I think Rhianna would have been a good choice, Terry already tapped her to continue any series and the production company she and her dad set up to manage adaptations was involved in this. She has distance and knows his voice. I think Neil should have brought her in to collaborate (I mean she’s won BAFTAs for writing…

I’m actually surprised they couldn’t pack the Globe. I just visited the recreation of it a couple weeks back and it’s not a big space. They have more extras in other scenes but I guess if it’s a case of really tight budget I can understand but hell, I’d have done it for free. :-P

The reason was there was a planet in orbit around the star that was rich in Dilithium that caused the explosion to go trans-warp. It’s a pretty lame excuse but it’s consistent in universe.

I know that face HRM is giving Trump, it’s the shut your damn mouth face my grandmother would give when someone was talking like an idiot. I suspect she’s going to be making it a lot during the visit (especially after the nasty remark).

Because it was an inflection point, look at other movies released that year like Blade Runner. It shares that leisurely pace, the same with Tron and arguably The Thing and Poltergeist (for an extreme example of leisurely story telling The World According to Garp).

What you are describing regarding pacing is more of an industry wide change. Story telling changes over the years to reflect the era. A perfect encapsulation of it would be Saturday Night Live, the joke is the story telling of an era in a bottle. At the inception of the show you had sketches that would last 10 or 15…

Do yourself a favour and watch it. It holds up.

I forgot how young John was when he made these with Justin! I never really liked the ads from a technical point of view but they were pretty solid comedy a lot of the times.

When it comes to what’s on the page the process and the end product, you can’t really judge something like the number of writers and credits on the screen (this is also leaving aside the arcane formula around credits on films especially around writing). Believe me, I’ve sat with friends who write for screen…

Been visiting the UK with the wife and this has been my travel book. I’ll have finished my re-read just in time for the show. Can’t wait to watch it. Unfortunately not really been to many places from the book (though did go to Soho which has cleaned up substantially since the writing of the book much like the…

There’s a few reasons, some more scientific and some more comic booky. The comic booky is she derives her powers from the space stone, this has an impact on her aging slowing it. Basically being one of the few beings to be imbued with the powers of one of the infinity stones as well as being a hybrid Human/Kree this…

Yes, also some times they’ll reshoot and rework scenes because of pacing. This is a pretty slow scene and it would have slowed down the film in a way that could have messed with pacing. It’s also not consistent with some of the other scenes. The creation of a film is not a straight line. Often there are three or four…

You are, the first scene they touch on these elements is in the training scene it’s then reiterated and emphasized during the public transit scene on the Kree home world. This is clearly communicated and sets up the mystery of her avatar for the Supreme Intelligence.

Yeah it is in the movie, it’s in the training fight scene and on the public transit scene on the Kree home world. Some of these same lines are even used. Sort of makes me wonder about a critique when it’s forgetting parts of the movie that are actually there.

Remember there’s more than a script here, there’s also a director who can interpret these choices. There are three layers of choice here the writer’s, the director’s and the performer’s. Who’s to say who made which decision but given the consistency throughout I suspect it’s more than just a decision by the performer…

Honest to God, as I got to know people who work in the entertainment industry I don’t know how they maintain social media accounts. So many people are just disgusting.

No, no it doesn’t. They are now labelled as dissenters. Riot knows exactly every person who walked out that door. They have put their career at risk by publicly showing that they want to push back against abuse. This would have happened either way, Riot just acted in a manner that gives the appearance of being an open…

And what do you do when the behaviour is endemic to the industry? This is literally the kind of behaviour the original labour movement was started to combat.

Yes, most of us are, further 60 USD is not actually enough to fund AAA game development. That it’s stagnated at 60 USD is part of the problem with the industry (and why we are seeing a proliferation of games as services and micro-transactions).

Riot, literally doing the bare minimum they can get away with and try and maintain their public facing personae as a good place that’s good to it’s employees. All of the people I know in the industry find the place terribly toxic and would rather be unemployed than work there after all that’s gone down.