He was extremely likable on Top Gear.  For whatever that's worth.

A clip I haven't been able to find is Letterman's speech at the Emmy's, I want to say, after Carson died.  Very heartfelt.  Obviously when Letterman used a monologue made up of jokes Carson had been sending him that was also great, but I really liked the Emmy speech as well, and I've not been able to find that.

Yeah. I'd add Scrubs, The West Wing, and Ed to that list as well, going back even further.  But that might just be me.  In any case, they cancelled the only new show I've watched this year (Awake), so it's hard to care.

Yep, that's exactly right.

No, it was good.  It depends on how you're grading it.  It only ranks 5th on my list of Sherlock episodes (out of the 6 total, obviously) but it's a good deal better than #6 (The Blind Banker).  And all 6 of the Sherock episodes are still better than, what, 90 percent of all television drama?  Hell, this would have…

Yeah, I know. Joke.

Wait, just reruns on Saturdays?  They cancelled SNL?  Holy shit, talk about burying the lead!

I took that as him being somewhat surprised that SHIELD/Coulson still wanted to use them.  He obviously started off as fairly bitter about being thrown into a new time.    I don't think he was expressing his view of the Stars and Stripes.  If that makes sense.  Which it probably doesn't.

This is wholly unrelated, but I'm a few days late anyway and it seemed like the best way to maybe tell you directly.  Coke owns SmartWater, or at least they own the company that makes SmartWater. So still some synergy at play.

Based on the apparent competency of the prosecution, it might not be long before you could throw Jerry Sandusky in there.

Actually, I was scrolling down the page to see if anyone had started a discussion on who should play Silas in The Graveyard Book, but I think that might be the answer right there.

I just watched that on Netflix Instant, mainly because it was brought up in that AV Q&A about worst heroic lead characters.  I thought it was interesting as well.  Statham, Paddy Considine, and Aiden Gillen were all really good.  And after I watched it, I didn't think Statham's character deserved to be brought up in…

@avclub-1b6eb76588144ddec0d5b38fbda61507:disqus I'm not saying I should have to, but I'm saying it'd be worth it to me to pay extra for it.

Yeah,  no doubt.  And, conversely, even with ticket costs, I'd pay a few extra bucks to go to a strictly enforced "quiet" show.

Why don't they have special "loud" showings, or "phone" showings, where you could talk or use your phone, but then have other showtimes where both those are banned?  Seems like a relatively elegant solution, assuming there are actually people who would like to use their phones and would otherwise not want to go, which…

The fact that Chicago won in a year that Road to Perdition wasn't even nominated…weak.  I'd dare anyone to watch both of those now and see which has held up better.  The last great cinematic turns for both Paul Newman and Conrad L. Hall.

Agree, actually.  Probably my favorite performance of the show.  He needed better song choices, I guess, or arrangement choices.  Maybe Adam wasn't the best choice for him.  Who knows.

I got my joke out of the system above, but more interestingly, how awesome was the Adam/Tony master class in trolling?  Christina gets overtly critical of Tony, so they decide to do a Britney song to shove it in her face?  Classic.  That was awesome.

Sigh…and I had such great expectations for Pip.

@avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus I'm unclear as to what you're arguing…either he is an active hero (making all these choices) or he's not.  I took the books as Harry growing into the role and accepting it by the end, even if he still never really wanted it; that is, what started as a fate he wished he…