For what it's worth, as fun as it is to play with deaths and danger, it can also be fun to play with hero shields…provided you do it right.

The bridge fight is pretty close to the end, so definitely play past that. I just started a replay of that game just to see what it's like to bring along the two dudes from Frostvellr, instead of killing them. So far….I'm not that impressed with them.

It's possible that he says "Build me 1000 ships" and his guys say "Uh…sure…we'll get right on that." Then they build maybe 300 in record time, and assume he just won't bother to count that high (or can't).

Technically, it's not a solo, but the entirety of YYZ is basically just a showcase for Neil Peart's drumming.

Uh, I believe his name is Sergio!

Awww, why it's just like that run of "X-men #1" with all the variant Jim Lee covers that convinced me to stop reading X-men.

Not to open up a can of worms here, but I think the other part of why these movies are powerful is because of the general worldwide acceptance of WWII being the last truly "just" war. Very black-and-white, good guys vs. bad guys. Obviously, the truth is more complex, but every war after that has been viewed through…

My grandfather was a captain in the Army Medical Corps, but stationed stateside in Tennessee treating German POWs because he spoke fluent German. I know some vets say that Saving Pvt. Ryan was about as close to the real thing as they ever saw (or cared to see). For him, apparently Catch-22 was about as close to his…

Every time they say her name on the show, I chuckle to myself. I keep waiting for her to work the phrase "Welcome to my nightmare" into a line…

Nope. Rizzo first showed up in The Muppets Take Manhattan, I believe.

You don't need the theory to have Tyrion ride a dragon, though. People besides Targaeryans have ridden dragons within the ASOIAF universe.

I think it's fine if Tywin is simply unsure, and that's where the "proof" line comes in. He doesn't know if Tyrion is his son, his only son, or Aerys' bastard. He chooses to believe that Tyrion is not his son, however, because Tyrion was deformed from birth, and because his birth led to Joanna's death.

Las Vegas?

The Old Ones are unleashed upon the world to devour us all.

I didn't watch LOST, but I knew it was likely to end poorly. I had prior experience with The X-Files going through that sort of thing.

I haven't watched Sherlock this season, but I heard it sucked. That doesn't surprise me, however, because Moffat is a pretty hacky showrunner. He operates less on a "surprise/shock" basis, though, and more on a "big emotional payoff in the moment" basis. And he's terrific at engineering an emotional moment. The…

Of course. Surprise can work, but very often it seems that shows are built as mystery boxes first, and stories second. The stories serve the mystery, rather than the mystery serving the story. It also doesn't help that the American approach to television is to simply keep renewing a show if the ratings are good,…

Someone needs to take control and press the GabeN.

I am so fucking done with "surprise" endings and TV shows that sell themselves on figuring out the mystery, mostly because the shows never fail to disappoint with the big reveal. Of course, that's usually because (A) the big reveal is that the show runners never had a grand plan and have just been making shit up as…

I think he has pretty good range, although his (thus far) most visible period had him playing somewhat similar roles. And I thought he was good in Mercy Street.