I don't follow your logic on why one 90-minute episode is easier to write than two 45's. The 90-minute episode would still have to cover roughly the same amount of plot and characters as the two halves. I do think they will stick the landing more or less, but I would not expect any of those episodes to be especially…

I think the concern is that the quality might suffer just as much or worse with the kind of personnel shuffle you describe. Also HBO is not going to be as incentivized to hold GoT to an episode minimum since they don't have to sell ad time per episode —- their model is more based on subscriber revenue which wouldn't…

Great interview. I think this was my favorite part:

My understanding is that the truncated seasons are not a creative choice, but rather one that D&D are insisting on because they are overworked and burned out; the shorter seasons are HBO's concession to them in exchange for them continuing on through an eighth season. GoT would be following the same precedent set by…

Always liked these guys. I always felt like Be was a pop lover (Beatles especially) trapped in the body of a rapper, or one whom people expected to be a rapper. I even dig their final album Dearest Christian — dated but ambitious and catchy. It was, as the title indicates, an epistle to Be's young son, and there is…

That was more or less true of the Fin and Blue Diamond, who each appeared in only a couple of stories. But the Destroyer was one of Timely's most popular and most-published characters — he appeared in more stories than any other Timely character besides the Angel and the "big three" (Cap, Namor, Torch).

You skipped over the bit where Spacely's Sprockets and Cogswell Cogs are at total war over domination of the neurosphere, but otherwise, pretty much, yeah.

I'm still waiting for the live-action Jetsons remake. That, or the cyberpunk version I myself wrote in 1994.

Quantum Creep.

No, but she will tie a throughline back to Bertolt Brecht for you.

Yep, it was called Time For Yesterday. I didn't like it as much as Yesterday's Son, but it was more like, as JFF mentioned, 'Game of Treks'.

The one with Spacey was actually two games ago (Advanced Warfare). The most recent Call of Duty, Black Ops III, featured Christopher Meloni and Katee Sackhoff. (With some more zombie-focused downloadable content starring Jeff Goldbum and Heather Graham.)

You're overrating the characterization in the Call of Duty series.

Yes, especially since he wasn't trying to do a Rich-Little-ish impersonation of Reagan, he just created a Reagan-like character with his own mannerisms, and that was more than sufficient.

Many of us Rocky and Bullwinkle fans know Horton's name because it was etched in big letters right there on the screen, whenever they began 'Fractured Fairy Tales'. It's a pity this kind of credit was not afforded to so many other great performers who ended up having to do voiceover or other 'reduced roles'.

"Edge of Forever" > the Thompson Twins' "If You Were Here".

Easiest $20 I ever made. (Granted, the odds were about 1:1…)

And that's definitely what they were going for, at any rate. I cringe at comparisons of quality, but 2001 was a primary template of '70s and even early '80s sci-fi movies — it's why even Disney's attempts like The Black Hole were slow and ponderous. The radical lessons of Star Wars (war-movie action, identifiable…

Loved Star Trek VI when I first saw it, but it's a bit dated. On the other hand, The Search For Spock has grown on me a bit — it plays for me as Wrath of Khan's only somewhat more boring and staid younger sibling.

Totally agreed on all. However, I do have a soft spot for the very late Season 3 episode "All Our Yesterdays" and its doomed romance between a prehistoric-reverting Spock and the beautiful Mariette Hartley. It also yielded two decent sequel novels by A.C. Crispin exploring their half-Vulcan son, as well as a nifty…