Which is weird, b/c there wasn't any. They're both charming, but it's like they're both more intent on charming the audience than one another. There was just a leaden inertia there. The most believable moments of chemistry were between Stone and his music, not him, and otherwise there wasn't any spark at all.

Also no chemistry between the leaden leads.

What I don't get is why, in any critiques of the film, there's no discussion about the total absence of chemistry between the two leads. I enjoyed the movie's tone, some of the storytelling and set pieces, but there was little to nothing going on between Gosling and Stone and it really whittled down the movie's stakes…

Re: Clegane Bowl…there's nothing in there to really set the scenes with Ray as contemporaneous with the rest of what was going on in the show. Could be this happened over a year ago, he started becoming a holy warrior and then hooked up with the sparrow just as the faith started gettin' all militant.

Definitely had the same thought process w/r/t Sansa's letter, but I couldn't think of anyone besides Tyrion and that just doesn't make any sense.

I haven't followed the books too closely and I'm just discovering this community, but I haven't found any discussion of this and I'm curious: does John's resurrection make him at all susceptible to the Night's King, who seems to have real power over the dead? Do the dead need to have died in a certain way for the…

Yeah, the trailer was sufficient. It just wasn't, in the end, all that funny.

Where is Watership Down in here?

Babylon 5 falls squarely in the SF genre as well, almost throughout, but particularly apparent w/r/t the Rangers, see also "A Late Delivery from Avalon" and a the Rangers section in "Deconstruction of Falling Stars"

I liked how Skyrim did it. You had to explore to find a place, but then once you've been there, you could fast travel. Exploration was still required, but the world was so big and there was so much do to that took you here and there it just would've been in sufferable without out. Maybe if the quests were all…

Eggplant, Xerxes, Crybaby, Overbite, Narwhal

"Oh, I don't think we'll be telling them that."

On the whole, the review gets at something specific, though, that this didn't in any real sense, feel like a film. That's both effective and bad, though, b/c it leads to conclusions like "And yet, the risky structural gambit reaffirms where Poitras’ allegiances really lie: not with a person, but with the people. She…

Alasdair, I'm curious about something. In The Time of the Doctor, Tasha Lem is able to override her Dalek puppetry with the Doctor's encouragement. I've been wondering about Pink and that meet-cute scene b/w him and Clara, the way it skips back and forth and then with him butting his forehead against the table. Any…