i made this joke just above but uh

isn't that basically the third act of TFA

where's the best place to watch this online? no one seems to be airing it legally here

a lot of the dr. strange cosplay get ups i've seen have a real problem with the colour - the uniform blue and red of his tunic and cape are incredibly bland to look at.

nah, he's not a sith, just someone who uses the dark side of the force — if he was a sith, he'd be "darth snoke". it seems like disney are going to push the idea that there are different factions that engage with both sides of the force in different ways — the german guy at the beginning is apparently a member of "the…

yesterday. i think that the 1000s of years old part is probably mentioned in some expanded universe novel or one of the guides that disney has put out, and represents something that is an intended part of the character but that hasn't been meaningfully communicated onscreen. (see also: the dynamic between the…

i searched on wookieepedia and (mild spoiler i guess) it says that he's meant to be thousands of years old? which, i mean, maybe connects him to maz, but also maybe he's his own thing

the political situation wasn't the same as it was in the OT. in the OT, the rebels are a small outfit fighting against a much larger force, with implied hegemonic control over the entireity of the galaxy.

i think snoke would have been cool as fuck if they had just ended up making him really, really big instead of probably just regular sized

my main memory of that scene is the slight sense of body horror from watching maguires arms get borderline ripped out from the sockets trying to stop the train. im not sure the jesus thing even registered. point is — i dont know if you would get the same 'oh shit he might die doing this' vibe without that pose, so im…

yeah, if you look at Corey's okcupid profile, its impossible anyone looked at that and thought that there wasn't something seriously amiss

reading the synopsis, it sounds a lot like the iron man origin sotry and that spiderman-venom-cancersuit plotline had a baby

i mean, he gets to the bottom of the dig and he finds someone has written "i'm in twelve" — it's meant to be a big stare into the abyss moment for him

the whole castle is designed to force the confession out of him. he didn't write it. it was put there to prompt him to go to twelve, at which point he'd be trapped with the veil behind him and an impenetrable wall blocking the exit, meaning that the only way he could escape is to give up the identity of the hybrid.…

ALSO im amazed i haven't seen this referenced in another comment — the doctor yelling "i bet you didn't see that coming" after jumping out of the window every single time for two billion years probably got real old real fast

uh, some thoughts on the episode

the wall was put there to block the exit. the idea was that the doctor would get to the end, recognize that the only way he could get out of the castle was to confess his final secret, at which point the veil would stop chasing him, the castle would swing around, the wall would go away and he could leave. the whole…

i thought it was a reference to that dalek episode last season where they talked about how the doctor had this willingness to let people suffer and die

"the long way" is deciding to die billions of times so you can punch through a wall made of solid diamond rather than giving up a secret to your mysterious captors

benoist is great on supergirl, but it has serious supporting cast problems. i don't watch arrow so i can't comment on it, but flash gets by in part on the strength of its well defined ensemble (ie wells, nu-wells, cisco, joe, caitlin, snart, eddie, etc), while supergirl has the bizzare kat grant and then four…