I think Achilles and Hercules were considered to have been deified after their deaths, and over time had cults associated with him, so I think they’d count as gods in spite of not being inherently divine in the sense Zeus or Mercury were. Atlas was technically a Titan, but I think those still count as divine beings,…

That’s probably the one I’m recalling — An S-3 rings a clearer bell than the A-6 I previously posted. I seem to recall it as happening at Willow Grove NAS in Pennsylvania, which is closer to me, but that’s probably a complete confabulation, based on my having been to an airshow there as a kid where I got to sit in a…

There’s a certain romance to the idea of a director who’s so consumed with the impulse to create that he torments his actors and risks life and limb for the sake of art.

I’m pleasantly surprised that no head injuries are mentioned -- I guess the helmet did its job. There was a kid at an airshow in my area many, many years ago who fatally ejected himself from an A-6 that they were letting kids sit in, Milhouse-style. I believe he went through the canopy too, though I’m not clear on the…

The time-flow aspects of all that run into some self-contradictory, “twin paradox” issues, though.

And characterizing the sacrifice as being done for “his own glory” is a bit much. I think he clearly feels he has no alternative. He’s hardly embellishing his reputation, it’s that in the “win or die” game of thrones, he’s already wagered everything.

He was just hanging around that old psychiatrist’s office that everyone says is haunted...

Are your dogs voiced by various random celebrities?

I doubt they really strategized this, but it made sense to get the public buzzing about the production to preempt any lawsuits. So not viral marketing, but legal defense.

I was thinking breadfast cereal, but we can make a gentleman’s wager as to which comes out first.

Having the daughter be lucid, if weird, after her return teases a bigger dramatic shift, though. What if she doesn’t come back evil or homicidal at all, just creepy? But her freaked-out parents effectively push her over the edge?

I recall becoming a parent and suddenly becoming aware of all of the parental button-pushing done by the media, particularly local news (“Is your child safe?”), that had previously gone over my head. I’m no “helicopter parent”, but I’m definitely conscious of the manipulation at work.

I’ve never been, so I’m not sure. I’m planning a visit there when I reach 75, though.

I could totally see him using that joke. A fine memorial.

Indeed. For all Chavez’s talk about inevitability, If Oberyn had finished the job, or simply kept his distance and let the poison do its work, there’s every reason to think he would have won. He knew just how to fight the irresistible force, and failed only because he pushed his luck.

I don’t recall having much trouble following the main quest, but there was a lot of side content and backstory that you easily could. I still remember sneaking into a wizard’s tower on a whim, stumbling upon books detailing the whole story of the Dwemer, and the mystery of Red Mountain. The idea that these masters of…

I recall really being troubled by them at first, and then they abruptly stopped appearing. I kind of forgot about them for awhile until I stopped in at the Inn in Pelagiad and was suddenly attacked by one.

Go back and watch him on Fringe (which is my “locked in” for him). Wonderfully menacing, and made it startling for me when he showed up as Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln.

And given his age when he passed, I would think they’d have made every effort to get those dialogue tracks recorded ASAP.

I remember it taking most of the day to recover from the pentothal when I had mine removed, so I’d guess he just escaped the dentist’s office and was wandering around in an intoxicated, blood-drooling haze.