“writing rape scenes that don’t need to be there”
To be fair Moore did give his blessing on JLU’s adaptation of For The Man Who Has Everything.
Jonathan Harker wasn’t posh. His prospective wife needed to work. Anyone expecting a posh accent didn’t understand Dracula. The character is a cuckold who catches his wife in their bed doing the deed, which explains why he’s regarded as a nothing, despite the daring escape and the derring do of the final attack. And…
No, the point of those parts of GoT was to introduce a ton of sexy contemporary anachronisms, just as banal, in the place of traditional fantasy stand-bys, while implying those anachronisms were somehow representative of the nasty “real” story of some vague past era of knights-and-lords history.
I would add Echo and Indra and Diyoza
Also, they really need to thin the herd. At this point the cast is bloated and overstuffed with characters who have either outstayed their welcome or were not interesting to begin with. I’d be fine if the main cast was: Clarke, Bellamy, Murphy, Raven, Emori, and Octavia. Maybe Kane and Abby as well if they need a…
Queen Blodreina talked Kane to death!
I do hope they move past the “us vs. them” mentality and actually show what it means to rebuild civilisation.
None of the Dothraki were named characters. Whereas both Grey Worm & Melisandre would die, even though people (like the betting pool here) were saying their plans for afterward marked at least one of them for a death as certain as Theon’s.
“Wolf Like Me,” about an undead dire-wolf who reunites with his long-lost sister Nymeria, and her brood. They move in together and have wacky dysfunctional family misadventures. Soundtrack by TV on the Radio.
I keep wondering about some mushroom scientist working on something when suddenly all of Paul Stamets’ papers suddenly disappears from every computer.
On top of that, Starfleet didn't really learn their lesson about the dangers is AI, seeing that they had no problem letting Dr Richard Daystrom install an AI computer on the Enterprise (TOS: The Ultimate Computer)
tfw where you just can’t decide between eyeroll.gif and jerkoff.gif
Fourteen months later, and here I have the exact same reaction to Discovery’s season-ending anti-cliffhanger. What the hell was that?
I’m a little disappointed that neither AV Club nor io9 (but especially io9) seem to be aware this series existed.
He was also on Jeremiah - post-apocalyptic show from early 00s in which he played the titular hero. Both seasons are available on Hulu.
They cast a Flex.