Someone was slapping putty over the holes through the glass. There's just one quick shot, half a moment, but one of Wilford's people is there filling in the holes before anything happens.

The night-vision axe-wielding ninja-militia. But I like how the back of Curtis' head is even more blacked out than the ninja's faces. (Was that Curtis in that shot?)

You realize the train was in Tunisia when it blowed up.

I imagine those revolting seven what froze out on the ridge might thaw out and come back to life like bullfrogs hibernating under ice in winter.

Every now and then, you just call back to the tail-end of the comments and start to cull the herd, because it needs doing. I bet there's some commenter at the end of all the comments who's actually working with you. By the end of this article's run, precisely 74% of these comments shall be deleted.

But it was so predictable and plot-hole ridden that I was fighting checking my watch the whole time hoping it was about to end.

I wrote about this below, and haven't seen any other critics make this direct link, but there's a lot of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin going on in this film. A lot of the film, especially the tail-section scenes, seem like an homage to Eisenstein's film. And Potemkin is a pretty damned Marxist film (and I'm…

This film, on top of many other things, seems to be a collection of homages to other directors, probably most obviously Terry Gilliam. But there also seems to be a lot of Sergei Eisenstein at work, and the tail section scenes especially recall Battleship Potemkin.

What's worse is Tilda Swinton recycles the same exact over-the-top
character from Gilliam's The Zero Theorem (complete with overdone accent,
fake teeth, and crazy wig) for Snowpiercer.

An extra-long piece like this could use either some trimming or some better organization.

At almost 9000 words, it could have used an abstract.

Because it's pretty clean, it's not a chardonnay with a lot of bite — which by the way some chardonnay with bite is fine. It's a pretty clean — no it's a pretty clean — ye — ye — and it's not that expensive, it's way beyond what it costs. It's hard to find here; in California you can find it a lot. It's outta Napa,…

Ax/ask/acsian is kind of fascinating, because it gets into fossilized remnants of a language and how they persist. You can still hear "ax" in certain dialects of English from northwestern England, Scotland and Ireland, and it can point to the history of that region — who went there, and where'd they come from.

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And go a little southwest of you and you get the Beast of Bray Road in Elkhorn. There are also stories of some kind of weird, paranormal harlequin in southern Wisconsin — doesn't talk, but shows up in people's homes.

I imagine someone somewhere sitting down to Shabbat dinner saying "This isn't good for the Jews."

The remix is pretty good, too.

That sword Bjorn unwraps at the end — any scholars out there have the translation? That looked like Anglo-Saxon runes, so I figured it was a stolen sword, and from what I could tell it said something like "Shard of Kings," but if anyone knows better, clue us in.

This would probably have been too difficult to pull off, but it would have been interesting if they wrote this season's 13 episodes as if it were a 23-episode season, and each episode referenced stuff that happened in the episodes that weren't seen (because they don't actually exist), thereby giving the illusion that…

Testosterone? Was that how it was written in the playbill, but they just said "Testes" on stage?