For some reason "Banana in the dark" was the highlight of a pretty damn funny episode.

Big Kirby fan, so his stuff always rules.

So the new spinoff is Brienne and Podrick travelling the countryside? I can dig that. Has kind of a Xena/Gabrielle dynamic (sans the lesbianism of course.)

You know, we're all just assuming the White Walkers are mindless zombie killing machines. Maybe being a White Walker isn't that bad.

Finally got around to seeing Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which was pretty awesome. Great action, a solid story, and Scarlet Johannson seems to have settled into the Black Widow role (though it may be that they let the character joke around a bit and be more human.) Shakycam is a little excessive but otherwise…

That's the thing with this show and race. They're offensive about it because they're lazy, and never go beyond the most obvious stereotypes.

Will Graham has game, in the weirdest and wrongest way.

The fact that this show pulled off "Mecha Bear Wolf" is, to me, proof that it's never about the concept, it's about the execution.

90s music geek Ben may be my favorite side of him. That Letters to Cleo moment was great.

Been diving into Saints Row IV lately. I'm not quite sure where the sandbox game genre goes after this.

I imagine it came to the reviewer as a defense mechanism. You see this movie and your mind just naturally thinks of better ones.

The mountain with the biggest tits in the world.

I think they suffered from a kind of timidity, honestly. There was never a sense that anything truly momentous was happening, so while they got the interactions between the characters right it was missing the imaginative spectacle.

So no Kirby-level craziness. Ugh.

Or alternately, just rewrite the film so it takes place in Ireland? I get that Barcelona is the more believable resort/holiday location for a 4-star restaurant or whatever, but a place like that could theoretically pop up anywhere.

I think it's partly the dynamic he has with Bill Paxton. They make great murder buddies.

They weren't *quite* as bad about it when JJ was in charge, but it still pretty much sucked.

Part of it was Attitude, but historically wrestling shows never get good ad money- the perception (and there may be research backing this up) is that their viewers are low-income and so they air commercials for K-Mart and Just For Men instead of for cars.

I never thought I would live to see the day where someone would complain that WWE nowadays has too much wrestling.

This is so far Cronenberg's only comedy. It's really funny at times, he plays his normal frission for laughs as much as scares and it's surprisingly effective.