I have to preserve the mystique!

I'm definitely me.

Hey, wait a minute, you are upvoting your own comments!

*shrug

Why, you could say the only thing strained was my _____!, etc.

Hey, it wasn't perfect, but this episode actually worked for me.

Stomp! Clap! Stomp! Stomp! Clap! Stomp! Clap! Stomp! Stomp! Clap! The eagle's born out of thunder! He flies through the night. Don't you mess with his eggs now, or you'll see us fight! Yes we have feathers, but the muscles
of men. 'Cuz we're birds of war now, but we're also men! Birds of war! Ah ah ah ah!!!

Oof, that sounds rough…

Honestly, that book is a really great "inside baseball" look at both Star Trek and the writing process on movies.

That's actually a show I kept meaning to check out, but ultimately kept forgetting to. I'm judging from your tone that it is not good?

Yes! Twin Peaks without the supernatural hokum? Could work. And if anyone could balance similar tone to Lynch's work, it'd be Gilligan…

When I first picked up the books, I thought "okay, cool ideas and concepts, but these have some series problems, writing-wise… this might make a cool TV series, though."

Yeah. Basically, that's Del Toro/Hogan's contribution to the "vampires have strange powers of suggestion!" idea - the vampires can put thoughts in your head telepathically.

*SPOILERS? I GUESS*

I remember Mr. Quinlan, but not Mr. Julian.

Well, technically none of the vamps are speaking…

Was the vampire hit squad in the books? I definitely don't remember that.

Why, the only thing that was strained was my suspension of disbelief!

"33" is one of my favorite episodes of anything, ever.

He speaks English perfectly well, as most second-languagers do… but there's a glut of research that seems (operative word) to support the idea that the language you learn shapes the way you think, and subsequently the way you relate or convey information to the world (hell, even actors learning a non-native accent for…