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The thing is, while everyone expects him to go back to being a villain soon, it would make these episodes an even bigger fucking waste of time, because they won't have meant anything.

Sam Catlin's name got my attention. He wrote some of the best episodes of BREAKING BAD.

I enjoyed the game, but it really is blatant how WB Montreal just took Rocksteady's assets and slapped a new coat of paint on them. Examples off the top of my head: -The Pinkney plaques are the Arkham symbols from AA. -The Anarky missions are a mashup of the Azraeal "spot the guy on the rooftop" stuff and the Zsasz missions from AC. -The Anarky tags are the Riddler question marks. -Black Mask's drug stashes are the Titan containers in AC. -The Mad Hatter sidequest is the Scarecrow levels from AA. -The Shiva stuff is a mashup of a Riddler room and the Talia stuff from AC. -The Deadshot fight is the Two-Face/Catwoman predator encounter from AC. -The Firefly fight reminds me a lot of the Poison Ivy fight from AA. -The Copperhead fight is a mashup of the Mad Hatter brawl and parts of the Ra's al Ghul fight in AC. -The last Bane fight mashes up the series' classic "dodge the Titan" trope with the Mr. Freeze fight from AC. There's more stuff I'm forgetting. On the plus side, they were wise not to bring over the Solomon Grundy fight, which was my least favorite of the series. And, while extremely frustrating, I thought the last Bane fight was a pretty inspired idea. Only the Deathstroke fight felt completely new and different. Although now that I think about it, even that fight recycled the "block Ra's al Ghul's sword strokes in rapid succession" quicktime event from AC.

Did anybody else know about the Pinkney plaques beforehand? I didn't even know they were a thing until after I finished the game and I was looking up some help for finding the last few Anarky tags I was missing.

I wonder how hard it is to be a practicing lawyer AND a master assassin. Like, that's a lot of school, I imagine.

This show is always better when imagining what other fictional characters in it. Superior Kentucky lawman Raylan Givens blowing away the Governor the moment he put his gun down at that neutral ground meeting last season was my favorite moment that never happened.

I really thought it had an outside shot of unseating Thor on top.

I'm exceedingly curious to see if the post-credits sequence goes anywhere, or if they just realized, "Shit, these credits are 30 minutes long, we've gotta put something after them...any ideas?"

He's not necessarily playing anybody in it. The rumor is that he and Evan Goldberg are producing it, which means they'll likely write the pilot and maybe direct it. Beyond that, who knows. It's difficult to see them signing up to run the show full-time.

No, but they certainly spent enough time hammering you over the head with the parallels between the two, I suppose you could have easily made that mistake. I definitely understand the need to walk that character back several hundred paces from the cartoon he had become by the end of last season, but it was really kind of pitiful how brazenly they were begging viewers to give him another chance. Morrissey didn't really help matters. I'm not sure which was worse, his wig and fake beard or his actual performance in that getup. Granted, I had just watched ONLY GOD FORGIVES the day before this episode, so it's possible I was mentally primed to laugh hysterically at a nearly mute guy dumbly puttering around.

Tell me I'm seeing things and I didn't just watch a guy dissolve someone in acid in a bathtub. #unflatteringcomparisons

What the fuck were they thinking with that Governor episode? Who thought that was a good idea? "Yeah, we're going to do back to back episodes only featuring the Governor and nobody else, people will love it." How does an idea that terrible even make it out of the writer's room? You'd think at some point an AMC suit would be, like, "WTF are you trying to kill the biggest show on TV?" It'd be different if he was a character people loved to hate, but he isn't. No one is dying to spend two hours catching up with the Governor.

Craig looked frightfully old at certain points in that movie. Like, I was questioning how soon they'd have to replace him old.

The preponderance of snipers scattered around the city really is annoying. In particular, the array of snipers in the Diamond District made it a nightmare any time I had to pass through there. I absolutely dreaded having to go through the process of taking those guys out so I could do anything.

This three-ring circus Orgeron is running right now is completely unsustainable, but I don't care - I love it. In fact, I'm pretty sure that song is playing in Orgeron's head 24/7.

COACH O HAS THE SWORD.

My favorite thing I heard today was an interview with Coach O about the changes he's made at USC since taking over, among them adding fried chicken and biscuits and a bunch of sweets to the training table menu. Basically, his plan for bringing the Trojans back to national prominence involves giving the whole team Type 2 Diabetes.

Aaron Murray is the eternal orphan, perpetually left on the doorstep of greatness.

Sadly, Bale's tan is the least offensive thing in that picture.

Well, I felt like we were moving in a positive direction on that. Like, even if the leads were going to be white folks with killer tans, you'd at least get some color in the supporting cast and whatnot. But the Middle East of NOAH might as well be Middle Earth.

Seriously, though, between this and Ridley Scott's upcoming Moses movie, it looks like Hollywood has backslid into full-on, don't-give-a-fuck, we're casting white people as Middle Easterners mode.

The Killing has come back from the dead more times than Jason Voorhees.I think Veena Sud is Jason Voorhees in this scenario, and Joel Kinnaman is the co-ed who just can't get away.

That's really all there is in the OT story. There isn't much drama to it. There definitely aren't any real villains. He gets heckled for a while, but nobody ever mounts an attack against him, or whatever is going on in that trailer. Also, there were no flaming magic swords, that I'm aware of, so my only explanation for that is Paramount is launching it's answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Bible characters and Noah is going to borrow that sword from the angel Yhwh posted at the entrance of Eden after he kicked Adam and Eve out, thereby setting up his spin-off movie where they fill in the gaps of what he's been up to for the past 6,000 years.

I didn't remember the director's name, so I was reading that thinking, "Wait, they made that movie."

I'd like to thank Naughtydog for coming and showing...absolutely nothing. I mean, I didn't expect much on Uncharted (although the fact that they haven't even committed to calling it "Uncharted 4" probably tells you how NOT far into development they are), but you can only show me 15 seconds of nothing on the Last of Us DLC coming out in 2 months? Come on.