My perception of the colors changes with the pictures position on my monitor. In the lower half I see the dress as white and gold, when I scroll past it turns black and blue. Explain that, science.

that, regardless of whether they supported the death penalty, watching a person die horribly in front of them wasn’t really their thing

Oh yeah.

The first two seemed to rush the story. I remember sitting in the theatre wondering whether I’d be able to keep up had I not read the books.

Nah, Dan Stevens peaked in Sense and Sensibility, was still very fine in Downton Abbey, but ever since he shed some weight for Hollywood, he looks like every other tall blond actor out there. (Still a talented actor, though. Ep. 1 of Legion was fun.)

Had the exact same association. He’s even been in pieces set in the period, but I don’t remember powdered hair.

But the way he smiles at Lizzy just with his eyes, when she’s at that evening get together thing in Pemberley. 12 year old me was smitten.

I really love him in Spooks, but he’s no Darcy and that’s that.

In hindsight, the first movie suffered from what I’ll call the Harry Potter syndrome—trying to satiate the fans by making a product a facsimile of the original thing.

I always loved about Emily that she refused to marry for the sake of it, but decided to become financially independent. Pretty sure my feminism comes at least partly from her (I read the book religiously).

He may not be the textbook definition of a grooming pedophile, but that’s only because he was still interested after she’d hit 20. Definitely a creep.

He should speak up now and try to protect that bit of legacy. Going against a Republican former president’s work might not be as important to them as destroying everything Obama ever did. (I’d bet a small sum that they don’t know Pepfar was originally W.’s program.)

Even if other people’s health doesn’t concern them: Better health care and overall standard of living in developing countries means there’s less of a chance that deadly diseases turn into an epidemic that might spread beyond the affected countries’ borders. Even if there’s no trade with African countries anymore and a…

Am I the only one here who thought that the concept of the Ancient One was both whitewashing and yellow face? They changed the character’s skin color, gender and background, but still ended up with a white person wearing Asian* clothes, living in Asia in an Asian house, using Asian martial arts and spouting Asian…

and I was covered in acne and singing along to “Hands Clean” during the VH1 video countdown

Where’s a Maya apocalypse when you need one?

On the bright side: This means Putin isn’t getting daily briefings, either.

Hardly anyone on the movie set truly loved the books. At this point it’s hardly a prerequisite. I’ll settle for someone who’ll do it justice - and that Stephen Fry has done this far.

I’ve been casting the BBC adaption of Harry Potter in my head for about ten years now. Stephen Fry obviously is Dumbledore. Tall, crooked nose and his voice will forever be Dumbledore’s voice to me. He’d have to be a bit older, of course, but I doubt we’ll see a new adaptation any time soon, so there’s time for him to…

I’d like to see how his campaign will spin this one. Ninni Laaksonen is (I assume) not a US resident, so she has no stake in this game (well, technically, the world has reason to be concerned at this point, but still.) and no reason to make it up.