As much as this might have an ‘Oh, that’s cool’ factor, there’s a reason why - when Peter Jackson recreated the missing/lost ‘spider pit’ sequence from ‘King Kong’ - he elected to do it via traditional stop motion animation, not with CGI.

‘Oh Watson; the needle!’ from 1939's ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’. Given the hoops the producers of ‘Gone With the Wind’ (also 1939) had to jump through to retain Rhett Butler’s ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’ in the face of the Hays Code, it constantly amazes me that ‘Hound’ was allowed to explicitly…

And Kinsella’s novel was based on a short story he had previously written called ‘Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa’. Also, Kinsella was Canadian. His las years were spent in the town of Hope, British Columbia, about two hours’ drive south of where I live. Hope is probably most famous as the place where ‘First Blood’ …

I love how Key is dressed like Evie in ‘The Mummy’ with that striped, open-necked blouse and scarf, and has her hair done like Evie as well. Nice touch!

I had my gall bladder removed in March, and haven’t had to worry about bills at all, because I belong to a health care sharing ministry live in Canada, and every aspect of the procedure - from initial consult at my local emergency department to ambulance ride to the tertiary care hospital an hour away to a battery of…

I was aware of the ‘video nasties’ scare when I moved from Canada to Britain in 1992, when it was a little past its heyday, perhaps, but still ongoing. However, it made a resurgence in 1993, when a two-year-old from Merseyside, James Bulger, was taken from a shopping mall by two 10-year-old boys and led to a rail…

‘She speaks the bullshit!’

The final scene with Mare and Lori was devastating. I thought at first that after that long moment of trying to ignore her, Lori would break down sobbing Mare’s arms, the way Mare did with her mom after she got slapped, but instead it was as if all the pain and hunger and hurt that has been supporting her just drained…

The ‘Pig War’ came only a few months after the Fraser Canyon War, which was only 120 miles or so from the San Juan Islands and almost involved American troops. There’s also a connection to ‘It was a dark and stormy night.’

Another anomaly of the US/Canada border in the area is that it creates Point Roberts, a tiny enclave of Americans who are surrounded by water on three sides and the Canadian border to the north (south of Vancouver). Rather than dip down to make the whole peninsula Canadian, the border goes clean through the top,…

It’s still used by municipal governments in Canada as the guide for running council and other government meetings. It may (at first glance) appear old-fashioned or cumbersome, but Robert’s Rules really do cover every eventuality and  possible difficulty, and eliminate confusion, as long as the chair has taken the time…

Such a great film. I first saw it on British TV in 1983 when I was on holiday there from Canada; it was completely uncut, and I thought ‘What the hell am I watching?’ I caught it a couple of years later on Canadian network TV, where they cut out all the gory parts but left the Shakespeare soliloquies intact, and then…

‘Where are my doggie-woggies?’

I don’t know that John’s having an affair (this time). Lori told Mare that last time it happened she (Lori) knew, as there were all sorts of signs, but this time it just came right out of the blue. Also, John dodged the question with his dad: his explanation for why he’s moved out was ‘Lori thinks I’m having an…

For me it was the simple moment when she broke down in front of her mom after getting slapped by Colin’s mom. I’ve done that kind of crying, when you’ve got nothing left and all you want to do is have your mom hug you and tell you it’ll be okay, no matter how old you are. Brilliant.

I’m wondering if Dr. Hague ‘came through’ as well from the future. The way he cottoned on to Sarah and Mollie so quickly after the spores began affecting people seemed pretty quick; how did he figure it out so fast? In the first episode where we see the Galanthi under London, Hague says to Miss Bidlow ‘Ain’t we…

And her mention that the others wouldn’t know any of the songs she knows, in an earlier episode.

I heard her say ‘H...’ as well, and thought she looked like the actress who plays Harriet.

Mare’s mom even says that calling it an affair was a stretch, she only slept with him two, maybe three times, and that shows how little it meant to her.

When Colin called in to run the partial tags, he said ‘George Henry David’. Shouldn’t it have been ‘Golf Hotel Delta’? I thought American police used the NATO phonetic alphabet.