Was that the one where he got struck by lightening and then dressed in a dress uniform much less cool than what he was wearing?

Well, better that than the POV of the poor lady. Just staring at the wall or ceiling, waiting for it to be over. Or worse.

You also just hit a wall in the amount of little subtleties that a human brain can absorb after a full 13 episodes. I just kind of forgot where GOB was after a while.

People call the Game of Thrones chapters POVs. They're probably also pervs. And so is GRRM.

As long as its not shot in a POV camera perspective like Peep Show. I know a lot of people really like it, but the camera POV shots were just really unpleasant for me to look at.

I think if it means that Locke will be able to do some magic… it might mean a lot bigger things for those two later on. But I wish it had been the sort of thing that was more hinted at. The best reveals aren't complete surprises.

After years of Star Trek aliens that are can always have the good brought out in them by the right captain, sometimes it's nice to have aliens that not only eat people, but have celebrity chefs that specialize in humans that they send along with their invasion force.

Yeah, I've been looking forward to it for a while, but kept being at the bottom of the queue for it at the library. Damn those early bird Scalzi fans.

I find it really hard not to add extraneous statements.

I think it would have made the Daily Show worse, not Chris Brown better, tbh. Is Trevor Noah really good enough to get an apology or acknowledgement from this guy?

You really have to be an expert mind fucker to get some repentance out of those people. I doubt that a 10 minute interview would result in anything as satisfying as the The Act of Killing… best case is that Chris Brown would change the subject or leave in huff.

Because it was the sort of thing early scientists did back then? Honestly, he probably was a bit anachronistic in them feeling bad, considering torturing animals was an entertainment option in that time period.

I'm reading Felicia Day's book and Scalzi's The End of All Things. Both good so far, though Felicia Day manages to start her book with a story so awkward I had to set it aside for a while.

I feel like all of Scott Lynch's books seem to dump a ton of action into the last third or fourth of the book. The whole magical backstory behind Locke needed a bit more time to breath than it got, I think.

I knew it was time to quit when I kept getting annoyed every time he left the stable of real, historical figures, for his stable of bizarre made up ones. Lets leave the syphilitic jerk and his greedy lady friend and go back to the Royal Society torturing dogs and feeling really bad about it the next day?

I keep checking Charle's Mann's website to see if he's done anything since 1491 and 1493. I love books that try to fill in overlooked history with a lot of color and modern research.

Felt the same way… it was like a Garbage Pail Kid kind of monster, or that shit golem from Dogma. The gross 10 year old-ness of it all really sapped the story of any tension at all.

I listened to the same thing, I think. Also, I read Tom Holland's book Persian Fire, which covers much of the same stories, going a bit further into the lives of Darius and Xerxes. It's written in a more narrative style, which while easy to read, does leave me wanting to know a bit more about the why and how we know…

Yeah… while it's certainly well known in academic circles what shitty people the Spartans and Athenians were to other powers and to their slaves and women respectively, its not the sort of thing that really penetrates the high school level of education or the Nova programming about their great achievements in…

Or superhero movies have stolen that mantle for themselves… most of them are pretty jokey, even when they're serious.