GOT isn't the Walking Dead or a Michael Bay movie, its audience is generally smarter and expects better. None of the "badass action" means anything if it doesn't make sense and suspension of disbelief is impossible.

I think realism (at least as far as stuff like travel is concerned) is important in this show. Previous episodes had characters travel long distances in short times in a way that could be chalked up by days/weeks passing off camera, and sometimes it was a stretch, but this episode was insane. You'll notice that it's…

"the man behind Little Nicky, Mr."

The problem with the season is that it can't decide what it wants to be - sophomoric sketches about vomiting or alien/redneck sexual assault are presented, then played off as post-modern "anti-comedy" as if the writers know how lame they are, but the silent, nervous studio audience isn't buying it. It couldn't commit…

I like Third and a lot of his solo work better than the first two Big Star records. Am I weird? I would recommend the Top 30 compilation for those interested in his solo work.

*sigh* I wanted to love this but it had serious issues. The entire episode was full of artless infodumping and cheesy fanservice (Mulder kicking the iconic IWTB poster and CSM with a hole in his neck were a little too on the nose), and that "The test results came back negative, but I checked again and omg we both have…

In spring '95 I remember reading about Dave's new band with Pat Smear and two members of Sunny Day Real Estate in a couple of mags and figured it would probably be decent so I bought the album the week it came out and was reasonably impressed. I'll Stick Around in particular stuck out as a classic and the rest was ear…

This guy appears in my dvd collection more than anybody else despite not being the star of anything.

I always found Fox News' Red Eye (and host Greg Gutfeld in general) to be amusingly irreverent even though the conservative politics run counter to mine. Greg is appealingly smart-alecky even when he decries anyone talking about the history of racism/injustice in America as "trying to impress their yoga instructor."…

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"Daddy's Song" by Harry Nilsson/The Monkees is underrated, and somehow made more sad by the jaunty melody and Sgt Peppery arrangement. Davy Jones' vocal is also pretty good.

Around 1997 there was a song by a band called Huffamoose called "James" - I think it was kind of a regional hit in the South or something because the local college station played it constantly. It's your basic Dave Matthews style power ballad like Crash or Satellite but with an especially mushy narrative about two…

Craig Wedren looks like he's trying to emulate the singer in the Pixies' "Subbacultcha" (he's dressed in black and wearing eyeliner), and appropriately the band sounds like a slinkier version of the Pixies.

1. Yo La Tengo - Ohm
2. Flaming Lips - You Lust
3. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
4. Deerhunter - Back to the Middle
5. My Bloody Valentine - New You
6. Dismemberment Plan - Daddy Was a Real Good Dancer
7. Daft Punk - Get Lucky
8. Quasi - You Can Stay But You Gotta Go
9. Franz Ferdinand - Right Action
10. Lonely Island - Spring…

Perhaps the screwdriver's software is capable of backing itself up via the TARDIS' telepathic circuits or something and when one gets destroyed and replaced, it can just pick up where it left off. Magical sci-fi logic, gotta love it.

I like how they did BOTH (we get a glimpse of Capaldi and then, yes, fanboys, he gets a new set of regenerations and he can use old bodies again because what the hell.)

It occurred to me as a joke years ago after seeing this: http://www.youtube.com/watc… but the special confirms that it actually may happen eventually, even if he's calling himself "The Curator" and is less flamboyantly dressed.

War Doctor started doing the computations with his screwdriver so in 400 years 11's finished it. Nice use of time travel logic and clever subversion of the "it doesn't work on wood" thing.

I always thought it would be cool if the Doctor regenerated and instead of a new body we get…Tom Baker again! So the implications of the cameo at the end were really cool.