Epic Kingsbeard is epic.

Uh.. which time? ;-p

One thing from the books that I was kinda disappointed they cut (tho I get why) is that another one of Ned’s defense strategies was to basically filibuster the shit out of it.

Right? Give me hot cowboy abs, that’s all I ask for.

Hard not to have PTSD around that song after ten seasons.

That's really good to know. As someone who knows nothing about the book, all I got out of watching the trailer was "holy crap, this is some peak MPDG bullshit." And pretty much zero desire to see the movie.

Same studio behind both those series, incidentally.

I found the first season quite fun, but then as others mentioned the main plot kind of went off the rails during season 2. The only reason I kept watching was for two of the supporting characters who continued to have some really great moments. (And they are characters who don't appear in S1 so if you do watch, you…

It was on netflix for a long time, but not sure if it still is or not.

I did a summer internship at one of the S&S imprints in college and spent a lot of my time reading through the slush pile and writing up quick reports on books that mainly ran the spectrum from "nope, not gonna happen" to "dear GOD what is that foulness."

No IM function it looks like — I wish. I've definitely got some stories, but I'm in an in-house position so the headdesk moments are of a slightly different sort. Like when they try to "help" by writing the powerpoint presentation in English to start with, so "all you have to do is edit it." No, Hayashi-san, that is…

Btw just noticed in one of your other comment replies— I'M J-E too! The kanji/katakana/hiragana combination, plus no clear subject/object specified is its own special hell for a translator isn't it ;-p

Also —- translation and interpretation are TWO DIFFERENT SKILLS, people.

The whole, extended Daddy's Boy musical number played over the credits. So... so... wrong.

Yeah. He knew they weren't good people, his mistake was in assuming that the fact they had a "code" would keep things mostly under control.

Yeah, almost any of the mecha/robot type anime— especially in the last 5 years or so— are going to have a fairly large amount of CG. Robot/mecha are one of the hardest things to draw actually, and it's only the super veteran talented genga-man types who are able to draw that kind of thing anymore. But of course that…

Yes, and Daryl's expression when he first saw Carol in that getup — priceless WTF face. He was sooo creeped out. Also the fact that, as my roommate pointed out, by the time his interview happened that dead possum was experiencing some serious rigor mortis. The tail was like a cane.

One of the interesting things about this show, for me, is the fact that there totally could be situations like what you're talking about. I mean they spend the first 4 seasons basically in and around Atlanta, and are only *just* now getting up to Alexandria/DC.

OH MY GOD.

Literally just yesterday, a friend was hanging out at my place and my roomie and I were making her watch Pitch Perfect, which she had never seen. Then she mentioned that she hadn't ever seen Bring it On either, and we immediately segued into that.