Ugh. It's telling that even though Headey didn't want to do all the nudity, they decided to get a body double so they could show a lot of it anyways. It would have been much better if they had just kept 99% of the sequence on her face or on her POV seeing the crowd.

I just felt relief when this season ended.

I am so fucking glad this season is over. Jesus. Even when it was good, it was troubled.

I'd say about 90% of this was Big Dumb Action Movie - entertaining, but insubstantial. The characters are totally unmemorable, not even rising to the level of archetypes aside from Chris Pratt (who is Mr Awesome Ex-Military Raptor Whisperer Guy). Even that last part works against the story, since Pratt being…

Bearded Cumberbatch looks rather sinister.

I think it's a turning point for Leela, although her resulting character change is very gradual over the next couple of seasons. She starts to "mellow out" a bit, becoming less rigid - and that's why she starts reciprocating Fry's feelings.

I remember reading a good essay saying that if you actually wanted to make a good American version of Akira that was spiritually true to its predecessor, you'd make the biker gang members back and change the name from "Akira" to something else, since "Akira" was just a ubiquitous name in Japan. "Adam" would be my…

I'm really hoping there's a magical Sixth Borough in New York City in the setting. What would it be called?

I'm more worried about his body being abandoned than burned, since I think the Wall is going to be in chaos after Jon "dies". But you're right- why would Davos bring his corpse south?

There's no way that Myrcella is returning to King's Landing alive. I thought that was the whole point of sending Jaime south - so that he's present when she dies, as predicted in the prophecy Cersei received. Granted, the whole Dornish arc feels pretty limp even with the fun duo of Jaime and Bronn because the whole…

It really fits with the whole season's feeling of self-reflection and self-examination, doesn't it? The episode shows us both why Burns is a rich man and why he'll never be a good man - and in both cases, it's ultimately about his instincts and personal nature. Even when he's ostensibly trying to do good, he ends up…

"You attended public school, I assume you're already familiar with small arms".

I disagree with you on Grimes. He turns into a bit of a jerk and eventual crazy guy by the end of the episode (after Homer has upset him over and over again), but when he first meets Lenny, Carl, and Homer he seems polite and nice. Maybe a little uptight and nervous, but not out of the ordinary.

A lot of the stuff in King's books only works well because you're inside the heads of characters when it happens. I'm thinking of Pet Sematary as well, which is . . . okay as a film, but where nearly all of what made the book good was lost because you're not inside of Louis Creed's head anymore.

It drags hard in the middle, though. The beginning and end are still pretty good, and Jamey Sheridan is perfectly creepy as Randall Flagg when they don't do the whole stupid "demon face" thing.

The edited copy really is a lot better, although some of the pieces they cut out were memorable in a "holy shit that's horrifying" way (like a long segment with Trash traveling with The Kid).

It's just a wrongly paced story for a film. The Stand is a story that needs segmenting and room to spread out a bit, have slow parts that help to show the impact of the outbreak. It's the same thing with World War Z, which is why I wasn't happy to see it as a movie.

What, are they going to kill Chernobog? Fight swarms of monsters before the sun comes up and renders their efforts irrelevant?

Is this going to be one of those rehashed "I got totally wasted in Las Vegas Nar Shaddaa and got married to a stalker-ish stranger" plots? I hope not.

Really folks? You want another Tron movie? You could just crowd-source the funding to make a 20 minute light-cycle battle, and it would be ten times better than any Tron film.