the pull? without her and Ice-T the show would be completely done for.

I’m a little lost on Toranagas plan of just constantly falsely torturing and killing random villagers to test Anjin’s loyalty? It’s one thing to let your sidekick choose to kill himself for the cause, but actively destroying a village of innocents seems to lean pretty much into villain territory.

It reminds me of the music from the HBO show Raised By Wolves.

No, Noble House is a company that was founded by Dirk Struhan, the protagonist of Tai Pan, and the book Noble House is about his descendants running said company.

I think it was mutual grief and grudging respect. I doubt they’ll be spending their evenings sipping sake.

Clavell did have the good manners of changing the names to protect the innocent.

“Yabushige and the Anjin are goshawks. Short-winged and predictable.”

Blackthorn never leaves Japan, just like the man his character was based on, William Adams.

I loved this show but there were some curious changes made from the book that I didn’t love (I read the book as I watched and finished right before the finale):

The knee-walking was impressive.

I read them as a false flash-forward, a vision of what he’s ultimately letting go by accepting his place in Toranaga’s retinue.