“This is not an anime, Bruce.”

Common practice in a lot of countries, including Germany.

“Yes, those are fine, because we’ll be changing them all into Klingon.”

“Do you want to build a.... me?”

Bit silly, but it got her established before making it obvious what her arc was going to be.

The only really plot-related bit of the blurb: “Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.”

Preschool kids aren’t the best at nomenclature.

Also, I think she’s referred to as just ‘Six’ more often, while The Prisoner is more consistently ‘Number Six’.

It’s also something that didn’t particularly have to happen on cue, just sooner or later, which makes the odds better.

Since the film seems to be going with the idea that the music world is otherwise the same, it’d seem likely that they’d be greeted as good 60s music pastiche instead of a revelation.

How many people are you required to recommend this podcast to?

Three big 1960s musicals, two of them based on a non-musical play. There are odder tangents.

Says quite a lot about the audience’s attraction to the pairing that he felt he had to do that, and that multiple versions and adaptations have fought against it.

Elmer’s red nose is another element from his first few appearances (and the eyes on both look early-style too).

Could be good. Wonder what sort of division of the books into series or films they’re thinking of, and whether they’re planning any basically new stories in the setting.

If they were going to do it, it should have been for a 2015 release.

....to be followed by Supernova II: Alpha Centauri.

“We’re going to use prosthetics or CGI for the eye, right?”

Her character does take on aspects of Mastermind’s manipulation of Phoenix as well as Lilandra’s antipathy to it. But it’s not a neat combination.

And in the final film, they’re still shapeshifters who are fairly Skrull-like in the not-very-clear looks we get at their real form.