Richard does Jacob a favor by telling him everything that MiB told him when he tried to recruit him and "save" him. Richard chooses "never dying", and Jacob obliges, as long as he does the job of helping him. Of course, that's about the most vague job description you can have. "So, richard, what do you do here?"
"Well,…

He did that again in Season 4. He went to bring Ben breakfast and Ben mind-fucked him again, and he ended up smashing the tray of food in frustration.

I think that's in the Season 3 premiere, if I remember correctly. I thought she had already confessed that she was leaving him at that point, but Jack was determined to find out who she was leaving him FOR, and he was convinced it was for his own father. Which sounds so idiotic, but it made sense for the egomaniacal,…

"I'm from Minnesota!" is such a perfectly pathetic line reading. Michael Emerson became the new best part of the show from the minute he first appeared on screen.

I wrote something similar in response to one of the earlier comments, but it made perfect sense to me. Locke is a weak, prideful man. He saw himself as Charlie's savior, and when Charlie "betrayed" him, he took it personally and physically lashed out at him.

Richard wasn't necessarily supposed to be helping The Others; he was supposed to be helping Jacob and The Island.

Locke was always a prideful, needy guy. I think he felt like he was Charlie's savior in a lot of ways, and when he sensed that Charlie was going to use again, it set him off. By potentially using, he'd be betraying Locke's wisdom and guidance, so Locke took it as a personal affront and violently lashed out, hoping to…

That wasn't her fault, though. That was more the writing/directing. Kate didn't do or suggest in any way that she'd still be in love with Sawyer. That was, what, 3 years of off-island time for Kate since the last time she saw Sawyer? I never got the sense that the character wanted him, I more or less got the sense…

That one made sense, though. They dragged that out for what seemed like a solid minute of screen time. First time I saw that scene I was convinced "Holy crap, Ethan killed Charlie" and then he finally gasped for air and it scared the crap out of me.

You're not supposed to use the R-Word anymore!

They still open with "The Ecstasy of Gold". Usually they don't then open with their own pre-taped song intros, but on the occasions where they do choose "Battery" or even "Fight Fire With Fire" to open, it's always an intense build-up.

So I'm listening to it this way now, and the de-facto opener of "Tyrant" into "Genocide" is really fantastic. Keeping "Victim of Changes" as the epic centerpiece of the album makes much more sense, in my opinion. I really can't believe I never knew that about the track listing. Did this happen on any other Priest…

I don't think I ever knew this. I've only owned the US CD version released by Koch records in the 90s. I'm honestly going to re-order the songs in my iTunes library because I feel like I've been listening to it wrong the whole time.

Yeah, "Frantic" "Dirty Window" and "The Unnamed Feeling" are pretty okay. Rest of the album, not so much.

And most of those intros, when used as pre-taped intros in the live setting, really do a great job in building up audience anticipation for when you actually hear that first metal riff. Seeing Metallica open with "Battery" or "Blackened" (even though that's a slow build of electric guitars) is really incredible…

Ram It Down would be very listenable if it weren't for the god-awful production. Turbo is the better album of the two, honestly.

Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium is probably the most absurd example of this that I can think of. It opens with a cover of Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio". This band who had pioneered early black metal and death metal on their first two albums came right out of the gate in 1987 opening their 3rd album with a cover…

Silver Fox Dana Ashbrook definitely looks like he could pull off an aged military man these days.

I'm fine with this. Moira Kelly still looks great (so does Sheryl Lee, for that matter, and both starred on One Tree Hill at different times).

He's really good in Cedar Rapids too. That movie is excellent.