As a Canadian, and someone juuuuust young enough not to remember that song, I had to look it up.

I was lucky enough to get to visit Hobbiton last year and it was AMAZING.

I have to say I was happily surprised by the first two episodes and actually found myself laughing. It has a sort of Monty Python meets Princess Bride feel to it!

I love Bernard Cornwell, but a couple years ago I discovered the Merlin and Arthur series' written by MK Hume and was hooked! I've loaned the first book out to four people and every one of them has either borrowed the next book or bought the series for themselves.

Basic understanding of medieval history in Europe and Asia. Common war time practices, the fact that for a very long time the ROman empire saw rape of slaves and prostitutes as not actually being 'rape' (in fact, if a slave was raped the attacker would sometime have to pay a damage fee to the slaves owner as the sole…

Well... if it's an American law how does HBO get around it?

Did you complain about Anastasia? Or the White Queen? How about any historically 'based' novel ever written as fiction, like this tv show, using the names of famous/historical people that weren't biographical?

Every time someone is raped or attacked? I definitely haven't see that every time someone is raped on US cable... or is is only when they depict rape instead of things like Grey's Anatomy when a woman is raped and bites a guys dick off, where they definitely didn't show any sort of crisis number. Did Game of Thrones…

But this isn't a real person... this is a character on a teenage show that has never once be billed as anything but a period drama. No one anywhere would even jokingly call it a documentary.

I 100 per cent agree with you - there was no glorifying rape at all, they showed it clearly as being a horrible violation that left Mary physical and emotionally injured. I understand that some people don't like to recognize that rape was even more prevalent then than it is now, but it was. It was a horrible aspect of…

Even if that scenario is correct, we're talking about a politician with well over a decade of political experience who has perpetual foot in mouth disease at the VERY least.

I agree. I was hesitant about splitting the book in two, but as a fan of the series I can't fault the outcome. So much of the meat would have been lost had they done it in one go, and like you said, they fleshed out a lot of the story to show the other districts and the actual rescue - neither of which were covered in…

Oh hey, sounds like you dated my ex as well ;)

He started out crying on a train, and then sold his strength after Katniss told him to.

Is... is that the old man from Babe?!?

You may take our country, BUT YOU WILL NOT TAKE OUR PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE!

Am I the only one confused by their pronunciation of 'Lacroix'? Bueller.... Bueller?

And this little bit of ego-padding made me laugh.

I was once dumped two days before Valentines Day - which while awkward and embarrassing, wasn't the worst part. The man, a PHD candidate and 25-years old, ended it over the phone when I made our scheduled call so we could meet up to go to my dads birthday party together.

"Compared to today, 50 years from now the values and beliefs of the typical American will be different from the values and beliefs of people like me"