and serious issues of suicidal thoughts and a couple of times actions (standing around car park roofs and near railway platforms/lines very close to ending it)

Since I was discussing this same topic with someone recently, I’ll give my two cents with a slightly different perspective that might be worth a thought.

It isn’t.

Largely agreed on Mitchum, although in fairness the romance scenes in War and Remembrance with him and Tennant felt slightly creepy since he’d visibly aged by that point.

One of the things that Band of Brothers did right was to remind us just how young the leaders were, with the notable exception of casting of Dale Dye (in his mid 50s) as Robert Sink (who was in his late 30s.) This was in distinct contrast to Saving Private Ryan which had Hanks in his early 40s and Ted Danson and…

But decades later, you probably won’t know most of those faces

Found it.

This is better, and also appropriate since it’s a good soundtrack to get blackout drunk so we can kill enough brain cells to forget the last few episodes.

One of the more apt descriptions I’ve heard of McKillip is that she writes modern day fairy tales. A side effect of that is that her worldbuilding is often an outline rather than a 1600 dpi photograph as is often expected nowadays, and I could definitely see how the combination might make you feel like it’s…

...which they will promptly ignore for the boxes it came in.

...which they will promptly ignore for the boxes it came in.

Novik’s use of Eastern European mythos is a refreshing change from 98% of fantasy, and both Uprooted and Spinning Silver are fantastic. Temeraire is more of a specific taste - perfectly good writing, but very much a set of Georgian-era novels and those tend not to be enjoyable.

Jemesin is starting to establish a pattern of doing well during the first novel of a trilogy - I liked Fifth Season, for instance - but many of us have found the second and third of her series to have dropoffs in quality well beyond that of comparable peers. The Hugo for Stone Sky was really questionable, and Obelisk…

Much, much better job than your sister sites on the wildly rushed character arcs.

One of the things that’s been forgotten about BSG 4.5 was that at the time, the fans actively wondered how the hell they’d manage to squeeze resolutions for all the arcs into the last 10 episodes. The one that they managed to do worked really well - The Oath was one of the best episodes of the series - but it became…

The Dresden bombings are part and parcel of most Western military ethics courses nowadays, but repeatedly calling them genocide is something that even Kurt Vonnegut never did and is a pretty sloppy use of the term.

BSG’s Daybreak was at least a halfway decent final episode after the trainwreck of the rest of Season 4.5.*

A friend showed me what her guests had done to a weird birthday cake, and this video immediately came to mind.

GRRM has repeatedly said that his concept was far more uncomfortable than what the show presented - it’s a stairway of melted swords up to this high platform and seat.

You need to get to counseling together stat before the twins show up.

Guy Kay’s tweet on this is priceless: