F. Scott's novel was titled The Beautiful and Damned.

Just as Andrew's wimpy DD wager nearly cost him the game, Michael' as well could have easily tipped it in his favor had he gone larger.

Maybe not the most precise phrasing, but what I meant was locations that recalled places we'd seen before, e.g. a desert planet where the locals survive by scavenging, a cantina with strange and disreputable aliens, a moon/planet-sized superweapon, etc.

This seems counterintuitive, since by definition aging brings us all closer to the death, but statistically the best predictor of future survival is continued present survival, at least until you suddenly die.

Whatever else his faults as a filmmaker, Lucas certainly knew how to create new worlds and universes, and I agree it would be exciting to see more stories take place in that far away galaxy, stories that, as you note, are at the periphery or even completely separate from the canonical films.

The weird thing is that I completely shared your viewpoint and enthusiasm while watching TFA, but as the memory of that experience has faded, find myself regretting all the possible new directions the next chapter in the Star Wars saga could have gone.

I can see enjoying TFA much more on its own, without prior knowledge of Star Wars, which goes toward your point about TFA being the base for a trio of movies and its subsequent esteem being dependent on the trio as a whole.

TFA was fun and entertaining at the time of viewing, but given increasing distance and time, just seems more and more shameless pandering and cowardly retreading, afraid to truly expand both the continuing Star Wars story and universe, instead retreating not only to familiar beats but familiar haunts and characters,…

It could have been worse.

As Zuri noted in that ep., Hank probably does most of his shopping in the frozen food aisle, making him particularly susceptible to anything home cooked/baked.

Rosalee in the header pic looks like she's either making the world's most toxic pesto or into some seriously weird Mennonite/Breaking Bad cosplay.

Adalind keeping her meeting with Renard secret from Rosalee was puzzling considering she admitted to Nick that Renard had approached her with promises of Diana and all the Scoobies are suspicious of the once good Captain.

"One more thing, you may want to avoid baking any cookies for him."

Back in the discussions of the early eps of this show there were comparisons of the Grimm to the SS, the idea being that the Grimm basically served as the terrorizing executioners for the Royals, so in that sense Nick really is a big-hearted softie.

Not only is that link SFW, but the book itself has earned literature status complete with summary, study guide, and free multiple choice quiz.
http://www.bookrags.com/stu…

So, not God?

I only origami sheet metal.

Saw most of the episode and was suitably entertained, even by the clichéd spy/caper tango dance number with the lesbionic twist, but what's really impressive are Val's arms in the header pic.

Bronson was 52 when he made the movie, and he always gives the impression that this isn’t his first murder spree.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Ultron was Prokofiev topping the work he did on Alexander Nevsky.