When another worker runs, the foreman activates the tracker, blowing the man’s ear off. That’s what happens if they run, they’re told.

As mentioned, this gives you a prime opportunity to blog your reactions to episodes for us.

pahoehoehoehuehue!

Pretty sure that’s an Austin Healey (100 or 3000).

Is this the true origin story for Pinky & The Brain?

Jon’s just “Mostly Dead.”

That’s also what they did with Warehouse 13 and Pete & Myka...

It’s secondary purpose is to leave any high or inebriated person hiding behind the couch screaming that the pigs or spider coals are going to end them.

Wait, what? I’m afraid I might to be forced to hand in my Ghibli fan card, as I’d never even heard of this film before reading this. How did I not know anything about it?

It wasn’t just the British colonies: California was considered penal duty for the Spanish empire. IIRC, one of my professors mentioned it was possible to be sentenced to California while you were already in California for business. Beats being a galley slave, I guess.

Loved the reference, and in keeping with the Thufir theme, maybe Bronn is going to need more than one dose (maybe a lifetime more) of antidote to keep himself alive (and compliant)?

Why, the film asks, did we give up on that kind of can-do, sleeve-up-rolling optimism? Why are we instead fixated on apocalypses and dystopias? What’s wrong with us?

Now the written version of Lawnmower Man has superior meat on its Doomsday Cult bones.

You have to see more of the show than just that youtube snippet for the context to get it, but then it makes sense.

So they intended to kidnap her using envenomed/poisoned[?] weapons while she was being protected by their cousin, Doran’s son and heir? What could possibly go wrong? Brilliantly thought out by the showrunners ... or the girls are being deliberately portrayed as utter morons.

I was thinking it was [legal] assisted suicide.

Why time appears (to a distant observer) to slow and stop for an object as it approaches and reaches a black hole’s event horizon. I’ve heard it a bunch of times, but this show (saw it on Netflix) finally hammered it through to me.

To Whom It May Concern,

Thoughts:

“Can we please just all agree that Coulson is the BEST Avenger of them all? He is unflappable. UNFLAPPABLE. “