I can agree with that, I just want the chance to see him somewhere other than Rebels, Zahn's prequel novel, and the tail end of Chuck Wendig's series before that happens. At the end of Lost Stars that big chunk of the Imperial fleet went into hiding in the Unknown Regions, I think they could definitely work him into…

I was disappointed earlier this week after Life Debt dropped when I heard the mysterious Fleet Admiral from the end of Aftermath wasn't confirmed as Thrawn, and I resigned myself to the idea that he'd be a Thrawn analogue and that that was the closest we'd get. In a weird way I'm kind of happy I had my hopes dashed a…

Zahn's doing another novel as well. Thrawn definitely won't be confined to Rebels.

There goes my sole qualm about rebooting the EU. Good to have you back, Admiral.

The Endeavour finale just made me feel ways about stuff.

Finally ponied up for Hulu on Friday and hit the Criterion collection hard. So far I've been through:

James Bond weekend. Picked up a few of those Best Buy steelbooks and watched You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty's Secret Service with the commentary, which was a very cool experience. Peter Hunt sounds like a lovely man. Also finally read Casino Royale. Ian Fleming was such a screwed up guy and it really comes…

It's the artist's style I hate, not the reality of the subject matter. These are ridiculous Jim Henson demons. And honestly, the man's look bothers me more than the cancer lady's.

Any poignancy these comics might otherwise achieve is seriously undermined by how viscerally ugly the character design is. Maybe it wouldn't rankle so much if they weren't cackling with their mouths wide the fuck open in every other frame.

Different strokes, I guess. I had kind of a huge problem with the way that all of the single characters achieve happiness by getting married and that all of the married characters do so by having kids. It felt way too neat and pretty trite.

I've read the first three. I don't plan to skip God Emperor this first time around, but if I end up agreeing that it's bad I'll probably never include it in any sort of re-read. Herbert's kid's writing partner on those Dune books is Kevin J. Anderson, who I know mainly from his abysmal 90s-era Star Wars novels.…

the last season of Parks & Rec was way too saccharine for me. Luckily, the season 6 finale functions just fine as a definite end point for the series.

Did he used to have a very different haircut? My mental image of Jad Abumrad has a very different haircut.

I don't know how I'm going to be able to digest this. I'm in a much healthier place emotionally than I was when the last season came out. I'm a little afraid to find out what it's like to watch this when I'm not at the bottom of a drunken depression well.

HURRY UP AND GIVE ME WILDFLOWER, JEEZ

It was the Mountain's men (Polliver, Tickler, etc.) who captured her and her would-be Night's Watch buddies. I don't recall if she briefly saw him doing something awful at Harrenhal or something, but it's at least guilt by association.

I kind of figured she'd get something similar to Vargo Hoat's prolonged torture at the hands of the Mountain in the book.

He'll always be Dazzler to me.

I don't believe he did escape, I just recalled the line Mr. Random was talking about.

He had some smug line about how Blackfish the supposedly legendary warrior was killed by common foot soldiers.