yes! the super-brief callout about the Whills made my jaw drop!

i liked it because it was so VADER. he knows this was important enough that he couldn't trust it to underlings, and that the only way it would get done is if he did it, and if he failed, then he knew he did everything possible first.

i have a very very bad superpower ability to pick the very character who is going to die sacrificing himself for the rest. kenobi, gandalf, wash, and now the badass samurai jedi character in this movie. my heart gets crushed every damn time.

i went in cold, and when he showed up, i gasped. i thought it would be essentially a CGI cameo and then he'd be gone, but no — he's a major character. that was a ballsy move, and while he DID look like a videogame cinematic character to me if i looked too closely, if i just relaxed and went with it, it was fine. i…

agreed. at some point during the battle on the beach planet it suddenly hit me, "oh no… this is a SUICIDE MISSION…" and on some level i knew it from the beginning, but it still sucked like hell for it to be true.

take heart — according to the wikipedia entry for the show, they are going to release more shows in 2017, i think. takes place starting 6 months after the finale of season 3.

i keep calling him Lyle the Intern because i can never remember his character's name on Westworld, haha.

i loved the entire cast of that show, and i think they all did such great stuff with their characters. i was devastated when Mr. Lyle left… he had the BEST bon mots.

omg, Eva Green in Penny Dreadful… i just finished watching all three seasons, and why this show wasn't trumpeted from the mountaintops, i have no idea. she's incredible. actually, the whole cast is just great, and the fun they have with the over-the-top gothic-ness of it all made for such a delicious show. so happy to…

i think i like this even better than the one about Guy Fieri's joint in NYC.

i'm so saddened by this. i've long loved bernard fox, ever since i was a kid. hence my avatar and user name.

good point. but i'm not famous or an entertainer, so in a way i feel like the odds are in my favor.

there's some definitely beautiful shots in there, but calling them the MOST beautiful i think is a stretch. EDIT: some i do agree qualify as iconic, most beautiful. but certainly not all of them.

suddenly, i have plans for next year.

i loved Thicke of the Night. RIP, sir, and thank you.

it's a CHILDREN'S book, for pete's sake — it's not like reading 5 books of Game of Thrones or something. 5+ books of this was more like reading 10 chapters of a more adult book to get to the swing of things.

FEAR IS NOT THE END OF THIS

that's some rapid fire pop culture testing, that is.

i've read the books repeatedly for over 30 years, actually. but we're talking about the *stereotype* that has been built around them, not how they are depicted in tolkien's original work.

such a fun band. not a fan of the gun guitar (guntar?), but i do love the band.