The voiceover at the very end says “NOR-ull” — I think the guy who pronounced it “nor-RELL” was just putting a flair on his introduction?

I just learned yesterday that the Joker was heavily “inspired” by the title character in Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs.

Your argument is the viewpoint that has always made sense to me, I just want to say kudos for expressing it much better than I probably would have :) The false analogy of data : HDD :: consciousness : brain is, IMO, one of the more annoying fallacies to plague Science Fiction.

After finally finishing Infinite Jest (six months it took me!) I felt like some relatively easy space adventure.

"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."

Showtime. Lemme 'splain something to you. When Lynch wants to make more Twin Peaks, you give him what he wants and get out of his way. That's how it works.

They're giving us all this crap that no one wants, and yet they still have not brought back the Gummi Bears. Get your heads out of your asses Disney!

I haven't seen either of these movies, and I definitely don't plan to...however the is one thing I'm curious about: Do they actually address the fact that these people couldn't live in this state? I mean, the people in the back obviously can't get nourishment from feces. How do they get around this?

The Gray Caps are taking over Ambergris!

I hope this turns out to be the case. Loki's staff being able to grant powers seems like a sloppy solution, storytelling-wise.

Reminds me of the opening to Greg Egan's Permutation City.

Eh, I'm pretty good at scheduling my binge watches. I rarely do a literal all-out binge, I can do a season every month or two :)

Better question: Why the hell isn't Person of Interest on any major streaming sites yet? I want to binge watch! I've been avoiding spoilers for four years!

Carol Danvers is rumored to be cast right after Jennifer Lawrence announces she won't do any more X-Men movies.

Yeah! My kids had the exact same reaction to the Netflix VeggieTales.

If you completely ignore the entire hideous "flash-sideways" story, the last 2 seasons were actually pretty good, even great in some places (Sawyer's redemption particularly).

It struck me right away that he looks like a young Hugh Laurie.

This is 100% truth, and also I would buy the hell out of that cookbook.

Every time you use jarred sauce*, an Italian grandmother cries. It takes mere minutes to make a sauce that is a hundred times better than Prego and has NO sugar! Here's a good easy example. Even better: make a huge amount and freeze it in 2-serving size freezer baggies, for easy implementation later.

forcing him to watch his "wife" and "children" literally melt before his eyes in a house fire. It was messed up, man.