Yes, yes, a million times yes. Sure they're long, exhaustive, etc., but damn they're readable. I'm actually reading The Power Broker now, having read all four of the LBJ books before that. Apparently the fifth one will be the final one, though it's pretty funny that after thousands of pages, we're only a few weeks…

I will add that it was cool to see a movie for the first time in years that I hadn't read any reviews for (since there weren't any) or heard any early reaction to.

Could be. I try not to doubt critics, but some of the reactions do seem a bit predetermined; as GaryX noted, the reviews do seem like they're describing a much goofier movie than the one I feel like I saw. I heard a few "I liked it, but I think I need to see it again to really like it," comments on the way out of the…

I also get the impression this is going to be very divisive among the general moviegoing public. Even at a film festival, I definitely heard a few "well, what was the point of that?" reactions.

Just got back, and I agree with pretty much everything you've said. Given the Zucker influence, I thought it would be a lot funnier.

It feels like there were more because they reran the heck out of the episodes they had. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were still showing them well into 1996 or 1997.

Maybe it's because people were drinking, but everybody was super hug-y!

My hunch is Sarah, if only because I'm not sure how a cop from Indiana ends up getting recruited. Then again, I don't really know anything about how the recruiters work.

Thought it may've not come across on the show, in interviews Alexis and Jefra seemed to be pretty big fans.

The ones I'm pretty damn sure about: Spencer, Tony, Alexis, Jefra, and Kass (she was the one who brought it up).

I'm not sure if this is how they usually do it, but one of them told me that this season had nine applicants and nine recruits (only one I know for sure was a recruit is Woo).

No, but he was SUPER excited (and really, really friendly). Just going by the vibe, I was starting to think a Woo win was in the cards.

I'll be polite, and just say that she was dressed fairly conservatively. She also gets point for letting me put my arm around her for a photo.

Weird brag time: I ended up at the pre-finale party last night (which is open to the public) at a bar a mile or so away from my apartment. It was a little awkward (as it mostly just consisted of castaways hanging out at a bar), but I ended up meeting just about every person from this season. All of them were…

I love, love, love this show. My only problem is that it sometimes has this weird, super antiquated view of gender roles. Too often the sharks do this whole "Women are like this, and men are like THIS" sort of thing, and it makes me really uncomfortable.

I loved a few episodes back when Kevin talked about his collection of expensive olive oils and everybody's reaction was a mixture between "WHAT?!?" and "Of course you collect bottles of olive oil that are worth hundreds of dollars."

Mixing up the tribes would be a key part of this for me. If you split it into three, it could probably be done in such a way that a lot of the people haven't actually played together before for a significant amount of time. Then things would get realllly interesting at the merge.

That's what I mean. I know it would be logistically difficult and uninteresting to anybody but diehards, but my imagination is running wild.

I think so, too, but a small part of me also thinks it might be kind of unpredictable. I mostly think it'll never happen because, logistically, what are the odds everybody will want to come back, let alone be free to come back at the same time?

Tony has been lucky, but it's entirely possible that he won't even have to play the Tyler Perry Idol OR the regular idol. An argument could be made that maybe he'd be playing the game in a different way if he weren't feeling so secure, but I'm starting to feel like his good luck is almost inconsequential.