A Porpoise's Purpose.
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The Eurovision was started during the Cold War as a way of promoting European unity and brotherly feeling. The least you could do for the American version is wait a few years until you’ve had your next civil war.
A Dog’s Impatience: What About In Dog Years?
“If you thought the Extremely Online fandoms for Game of Thrones, Star Wars, and Star Trek were getting increasingly angry and insufferable...Adult Swim wants you to hold. Its. Beer.”
The Sun Is Also A Star turns a compelling premise into a lackluster teen romance
Yeah, everyone needs to...chill...about B&R. There were a lot of factors that put this franchise...ON ICE. No need to give anyone...THE COLD SHOULDER...over it 20 years later.
ME3's ending was fine, and the hate for it was massively overblown.
Given that Disney’s new Star Wars strategy seems to be giving projects to people who will give rage-aneurysms to annoying YouTube fan channels, I’ll look forward to the new films from the Mass Effect 3 writing team and the CGI studio who made Sonic look like that.
AVC: I don’t know if you’ll have an answer for this one, but we’ll try: is there a line from film or television that you’ve incorporated into your personal vocabulary? That you like to quote, or something like that?
One thing I did miss about a potential Iannucci version of the past few seasons is that he would totally have included a Tony Blair figure in Selina’s corrupt international jet set - a glib, perma-tanned former British PM doing dodgy consultancy work for central Asian dictatorships. Although arguably Selina herself is…
God, Americans can be narrow-minded. You realise most European social democracies are supported by these kinds of dark folk rituals, right? You don’t get free healthcare without sacrificing a few of the sicklier citizens to the forest gods.
“Someone needs to do something about this.” - Selina Meyer.
Who died? Jon’s incest-boner.
Martin, meanwhile, laments the foreshadowing and clues layered into early storylines that, when rejiggered, turn into nothing more “dead ends.”
The lesson here is that you can set the entire Eastern world ablaze, and people will call it empowering and character-building - but you burn down one little city full of white people, and suddenly everyone is looking at you funny. Did nobody read the Targaryen T&Cs?
“He’s thinking about fairies, so what he shouts is more a language of fairies”
My favourite celebrity cameo last night remains the sequence where Daenerys was played by Henry Kissinger.
I’m still holding out for an after-credits scene next week where we cut to an exiled Jaime and Cersei on the terrace of a merchant’s house in Braavos, and Jaime is negotiating to sell her in marriage to a Dothraki horselord. Then he turns to the camera, waggles his eyebrows and says: “Here we go again!”