On the three rewatches I've done, I've skipped "Fire + Water" and "The Long Con" every time. Just can't handle the broodiness of it all.

Also, Locke takes Charlie's stash at the end of "House of the Rising Sun," setting up "The Moth."

You can spoil yourself on the epilogue of Storm of Swords, but you don't actually have to if I think about it, and start with A Feast for Crows. You'll read stuff you've already seen, but it will be close enough.

Iowa Republican congressman Steve King? Most of his quickly-sketched characters end up massacreing a group of undocumented workers with an assault rifle. It's a motif of his writing.

Of the Tailies, Bernard made it. And Cindy and the kids, I suppose.

A lot of shows do this, and it bothers me. A lot of times the people doing the pistol-whipping shouldn't even be experts at it. I mean, you can do target practice, but it's a lot more difficult to practice knocking someone unconscious with a pistol-whip to the head. But it always works the first time.

The re-aging for most of the characters is just a retcon. It really makes Riggins' alcohol problem even more disturbing, though, considering he's supposed to be like fifteen years old in the first season or something.

While the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi games are spiritually sequels to Super Mario RPG for the SNES, there hasn't been a direct sequel to it. I'm not sure how I feel about that. SMRPG cranked a hell of a lot out of a past-its-prime system, and I'd honestly be fascinated to see what they'd do with something stronger.…

Or he said.

I've rewatched Lost from start to finish (minus "Fire + Water' and "Stranger in a Strange Land," neither of which I can sit through) three times since its finale.

I'm mainly going off of my memory of what I thought when this stuff was relevant, around 2009 after MIB was introduced as a character. Here's what I thought: the man in the cabin was the MIB. He wasn't really asking John to "help him." It really didn't matter what he said. What he wanted was for Ben to get jealous and…

Some of my earliest memories in life are watching The Golden Girls in late-night syndication with my mother. About age 3-4. My older sister, who was in school, had a bedtime, but I didn't, so when it came on at 10 or 11 or whatever it was, I'd come into the living room and watch it. I have no direct memories of any…

ABC brings back LOST and CBS brings back…. uh, Without a Trace? All of their procedural shows are pretty much the same, but I think that one has stopped airing.