Yes. It was Viserys’ Valyria LEGO set.

Starting the episode at The Wall just reminded me of how awful and rather meaningless the White Walkers became. I’d rather not think about how that ended so I definitely could have done without that opening. A tour of Winterfell would have been just fine

Can I just say the intro is waaaaay better now? I get the whole bloodlines angle last season but it was fairly bland. This? They went with a semi Baylax Tapestry kinda look and I’m a real sucker for that.

The TV edit has more footage but it also has a LOT of problems that aren’t in the original- it really tries to explain EVERYTHING, scenes are put together much more shoddily, and of course they had to screw up the music. It’s nice to see the extra stuff but it’s nowhere near a director’s version.

Russell Brand sounds like someone doing a bad impression of a British person.

Like, if you started talking like Russell Brand, people would go, “Yo, that’s offensive.”

Release the Lynch Cut

Imagine trying to apply this line of reasoning to other situations. “Oh, that’s just Lee Harvey Oswald being Lee Harvey Oswald. Nothing we can do about it!”

Three words:

If anyone cares to read it, Patrick Stewart talks quite a bit about Dune in his memoir. It’s an interesting account from his point of view. Apparently Lynch cast him by accident after seeing him in a play, and thought that was how he looked (with a hair piece). After seeing Stewart on set he realized his mistake and…

Maybe I was just a dumbass 13-year-old, but I liked Lynch’s Dune.

Eh, Villenueve’s version left out too many important story elements for my taste. Lynch hit all the important beats and made a much more interesting movie, both visually and story wise.

It’s basically a large room with a three story ceiling. The only permanent sets are “home base”, where the house band sits and the monologue takes place (Weekend Update also takes place there) and the set for the musical guest performances. Other live skits take place on the sides, probably carved up into four to six…

Yeah, I gave it a try and oof. A one-note sketch so in love with its pop culture reference that it forgot to tell a joke.

Eh. Someone should have marked this script “do not resuscitate” and given a second chance to something else.

Four. Funny, not so funny, insufferable, and pleasant reminiscence.

Yeah, there are only so many pants that can be darkened...

I feel like the streaming platforms that still do weekly episode releases are the ones doing it right. Make each drop appointment television that people (and social media) will spend the next week talking about, creating anticipation for the next episode. The availability of previous eps is the obvious advantage over…

One of the things I’ll have to explain to my daughter is the concept of missing a sitcom when it aired, trying to catch it in syndication, and realizing they’re still mid-season 2 in the cycle so it’ll be at least another month before they hit a patch of episodes I hadn’t seen yet.

John Oliver’s tale of bombing in Edinburgh had me crying.

LOVED Welcome Back, Kotter so much when it originally aired. but we were a one TV household and my dad did not like the show at all. At all.