Except Wizard, Fritz the Cat, and The Lord of the Rings are all awesome. Bakshi's work has its own kind of eclectic, thoughtful pacing - it's more like animated meditations along the lines of Lost In Translation and 70s European films.

I think there's a very good argument that was the original short script that Alien was built on. Dan O'Bannon said he had a 'gremlins on a WWII military plane' script that he had started with, and he wrote that Heavy Metal segment not long after Alien.

Anybody who wanted to see it could find it on VHS bootlegs. And it was, and remains, glorious fun, even if it couldn't live up to the original stories.

You should have seen it at 12, then.

A lot of the clues there are in the Dunk and Egg novellas.

Sure, but after-the-fact non-subjective moralizing is a different discussion entirely.

I can't imagine speculating about Rembrandt's artistic motivations - regardless, the human experience is communicated in colors and lines, too. The way we see and perceive the world around us is all part of it. I don't think it's cynical, I just think it's wrong - there are many, many easier ways to make money than by…

No way - that's what divides advertising from art: the intentional communication of the human experience. But if you truly think artistic motivation is primarily to make money, I can understand why why that difference might not be apparent to you.

It's artistic intent behind the action, though - affixing a poster for Campbell's soup on a wall doesn't inherently make an artistic statement.

Which is a fine criticism in specific, but as a broad maxim that assertion hardly rings true. Intention holds a lot of value in creative works, even if it can be a bit squirrely to pin down.

'Actions, not intentions, hold value.' That's awfully broad - art is all about intentionality. It's why Warhol's soup cans and Duchamp's toilet carry meaning.

Someone's surely said it, but I love that Walt took the bullet from a device and plan of his own making, and if he hadn't been on top of Jesse it would have missed him. Beautiful.

GoT's best episode to date, despite being low on huge setpieces - the shots were so great they felt like a storyboarding textbook, and the acting was just spectacular - the tenderness of Tyrion and Sam in their respective scenes was exceptional, and this had perhaps the best representation of actual drunkenness - AND…

Yep!

No way - there's still TONS of stuff to get through. That, and they've already released the very-obvious-if-you've-read-the-book episode titles. Episode 9 is 'The Rains of Castamere,' and Episode 10 is 'Mhysa' - both clearly right at the middle of Book 3.

Well, SPOILERS! aren't they still going to be Tywin's men once the Boltons betray the Starks and side with him as part of his longer plan? Tywin's still pretty directly responsible, and I don't see them changing that aspect.

That was, perhaps, the single best thing I have ever seen on television. Just a tremendous work, a somber, meditative look at life, death and dreams and just the overwhelming experience of being a living being. Amazing, groundbreaking work at the highest artistic reaches of the medium.

That was, perhaps, the single best thing I have ever seen on television. Just a tremendous work, a somber, meditative look at life, death and dreams and just the overwhelming experience of being a living being. Amazing, groundbreaking work at the highest artistic reaches of the medium.

I am confident that the razing of Winterfell will be explained next season.

I am confident that the razing of Winterfell will be explained next season.