Yeah, summoning Solaire and a player phantom or two player phantoms to help can make O&S fairly trivial, especially if the players know what they're doing.

Just load up on magic axes and level 8 offensive spells for the final dungeon and you're good to go.

I can't tell if you're making fun of the characters on the show or making fun of me. If it wasn't a deadfall, what did Summer fall into? And they would keep a covered deadfall to catch all kinds of food — deer, etc. Catching Ghost could have been an accident.

Oops, there it is! I should have double checked the post history.
Btw, something we did learn tonight that the books have yet to even hint at: the White Walker's leadership class all dress like Neo.

Didn't Gilly explain to Sam in SoS that she needed to get her baby away from Craster's before "his brothers came for him" or something along those lines? I saw it referenced on another board. It's certainly consistent with what we saw tonight.

Regarding Ghost — the implication seems to be that the mutineers used a deadfall to catch him. Presumably the same one Bran's wolf fell into when he was approaching Ghost's cage while warged. But the show wasn't explicit.

So the Thenns are basically the Uruk-hai of the Wilding army.

Well, guard play is paramount in the tournament, and UConn had awesome guards. They're not the first team to ride a fantastic back court to a title.

Jay has a point. If you read the books, and you post something speculative, you're announcing to the newbies here that nothing like the event has happened in the last two and a half books, which is a spoiler of sorts in itself. And of course several posts below this "spoiler free" article are by book readers trying…

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that. Even so, E.R. was a blue whale to Hope's beluga. It killed me when Hope dropped its great theme song from season 1 for a grittier, less fun song that was transparently calculated to ape E.R.'s. Look, we can be hard-hitting too! Ugh.

"Some times, some crimes, go slipping through the cracks. . ." well hello there Gadget.

Heck yeah the best of the HBO intros. I totally get it. What I don't get is the love for the other HBO intros we're seeing here. I think people are letting their love of the shows bleed into how they feel about the intros. Most are pretty by-the-numbers compared to the classics of the 70s, 80s, and even 90s.

There's this one part during the QL intro when the narrator is describing Bakula's plight and suddenly there's this brief oboe solo that is part forlorn, part hopeful, and all beautiful and it just slays me to this day.

I was in college the night they released the Phantom Menace trailer online. I think it almost crashed the American public's internet capacity. It took hours to download the two and a half minute sucker. But we wanted that trailer something fierce. That was the night seeing Maul's double lightsabers blew our minds. …

Yeah the Social Network trailer was freaking fantastic. Generally the best trailers give you a sense of what the movie is about without giving away almost any plot. The Superman Returns trailer that re-used the Brando voice over was great like that too. There was also a Harry Potter one (Azkaban I think) from about…

Agree that the prequel trailers are strong. Ironically enough the Attack of the Clones trailers may be the best of the lot. Such good, good trailers for such a bad, bad movie.

Just posting to say that early exit or no, Patinkin and co. made the first season of Chicago Hope one for the ages. I expect I'm one of the few that loved it (nohipster), since ER ate its lunch in the ratings. But man that first season was a ball.

If there is one thing America can use it is science in primetime so I was really pulling for this. NDT speaking off the cuff is one of the best watches on youtube. But the show was disorganized. Instead of picking a theme and building on it, they jumped around from factoid to factoid. Solar system! Big Bang! …

Excellent point. The Creek was a laboratory where writers and producers experimented to figure out how the post-90210 generation of shows like this should work. I think people often forget that good TV often comes from a lot of trial and error.

Ghostbusters is a prime example of what can be achieved when Canada and the United States combine their powers. Also, the courtroom scene in Ghostbusters II is a North American treasure.