Boorman had absurd ideas apparently based on a druidic/modern primitive conception of the middle ages; i..e Frodo having sex with Galadriel, or Gandalf *literally* burying Gimli in a hole to try to access his racial memory of the password to enter Moria. Boorman should not be let near civilized people.
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Comic book execs are against marriages in general, because they're pandering to single young people. The bigger example of this is that Marvel basically said that Spiderman will NEVER marry Mary Jane - or rather, STAY married to Mary Jane - because this would be too much continuity.
HOW MANY SCIFI ICONS DIED THIS YEAR?!
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That's sort of the point: he's this amnesiac centenarian who can't remember anything past 34 (or rather, his memories are confused), and you think he's waking up into this shocking world of transhuman agelessness, or that he's concerned about the fact that he's going to face death soon — that's the point, that's all…
On paper, it's not as tragic as some others...but dang in, how that movie was *filmed*, and the musical score, the direction/cinematography *made* it feel all the more tragic.
Yeah, Shinji always acted like he had it rough, but even by his *own admission* to Asuka in a later episode, he says that while his mother's "disappearance/death" and father's abandonment were an utter shock when he was 3 or so, once that was over and done with, the next 11 or so years of his life were at least fairly…
The point when you realize the Outback is in-part created by/channeled by the subconscious, and the main character is a *rape victim* whose PTSD response is to hallucinate it into reality, until the lines blur, yeah...
V isn't as tragic as some, so much as he represents what happened to hundreds of thousands of others who were killed in the camps and *didn't* escape like he did.
Jubilee was good in the cartoon, when the *intentionally* treated her as "new mutant who hasn't honed her powers very well" - in the first season she could barely even get them to turn on; I liked how the pilot episode used her as a POV introduction and she barely knows what a mutant *is* much less struggling with the…
Paramount's going to ream us up the ass without even the common decency to give us a reach around.
Don't forget that a matter of MONTHS before Carl Macek's sudden death from a heart attack in 2010, he recorded an epic 3-hour long podcast with AnimeNewsNetwork reflecting on his entire career from beginning to end. It's shockingly insightful and packed with rare info about the early days: http://www.animenewsnetwork…
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I've never seen all of FMA. I hear good things, I just thought the beginning was slow. I *did* stumble on the Nina Tucker episode, however, and it was enough to convince me that all the rave reviews about the show are true.
It's not even that what happened was that gory - he never actually "kills" anyone, as you…
The first person Kira killed was Light. He was bad enough in Season 1, but by the end of the show, after the time jump...he'd become so drunk on power, so self-absorbed, that it put even his gloating from the first half to shame. Yeah he gloated in the first half, but it seemed justified for a guy who had a notebook…
Diva from Blood+....as you mention, was left locked in a tower, tortured and experimented on, so it's understandable that she turned out a monster while he twin sister Saya did not — indeed very sad on a "road not taken" level.
He was drinking because of how guilty he felt - and you forget, he *stopped drinking* when he finally found his courage again and turned on the Dominion.
The ENTIRE CAST of Battlestar Galactica by Seasons 3 and 4.
Consider that there are four major factors which "went wrong" with BSG after the season 2 finale (the entire second HALF of the show, let's not forget that):