Huh. Shouldn’t it be MandraGOran, like the plant?

The correlation to this is “if a Jewish actress is courageous or deserves love, then she’s not playing a Jewish character.” The best example for this is the Good Wife, where the very Jewish-looking Juliana Margulis (and Josh Charles, while we’re at it) played non-Jewish characters. Contrast this to the show’s Jewish…

That’s true - I don’t have the numbers on me, but something like 80% of all U.S. aid has to be spent in the United States. It’s basically a subsidy for the U.S. arms industry.

Which is probably what they were going for.

Competence is underrated.

Oddly enough, Ray Stevenson came close to redeeming Season 7 through sheer force of personality. I mean, there was no way the show could have been good, but he was fun to watch and actually managed to generate a degree of pathos.

Why am I constantly reading “Drake/Kanye” as “Danny Kaye”?

Aloy is one of the most no-nonsense characters in videogame history. I don’t know much about GI, but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have time for that shit.

Don’t underestimate Dresden Files fans.

Forget superhero movies. She needs to be the next Doctor.

She may also grow up to have successful, fulfilling life as a doctor or a lawyer or something, and that time she played drums for the Foo Fighters will be one of her most cherished childhood memories. I wouldn’t count that as a failure.

I see your Houses of the Holy and raise you Blind Faith.

Man, Redford could NOT work a beard.

Ah yes, District 9. The 2009 movie where a company man meets oppressed aliens, starts turning into one and ends up fighting his former human comrades. You know, the one with the climatic fight with the mech suit. No, the other one.

Mofatt and Gatiss can do dialogs and scenes, but they can’t do structure - and in mysteries, structure is everything.

That’s why I found the comparisons to Boorman’s Excalibur so spurious. Yes, there were a few things in common between the movies, like beautiful cinematography, a dreamlike atmosphere, and an adult interpretation of the Arthurian legends. But Excalibur also had action, big crowd-pleasing moments (“You, sir, shall…

Words to live by.

It’s even funnier as Donald Duck.

“Warrior training”? You mean Jake’s Die Hard LARPing? The show makes it clear that it has nothing to do with actual police work. Outside training, the characters rarely draw their weapons, almost never shoot anyone, and I don’t think any of them have ever killed a human being. For a cop show, that’s pretty impressive.

I can think of one (part)-Black actor whose overseas numbers are Rock-solid.