Brains are jerks, always messing with you. I will say that the idea of a Bergman substitution in Casablanca is not without its intrigues. Sure, Ingmar wasn’t an actor himself, but that just adds to the fun!

Ingrid Bergman. No one would confuse her with Ingmar either.

Unusual but not impossible- Rameses II lived considerably earlier than Himiko, lived to be 90-ish, and reigned around 66 years. He kept outliving his heirs, poor guy.

That fat dragon is my favorite part. Instead of the player trying to seduce everything, I’d be the one who wants to hug the fat dragon.

The Holly and the Ivy was the one I was looking for, so it’s lovely to see at least someone else knows it (albeit not the list-makers). Such a cast, and all of them just tremendous. It’s melancholy and satisfying.

Yeah, reading the happy reactions from people who watch this new network on other sites, it’s clear that gay characters aren’t the only problem they have (though they’re a BIIIIG problem). They feel there also way too many non-white characters (still not many!) and interracial couples (almost none!). I remember a…

Nah, Lacey was smart. With Candace (the old Hallmark Christmas Queen) and lesser competitors Danica McKellar and Jen Lilley decamped to the God-Botherer Network, she’s signed an exclusive starring/production deal with Hallmark. That’s her crown now, at least until Alison Sweeney gets ambitious.

Re: Feud- It was Olivia de Havilland who sued over her portrayal. Her sister, Joan Fontaine, passed away in 2013 (Feud was on in 2017).

Having someone killed is still different than killing them directly. But as for her expression, I took that as knowledge of and horror at her own hypocrisy. I mean, a cup of moon tea is central to her original break with Rhaenyra, and yet here she is, administering it with hardly a twitch. It’s clearly not the first…

It’s Alicent, though, not Otto or Larys or even Daemon. She’s a fundamentalist prig, not a killer, at least not directly. If they were going to take as big a step in her characterization as having her kill with her own hands, they’d make it very clear; it would indeed be a big step. Maybe at this point she’d have the…

No? If you mean the drink, that was moon tea, not poison.

A new Black Panther, not a new T’Challa. The king dies while the superhero lives on.

Apparently it’s the only branch of the military where that’s the case? Which seems a little odd to me; I wouldn’t necessarily have pegged the Navy as the outliers. 

They aren’t. Like actual NCIS agents, the characters are civilians.

In 2013, though he did come back for at least one guest appearance.

I am also nowhere near 70 and have both a landline and an answering machine. Of course, unlike Jen, I live in the country, and if I want cell service, I have to go stand in front of the barn or someplace.

The Nothing isn’t vulpine; it’s cloudy. The vulpine guy is Gmork, harbinger of the Nothing.

grows increasingly weary of potentially executing

Ah ha, that is more clear than the write-up, and thank you for saving me from having to listen to the podcast.

If there’s room for Sonja Henie, there’s definitely room for Belita (skated for the UK in the ‘36 Olympics) and her weird, fun figure skating noir, Suspense. There’s murder and betrayal and the usual noir jazz, but she also does a really enjoyable “bad girl” skating routine in her nightclub/dinner theater, and a nice…