From what I recall, the first four episodes of season 5 were lauded, with some sites and critics (like Andy Greenwald) saying it could be the best season yet. Episode 5 was received similarly. Then episode 6 came out and GoT was sent to the naughty corner for a week. Episode 7 was seen as a recovery, and the last…

Have you read the Winds of Winter extract with 'Alayne'? Most of it concerns marriage and court jealousies in anticipation of an incoming wedding. I think the show just pulled it back chronologically and welded it with Ramsay's marriage to Jeyne Poole to get to the meat and potatoes sooner.

It should also be pointed out that the Baratheons have Targaryen blood from Robert and Stannis' grandmother; they used this blood connection to help legitimise their claim to the throne (in addition to the right of conquest). It's also frequently mentioned that Jon looks quintessentially Stark; Sansa and Robb in…

Bronn will accompany Jaime to the Riverlands, no doubt. They'll run into Pod and Brienne there.

I think the show switched Harry the Heir from the books with Ramsay, so I think she will still have her 'red honeymoon' later in the books, along with its requisite vengeance.

I still think the best part of Rocket Queen is the back-end, where it changes from a swaggering, sneering song about a real teenage madam, and then melts into a pained but sweet message of "hope and friendship" for someone who is ultimately lost and lonely in the crowd and rain. I find it really affecting.

Axl is often remembered as a hip-swaying egomaniac who probably broke up the band with his paranoia and eccentricity alone, but he was also a gifted lyricist, as seen here and in later songs on Use Your Illusion: 'Breakdown' in particular never struck me as a great song per se but it contained some of Rose's best…

Hot Dog house is where Jesse gives the hobo a stack of cash in BB season 5, episode 1.

Maybe an ancestor of Jones the cat from Alien.

"remember the Italian woman who decides to fuck a random Asian dude in the space of about six seconds?"

I thought that was an ironic complaint coming from the guy whose debut was essentially an American retelling of Akira.

Gotta put a positive spin on it somehow, eh?

No mention of DeKnight's awesome Spartacus? You guys gave the finale an A+ I'm sure on its initial review and claimed the show was "one that will echo for decades to come as viewers come to discover this show they simply can’t believe no one told them about." Don't slacken on this so soon :D

The image of that Predator is promotional material from Predators. I guess we've all forgotten it already :P

I have an almost four hour cut reincorporating all of the Missing Pieces. Yes, it's very long, yes, many of the added scenes are there for the sake of indulgence, and no, none of my friends would dare watch it with me, but damn do I love that film. It made me look at the show and Laura's tragedy (and Laura herself) in…

The first eight episodes of season 2 conclude the main storyline and really deepen the mythology of the show. From there until the finale it's a bit of a mess, with Lynch and Frost working on other projects, but the finale is truly a surrealist masterpiece that ends on a bang. I also love the movie, but some people…

Two things from the finale that bugged me: Hanzee being a minor character from season 1 (torpedoing, for me, what could have been an interesting return in future seasons, or simply a great one-off character) along with the on-the-nose inclusion of season 1's hitmen as kids; and secondly, Hank explaining the UFO…

According to the script it was meant to be disintegrated at the end, but they couldn't incinerate the stuntman or the suit (£200,000 a suit!) For his part, writer Dan O'Bannon said: “I wanted the thing to be, in every respect, a natural animal, which means yes, if you shoot it, it’ll die.”

Alien's co-writer and executive producer Ron Shusett: “It was our idea that it would be the life cycle of an insect. The way a wasp will sting a spider, paralyse it, and lay its eggs in the spider … that we did want it to be …. We thought people might pick up on it and say, ‘yeah, an alien life cycle can be an insect…

He told Starlog magazine that after the premiere his sister punched him square in the gut.