Aww! I have a polydactyl kitty, but all she has are distinct thumbs (which she has on occasion used opposably, which always alarms me).

Here's what I was just thinking — posting it here as it dovetails with your post.

My point, rather, was that they shouldn't try to drag out the plotline this season just because they're afraid they'll "run out" of inspiration for further stories or plot twists in subsequent seasons (should they be so lucky). Even if they wrap up the plotline of this season IN this season, they have a wealth of…

"...for fear that the show fulfills its promise too early and has nowhere to go in later seasons."

Another stories-reader here, and frankly, Jude Law's Watson is the thing I am most loving about these films. Not that I dislike RDJ's Holmes — I like it precisely because he challenges my long-held expectations. But Law's Watson... fantastic. The trappings of a modern film aside, I really feel he may be coming…

Look, I'm a fan of Sherlock Holmes as originally written. We had an omnibus of the entire works and that fascinated me from an early age. I read it as soon as I was able to, devoured it, and loved the entire thing. I discovered the Sidney Paget illustrations later (our omnibus was not illustrated), and was…

Hah! No, I'm that much of a Tolkien geek that I used elements from Elvish to create a name that I could use as a screen-name. It's "holly trees" in Sindarin, a play on my real name. I actually went with the plural for trees rather than the singular to get away from the resemblance to "Aragorn", but there's only so…

Does Neverwhere (1996) by Neil Gaiman count? Tv series.

Well, more to the point — if they had really done an adaptation of Fables, they wouldn't have been able to draw upon other properties that Disney owns and might like to include. So far, OUAT has included a number of things that are Disney, but not public-domain fairy-tales. (Or they've referenced specific Disney…

This. In a lot of ways, I'd rather watch ABC doing something similar-but-quite-different in Once, than watch them butcher in a tv series what I love in the comic series of Fables. It wouldn't really surprise me if that's on Willingham's mind as well.

"Perhaps this is why so many of us find the blank gaze in this photograph so psychologically unsettling. To find no recognition of separateness or personhood in the eyes of another is to have one's identity shaken and sense of control stripped away."

This is my thought. Does it help if people realize this is what Peter Jackson named his company for? Well, not this one, specifically, but still, other weta species.

See other reply — the actual title of the song is "Kashmir". Like the region. Not "cashmere", the fabric.

From the start, I've been kind of hoping this might be the case. But the way the show is written, I keep thinking that that might be too big a twist. They really are not into surprise twists. With the obvious exception of the sheriff, they have given all the other characters anvilicious names related to their…

No, of course not. But we're not talking about a show with an occasional Disney reference. We're talking about a show very closely tied to intellectual properties that are very closely related to Disney's main brand identity.

Hmm. Has that been explicitly stated as a reason, though? Because I'm not really buying it. It would not unduly confuse the audience to go to a movie called "John Carter of Mars" and find it to be a story about how a guy from Earth progresses to the point of having "of Mars" added to his name.

As annoyed as I am (still) that they dropped the "of Mars" from "John Carter", I have to say that I like the poster. I'm not completely sold on the way the kind of dark and bluish Carter looks, but what I like most about it is the very bold red/yellow color scheme, and the sense of SPACE in the composition. It…

"That makes it a bit more interesting IMO, but it's now strange to me that Disney would be all for basically "corrupting" their classic tales (for example: the killing off of the Fairy Godmother and getting Cinderella teenage pregnant) considering how protective they are of their IPs typically.

Remember that it was a wolf standing in the middle of the road in the Pilot that caused Emma to swerve her Volkswagen into the town sign and knock herself out, thus preventing her from leaving. Not, the wolf has not been mentioned again AFAIK, although they've shown that Ruby has a wolf charm that she used to keep…

I can't help but notice that while this article (and the original) both say that they used the CT scan to create a replica, and that "this is about as perfect an imitation as one could hope to make"... neither of them actually comment on the sound quality that the replica produces, or compares that in any meaningful…