Hell yeah! 15 years is amazing and will continue to be an amazing achievement.

I watched a few minutes of the pilot, it doesn’t explain how it all started like the original, which I would think is essential to get the viewer engaged, but maybe they show it later. That original opening is fantastic.

To play Devil’s Advocate as someone who is extremely excited about Dune - There is also the possibility Dune is more successful outside of theaters. That could actually confirm it as a franchise.

What’s actually interesting about the article is that it shows that Heard is only a small part of Depp’s problems. So it’s weird that everyone is acting like they have to decide who was worse.

So all the buzz is for nothing?

Thank you for being a beekin of hope.

Mark Phillips was the butt of some jokes—supposedly his nickname was “London Fog” because he was thick and wet. However I believe he scored some points for turning down a title (which was a decision made by both him and Anne).

If a person indicates that they accept

“Wait, there’s a virtuous Russian wizard school that didn’t do shit about tens of millions of Russians who died under Stalin?”

I don’t know what’s more surprising and impressive, that this version ran 4 seasons or that the original ran 9.

I read in a review about the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions that when a book is described as “unfilmable”, it shouldn’t be taken as a challenge.

Go look up some of the photos of that time. They are very telling. There’s one of Diana and the queen on the balcony after the wedding. It’s delightful and imo quite genuine.

Yeah sometimes you just have to say it’s ok to call it a day.

Yeah, the “let’s share” lines from her were cringeworthy in their lack of subtlety. Though in real life she did apparently say “what more could you want?” in a confrontation, albeit that’s from Diana’s perspective.

I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me that the RF has a horrible blindspot where Diana and her charisma is concerned. And I suspect that’s because it wasn’t just Charles who resented her for her popularity. You can even kind of see why. It does have to be galling to have a person who is deeply obnoxious to you end…

Definitely a Catch-22. Either acknowledge the story is about a pedophile justifying his actions and have reactionaries ban it, or live with the twisted interpretation of a love story . 

Her restrained fury at Thatcher talking over her was acting at its finest.

I think with Colman’s tenure the main difference is that there was more of an arc for the character as she grew into the role. Now that she’s largely settled into it and is a venerable institution, the drama isn’t really about her character development anymore. Which to some extent was inevitable based on the…

Yeah, my impression of Edward is that he’s just kind of a hapless doof who had a succession of “jobs” that he largely failed at but is generally willing to quietly life out his life as a minor royal.

“Vergangenheit” was not a retcon. David and Wallis’s Nazi connections were hidden from the public and mostly hidden from Elizabeth, until she was forced against her will to face them.