So you haven’t read Fellowship of the Ring? Well, reading it will give you several added dimensions to your understanding of him.

Eighty-nine? A mere youngster! British actress June Spencer retired last year at the age of 103, after 73 years (66 years excluding breaks to raise two adopted kids) of playing the role of Peggy Archer in the long running BBC Radio 4 soap opera, The Archers.

Oh, Santiago 100% knows Claudia and Louis tried to kill their Maker, it’s why he’s gunning for them this whole episode. He’s not even being that subtle about it. Why they thought they could keep it from a roomful of vampires with better telepathic abilities than they have I have no idea.

Although elderly women in acting are still rather rare compared to men. A lot of women performers disappear in their 40s because the public is thought to not want to see older women in things. While men can be cast even as romantic leads long past normal retirement age.

We as an audience are lucky that acting seems to be a career people can often do well into their later life. Dench has been acting for nearly a quarter-century past normal retirement age, and was over 60 when she first appeared as M.

Could Louis and Claudia not come up with a more believable vampire name than…Bruce?

This article is a weirdly precise example of the kind of response that Jenny Nicholson predicted from people who became emotionally (and/or financially) invested in a version of history where this thing lived up to the hype.

Same. I was 8 years old when I watched Temple in 1985 (movies took a much longer time to distribute int the 80s). It’s one of those movies that, if it catches you at the right age, you’ll absolutely love it — and I did and still do. My brother and I didn’t have Raiders either and this was our Indiana Jones movie. We…

Turns out it didn’t sell that well past the first few months. Disney knew it was going under, so for months they undersold seats and even for a period of time wouldn’t let people buy tickets to attend. This created the illusion that people were still filling up reservations when in reality Disney was selling 1/4-1/2…

Jenny Nicholson really nails this with her official concept art images, aka, “Chapter XXI, What They Stole From You.”

In the video linked above, she says that the $4800 was actually the lowest possible quoted price. To actually get a real quote, you had to call a customer service rep and tell them which days you wanted to go. There was no online calendar with dates & prices, so you couldn’t compare pricing on different days yourself. …

I was like, how much does this thing cost?

Holy shit, $4800+ minimum for 2 days w 2 people?  I got round trip tickets to Tokyo for my family of 4 for less than that.

When I was twelve years -old and REALLY into “Star Trek” I fantasized about a hotel/theme park experience in a full size replica of the Enterprise but even as a naive kid realized what a stupid fucking idea that would have been. Adult Star Wars fans can be every bit as childish as any Trek fan but they are likewise…

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Coincidence —> ‘miracle’
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Doctor Who, both classic and new have a long tradition of the Doctor breaking the fourth wall from time to time, starting all the way back with Hartnell wishing viewers at home a merry Christmas. Tom Baker regularly delivered lines of dialog straight to camera, and Capaldi had some quiet lengthy bits of exposition…

As a being outside the normal bounds of Space and Time, I didn’t find the Maestro using metatextual elements of the show offputting. Playing the theme, and referencing Simm’s Master seems perfectly in tune with their abilities. Besides, plenty of other shows have fiddled with metahumor without going full Rick and Morty…

The babies were actually talking. The doctor mentions at one point that they stayed babies but kept growing up or something like that. Also the Tardis has never converted baby for other people on board before so it’s implied the Doctor himself knows baby and horse, etc. the Tardis doesn’t do anything for those.

Apparently, caring about Doctor Who, or any Western media in general, is sooo 2014 now, according to the whippersnapper I talked to this morning.

Looks like praying your security is good enough doesn’t work.