See, I was mostly getting into it for the whole Clarke and Lexa situation, and then that went up in flames, so I really have no motivation now

Look, Kraish said he was down for whatever so long as they made sure his cock looked beautiful, and I can respect that.

Ah! I could tell something was going on with the money exchange there, but I wasn't sure what. I even reread the book not too long ago, too.

I never watched The 100 (tried the pilot twice and couldn't get through it), but I've been really enjoying him here.

I figured better now than later. And hey, it's still coming!

Not really a spoiler, but just FYI

I could listen to him talk forever.

Everybody makes mistakes! I appreciate that you were willing to reevaluate what you'd said. I certainly don't expect everyone to express themselves perfectly all the time, just be open to pushback—which you were.

We saw a "Somewhere in America" in the pilot, too, IIRC—when Shadow goes into the park to scream, the camera pans up to the sky, which then shows us the same "Coming to America" header but instead saying "Somewhere in America," and then we meet Bilquis.

I'm not a gay man (a bi woman, rather) but I think he almost certainly succeeded on both fronts :)

Oh, absolutely. I loved it. Fuller said at one point that it was really important to him to make it romantic, both because Salim would have only known sex in a covert, rushed way before then, and also for any gay kids out there to have something to look forward to—or, as he put it, at least something really good to…

I'm 90% sure this one isn't in the book. They wrote new ones and also used/expanded on ones Gaiman wanted to have in the book but couldn't fit in.

I appreciate it!

I enjoyed this article, which riffed on that line a lot, very much: http://io9.gizmodo.com/amer…

McShane said that after he kissed her she went, "What, that's it? No tongue?"

Unrelated: I always knew Supernatural was American Gods fanfiction, but this episode really brought that home, what with the pole-through-the-windshield death, the bank heist, and the visitation of death. SPN went harder on cribbing from its influences than I'd quite realized, even though it has that one episode…

sigh

I loved this episode. I already knew the creators' intentions with the sex scene, having watched an embarrassing number of interviews and panels, but it still really hit me hard. I got emotional. Obtahi was so great through all of it. His face when they finally kissed for the first time! (Though I wonder how the jinn…

I just finished Black Sails the other night and it is so fucking incredible

Oh, I agree there's not a direct storytelling purpose, but they do something. On Hannibal they did a lot of different things, from symbolism to grotesquerie to simply making you live in the world a little more like the titular character does, with a deep appreciation for "the beauty and art and horror that this world…