He was smart, sentimental, witty, irritable, loyal, insecure, infuriating, hilarious, neurotic and totally entertaining.
The plots were deft essays that touched on heavyweight topics such as the division between church and state, or the balance between faith and destiny, without ever forgetting to be anything less than totally entertaining.
From the opening credits – a brilliant, atmospheric montage dripping with swampy hellfire and Southern brimstone – to the witty choice of outro music (Beck's Timebomb as a Christian terrorist walks into a vampire lair), it's never less than totally entertaining.
They were funny, cutting and totally entertaining.
Lest you think such suggestions pop up only on places like io9 or singularitarian lists, I assure you that talk tracks examining such scenarios with totally straight faces were entertained at both last year's and this year's Starship Symposium.
AMY DAVIDSON: Totally willing to entertain discussion of what I should pay when and if I make a million dollars a year.
I am totally the master at keeping my son entertained.
Often I'm entertained by that too, so I'm totally not hating on it.
While very different from George Balanchine's version and its ancestor, the 1892 original by Lev Ivanov in Russia (where a child performer was welcomed into a candy kingdom and entertained by dancing foodstuffs), the Vainonen version is not totally unfamiliar.
