Not saying Tormund wouldn't make a dick joke, just not in that way — like an 8th grader from 1993.

I blocked that fart out of my memory. Thanks, Fakko.

I'd accept it from lesser shows, like Arrow, where they always seem to pop up in the right place at exactly the right time ready for battle. But Person of Interest is better than that. I don't want that show to spend its final season becoming like CW comic book joint.

I like this idea of Bran being a metonym for the audience and the Three-Eyed Sydow being a metonym for the showrunners. Let's run with that and see how the rest of the Starks shake out:

"Between Tormund’s talk of Jon’s pecker and the Umber’s strident approach to negotiating with Ramsay, I felt this was another week where the dialogue felt a tad bit more modern than it has in past seasons. I’m not sure it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it seemed marked nonetheless."

Yep, you're right, but I still think it's a stretch for Reese to go from guessing the nutjob on a subway was root to finding the right secret warehouse at the perfect moment.

I think you're right, but it's still a jump from Reese guessing root was the nutjob on a subway to finding the exact hidden warehouse at the exact right moment.

Okay, I'm reasonably happy with this episode, but one thing, ONE THING, is REALLY bothering me:

Haven't seen this elsewhere (yet), and I'm getting to the episode late, but but but —

Refn's a stylistic mash-up or remix artist: Valhalla Rising was a mash-up of a sci-fi film with a medieval story (he said someplace he wondered what it'd be like if Kubrick made a viking film), and Only God Forgives is a mash-up of an American crime/detective drama with a samurai movie (set in a land where neither of…

Simone seemed to be in the Bernie Bernbaum role (almost expected her to say "I'M PRAYING TO YOU"), so that was probably her last chance.

Don’t know if you’d call it an under-strength NZ team, but last year Japan came within 2 points of the New Zealand Maori All Blacks. YouTube highlights here.

I think the only way rugby would get more than an occasional sensational blip here every month or so is if the sport had its own sub-blog. Not sure why no one has attempted that, there’s more than enough content on offer — three main European competitions with some added lower divisions, a chief southern hemisphere…

Pocock is back for the Wallabies, but Folau is still a question, and their scrum has been weakened through injuries — the Pumas will look to take advantage of that. Plus, if Argentina’s forwards can keep the ball in play like they did against Ireland, they won’t give Australia’s flankers much time to work their magic.

Heh — was going to say this sounds pretty much like an Upper Midwest cookout, except with spades instead of euchre, and a few different musical choices. (But they like their old school R&B and hip hop.)

And give Japan some credit beyond this, because they’ve been steadily improving over the past few years. In the Pacific Nations tournament and some of their other Test matches this year, their scrum became potent. They’re in sync, they’re coordinated, they work as a group, and they’ll splinter any other scrum that…

That was Bobby's job.

Huh. Some of the questions are a little absolutist — would I always choose a party over a monastery? Maybe not always; is it a Trappist monastery with a brewery? That makes a difference. Do I balance my checkbook at the end of each week? If you just take two minutes to manage that after each transaction, there’s not…

Unfortunately, spinach still tastes like spinach, sardines still taste like sardines, and Brussels sprouts still taste like Brussels sprouts...

I’ll be rooting for better American-to-Aussie translations in the future.