CletusMusashi

I am really impressed by this last episode. The earlier ones were amusing, clever, and easy to watch, but they weren't "laugh out loud" funny as often as this one was. I've actually watched it twice, because I liked it so much, and it was even better on the rewatch. Possibly because I was close to passing out last night, and was half-way sober this morning, but still...

Normally I hate annoying DJs, but I'll make an exception for one that has a policy for wedding fights

Even Renly and Loras were a fairly open secret. Laenor and Joffrey seemed even more so. Kind of in a glass closet.

Someone has indeed been taking their vitamins. She went from "12-year-old comedy relief suitor dressed for 18th century France" to "extremely hot new Storm reboot."

I'd never heard the horse and sparrow analogy before. What a hilariously accurate assessment of trickle-down economics. How does arresting people in Gotham work now? If the police force was disbanded, then what do you8 call the group that arrested Bruce? Some kind of "mayoral task force" that enforces laws the same way the police force did, but under a dfferent name? It's too bad Blackgate is still Blackgate. I'd like to have seen Bruce's entry into the Bane talent show. Why wasn't Macaroni there in the final Bat-family scene? Was Alfred too busy doing a "Risky Business" slide around the mansion?

My asumption was that Clayface could have morphed out of the ropes any time he needed/ was ordered to, but preferred to stay where he was during an important character-interaction scene simply for drama's sake. I laughed every time they showed the "inspirational" photo of Ivy.

Bronwyn fighting the orc was badass, because there was a sense that she was way out of her league and might not have enough plot armor to win. With Galadriel I never have that. All I felt about the "worm" was "golly, I wonder if she's gonna just swim over and knife it? yup." No real sense of stakes there. Even though they've built Sauron himself up into such an impossible to stop evil that I'm still wondering what she or even her little band of half a dozen elf soldiers from the pilot would actually do if they found him. So what we have is a main character who presumably can't face the final boss for a good while because she's not ready, but is blatantly over-qualified for the threats she'll be meeting along the way. Screw that. I'd rather watch the more normal characters level up.

Some of the elf stuff is okay when it's just one of the good characters. I like the one who's investigating the orc tunnel and I also like the one that looks like Neil Patrick Harris. The other ones are too uptight to be enjoyable characters. I didn't expect to like the Harfoots, but I actually love them. They (at least the main two) are already directly involved in a main plot arc without any political drudgery, and their little communmity actually feels lived-in. Like, with the elves I don't feel like I know if they actually live in houses or tents or WTF; they just all kind of wander around in the woods with immaculate clothing and shiny metal tools but there's no sense where anything they have actually comes from. The human and harfoot communities are busy and cluttered and sometimes dirty and it feels like there's some actual world-building going on in the writers' room. With elves, I'm not even sure if they poop. And the dwarves? I did not expect them to be that well done. I mean, yes, one proverb about hammers per conversation is probably more than enough. But besides that they managed to keep a nice traditional fantasy-dwarf feel while still giving them an interesting and beautiful home. This was far better than the first episode. I may actually like this show.

Surrendering or not, MD was still an enemy soldier. I can't really blame them for still being armed when they approached him. I mean, I'm not siding with them, and I assume that they probably would have just nailed him to a post and thrown crabs on him, but they had not yet done anything except show a fairly reasonable amount of skepticism about his intent.

Maybe when you buy the King Ezekiel wig from "Walking Dead" they also give you some free zombie latex. Still waiting for Carl's hat to show up.

There's a deleted scene where they unmask him and he turns out to be Albacore Scurvey, the owner of that spooky pirate-themed water park across the bay. He was trying to scare everyone away so he could buy all the islands and turn them into more water parks. Which, come to think of it, would be kind of awesome. Damn you, Matt Daemon!

Same way Daemon did. In GoT land, if you're an important character, then arrows only hurt for a minute or two. After that you're fine.

Not me. I kept thinking Viserys was gonna die.

People in nearby countries having contingency plans for dragons would be like the Romans or Mongols having contingency plans for Carthaginian or Indian elephants.

Yeah, now that you mention it, I'd think it weird if there wasn't any anti-dragon weaponry. Dragons are a fact of life in that era's warfare. I mean, people in real life found ways to counter horses, elephants, tanks, airplanes...

I've liked this season, but overall I haven't loved it the way I did seasons 1 and 2. Some were better than others, but it felt like it had fallen from an A+++ show to more of a B+, occasionally A-. But the last few eps have amazed me. "The KIlling Joke" was as great as the show used to be, and this one was even better. Love having Psycho back. Love the deep dive into Bruce's head, complete with Adam West/ Time Burton flashbacks. Harley as Robin, Psycho's Frasier song, Bane still inserting himself into the ep just long enough to complain about the pasta maker... this whole thing was about as much fun as you can have without drunken Comissioner Gordon.

The only thing better than one drunk Nadja would be two drunk Nadjas. Bring the doll up there and start a ventriloquist act! Also.. look, I know who I am, okay? I'm a middle-aged bald man with a Venture Bros avatar sitting here drinking alone in a Cleveland apartment full of swords and reptiles while commenting on a Taika Waititi vampire series. I am perfectly aware that I have some nerdish tendencies. But most of the guys who I work with are even nerdier. Most of them are younger, and therefore tend to have more hair and better overall physical condition, but their levels of nerd convo put anything that I've ever over-analyzed here to absolute shame. So, I'm probably about a week and half from having to ask at least one them "Why are you not stuffed into a locker right now?" And, sadly, they'll love the joke. As opposed to, say, busting me for plagiarism. Which they could, if they actually watched anything outside of the officially approved list of "things nerds are supposed to be watching" list, which is pretty much nothing but Disney properties and anime. I sort of can't wait for late winter, when I can also use the "superb owl" schtick.

You'll have to ask Corlys. He's Master of Ships.

Danaerys hatched her eggs by figuring out how a certain type of magic actually worked. Probably not the standard means of reproduction. "Hey, Wimelra, how is your egg doing?" "Not well at all, Bettyras. First I need an extremely inbred blonde human to marry a superhero. And then I need not only their unborn offsrping but also him to die. Because of a witch curse." "What the- I don't know which curse... maybe explain what the hell you're talking about?" That... just... doesn't feel like how dracoculture would operate under normal circumstances.

I'm not just talking egg breakage. Even if we assume that they have a tough leathery shell like reptile eggs instead of a more brittle one like bird eggs, all that bouncing around can not possibly be good for the embryo. We heard in GoT about how the dragons kept on getting smaller and more deformed. Playing eggball may well be contributing to that. If it's like a bird egg then it needs to be turned periodically to keep the aeration levels balanced. If it's like a reptile egg it needs to be deposited and then just left stationary, with a specific "up" side and a specific "down" side. Yes, I'm somehow actually bothered by this minutiae, yet I'm perfectly okay with them breathing fire and violating the square/cube law...

I think I know why the Targaryans ran out of dragons. Maybe you should just hand the egg over next time? Instead of tossing it to the other person like it's a damn basketball or something?

I do love starting the show with that music. There are certain instrumental themes, like Buffy and The Simpsons and Game of Thrones, that should just never be changed. It's just a flesh wound. He's fine. And by "fine" I mean that's short for "finally just two days away from retirement."

This was easier to follow than the pilot, but also more riveting. very good second episode. I still think Matt/Daemon is kind of a gothy douchebag. I mean, hell, even the hooker who's living in a castle with him seems to agree with me on that. And I'm rooting for Otto over Corlys. But Corlys isn't all bad. I respect him more now that I understand that the reason his hair game is so gods-awful is that he's in debt like a zillion bajillion gold dragons to his daughters' hair stylist. For all his tough guy talk, the big soft-hearted lug just can't say no to his little girl wanting to look like Marie Antoinette. I do hope they spread out the pirate story arc for a few weeks. September 19th isn't for a while.

Tetch doesn't look closely at people, because he mostly just plans on turning them into automatons anyway. Catwoman certainly knows that Bruce is Batman. She just hasn't told the others about it. Partly out of respect for his secret identity, but mainly because she considers being the woman who fucks Batman to be more prestigious than just being one more to date Bruce Wayne. An underwater outlet mall would sell all the same crap that other malls sell, except that the electronics would have to be waterproof. And it wouldn't need bathroom facilities, because, you know...

Yeah, but people are hypocrites. That why I kind of hate Philosophy. Not lower-case "work smarter, not harder" philosophy, but the egghgead "Capital P" shit. Too much of it is faux-mathematical proof that if you have opinion A then you must automatically move on to conclusion B and so forth. But actual personalities and feelings don't work that way in real life. Shit, even computer operating systems have problematic inconsistencies. Also, she's joking around privately with her cousin. She's not publicly catcalling Steve. She's not chasing him into a parking lot at night with three other horny she-hulks. She's not even posting on Twitter about him. Since the only thing really at stake is Steve's feelings, it's not only a victimless crime; it's a crimeless crime. Now as far as what the guys outside the bar were actually going to do and whether or not she over-reacted... honestly, I have no idea. So I'm gonna do something that we don't actually have the luxury of doing when having discussions about real life violence and, instead of pondering it and getting angry, I'm going to err on the side of the fictional narrative that I'm enjoying. The fact that I have to do that is perhaps a small flaw in writing clarity, but not necessarily in story theme or character ethics.