I'll be back, out of a sort of morbid curiosity, and of probably not having much better to do/watch.

Vaughan generally comes across as a sleazy, skeevy sort. I don't know if he's done anything that would appeal to me, as I tend to stay away from things he's in. If the role and production play to that sleaze, it & he could be really quite good. I mean, I could buy him as a degenerate ill at ease with his degeneracy.

Writers' room:

The Master look and make-up really is bewilderingly bad, particularly when they've got so much right with the new/lackey vampires. And the vampire ninja Busey squad.

Is Eph meant to be so fucking punchable? They don't even have the 'he's a wanker, but he gets shit done' thing. He's rubbish.

I missed this comment, but the Master's look and make-up really bothers me.

That is a good point. He's not so much committed to the job as he is to throwing around whatever weight his CDC status may grant him.

I'm perturbed that something with GDT's name on it has such poor special effects. It looks like a cheap 'scary' hand puppet done big.

I quite liked Pacific Rim.

Yeah, it didn't seem too much in the books, but having to show it onscreen just makes the choices of those they do infect that way seem too dramatically useful. I like the idea of the worms, but think they should be next to useless outside the transferring mechanism of the stinger.

All landlords are already vampires.

I worry they're in a much better show that no one's bothering to film.

This and Ashes & Fire - I'm not really feeling it. I got into Adams back at the end of 2002, when I heard La Cienega Just Smiled on a magazine sampler, and bought Gold on the strength of it. The next eight years were a heady love affair - the proper albums, the bootlegs/unreleased, Whiskeytown (and earlier when I…

I was hoping for Julianne Moore. Though really, that's a general, ongoing thing in my life.

I felt so sorry for Potts and Kittles. Pretty basic script stuff to work with. Little more than a mix of '[react to weird shit Cohle just said]' and 'then what happened?'.

The weird thing is, Del Toro has had some solid performances from kids in his films. But then there's lots of 'in his films' stuff that just doesn't bear out here.

And Jim's wife. From her (and his) portrayal, it seemed to me less that Jim wanted to save her out of love, but that he didn't want to spend every day of her slow demise with her tongue-lashing and berating him for his failure to find a treatment for her cancer.

Mia Maestro only seems to have two expressions - looking on in unbelieving horror at what she's just seen or heard, and a sort of 'it's not yet my time in the script to look on in unbelieving horror, but I'm ready to go there when my cue comes' blankness.

Ooooh, thanks - that makes sense, the account login thing. I was trying to work out if it was a general apple service or something. And yep, I was following it visually, and just saw him open a browser page and start typing away.

It'd be amusing if,somewhere in the official but unspoken history of the story, the zombie outbreak in TWD was the result of someone's attempt at immortality. I listened to an interview podcast with Del Toro recently, and he said he hadn't seen TWD - a shame, as he might have seen what not to do.