The key to writing spoilers is to insert a bunch of fake spoilers, so only the people who know the spoilers know what you're talking about.

if he could get to the scene of an event and find out about what happened from a flock of pigeons.

Sure. Why not? Animal Man and Aquaman do that ####. GL is limited only by the power of his imagination.

Just watched the first two episodes of the second season of Game of Thrones and it looks like the tempo is going to follow the same pattern as the first season. Very slow, sort of confusing, and lots of introductory scenes that last two minutes and then you never see them again.

How have you seen the second epsiode! WHO IS YOU SOURCE!?!?!?

Thank God for the three Yankee games at CF. Only sellouts of the year I'm betting.

oops wrong thread

HBO GO.

Last night's episode of Justified has Raylan figuring it all out well before anything comes to fruition once again. He figured out rather quickly that Limehouse was pulling the strings and maneuvering everyone on the board.

Last night's episode of Justified has Raylan figuring it all out well before anything comes to fruition once again. He figured out rather quickly that Limehouse was pulling the strings and maneuvering everyone on the board.

i agree. he was on the ball last night.

but there's still an episode left.



anyway, i'm watching "the departed" right now, and i'm kind of shaking my head at the made for TV editing. rat #### is edited. bull #### is edited. but faggot is just left there dangling in the wind.

Fat Betty Draper has got to be the dumbest storyline I've ever seen.

anyway, i'm watching "the departed" right now, and i'm kind of shaking my head at the made for TV editing. rat #### is edited. bull #### is edited. but faggot is just left there dangling in the wind.

I just turned on the TV and caught the elevator scene before heading over to Mad Men. Yesterday they had on Tropic Thunder and they wouldn't let the actors say the word "retard". Instead they used the word "special".

How come it is always the unconscious coma patient that survives the zombie apocalypse? Resident Evil, The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later. . .

Thumbs down on Mad Men tonight. Horribly scripted central story. Humorous interaction between Peggy and Roger. Ham-handed interaction between Peggy and Dawn. Ginsberg scene in the boardroom was stupid. At the bar was pointless but slightly humorous. Not much to say about his daughter's story other than it was humorous to hear the Grandma's story about her dad. Have never been thrilled with any storyline involving Joan and this one didn't change my mind.

As for Don and the main story I think you can use Don's words about the Cindarella pitch for this storyline. It was a cliche and was telegraphed almost a million miles away. This was the only way to show that Don is tempted by his urges and knows he can't control himself so he has to attempt to control others? A dream? That was the only way? Poor writing. This episode was almost totally devoid of subtlety and yet that is what almost all of their situations needed most.

Peggy staring at her purse
Sally sleeping under the couch
Don killing the woman.

Haven't watched Mad Men yet, but Game of Thrones was rather dull too, I thought.

I had been looking forward to the Theon/Asha introduction as it had me laughing when reading it; the show's execution was less fulfilling, somehow.

Last night was a bummer for me since a bunch of the 1 hour dramas released a sneak preview of their show last week. So all I had was The Killing and Mad Men.

sunday nights are kind of dead for me right now. i don't watch mad men or the killing or game of thrones or nurse jackie or the big c. i should be interested in the borgias, but i just never bothered to try it.


at least mythbusters is new.

Haven't watched Mad Men yet, but Game of Thrones was rather dull too, I thought.

I had been looking forward to the Theon/Asha introduction as it had me laughing when reading it; the show's execution was less fulfilling, somehow.

True dat re: Theon/Asha...

However, on the plus side, I do tend to find Davos/Stannis/etc to be more interesting than I found that little faction to be in the books... so it's a tradeoff, I guess.

I'm still conflicted on how well I think they're handling Tyrion in Kings Landing... On one hand, Peter Dinklage deserves every ounce of acclaim he's getting... but on the other, I just felt like the book did a much better job of really fleshing out his time as temporary Hand. I suppose that's mainly a matter of media and the limitations of a 60 minute episode, though.

Yeah, I think you're right. Are non-readers even familiar with Janos Slynt? I guess that's the thing with TV, no time to set stuff up so it all seems to move too quickly and less fleshed-out.

Mad Men was pretty crap too, I agree. If you're a writer and your best idea is to concoct an obvious "it was just a dream" moment, please, find a new profession. And ugh, Joan; her story-line has never been interesting and it's just getting less-so. The only plot-line I'm remotely interested in right now, I think, is Roger's. Sally should never be given that many lines. Or airtime.

A non-reader probably realizes Janos Slynt is a bad guy (Betrayed Ned, killed the baby in the brothel) so I think there's still enjoyment in seeing his comeuppance. I actually like the replacement of Jacelyn Bywater with Bronn as Slynt's successor, as it emphasizes the subtle hypocrisy in Tyrion (and bringing in a new character at that point also takes up time).

Apparently several TV blog sites liked the dream sequence of Mad Men.

Justified's season finale is like a shotgun blast so far.

that was a solid hour of television. i still don't like limehouse, but they've left him, errol, boyd, johnny and wynn duffie in play as villains for next season. the dissension between johnny and boyd could have an interesting payoff down the line, though i don't think there's any doubt that if there's a showdown it'll be boyd who comes out on top.

i'm still curious as to where they take raylan through next season. his relationship with art has softened, but winona still wants nothing to do with him, and playing "harlan" roulette with wynn duffie seems like the kind of thing that'll have consequences sometime next year.


it's a shame that it'll be another year until the show's back, because it really is one of the slickest shows on all of television.

GoT got renewed for a third season and they'll be splitting the third book into two seasons. That makes a lot of sense. I've been saying since before they started filming that there was no way they could do these books justices with just 11 or so episodes for each book.

that was probably one of the best episode of south park there's been in a few years. it was absolutely hilarious until they did the live action scene.

Just dropping into this thread to mention: Amazing GF heard somebody in the crowd booing during last night's broadcast of the A's-Angels game.
I had her convinced - albeit very briefly - that the crowd was in fact yelling at Daric "Boo-arton."

so, after doing doctor who, i'm now onto "better off ted". 4 episodes in, and i'm loving it. it's a crime that there's only 26 episodes.