The very fact that it is unclear (although most people would undoubtedly take it as overnight)… well, that alone signifies lack of thought in the storytelling and/or scene editing.

Drogo was murdered by his caregiver, actually. And while it was unlikely for Arya to survive her wounds, some people in real life do have the survival tenacity of tardigrades. It's a stretch, but it's barely plausible. Jumping about after a gut stabbing, however….

My girlfriend's daughter constantly watches Teen Titans Go! and that got me into it. It's not a superhero show, it's more like the Powerpuff Girls, and great for what it is. We both love Raven, she is our favorite. She's basically a pint-sized Janeane Garofalo.

I would advise the opposite.

My girlfriend has trouble identifying the Muppets, and I once had to remind her of Kermit's name. She's just not that into pop culture. She's also one of the coolest people on earth. You know, maybe watching tons of TV hasn't made me cool after all!

It does bug me that terrorist attacks in Belgium and Paris elicit so much sympathy, but a similar attack in Pakistan gets no notices on Facebook. But cases like these feel like the battle over gender politics being drawn in starkly real, bloody terms. I have no personal stake in this particular tragedy. I admit that I…

It's hyperbole, man. Don't have to take it so literally. Besides, the fact that a single person can wreak so much havoc and pain, so relatively easily, is quite a damaging strike against the social contract we all depend upon. It's not the end of civilization, but it's a highly dispiriting chip against the foundation…

You have to read Miyazaki's Nausicaä manga. It fleshes out the world even more, and does the same with the characters. Magnificent stuff.

Hey, I skipped seasons 2-5 and got pulled back in coz I heard it was getting good. I'll never listen to any of you guys again!

Yeah, the first episode was a travesty. But to my surprise, I don't hate the show. It's diverged a lot from the novels, enough that I don't worry about it being a faithful adaptation. It's not, but as genre TV fare, it's pretty enjoyable.

Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog already feels like a Fallout game with a reversal of the "vault dwellers goes outside" plot. So it might be redundant to make it into a game, but I'd still like to see that.

Alice strikes me as too wordplay-heavy to be a natural fit for Ghibli. Now, "The Hunting of the Snark"…. no, that's more of a Wes Anderson, methinks.

Weird Al's "Albuquerque" as a Coen Bros joint!

To quote Jane E. Boon's recent Time article: "I recently traveled to Egypt and before departing was met with expressions of surprise from friends who thought the place too dangerous to visit…. But a review of the U.S. State Department’s registry of American deaths abroad reveals that the horror of the Metrojet bombing…

I'd guess that the undercurrent there is that Whedon would get bored to tears writing about such a married couple, and the resulting work would be nothing people want to see. And I kinda get that, coz honestly it's quite a challenge to write about well-adjusted people in happy relationships. This also applies somewhat…

I ended up reading Robotech books, mostly. I also got into the Prydain Chronicles. Though that one is hardly a "boy's club" kind of series. There were the Hardy Boys and Robert Heinlein's juveniles and a bunch of fantasy series. More recently, there's Artemis Fowl and Percy Jackson.

It's my impression that videogames are heavily marketed to teenage boys, so maybe this kinda balances the equation? Or alternatively, there's a huge untapped market that could be out there buying WoW novelizations….

Funny, your username suggests the opposite would be true!

The actual Asians can't stand each other? What the hell does that mean? Speaking as someone Asian.

There are different shades of literary. He's not Italo Calvino, certainly, but Ellison has an approach to style, language, and theme that sets him apart from the pulp authors. Bester is closer to pulp, but at least to me, the literary flair is there to see… Bester is akin to someone like Raymond Chandler or James…