Oh, Sam... it's a Kendo Shinai. :)

Green Arrow is Dark knight lite. Which is okay, because it's doing it well. As such, the idea that the Green Arrow is "for the rich" is not a new idea, as your fellow country man artfully points out. :)

Is it fair to name the actor and not the writer for creating these characters?

It should be remembered that Dean's car had a tape-deck too, which was pointed out in the pilot before the blew most of their music budget on Metallica all the while off to kill Sarah Shahi woman in white. And Miles was driving some sort of muscle car? Maybe Kripke has a type.

While most of these are blockbuster nonsense which only have the slightest of connections to actual science, the Independence day one I have considered in the past and have come to the conclusion that it is possible. Why, I hear you cry? By reversing the hypothesis. Is it possible for the advanced space-faring aliens…

For the first five minutes I didn't notice that T-Dog hadn't said a word. Par for the course, I thought. Then I realized that the rest of the cast were all brought down to his muted level. Even think this was a result of a note handed in by T-Dog's agent?

The whole MMO linkage thing is a crock. The MMO world is a different city, and while there will be characters from the leveling/questing line which leave the MMO city to go to the TV city, this is something which will happen out of sequence and is something which could be done in any game format. With the exception of…

Do you know many kids who are learning basic math who can rewire... anything? Do you think he was taught how to do this by a mother who can barely make him get through his multiplication tables? Or do you think that he came to these things himself? This makes him a genius level intelligence. Perhaps you should ask…

How many kids see their mothers die each year? How many more by magnitude in a fucking dystopia? How about the whore's daughter? Don't you think that in the coming days and weeks she could see her mother die at the hands of client/pimp/other whore/voyeur surveillance guy/random nut?

Hey, I love you sentiment, I do, and the show is terrible (3 million people disagreed, which is about 150% of what's required to get a S2), but it'll get it's 20 and then if the ratings are still above 2 million, we'll see it next Fall.

This has been one of my problems with the show from the pilot; they went there. Where in fuck where they going to go next? Lysenko storytelling 101; make something big - mystery, generally - make it a linchpin of the story, then work it back bit by bit until you can plausibly give the weakest answer possible, thus…

The article states the case well enough, but I'm always wary of the "number 1"ing of things. I can't even say what the most important movie, book, song, author, band, politician, historical event or food group to me, let alone for all societies everywhere. So, no, neither personally nor societially, I wouldn't say…

One of my (very few) complaints about SOS was that Bran's power-set feels like it all develops off the page. Which is something they are gonna have to deal with. Bran suddenly being able to a) control wolves is one thing, but b) control Hodur is quite another. (yes, the moment in the tower with the lightning Bran…

I agree, most can be done more efficiently (Sansa's exodus especially), and given the time constrains, a pragmaticism maybe required to temper some of the larger story... but this is a larger story. If I had to pick the ones to keep, they would be a scene or two with the Ghost and the presence of Coldhands as a last…

Yeah, I read all of Johnson's answers. Mostly half- or non-answers. For the sake of decorum, I posted that I wouldn't be engaging with Johnson.

Oh, do I question this premise. We're basically talking about a repeat. A repeat of something which is relatively old. Anyone who wanted to see it, will have seen it numerous times over. The entire blog is on youtube. SO, the ratings do not reflect the nature of this, or the end of that era. It represents something…

Even if we trusted Old Joe's Informant, there is no evidence to suggest that the rainmaker became the rainmaker through any means before Old Joe returns to the present to take the actions which are supposedly (by Abe's urban legend) required to make the rainmaker who s/he is.

You can assume all you want. There is no evidence that he a) was the rainmaker in a previous timeline or b) that he will become the rainmaker in that paradox-riddled timeline or c) any kid we saw was to be the rainmaker.

I did. But, also avoiding spoilers for people. I watch them, doesn't mean everyone likes to.

How did this guy come to this news? Without mass communication, without even a pony express, they are left with an incredibly slow and increasingly inaccurate form of news transfer. I'm not saying everything he said is wrong, but there's very little he said which can't be corrected/disproven/revised/counter by another…