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Agreed with the last few, it would have been far better (to me) if we'd seen this movie from JLaw's perspective, with Pratt dying, and her going through all the same emotions and decisions, possibly played alongside flashbacks of Pratt doing much the same, having similar conversations with Sheen etc etc

There were some comments by people who hadn't worked it out even after Mr world offer Wednesday missiles with Odin's name on them. Not everyone picks these things up, hell, far from everyone even watches telly with more than a third of their attention span these days.

Wasn't this already an Amazon production? Quite honestly though, I don't think this is a show that fits with binge-watching; it goes off on far too many tangents for that to really work.

Oh, I know what you were getting at, and I agree; I just couldn't resist making that post. Sorry

I hate to do this, but... have you never watched a disney film?

As a book reader, I'm loving this expansion of the material. As an unsullied, my Mrs is loving the journey and speculation far more than I. As said above, different people just like different things.

It's not something I'm personally interested in, but there's a thread devoted to the box office, updated most weeks:

Huginn and Muninn are still ravens, not crows. They are Odin's spys on the world

They're Ravens, not crowd; so the colective noun is an "Unkindness" As Drogo says though, Mad Sweeney did refer to gods / demigods having "Murder" as they're collective noun (I would have though "Pantheon" but maybe that's for each batch of gods rather than mixing across religions.)

To paraphrase Douglas Adams: We wanted our gods to be immortal, so our gods became immortal, and stayed that way whether remembered them or not. In the Adams/Pratchett (both friends/colleagues of Gaiman) view; belief = power; lack of belief renders a god powerless, not dead.

Just watched E06, and so proud of the wife, who has just made a connection I've never made (mildly in my defence, I've only read the book the once). She just put "stabbed by a Christmas tree" together with his shining light, name, and Odin's interest and concern, and asked if Shadow is Baldr.

You surmise correctly on almost all counts ("Lord Xxxx" is a title given on top of their name, whilst "Aethelxxx" is part of their given name, to demonstrate their royalty)

Catching up onto he episode thread, and speculation about Shadow, takes me back. It's like reading the GOT unsullied 3-5 years ago! Only now, everyone knows better, and (presumably) no-one wants to provide answers just because they're asking questions.

I'm pretty sure that was explained in-episode. Basically, you can't just sew the skin together and expect it to hold. So they wire the bones together, glue the muscles and THEN sew the skin.

Invasion of privacy? I may be mis-remembering, but didn't he just look her up on Wikipedia, and read a few magazine interviews? Possibly also her public interview about why she boarded the ship.

Fair point, well made - Though I still fail to see any relevance to what my post about decision making / belief.

Let me know when you find anyone trying

Uninformed consent is not valid consent Uninformed opinion is not valid opinion Uninformed decision is not a valid decision Either way, Anubis contradicts himself. "You will go to nothing" means that it just ends, nothing more happens, there is... nothing. "There will eb darkness" means that there will be something, and it sounds a hell of a lot like an eternity of sensory deprivation AKA purgatory; which is NOT "nothing"

Best guess - he's the one who flipped her the sunshine coin of protection thing

Shaun of the Dead (2004) Hott Fuzz (2007) World's End (2013) Ostensibly I wanted to talk about Hot Fuzz, and a new discovery; but might as well bring all 3 films into one thread, as I love both the first 2, and quite like the 3rd. Now I must have watched Shaun and Fuzz a few dozen times each; and last night, watching whilst half-asleep, I noticed yet another new thing, on which I'm probably way, way behind the times on. The character names... I've noticed various things over time; from the obvious to the less obvious. Even with the PIStaker bit specifically telling me to pay attention to the names, I never really had. The obvious being that all the residents are named after an occupation; and some obvious foreshadowing in some names (the good-guy is Angel; the strong-guy is Armstrong, Merchant made his fortune selling stuff - to the disgust of the manager of an established shop...). A few years ago, I noticed that the Andies are basically the same person by surname as well as christian name, persona and appearance (Cartwright and Wainwright); but last night I noticed that many of the residence also have these foreshadowing or secondary meanings for the individual (some of these may be stretching): Leslie Tiller - who tends the soil Tony Fisher - who's always fishing for advice Desk Sergeants Turner - who take turns Simon Skinner - who's comments cut close to the bone, and reveal the sub-plots Tom Weaver - weaves the NWA together Dr. Hatcher - is present at the birth of most residents under 40 years old James Reaper - is the farmer who both sows and reaps crops Tim Messenger - the Journalist Martin Blower - is full of hot air Eve Draper - lifts the curtains from the planning department Arthur Webley - the provider of arms and armaments

I think 2 a season is working for them; they just need another 1-2 episodes to let things breathe and develop a little more naturally. They did a great job splitting it this season; with a definitive "3 years later" bit where Gisela goes straight from "I'm pregnant" to have 2 kids scampering away; and they split the ancillary characters well into both halves. It's possible they'll do 3 books in S3, but that really would be too cramped; and if they go down to 1 it'll be a huge slow-down for such a fast-moving series, and would really put people off. A lot of the reader-complaints about S1 was in the casting of Uhtred, though I've never particularly understood why casting is always so contraversial, unless the character's physique is actually plot relevant enough of the time. I do think that reading after watching is the better way around; so much less frustrating. I made a post on another forum about this show during the off-season, talking about the historical time frames of the books; I'll put it in here under spoilers, though it isn't particularly spoilery (unless you consider real history to be spoilers); it means I don't have to do any heavy editting. I have added secondary spoilers-within-spoilers to cover the story the series hasn't got to yet. Mods: if you feel the spoiler bit should be in the book thread, feel free to move it, it just feels to me like the "talking History" thread is more appropriate.

Love it love it love it. When's S3? I'm even loving the changes in the adaptation keeping things fresh for me, and for the most part, tidying up the clunky bits. Just wish they could extend it to 10 episodes and allow the characters a little room to breathe.

Yeah, my understanding is that it would have been a case of (pretty severe) regional accents and variations; more than being seperate languages.

Yeah, mead is similar to what (British) cider has become - you can still get the real stuff, but most of the stuff you see sold is basically alcohol, water, and flavouring - I've yet to have one of those that is actually good (some can be passable though). Proper meads can be sweet, or they can be really quite bitter, but you still taste the honey coming through; just... altered (in the same way that in proper cider you can taste the apple, but you really wouldn't call it apple flavoured).

Loads, it's one of my favourite tipples. I've never seen it colourless though. Proper mead tastes like mild, alcoholic, slightly spiced honey; but there's a massive range, it's a bit like trying to describe what wine or cider tastes like to someone who's never had it. Some meads though basically cheat, and just dissolve honey in a stronger alcohol drink, brandy, sherry, absinthe etc. Typically alcohol EBV is broadly equivalent to wine. 10-15%, and you'd sip it like an appéretif, generally better chilled.