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6/7/12

Man, my dash I *so* full of excited Karl Urban fangirls. I haven't seen their reaction to the whole "keeps mask on for whole movie" thing—is that still in effect? Sucks to be the GIF-ers in that community.

6/7/12

Yeah, by the "shared alternate universe" argument, this would be in scope too.

6/6/12

Father:

6/6/12

The reason she looks like both of them is because the art is hardly consistent in differentiating female facial features or bodies. She looks like a comic babe, and it's all about what she did with her hair that morning that determines which dewy fresh ingenue she'll be.

6/6/12

How can the whole point be that they're going to die if the *canonically* don't? I think the whole point is that you keep on fighting when the circumstance is dire—even if they have a cave troll^H^H^H^Hdragon.

6/6/12

But this is going to be a semantic sticking point. Not only is the title character not dead, neither are most of her closest friends and family. It's not the wildest success, but it's more like old school decimation than new.

6/6/12

Vibe and Gypsy? For real? I think their window might have slipped a little...

6/6/12

I have magic spoiler-seeking fingers. Got it right the first time. Don't have 14 minutes at work, nor audio capabilities.

6/6/12

I'm impressed by the plurality of your remains...

6/6/12

Those are his last words before he dies, so I'm good with counting it as a last stand. A really long, but entirely contiguous stand.

6/6/12

Angel survives, Spike survives, Illyria survives. How is that a last stand?

6/6/12

Gandalf died, so by the definition above (not mine—IO9's), he counts.

6/6/12

Oh, here's an idea: When you set out to bilk a frustrated, desperate, and clearly under-educated population, pick something that's not A FUCKING BLEACHING AGENT.

6/6/12

Well, thanks. I'm just saying that the article defines its own terms, so how either of us define "last stand" is moot in the face of that.

6/6/12

No, Gandalf died.

6/6/12

Not very "last", tho.

6/6/12

God, that choked me up. Definitely a point where Peter Jackson made me feel things that Tolkien hadn't managed all by himself.

6/6/12

Not enough deaths, I'd wager.

6/6/12

Well, here's why you're not going to get me to agree they should have included Serenity: "Here are ten times science fiction and fantasy heroes lost their lives with panache."

6/6/12

Do any of the last stands listed have the protagonists winning the fight?