I was kind of on board with the whole affair until Jim Croce got trashed outta nowhere.

The head explosion thing. I get it.

My question was also about trial by combat—but what happens if the defendant's champion is killed? The defendant has to die, too? But if the defendant's champion kills the other guy, the plaintiff isn't killed. Shouldn't the debt be considered paid once someone dies?

Don't do it.

I get what you're saying and wholeheartedly agree—it's also kind of interesting to think that these torture porn directors grew up with slasher films. Can't wait to see what the children who grew up watching torture porn will come up with!

Spirit in the Sky was somehow worse… I think there was a period when every 3rd movie preview had to have the opening riffs of that song in them. It's some sort of stand-in for "rock song" or something to people in Hollywood.

I guess I assumed other AV Clubbers would see it my way, considering this is a site dedicated to pop culture and pop culture ephemera—but posing the rhetorical question of "Isn't that annoying that this big budget movie seems to be appropriating a song from a Quentin Tarantino movie that we all know and love?" has…

Pfft… Yeah. "Groovy."

But… the fact that the song blows makes this even annoying, because you know they only chose the song because of its association with Reservoir Dogs. If some future Marvel movie rolls its opening credits over "Little Green Bag" and nobody says a damn thing, then I will feel truly alone.

Thank you! This guy gets it!

I don't know why, but even though the preview for this movie looks kind of cool I also am hoping it will just fail miserably. Because I don't want to do this whole Marvel comic book thing anymore. Too many green screeny CG explosions and spaceships and just… it's over. Movies aren't fun and exciting anymore.

I guess they don't have to explain why they did this, but it would sort of help. Meaninglessness isn't very interesting.

I hate you.

Let's talk about Marmalade Boy next.

Yeah, and even then you could still argue it's pretty darn gratuitous. Unless there's a thematic reason that Melly needs to give all this exposition to us totally naked? Like… Uh, GOT likes bath scenes, and lots of important stuff has happened while people were bathing..?

I am quite proud of what I call "The Parents Edit" of GOT that I made for my parents back after they kept saying they wanted to watch Season 1. Now I edit all the gratuitous boobs and wieners out, along with some of the violence. After doing this for three years it's pretty obvious that all the "dirty" scenes are…

He looks like a really freakin' hard 23 if you ask me. The closeups make him look older than my uncle.

I was wondering about that, and how Bronn never explicitly said Shae made it on that boat when Tyrion asked. Not that Bronn couldn't just lie anyway, but he definitely said something like, "She's gone. Don't worry about her anymore." This was before Joffrey died, I know, but Cersei was already hunting for Shae at that…

Basically signed his own death warrant by being likeable and wanting to fight for something honorable.

I said this elsewhere, but I used to think I was not super bothered by new actors playing characters in roles… That is, until Game of Thrones changed Daario into a completely new and different person without even attempting to connect him with the completely different human being he was before. The first Daario was…