Here's a question that just came up in my conversation about this ep with my girlfriend: do we know for certain that Korra did in fact have this flashback, or might it be a flashback that only we as the audience saw? I.e., did it happen within the fiction, or could it just be a flashback for us?

Thank you - that felt TOTALLY cheesy and out of character for the show. WTF?

Kind of vexed me that in the audiobooks it's consistently pronounced like "Breye-EEN"

I've heard this said before, and I disagree - I think there's a difference between making a poor decision and making a good decision that has catastrophic repercussions. Martin does that a lot - have characters make decisions that are completely logical for the character, but that we as privileged readers know are…

Agreed - I thought it was just a setup for Arya's mantra that she would repeat to herself each night...

I don't know if it's because I first listened to it as a suggestible youth or what, but the little mini-suite on the back half of "Welcome to My Nightmare" still gives me delightful creeps - the whole "Years Ago/Steven/Awakening" combination. It's got a feel like a really messed-up seventies horror movie…I love it.

But…but…but the New York Times said only D&D-playing mouth-breathers watch this show! How can this be?

(Spoilers, but you already know this…) I may be off here, but I >think< that it wasn't much of a secret who and where the bastards were. The secret that Jon Arryn uncovered was that all the bastards had black hair, while Robert's "real" children did not, revealing that they were not in fact his. But I don't think the…

I've been listening to the Dan since the 70's but only recently really sat down and listened to Peg on a system that did it justice. The bass line (and the one on "Josie") made we want to grab random passers-by and yell "LISTEN to this!" in their faces.

Although I read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, I was (emphasis on past tense) a fan of the man based on his Secular Humanist Revival routine he used to do at conventions; I had it on tape and listened to it countless times. I was amazingly disappointed when I learned what an ass he is, and how in a lot of ways…

Amen. I was fourteen when Star Wars came out and it was like it was suddenly safe to come out of the closet as a sci-fi fan - amazingly fun. Then Empire came out and it completely validated my love of Star Wars - it was like, "Okay, now we're getting serious!". Return came out when I was in college and I studiously…

I just figured it was one design element from the original show they liked and decided to keep.

I really like Steven "Coolhand" Tyler's work - he posts on Sci-fiMeshes.com a lot; good sample of his stuff is the Akula Falling...

I first heard "In These Shoes?" driving home late from work one night - it really hooked me. I looked up the album it was from and was amazed to find what I still consider one of the few perfect albums I know of - not a weak or bad song on the whole thing.

It actually got me a little choked up!

One exception I'd make is how I did it - because of personal issues, I'd let a whole bunch (ten or more) eps of Lost Season 3 pile up on the DVR - the span that a lot of fans hated, where they really felt like the show had jumped the shark. I blasted through them all in a single weekend and if I had a problem with an…

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who listened to Thomas Dolby's new album.

The complete and total lack of character consistency is what's rapidly killing this show for me. They aren't characters, they're just devices for the writers to Make Something Happen This Week. You talked about comparisons to Buffy, but one thing that show did that this one can't manage is keep the core of the…

Alien! My dad was a secret sci-fi buff and loved horror movies so we were both giddy about the creeeeeeepy trailer ads on tv; I was fourteen and dad figured I was old enough so we caught it at a mid-afternoon showing in Norfolk, VA. I think we BOTH watched half the movie between our fingers.

My sis just got her Master's degree in education, and one of the things she told me is that there are different types of "learners" - some people learn better visually, some through auditory input; it varies from person to person. My son and I are definitely visual learners - the type who would benefit from doodling…