Agreed. I think the article puts more thought into the politics of Snyder's movies than Snyder ever has. He seems to build scenes and whole movies around getting to a specific shot, the perfect freeze frame, and the speed-ramping lets him underline and boldface how cool this looks. To me, it was a perfect fit for 300…

The Vietnam War ended in '73 and IMDB says Dominic Cooper was born in '78. They might have to stretch the time between Jesse's parents meeting and his birth a little bit, but it's not much.

If we're going to movie raves, I want to hit up the one from Go.

Which is weird, because 'unstoppable killer who you can run away from but never outrun' should be frightening as all get out.

Just think of what Noah Hawley would have made with this material.

Parody naturally rides the wave of its target, and it can be difficult to pull off. I haven't seen Torque since it was new, and never sober, but it may fall into the uncanny valley where it's hard to tell the difference between homage, a straight bite, and parody.

So…best to avoid pinning it down, then?

I watched the episode again and I see where you're coming from. But…

It would have been a great move. The whole "it's just a test" shtick just felt cheap.

I think they could've written it better than "all the kids march into the breach", but I like the idea of the surviving Legionnaires and Picts teaming up to guard the rift. Handwaving and letting the Doctor give up a few hundred years in the rift to keep the monsters out would cheapen the Picts and the Legionnaires…

I'm not saying the American worshipers she absorbed were fully conscious of their decision, but she's the goddess of love and desire, not a vagina black whole sucking people in. Technical Boy turns her down, unwilling to test his power on her terms, unlike the king who came to her temple to challenge her in Mr.…

It's the only reason I can think of for them to show her like that, with a baby, at Easter. Depending on the Gospel, Mary the Mother was both present at his death and at the opening of his tomb. In that aspect, though, she would be an older woman and wouldn't have a child.

We got a story. Maybe not the one you wanted, and certainly not one that furthered whatever Wednesday and Shadow are up to, but we got a hell of a story.

We've seen 15 or 20 Jesi. I guessed that if they were that fragmented that they all had different Fathers and Virgin Mothers.

I'd amend 5) by adding 'and anything else by Warren Ellis as well'. Orbiter, Desolation Jones and Planetary are all excellent, and he works with great artists, so they're all beautiful.

The old gods are more human and personal. They get mad. They hold grudges. Some of them, like Czernobog, are just bitter and nasty. They demand explicit sacrifice, often in blood. But they seem to be more personal, to have a relationship with their believers. We see Anubis and Mad Sweeny come to escort their believers…

I can't see Nick as Wednesday. I don't think he could have pulled off the weak old man con scenes. As Vulcan or Mr. World, though, he would absolutely be the right kind of unhinged.

All the gods need worship and sacrifice. Odin came to America via a shipload of Vikings cutting out their own eyes and then staging a war. Anansi inspired a shipload of slaves to sacrifice themselves and the slavers by rioting and burning the ship to the water. The mammoth god in the animated 'Coming to America'…

…And in that shot she's Mary, the Virgin mother of Baby Jesus.

The gods are creatures of belief. They don't migrate from the old country, their immigrant believers bring them to life when the arrive. Once the gods are here, they're shaped by changing beliefs.