As I recall (and it’s been awhile), he’s gay in the source material, at least until he’s turned. And even after that, his two significant others are Armand and Marius.

Every apartment complex I’ve ever lived at has had at least one person with an oversized pickup parked “in” a standard space that absolutely does NOT accommodate it and makes it difficult for the rest of us to navigate the lot. Not everyone has the flexibility to choose their apartment based solely on finding the…

This is the apartment he can afford. Doesn’t matter if apartments he likely can no longer afford have bigger places. Sure, he could have moved into one with valet parking, and just chose not to do that. 

Weird, financially backing a company owned by a narcissistic sociopath has consequences?

I can only speak for myself, but the editing is maybe the number one reason I watched all four hours. If you already know her style and don’t like it, I don’t think this video will change your mind, but I found it entertaining and engrossing.

He’s not the lead, but he’s almost the anchor (at least for the first 2 eps.) and he’s really good. I hadn’t seen Squid Game, so I had nothing to go off of, but he’s equally compelling in both the dramatic moments and the fight scenes.

(Also, I’m really appreciating the sudden introduction of Force-assisted hand to…

AV Club got sold to Paste. It and io9 no longer have any connection to each other besides Kinja, which I assume will go away eventually. I bring it up because while AVC shared Jenny Nicholson’s viral 4-hour critical video about the Star Wars hotel, io9 pointedly did not, but has been posting articles about it lately…

I really like Alan Sepinwall as a critic, but he also didn’t like Andor, so I’m just going to ignore his opinions about Star Wars going forward (easy to do, given that Rolling Stone’s paywall doesn’t let you see ANYTHING for free anymore!)

That review in particular just seems to not like the premise/overall narrative, and doesn’t really convey whether the show actually has a coherent narrative.

An absolute legend who lived a long and incredible life. I was delighted that he got to make that cameo in 2022. 

“Look like a dong, and prosper.”

I thought he was really good and I’m generally unfamiliar with his work. He just seemed like a guy with an accent to me. 

The thing I always loved about the Romulans was that it seemed like they had just one state sanctioned haircut. 

Watched the first two episodes and I thought they were great. The one leg up they have on Andor is that Andor devoted too much of its runtime in its early episodes to the ponderously placed (and largely irrelevant) flashback scenes to Cassian’s childhood. Frustratingly, the second episode ended on a downbeat flashback…

And Andor!

Bad Batch is a good remedy to that feeling, hardly any Force stuff going on at all in that series.

This is such a fantastic piece of adaptation, and I hope this creative team gets to continue with the story post-Interview.

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.

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.