The big three were all cousins - Nicholas II, Wilhelm II, and George V. How disheartening would that have been for some layperson suffering through the trenches, realizing that you are going to war for a spat between cousins (ok it is more complicated than that - honor and some outdated treaties, but STILL…)

Check out Pat Barker's fiction book Regeneration…it will give you an idea of how shell shock was handled.

I think your comment touches on a main theme Fringe seems to have about singlemindedness and singleminded pursuits.

When Nikita first came out, I howled like a crazy person about another Nikita show (I blame it on a certain Roy Dupuis fascination).

Hell on Wheels has trains. Sometimes. So it cannot always suck, especially if you put it on mute until the trains make an appearance.

happen then unhappen.

this is actually a reply to @avclub-a071490b596e0cc770ff10b7eb5b2e85:disqus - i think showrunners should have control. i also think they should have talent. Veena Sud certainly lacks one of those.

I giggled my way through bs too. Jeez I wanted out of that effing movie; and then I avoided for weeks my two friends with serious aronofsky boners just so I didn't have to go through the trouble of explaining why the film was so incredibly laughable to me.

yes. this.

compulsive shopping is exactly like fast quick dirty back alley sex. the point of compulsive shopping is to get in, feed the fix, get out. opening of the packages, looking at shops? nah. not at all. all that matters is getting stuff.

Yeah. Like what the hell is all of that classical music doing running through, I dunno, each and every film ever made ever?!?

I think that perhaps Boone is just such an unlikeable character for me, that in spite of any good acting on Ian's part, I still don't like Boone. There was something really … off, and really unlikeable about the Boone-Shannon interaction, and not just related to the manner in which the relationship was written. Some…

Yes, those 6-8 week breaks are just awful.

I remember Titus now mostly for Alan Cumming (many many hearts) and for my discovery of Blake Ritson - and I have loved him in everything I have since seen him in.

…and I seem to remember the wooden spoon being used to force the pages down. Somehow that is what stuck with me about that scene. A wooden spoon. It probably wasn't even a wooden spoon, and I was just traumatized.

Like you, Cook, Thief was also the first film I loathed, and the only film I have ever wanted to walk out on.

The review and comments have really covered all the bases … so I will just say that in spite of one or two problems I had with this episode (btw, the ending was not one of them), I am just damn glad to have the show back after the wasteland that is the holiday tv season.

Yah. I agree with @avclub-8d21481602b5ba3b34a3b6861dbde2e1:disqus on this one. I hated Boone the first time around, and I just recently re-watched Season 1 of Lost, and sure enough, I still hate Boone.

I think just last night I decided that I continue to watch TSC in the hopes that Zylka and Dekker might reprise some of that Kaboom dream-sequence action. Sigh.

Logan is on Ringer now? Fuck me. I gave that show up too soon. But man it is truly a crap show, and I say this in spite of the fact that I also love some SMG.