I cannot fathom how people can watch seasons 1 and 2 and then just stop in season 3 because of four episodes that were on the slow side. This show didn't exactly move at breakneck speed during season 1 or in the early stages of season 2.

Yes, precisely. Snowcrash is a very smart book written in a clever way that has a wink and nudge, but never comes off as excessive or pandering.

Come on, that's not fair. He at least read Snowcrash, how else could he shamelessly rip it off?

Neal Stephenson did it in a time when it wasn't lazy and hackneyed.

I'm glad that there is a legion out there of talented young writers who can't get a break because the publishing world is so crowded and market-focused while this guy gets a boatload of money and unbridled creative freedom.

"David Lightman"

I find Ansaris's stand-up to be lackluster, but the book's premise (and foundation from an established sociologist) make it sound interesting. Plus, I find the concept of the malleability of romance and romantic convention in regards to time fascinating.

*they pop open a bottle of crystal and shower in champagne*

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. People who make statements like Dustin Hoffman made are committing a fallacy; they are looking at the cream of the crop and forgetting the garbage that came out back then, too. He's comparing the Graduate and Transformers, which is apples to oranges. Generally, small…

A day in the NBC executive office:

You forgot "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "American Beauty", "The Master", "Black Swan", "the Wrestler", "Secret Sunshine", "Oldboy", "Upstream Color", the "Before" Trilogy, "Boyhood", "Force Majuere", the "Bourne" Trilogy, "Computer Chess", "the Act of Killing", "Zero Dark Thirty", "Her", "the Fighter",…

Oh yeah, absolutely. Hindsight is always 20/20; I would have taken that deal, too. How was he supposed to know they would toss it on the air with no advertisements and barely tolerate its existence for three years before cancelling it.

Yes Dustin Hoffman, actor of such recent slam dunk quality films such as the Holiday, the Tale of Despereaux, Little Fockers, and the Cobbler, gets on his pedestal and insults all of film because of rose colored glasses and laziness.

We only really need Mads. Fishburne is already only a recurring spot and Red Dragon ends the Will Graham arc.

NBC isn't concerned with quality, they want nothing but ratings. It's a sausage factory. My brother is an executive there and he tells me all the time that he just tells them to air more reality tv and cheap shitty shows because they are a cheap and get massive ratings.

Amazon has exclusive rights and they'd have to buy it out. They're very interested in the show by every account.

Amazon has stated that they are solely interested in original programming, not picking up other people's scraps.

I love this show as much as the next guy, but I'm not really mad at NBC about this. Really, it's just a big unfortunate mess. Hannibal had no business being on NBC on the first place; when Fuller and co. were developing the show and initially shipping it out, they should have known that and put it somewhere else.…

If we live in a world where the Killing, a show with worse ratings than Hannibal (and it is just plain bad), gets saved, but Hannibal dies on the vine, I sincerely hope it is not the best of all possible worlds.

Netflix spent $100 million dollars on House of Cards season 1. I'm sure more than that on later seasons. So yes.