And that’s exactly how it happened with Boba, the original shiny object.

Don’t forget the sparkly gold number with the blonde wig!

Dick Tony move, Tony dick.

There’s always Black Dynamite:

The thing is, some of the greatest filmic versions of Macbeth have been the ones that took the most liberty.

Probably the same reason we’ll never get a proper big screen adaptation of the Wizard of Oz books, but only remakes and spin-offs of the 1940 film version.

The BBC one? I saw that one in high school about 20 years ago. Really good.

So there’s a recurring theme in fiction aimed at women going back a long while, the “reforming the cad/rake” trope, whereby the protagonist turns her love interest from a reprehensible monster into a decent loving husband. Beauty and the Beast is the classic version, but it has many iterations over the centuries.

Not Maiden...Blind Guardian!

Well, then judging sets by their size, I am.

This is what I’m wondering. I was never much of a slasher fan, so I always wondered how much slasher fans want their franchises explained. Do most slasher fans like it when the mythology is explored, at least a little bit? Or is it all about the cleverness of the kills?

You’re right—everyone else’s story falls into more predictable patterns the longer it goes on. But Bran’s story is the one that’s become almost 100% traditional epic fantasy, and given how reticent and cagey GRRM’s been about detailing the fantastical elements of his world (i.e., he’s not going to detail the elaborate…

That’d be a good reason too. Plus, I’m okay with Sith surnames sounding dark and sinister, but the prequels and EU got kind of silly with the Darth McEvil names: Plageius, Tyrannus, Sidious (OK, I don’t mind that last one so much).

The Hoth and Bespin sets also look better made and more real. In contrast the space slug belly and Dagoba kind of look like cheap soundstage sets from a lower-budget production.

23 skiddoo!

Yeah, but most of England is related to King John. A good chunk of the US too.

Ayup.

Well, seeing as Charlie Jane posted this article on Ozzy Osbourne’s birthday, clearly the Dark Fates are compelling me to leave this here:

Ahh! I almost forgot that happened!