THIS.

My 62 year-old mother thought it was a fairly entertaining way to spend an hour while shelling peas from her garden.

(Halfhearted exclamation of disbelief).

Does Zenigata fit here?

Bill Paxton = Clyde the Bartender!

Blair wasn't the only bad thing about Del Toro's Hellboy movies, but she was one of the worst. I had the strong impression that she'd had this "acting" thing described to her in detail several times, but had never actually seen it done.

Wise up, man.

"I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards, OK?"

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.

When you're 18, poor and lack transportation, anything with wheels is a godsend.

So the 1920s New York speakeasy owner was nicknamed "The Prawn", and the Greek shipping magnate is called "The Narwhal"?

So who had "Moriarty is Irene" in the pool?

ACTUALLY, IT'S BY PAULA DEEN!

Also, yeah, I was worried when I heard that Natalie Dormer was cast as Irene that she was going to be another in the line of English Irene Adlers. Thankfully, this was not the case.

A few months ago, someone on these boards noted that Irene was originally an American opera star from New Jersey, and suggested that an appropriate modern re-invention would be a reality TV star from a generic version of 'Jersey Shore'.

Even after watching 2 or 3 episodes, I was never quite able to shake the disappointment of realizing that Spike Milligan, Harry Seacombe and Peter Sellers were in no way involved in this project.

I didn't go there, because BOT has a higher position in my personal hierarchy of "awesome shows cancelled before their time", but I can totally sympathize.

I was anticipating that the episodes' entire plot would be directly connected to Moriarty; Instead it was another case of the week, loosely speaking. It wasn't un-interesting, with it's false completion and deeper wrinkles, but seemed to be there mostly as a placeholder.

It's in the mountains of Iowa! The mountains of Iowa!

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