If the series ended with Romero being gunned down not for breaking out of prison, kidnapping, stealing a car, or shooting a police officer but for pumping his own gas it would be simultaneously the greatest and worst ending in TV history.
If the series ended with Romero being gunned down not for breaking out of prison, kidnapping, stealing a car, or shooting a police officer but for pumping his own gas it would be simultaneously the greatest and worst ending in TV history.
Yeah, Emma's conversation with Norman was tragic and sad but can we also talk about how deeply creepy that whole "Norman is sleeping/apple pie" speech was?
I think we all agree that Romero is a goner no matter what, right? Mother, Norman, the sheriff, his own increasingly reckless behavior . . . someone is going to put him down, whether or not he kills Norman in the process.
I also have a bad feeling about where things are going for Dylan. No, he isn't completely innocent in all of this - I'm glad they had those scenes with Emma and Mrs. Loomis to remind us of that - but, like Norman, he is also the sad product of one very screwed up family.
Somewhere in Time is one of my great guilty pleasures. I can't really defend it as a good movie but it's such an unapologetic swooning tearjerker and somehow it works. They're also both unbelievably gorgeous in it.
I think the series has mostly done a really good job balancing out the Bette and Joan sides, showing how their own personal insecurities and how the sexist and ageist nature of Hollywood made their situations very similar in some ways. Crawford's behavior on Charlotte is pretty freaking horrible, though, especially…
I have liked Hoffman's performance throughout the series but that last scene with her walking out was so great. So simply, calmly played on her part - she's not particularly angry, she's just had enough and has enough self respect left to stick by her promise to leave. I think a lot of actors or directors would have…
Enlightenment is absolutely fascinating and deeply flawed.
Exactly. And it weirdly ties into Survival, which aired after Ghost Light (and Curse of Fenric) but was actually filmed before it in that they both play around with misconceptions of evolution. It's a weird case in which cutting the episode order actually made the story more interesting by leaving things ambiguous. …
That's actually an interesting (and very Moffaty) idea.
Whenever I listen to the Gold soundtracks by themselves I think "you know, this is actually a lovely piece of music" (I mean, Amy's theme alone is an incredibly beautiful composition) but half the time when I hear it on the actual show I just think "tone it down, take it down a notch, don't lay it on so thick." He…
I'm still angry at the whole wiping Donna's memory bit, let alone that stuff with Clara, so I was so happy when it didn't happen.
I will totally volunteer to explain Ghost Light, which is my favorite Doctor Who story ever (of course it is, check the name). I'll admit it doesn't go out of its way to explain anything that's happening (it took me a long time to realize why he wants to shoot Victoria, for one thing). Warriors Gate, on the other…
It's time for the Jedi to end . . . our practice of taking children away from their families and brainwashing them into our weird cult with ill-defined beliefs about balance and order. We isolate powerful, talented kids with built-in emotional issues due to their Force sensitivity, tell them to ignore their natural…
Apart from Akerman and Goode - both of whom have been very enjoyable in other things - I've never seen the acting as one of Watchmen's problems.
I love the original five (OK, maybe not Battle) and have been so excited by how good the reboot is but the Burton version really is an abomination. The ending is really the least of its problems.
I'm sure someone has recut the prequel trilogy to be almost nothing but McGregor's Obi-Wan and some of the more enjoyably hammy moments of McDiarmid's Palpatine, with most of Anakin and the entire lifeless love story chopped out. I would watch that version. (And I'll admit I still love the Yoda fight at the end of…
The Giver's not even near my list in terms of absolute worst but it may be one of the most disappointing movies I've ever seen. Not only is it a complete betrayal of the book, otherwise decent actors are just terrible in it and my god is it dull.
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Not only is it a relentlessly ugly, stupid, badly acted, weirdly mean-spirited, and dull cash-in for two franchises that have done much, much better, for some reason we went to see it on Christmas morning.
I had the same question about Mayakovsky and the batteries. Or is the impending blank spot because Ember getting tired of Fillory and abandoning it would destroy the wellspring once and for all? (And, for that matter, did we need to introduce another threat when we already have two rogue gods, the fairies, possibly…