I found it pretty funny that, in addition to the ships listed above, he also had a model of the Vengeance right there on his desk. You know, the super-secret combat-only Federation ship that would have caused anybody who saw it to wonder WTF it was...

So here's my question about this: assuming we've got two, maybe three seasons left before we're caught up to where Martin is with the books...and assuming that his publisher is not going to want the next book out well before that same book is covered in the show...and given that it takes the better part of a year to…

Yeah, I don't necessarily buy all of them - seriously, accents? "She looked up suddenly when someone walked close to her!". But I think something's definitely shifty about the character - we know nothing about her at all beyond what she's said.

I haven't had any reason to feel this way previously but something in that Robb and Talisa scene last night made me really suspicious - something about her writing a letter "to her mother", whom she apparently hasn't even bothered to tell she's married. To a king. And she's writing in a strange language Robb can't…

Joe Versus the Volcano. I can see how some (a lot?) might find it twee or cloying but I love that movie.

From the pronunciation guide at the end of Return of the King:

Sorry I forgot to include a smiley indicating I was being tongue-in-cheek - I actually WOULDN'T expect most people to know, or give the slightest crap about, those things.

Minor correction: Mycah, Arya's friend who was killed by the Hound in the first season at the same inn, was a butcher's boy, not a baker's boy (which would be more poetic).

What the hell does Peter Jackson know about Tolkien anyway - he said it was weird for Elves to live underground. What, PJ, never heard of Nargothrond? Menegroth? The Caves of Androth?

Quick correction - Margaery is Loras's sister, not his brother.

We've gotten to the point where we just stop the dvr before the "next episode" trailers play. Way too much given away, consistently.

Being a starship fan, one of my favorite bits of Wrath of Khan trivia is that the Reliant was originally conceived upside-down from the orientation in the movie - with the nacelles above the saucer, like the Enterprise. Nicholas Meyer apparently looked and the concept art upside down and signed off on it, and they ran…

I saw Jethro Tull a few years back in concert along with a young violinist named Lucia Micarelli; they first surprised me with the Love Theme from The Godfather, but better than that they did a pretty kick-ass version of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir for flute and violin.

"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" on Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Just amazing.

I watched it in both 24 and 48; I didn't feel like 48 brought anything to the party and was occasionally distracting. Liked the 3D. As a Tolkien nerd I loved some of the supplemental stuff (White Council) but didn't feel the additional plot stuff (Azog) was necessary. I think a great two-hour movie could be made from…

I believe you're mistaken. Tolkien had been working on a larger mythos (much of which would be consolidated and published posthumously in The Silmarillion) but LotR was started and created specifically to be a sequel to The Hobbit, which was published in 1937 - LotR wasn't finished until 1949. The early chapters of…

Cute and all, but isn't this just pretty much a ripoff of the idea behind Pixar artist Josh Cooley's Little Golden Books versions of r-rated movies from a couple years ago? http://www.slashfilm.com/cool-stuff-pixar-artist-josh-cooleys-lil-inappropriate-golden-book-movies-r-fun/

"The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into

Seems to me that the article misses a pretty major element of Fisher King - which is that Williams's character is homeless and insane because his fiance was one of the victims of the guy Bridges inadvertently goaded into going on the shooting spree. One of the major elements of the story is Bridges trying to make…

Seems to me that the article misses a pretty major element of Fisher King - which is that Williams's character is homeless and insane because his fiance was one of the victims of the guy Bridges inadvertently goaded into going on the shooting spree. One of the major elements of the story is Bridges trying to make…