The desperate part of me was like, "Yes! They ARE going to bring back Roger Rees!"

It at least deserved a "Stray Observation," right?

The dialogue… oh the dialogue… As I am sure many have said, I really want to like this show, but the dialogue. And the pacing. But last night: the dialogue.

Ah - OK. That makes far more sense. I was thinking it was akin to the extra-large episode orders a la The Office under Ben Silverman and the like.

Season 2, Episode 28…

Er, um, that Halloween episode of Quantum Leap wear Sam maybe fights the Devil, who is masquerading as Al, anyone?

Er, that Quantum Leap Halloween episode where the Devil seems to impersonate Al, anyone?

Um, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's "Space Vampire" episode, anyone?

She did a really good drunk overall, I thought, both with Batmanmobile and when Nick is trying to stop her from pretending to be Keaton.

Basically, "comprise" means "contain," as in the example, "The whole comprises all of its parts." In that sense, you can't really say "The book is 'contained' of its chapters." The passive use doesn't quite work, because the traditional meaning of the word can't support it.

Yeah. Sherlock is describing something to Watson - the original trial, or the content of Abigail's letters, or something - and he says they were "comprised of" whatever.

Side note: Thank you for using "comprised" correctly… something Sherlock did not do last night, which is still nagging at me.

Both you and Ape are right; after the clusterfuck of the Thewlis/Brando/Kilmer version, I think I'm just gunshy about too heavy a hand adapting the core of the book.

This is one of those books where I wish that people didn't try to be clever and graft on extra themes or change things around to suit current fashions

That might have been me. You weren't supposed to see that.

Maybe that's what's puzzling, its less-puzzlingness?

This show really hit the ground running - the first episode, "Revenge," is like Hitchcock in a nutshell, or at least one of the show's prominent themes perfectly executed.

C'mon now, Jug Face is a pretty effective title: it tells you exactly that what you're dealing with is a jug, which has a face on it.

We tried recently - what's odd is, I think the actual two-part pilot is missing from streaming. You press play, and he's already well on his way.

It's like when they shrank Chris Evans for Captain America, except horizontally.