I’m assuming they mean Europeans from the Mediterranean and countries on the Europe/Asia border like Armenia. For years, anthropologists tried to argue that there were genetic differences between lighter and darker Europeans (painting the darker Europeans as inferior while also retconning societies like Ancient Greece…

Also, his discussion with Rhaenyra indicates that he’s looking for someone kind who can bring a sense of warmth to both their lives. Otto may have wanted Alicent to seduce him the old fashioned way but (whether intentional or not) Alicent won him over by helping him through his grief and having the dragon mended seems…

Lynch was always adamant about not being finished with Twin Peaks. He personally killed plans for stuff like literary continuations because he wasn’t finished with the series. Mulholland Drive was initially planned as a spin-off focused on Audrey.

Robbins and Schneider c0-hosted the second Kids Choice Awards together. They became friends with one of Nickelodeon’s producers (who was impressed that they had written an episode of Head of the Class together) and after HotC ended, that producer offered them a job at Nickelodeon. Their first show was All That which…

Marvel Studios can’t just do what they did with Sony and Spider-Man and come to a profit sharing agreement and still distribute it themselves.

Honestly, I would rather creators get to tell their story at their own pace than add a bunch of unnecessary padding to fill out a studio mandated runtime. That’s one of the good things about streaming (and to a lesser extent premium cable like HBO and Showtime).

It was 23 minutes but a lot happened in those 23…

I’ve got some news that’s going to shatter your world: Bart Simpson’s voice actor is four days older than Homer’s voice actor. And what’s more shocking? It’s been a woman doing Bart’s voice this entire time.

Wow. Pretty soon I’ll be able to buy Discovery/Warner Brothers/HBO. And I’ll just tell you all right now, my plan is to do that thing from the 80's where you take an established brand like The Muppets or Scooby-Doo and make them babies. Picture it: Tales from the Crib, Lil’ Sopranos, Kissing in the Daycare, Game of…

I haven’t heard anything about that in years, but I believe it was an HBO Max project so it’s probably for sure dead now.

The original Hellraiser is an objectively good film. It debuted to generally good to rave reviews (the biggest problems most critics had with was the studio mandated redubbing of British actors with American accents and the “Engineer” puppet from the end of the film). Although the studio tried to market it as a…

I don’t think that was the case 30 years ago. For most people there really wasn’t a distinction between Japanese and American animation. In fact, a lot of the animation for American cartoons were handled by Japanese studios and done in a style that bordered on anime (TMNT and Thundercats come to mind) so that blurred…

Because she was loosely based on a Howard character, I think his estate was able to say, “She’s ours.” And there was nothing Marvel could really do about it. Then when the movie entered production, the estate somehow spun the rights to the character off as its own thing so someone licensing the rights to Conan…

The dragons are from a country heavily inspired by Medieval Europe (namely Britain) so they’d technically smell like Lynx.

In the same vein however it could also be described as only drawing approximately half of the audience of the parent show and it’ll be interesting to see how many people stick around.

I think John Waters was speaking for us all when he said, “I hate the general public!”

It might be for legal reasons. When my nephew was into a Transformers a few years back, I noticed that ones with really generic names had their respective faction before their name on the packaging. For example, Optimus Prime would just be “Optimus Prime” but Bumblebee would be “Autobot Bumblebee”.

This is supposedly…

To be clear: We’re not talking ridiculous numbers here, as neither movie did unbelievably well

I believe this is why you can’t stream Tales from the Crypt on HBO Max. When the series ended, the company that owned EC Comics sold the individual rights to to each issue of their horror comics piecemeal.

So, even though not a single studio has produced a film based on one of those comics in the 30 years (give or…

2. Dany’s psychotic streak was readily visible from the first season. There was no heel turn. He unrelenting vengeance was inevitable.

I’m not one to fall into conspiracy theories, but there was an unexpected Jon Snow spin-off announced. And (from what I’ve read) while he doesn’t actually run the show, G.R.R.M. gets a lot of say from here on out. Which fair enough, the episodes he wrote were always the highlight of the season and it took a noticeable…