That's a pretty good point.

Nice touch with Thea reading a Brad Meltzer novel in Merlin's place.

I really muffed Final and went with The Romance of the Rose.

I'll not that TCM tonight, hence The Time Machine, is running a memorial night of Rod Taylor movies. The TIme Machine. HMS Bounty Sails Again!, The Birds and Sunday In New York. I've never seen HMS Bounty, but Sunday In New York is a really funny mid-60's romantic comedy that has probably my favorite Jane Fonda…

Especially since I only really know her from Orange is the New Black.

Marge, you just don't understand football.

No thank you, Hermione Gingold.

I think, honestly, that it's kind of dull in parts. Overall, I kind of like the movie for what it is. (My sole big complaint was that Kate Bosworth is horribly miscast as Lois Lane.)

A) I feel like every scene involving Routh is a kick in the teeth to the few people who blamed Superman Returns problems on him. Jesus, he's a lot of fun.

Ex-actly.

There is fascinating stuff about the debates in Parliament as well as the joblessness caused by the lack of cotton coming in (and how Britain was able to absorb the economic shock just enough, despite Southern hopes that they would intervene or mediate once they started feeling the pinch). Britain was much less…

Amanda Foreman's "A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War". Very informative, and also very snarky at times when the person/circumstance warrants it. For instance, referring to a British dolt who decided to try and take forts in California on his own as one of "nature's great nincompoops."

The scary thing is that every bit of this is true continuity from the time.

Naw, it's fine. Just worry if you start liking or even looking forward to a Barbara or Nygma scene.

To be fair, most of the movies they see are made by people who have no interesting in minor things like coherent plots or believable characters.

I, Frankenstein doesn't have a GOT actor in it, I think.

Heh heh heh. Nobody ever says Italy.

What? It does.

BBARNEY: And I say the greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston! *punches out Wade Boggs*

Very, very true (and I'll admit, I never get tired of his Ian Fleming voice).