Hmm, I guess I never really thought about how Thulsa Doom turning into a snake didn't result in a big snake battle; we'd already had one of those in the movie - I just kind of read it that he was using some ritual or ceremony to transform himself to "feel his inner snake" (that sounds somehow wrong), possibly using…

Yeah, the pic in the article proper; the one at the top is definitely a screenshot from the first one.

I do have to call slight BS on one thing: the pic of Arnold is from Conan the Destroyer, the far inferior sequel to Conan the Barbarian. Conan's garb in Barbarian was much more covering and, er...realistic?

I think of all these, the shots of The Twins impressed me the most; they did an incredible job of matching the sort of lower-sun lighting and atmosphere. Amazing work.

Shop vac!
Nerd-pop star Jonathan Coulton says he wrote his song "Shop Vac" (http://www.youtube.com/watc… in an attempt to write a Fountains of Wayne-like song.

Is there any way to just set a default view? I use the blog view, but I have to reset it every time I start my browser up - is there any way to assign a default view to my login?

Maggie, this is potential spoiler territory but there is a popular theory - backed up by a LOT of evidence if you re-read the books - that Jon Snow is not Ned's bastard at all, but is in fact the daughter of his sister Lyanna by Rhaegar Targaryen. Check this page for the evidence (along with cases for other parentage…

I believe that there is at least one shot of Rickon sitting on a fence in the scene where Bran is target shooting.

#2 has to be the Red Keep in King's Landing...

Jor-el
Anyone else get the sense that the lines at the start of Jack's messages to his son (or daughter) were meant to evoke Marlon Brando's wacky crystal messages to his son in the first Superman movie?