But seriously, big pharma is one of the most heavily subsidised industries and the way the US healthcare market works means that you guys pay substantially more for exactly the same drugs as the rest of the world. But, yeah, yay capitalism.

Hey it works well for me. I'm in the UK and I'm more than happy for US 'capitalism' to produce medical advances that you people can't access and that my state provides to me for free.

Are we surprised that the American market can't handle Chinese films? I mean you guys have to remake UK films and television (though this is arguably more prevalent in television) and they're in the same language.

The grimmest most depressing thing ever committed to film.

While I think that your right in that the episode gives us a perfect postscript to the failures of Tyrion's exercise of power, I think it also provides a nice foreshadowing of how (MILD SPOILERS) Cersei will fail to exercise power. It's made pretty clear that Cersei has been manipulating the trial and has most of the…

From the CDC:

Did anyone else pick up the dialogue that went something along the lines of:

A Game of Thrones rap album?

Judas

Yes just like the way that theatre, opera and ballet are dead art forms that no-one ever watches anymore.

As beautiful and architecturally coherent as Paris is, one of the things I love most about London is how chaotic it is architecturally. Medieval castles, tudor pubs, Georgian mansions, victorian terraces, 1940s social housing, 60s concrete brutalist blocks, 80s postmodern pastiche, 00s glass towers all within spitting…

The factor here seems to be that it could be argued that the eyeborg is addressing a medical need - it's closer to a hearing aid than a mobile phone or, say, google glass.

It seems to me that squealing "this is not news" is really this century's "gays should keep it to themselves." Its thin veneer of being progressive seems to hide a really deep discomfort with people being openly gay.

'The cylons have a plan" does not equal "god has a plan and it's real and so are angels" in the early episodes, despite the monotheism of the cylons. Perhaps even more so given the clear lack of planning by the cylons as the show went on. The show's treatment of faith/religion/magic was always pretty weak, especially…

This was my whole problem with the way BSG went - it stopped dealing with 'faith' pretty early on and moved really quickly into dealing with magic. I mean when religious belief is explored as a reason for a character's motivation it's fascinating - especially when the show was subverting our monotheistic norm with the…

Is it just me or is this picture of Katie Sackhoff really badly airbrushed?

No to crackers. Yes to automatic weapons.

Traumatised me for years.

Iron Man is just Odysseus with some Icarus thrown in for good measure.

I don't really want to excuse the laziness or greediness of the studio system, but there is something very human about telling the same stories in different ways. Taking your point it to its most extreme why bother with telling any stories when the Greeks pretty much did it all 2000 years ago?