Fun fact: This guy (see picture) is Phil Dodds, who played the keyboard operator. He was employed by ARP, the company that made the synthesizer used in the film (an ARP2500), and was on the set to adjust the synth to make the five notes sound the way Spielberg wanted them to. He liked Phil’s looks and cast him on the…
The brilliance of early Spielberg? The scene were Roy has not yet made the connection between the shape that he was building and Devils Tower. In the background, a loony toons cartoon is playing as Roy wrestles with his demons. And that Ah-Hah moment, where Roy starts to lean in and make the connection, the cartoon -…
That tall, skinny alien scared the HOLY HELL out of me so badly as a child! It’s an awful, poorly-made puppet, even by 70's standards (any craft artist could probably whip it together with $20 of materials) but there were few things I could remember terrifying me so much as a kid.
Those aliens are scary because they’re the dead eyed background costumes only seen backlit in fog. More interesting to my childhood trauma was how creepy/cute the sophisticated close up puppet was.
Alright, let’s tackle this. Westeros (including Targs and Starks) is quite obviously ruled by male primogeniture. This means, that for the Targs (and the Starks), the line of succession goes through the monarch’s eldest son and his line.
This means that Aerys -> Rhaegar -> Jon. Dany only THINKS she’s the lawful…
I disagree about people being influenced somehow to like Stranger Things. It was essentially a true viral phenomenon that spread simply because people liked it. I had heard almost nothing about it and I loved it having no expectations at all.
a lord’s bastard (a prince’s, really, but Jon doesn’t know it yet)
It is absolutely not your “duty” to tell people to not like a thing that you don’t like.
Some treatments or metaphorical representations resonate with people regardless of how often they see them. Someone taught me this once by showing me a video montage of bullied or demeaned underdogs finally getting their moment of triumph. I was choked up at the end.
“I’m curious...would his comment have been better if he just said “I didn’t like it” versus calling it “overrated”? It’s not like he said no one else should like it...can’t people give an opinion that they don’t like something without also saying no one else should?”
It’s not your duty. It’s your compulsion.
It’s your opinion, and you’re entitled to it. That’s all it is though.
The arc-plot I was interested in was whether Eddie Morra had gone evil using NZT constantly. He had gone from being a lackluster writer to a senator with an agenda manipulating people for his own plans. The cancellation left me reeling as well. Still miss Brian Finch’s arts and crafts demonstrations to the perplexed…
I thought I was going to read how they got away with using Eggos without authorization from Kellogg.
It’s yet another example of the political turmoil that churns at the CBS head office. Limitless and Supergirl were the highest rated new shows that year of all the networks, but someone at the top didn’t like them, so shuffled them both off, one to the CW and one to oblivion. Someone at the top doesn’t want to expand…
I’m still angry Limitless was cancelled. I loved it so much. It seemed tailor-made for me, with tons of jokes about my favorite things. And Brian was my favorite kind of protagonist - a genuinely good and heroic person always putting others before himself.
That is previously mentioned Gargoyle. But you can see why he never really caught on outside the Defenders.
It almost certainly a money issue. They had to cut down on episode number to afford the battles they need to show, and because of that they have to condense plot. A reality of TV productions costing money and needing ROI.
Given the entirety of human warfare and history, the Middle Ages in Europe is quite recent, which is why I specified “until relatively recently”. Granted yes, this entire series is a Tolkeinised version of The War of the Roses and other decidedly Euro wars so your points about English warfare and protocol are more apt.
