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It doesn't seem like the kind of story a movie can be easily made from. The external events amount only to 'family goes to spaceport, son disobeys rules, gets hopelessly fucked'. Most of the story's in the explanation of how the Jaunt works, how it was invented, and how it was used on death row inmates and by that guy

I do love that Walter Brennan.

I was thinking the residents might wait until the end of Murder She Wrote to call.

It's not all bad. After all, his daughter marries a black man…wait, wrong Back to the Future-style fictional episode.

When you grow up in a country where everything is within 12 hours' drive, 12 hours is an eternity. Riley Finn (Buffy character from Iowa) might 'drive 4 hours to see a high school football game', but we wouldn't drive more than half an hour, and we'd still think of it as a day out.

We don't put the letter U in everything, you know. Maybe Osborne's too cheap to pay for it.

Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army, The Vicar of Dibley, One Foot in the Grave, Only Fools and Horses, Porridge, The Thin Blue Line, Ashes to Ashes, Doctor Who, Jonathan Creek.

Ah, yes, Mary-ann, that bisexual nymphomaniac with boundary issues.

I've asked them often to cover Seasons 10-15 under Simpsons Presentable, then 16-22 under Simpsons Gruesome.

Thank you. Please begin covering Seasons 10-15 under the title Simpsons Presentable, then Seasons 16-22 under the title Simpsons Gruesome.

Shrek would be a really short film.

I tell you, 'Lotte' and Maxine, I've really had enough of Being John Malkovich.
You know, Andy, you really redeemed yourself in prison, more than most people do. I could say yours was The Shawshank Redemption.
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, but sometimes, oh God, The Green Mile

Two less major missteps in DH, which I rewatched recently: making it possible to infer that Hermione could have saved Dobby by making him live for a minute instead of ten seconds after being stabbed; and messing up the reveal that Narcissa chose to lie to Voldemort to save Draco, by having it not be clear on film that

The third film was the first one to mess up the overarching narrative, by not revealing that Lupin, Pettigrew, Sirius and James Potter created the Marauder's Map and were known respectively as Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, then having characters use at least one of those nicknames in film 5. The fifth one then

So not only are the witcharding world incredibly incompetent when it comes to equality and security matters, they're also shocking on education too. If Britain, with 1% of the world's population, is covered by 1 school, there ought to be 100 schools across the globe, and yet there's only 11? Hundreds of thousands of

Rory wouldn't want Spike. She doesn't like the fact that he's out at night after 11 even if you haven't gone out until then.

It was my understanding that the children playing in the snow died from being killed by Ice Nationers, not because of infected snow. Am I wrong?

We're sentient beings. We can still have sex with the gender we're not attracted to, if we have a reason to. Not to mention we have IVF.

It's been 3 years, so by now probably either someone's told you or you've found out for yourself, but there's a traditional ceremony in a Pennsylvania town where they bring a groundhog (a small rodent-type creature) out every February 2nd and the saying is that if it sees its shadow, it goes back into hibernation for

That guy totally deserved to get fired. The only thing that made his rehiring make sense was that he was Nick's friend.