I believe it’s kind of a thing that if a director has no idea how a scene should flow, they’ll just film it straight through from a bunch of different angles, so they have plenty of coverage they can hand over for the editor to figure something out. It’s an awful habit that means the cast and crew have to do more,…

That’s my point. They didn’t just get the shot of the wine and move on. I think they’re shooting the whole thing (including the wine) even in close ups of Headey that they only use for one line.

But is it a superb owl?

Given the facts presently known, I don’t buy into the lab leak theory. However, the facts presently known do not indicate a zoonotic origin with a high enough degree of certainty for me to exclude all other possibilities, such as the lab leak theory. I reserve the right to change my mind when/if the facts change.

Were there roving bands of self-important dopes deliberately bumping into the women for the express purpose of prompting the irritated response? Because if not, it pretty much ruins the comparison.

That is... pretty much exactly what happened, yes. Though the fact that he had to figure out how to stop this weird, forthcoming intergalactic robo-shark from eventually coming out of the singularity also played a part in his staying in there a year.

The holy water foot bath and massager tub, along with the on-board nuclear powered turtleneck sweater hamper. Super high end!

Oh, someone better get sued. There's no sense in living in the most lawsuit happy country in the world unless each of these kids gets enough money to never have a student loan.

I think it’s less of a case of critics or writers retconing him into one and more a case of the fans not reading the subtext (or the text for that matter) and thinking he was one.

Moore intended Rorschach as a parody of the “friendly psychopath” characters who were growing in popularity in the ‘80s, like Wolverine, as well as Ditko’s right-wing Randian vigilantes. A lot of people read the series as just another superhero comic and assumed Rorschach was the good guy, including the distinguished…

Well, it gives me hope that some showrunners somewhere gets how it’s supposed to be done. Now if only the word can be spread.

I’m glad you mentioned it because it’s been years since I read the books (and only once) but it always bothered me as if the treatment of her first time was supposed to cancel out, negate, or balance out the subsequent rapes? For me the show at least is consistent in that regard, whereas the books seemed to try to…

This story would be just a fun aside if:

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I know its indulgent as all hell, really this should have been the hint the Hobbit films might not work out well.  But I can't lie, I still really like it.  Whether its nostalgia, the fact Naomi Watts makes it all work, Serkis, or that goddamn fantastic video game adaptation with the worst possible title.  I'll take…

To me, the most shocking revelation was that there was a Canadian TV show about the Pinkertons, co-produced by the Pinkertons, and all the cases they worked on during the 1800s.

And yet Lodge 49, Teenage Bounty Hunters, Castle Rock, Glow, Stumptown, High Fidelity, Vida, and probably a few I’m missing, stay dead. The American people are the true serial killers.

I just got a mental image of that fungii serial killer episode of Hannibal...

I’m really interested to see where Noted Door Expert James Cameron is going with this.