Oh absolutely. That and the fact that (at least in my opinion) the show had demonstrated for some time how Robin and Ted were bad together. Well, and how fucking awful Season 9 was as a whole. Jesus, what a slog…

Wow. That's…hard, given how the show ended.

We cut to 2 years after Ted told the kids the story.

Ted wakes up next to Tracy and says "Oh my god, I just had the worst dream."

Why, it's like I'm looking into a mirror…

Yeah, but with this story, you can't do the Tell every night. Not unless it's delivered by the Micro Machines guy.

He matured basically fine for the first five seasons or so, but then they had to force him to tread water and repeatedly backslide in his development for the remainder of the show.

Radnor is a FANTASTIC actor who became the victim of being the butt of many, many jokes on HIMYM. Ted was, more or less, somewhat sympathetic early on in the show. The feeling is that one is laughing with Ted at his idiocy in the pursuit of this ephemeral goal he's got in his mind. But by the latter seasons (really…

Smartest move on Disney's part is to refuse to pay the ransom, and then when the film is released, blame its poor box office performance on the piracy rather than the awfulness of the film.

Yeah, that's fair. And to be honest, I love me some political intrigue, but I also recognize that my tastes aren't universal. So while I'd love to see the plotting and backstabbing of Aegon V's court done a la I, Claudius, I can see where I'd been in the minority there.

Could still include stuff leading up to the Summerhall tragedy. I actually think watching Aegon V's reign as he tries to institute reforms and is constantly frustrated would be kind of interesting.

Wrong band.

Earle was great, I thought. Suitably creepy and entertaining at the same time. But I think that the storyline surrounding him was a good bit less compelling than "Who killed Laura Palmer?"

Gotta agree. As much as the 2nd season is just one random "quirky" and pointless character exploration after another, there were some good bits in there, too, that could've formed the basis for a better long-form narrative.

Upvoting just because you mentioned that the blu-ray (which I don't yet have) has the deleted scenes. Thanks for the reminder!

I only see promos for this when my wife and I watch Agents of SHIELD on demand, and pretty much every Shonda show seems to be advertised as "HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS SHOW IS BONKERS AND YOU FUCKING LOVE IT THAT WAY, DON'T YOU?!"

You might want to check out Jack Whtye's Skystone books, then. They're…pretty good, although they go off the rails after, like, the 5th book or so. But they start c.380, and show the slow disintegration of Roman Britain. They end up being more like the "Arthur Prequels" set at the end of official Roman Britain…

I liked the concept of Fuqua's pseudo-historical Arthurian tale, even if it kinda screws up the timeline (doesn't it end with the Battle of Badon Hill, which wouldn't be fought for roughly another 100-ish years?). But the execution was just kinda dumb and didn't seem to do all that much with the source material that…

Whoa, Charlie Boorman died at 43?!

Have you considered upping his ration of the juice of sapho?