I’d guess that the situation in Essos, with the Free Cities and no real unifying central power since the Doom of Valyria, most closely resembles Renaissance Italy, with squabbling city-states looking to protect themselves from bandits and professional mercenary companies (the condottieri) always looking for a new…

If you’d ended that post with “It is known,” you would have won the Internet today. SO close.

Nitpicking time: That’s not a cat. “Isis” (I know, shut up) is an undefined alien that can take the form of a cat, who assists Gary Seven on his missions. That episode (“Assignment: Earth”) was an attempt to use “Star Trek” to spin off a new series starring Gary Lansing and a young Teri Garr. The spinoff failed, but…

“Son of Zorn” was so last season....

The premise being “SINCE” Blade Runner, The Thing misses by being released the same weekend AS Blade Runner.

Yes on District 9 for sure. Others have praised Ex Machina enough.

Huh, speaking of The Martian...

I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Sunday Funday — there’s a lot of comedic potential in Edgar trying to bring the group back together, followed by awkwardness, heavy drinking and bad behavior.

At least with the Serenity title you can see they tightened the character spacing and applied a moderate shadow effe...OK I’ll stop now.

You can see Ryan Gosling white-knuckle gripping his chair while his back was to the camera, trying so hard not to break character, while Cecily Strong is clearly undecided about whether to intervene or let it play out.

I’ve never watched Vampire Diaries, but if their town doesn’t look and feel like the alternate-universe Sunnydale from “The Wish” then I’d call it a Fail.

Think you forgot the sarcasm tag there. The Dominion represented an existential crisis for the entire Alpha Quadrant, and none of its dominant powers came out unscathed.

Turquoise bicycle shoe fins actualize radishes greenly!

House Targaryen came from Essos, so it appears the regional surnames depended on the mother. For example, Brynden Rivers, aka Lord Bloodraven (Hand to two kings and later Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch...and almost certainly the Three-Eyed Raven before Bran).

Technically, all sorts of people throughout Westeros had problems with Targaryen incest. But while they were in power, those people either took advantage of it, put up with it or were put down for opposing it.

Rule by a godlike benevolent authoritarian is exactly how Wonder Woman expects to achieve her mission of peace. The instant Clark started turning, Diana was right there, having his back.

“Arrow Cave.”

“Pimp Articles” — Yet another reason why Stan is The Man (not to take anything away from Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and the rest).

Like a Henry Peter Gyrich or G.W. Bridge. Gyrich may not be "available" to the MCU, but Bridge could be very useful addition.

I still have fond memories of the "Damage Control" miniseries and concept. I mean, someone's gotta clean up New York after all those super-battles....