Do you mean Karen Gillan or is there some Hollywood insider joke I'm not getting?

I'm guessing you watch a lot of network TV and cable. I cut the cord many years ago and the only time I ever see a trailer outside of the cinema is when I specifically watch one on Youtube.

Yeah, it's disappointing how they wasted Doctor Who like that. And either cut out Ronan or Thanos, you don't need both in there.

He already made an Akira music video with Daft Punk, so maybe they can just drop that in the movie.

Oh cool, thanks. I dunno, I think I'd remember a cameo by Ian Fleming, but these war series do kind of blend together after a while. Also, I remember McCoy's nemesis. Didn't he get reamed out by Chesty Puller and got reduced to working on the gun range, where he sabotaged McCoy's shooting exam?

I was asking if the series skipped straight from WWII to Korea or if there was stuff in between about the Iron Curtain going up. The last book I read McCoy and co. were still fighting in the Pacific.

So I have to agree with Iggy - the most interesting stuff is the beginning where it shows a rebuilt Earth. Space opera skips straight to Star Trek times, so I always find exceptions where the genre firmly co-exists with a modern setting fascinating (also why I kept watching the Stargate TV show). There are school…

The movie itself doesn't have any interesting music. Nothing as iconic as the original's It's the End of the World As We Know It - speaking of songs used jarringly out of context, by the way.

Wait, so that series continues up to Korea? What happens between the wars? Also, wasn't there already a Hollywood marine? I remember he refused to talk David Niven out of reenlisting.

They kind of do. I remember reading that fighter pilot enlistments wet up after Top Gun. My older brother says a lot more people started coming to his taekwondo classes after Karate Kid and I recall the forensic science enrolments at my university being disproportionately popular in the era of CSI.

It was awesome. I like to imagine that instead of this movie they made one about the conflict mentioned in the back story about Congolese militias hunting alien holdouts in central Africa.

I wonder if it's going to be like France leaving NATO and the Brits ask to be let in again in 20 years.

Come to think of it I can't even remember the last anglo movie I saw. Ginger Snaps, maybe? But that was like 12 years ago.

Yeah, I'm not really sure why the aliens were targeting my residential neighbourhood in Toronto either. They left my neighbours' homes standing, too, so they must have been specifically being dicks to me.

The prof didn't specify that the words had to be unique so just to yank his chain you could have given the same word twice.

I believe you misunderstood me. In your original comment you wrote of wishing that Jon had killed Jon. I assume that was a typo and you didn't actually wish Jon had blown his brains out at the press conference, as it were. And now I've explained the joke and now it's no longer funny.

I think Ursula LeGuin could use some Hollywood love, particularly since her publishers apparently are pushing her to move into YA territory. It's also too bad the Miyazaki anime adaptation of Earthsea never got off the ground (Hayao, not his son Goro).

Really? Does the real Leroy Jenkins get any money for this?

Dunno if you're a book reader, but when Bran says half-giants are bullshit because the sex scenes would be all Woman of Kleenex, Osha replies that in olden times it was the dudes that got it on with giant women. Although yeah, she doesn't really explain how the giantess hook-up scene works.

Err, you mean you wish Jon killed Ramsay, right? Although it would have been kind of fucked up for Jon to go all Budd Dwyer at the pre-battle parley.