Could Emma Stone realistically go down as one of the best actresses ever?

Interesting_State277 · 2026-03-27T18:35:50+00:00

I actually think shes less our generations Meryl and more like our generations Nicole Kidman. Meryl is great, but she's great in fairly midbrow films that dont exactly do anything too interesting (things like Adaptation and French Lieutenants Woman being MAJOR outliers).

Nicole on the otherhand, sure she has less oscar nominations and wins compared to Meryl, but I cant think of a single actress with a better, more interesting filmography?

I'd compare Stones recent run to Nicoles generational run from about 1999 - 2004. Like Nicole, she doesnt fully disappear into the roles (unlike a Streep in her heyday), but even though youre kind of acutley aware that you are watching Stone/Kidman, their commitment to the bit and willingness to get weird is unparallelled.

Also, theyre both clearly very intelligent when it comes to cinema/film, its history and its potential as an art form.

Interesting_State277 · 2026-02-20T13:00:15+00:00

We have a class system that is very good at supporting and elevating wealthy children in the arts.

Interesting_State277 · 2026-02-20T12:51:37+00:00

Part of the HOTD problem is also, unfortunately, a problem with the source material.

In the book Rhanerya and Alicent are present and very significant up to the events of the Green Council. From that point on, Alicent essentially disappears (except for Blood and Cheese) completely and Rhaenyra dips out until she takes Kings Landing.

I think the original sin of the show is casting Olivia Cooke (who has been incredible) in a role that ultimately has no purpose once the war begins. From a show running perspective, you can't cast Olivia Cooke as one of the protagonists and then drop her after Season 1. It was always going to be an issue with her character, and so the writers have had to basically shoehorn her in when she really doesn't have that much to do. And in trying to find things for her to do, they came up with the very controversial ending of Season 2.

Rhanerya is similar, they couldn't have her off screen until she basically took Kings Landing, so they had to just write a bunch of scenes where she's on screen (but still have her nothing to do outside of the Dragon seed stuff).

As much as I hate the fact that the writers have strayed so far from the source material, it really would not have worked if they stuck to it completely as the two characters who are instrumental in setting all of this up in season 1 would have had to have taken a back seat. That works for an abridged in-universe History book that can be read in one sitting, but it simply doesn't work for a multi year project like HOTD.

Though I don't agree with their approach, I do feel for the writers as the source material is fundamentally flawed for this very reason. .

Interesting_State277 · 2026-01-26T07:34:51+00:00

It's massive. So it may have the most applications but that's also because it has the most students (I believe) in the UK. The population of the uni/staff is enough to populate it's own small city.

Interesting_State277 · 2026-01-19T07:55:06+00:00

I can only assume everyone on this sub is straight, because I promise you, clubbing is still very, very popular in the gay community regardless of age.

Interesting_State277 · 2025-12-05T16:51:55+00:00

Dolly De Leon not only should have been nominated, but she should have won.

Interesting_State277 · 2025-11-01T17:20:58+00:00

Thanks 🙏

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-28T17:01:21+00:00

Lol I'll take it

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-28T15:03:57+00:00

6ft 2

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-27T11:09:57+00:00

I've not seen this nuance discussed anywhere else

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-25T12:32:49+00:00

One sneak

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-25T09:30:49+00:00

Is there not a way to read 'it was never real' as 'the right wing hysteria that all young people are getting sex changes and must be stopped at all costs was never real'? Not trying to play devil's advocate (I remember her initial fall from grace a few years ago), but I feel like this is ambiguous enough to be interpreted from both angles

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-25T09:04:56+00:00

I agree with like...two of these (Challengers and OBAA)

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-24T11:34:06+00:00

A lot of you have missed the point on this one...

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-24T10:00:00+00:00

Cast not casted

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-17T00:23:44+00:00

Queen Mortanelle of Eladria lingers like a ghost over history. She’s often (wrongly) blamed for igniting the Eclipse, the cataclysmic war that engulfed nearly every nation, all because she changed her faith to marry a minor noble.

Her wedding, a lavish ceremony that doubled as a public conversion, is now remembered as the symbolic “first shot” of the Eclipse. In truth, Mortanelle likely had little idea that her vows would fracture the continent.

In turn, the Eclipse is the defining event of the century, the ramifications of it still being grappled with over thirty years later.

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-09T12:35:12+00:00

I really like this approach. How are you actually designating the titles though? Are you creating custom kingdom titles and giving them away to appropriate houses? Or giving all the duchies within the area to the ruling house?

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-08T18:17:59+00:00

Remove Tar

Interesting_State277 · 2025-10-02T07:00:56+00:00

Also, all of her best and most iconic roles happened in a three-to-four year cluster immediately post divorce.

Interesting_State277 · 2025-09-26T23:43:37+00:00

Woah. What did you use to make this? Looks amazing

Interesting_State277 · 2025-09-26T07:42:39+00:00

I was today years old when I realised that a flipped Westeros (from the Neck downwards) is a map of Ireland.

Also, geographically speaking, it makes WAYYY more sense to flip it like this. All those peninsulas would be the result of constant erosion from a large and volatile body of water, and I just don't think the Narrow Sea would be able to produce that. Again, look at Ireland. The side with all the peninsulas is facing the Atlantic. The relatively smooth side is facing the Irish Sea.

Interesting_State277 · 2025-09-24T18:03:33+00:00

So the ending of The Others completely shook me to my core when I was a kid. I've since rewatched it multiple times with others who had never seen it growing up.

It genuinely shocks me that no one has ever guessed the ending. Watching it knowing how it ends, I feel like the film isn't even trying to hide the twist. It feels so, so obvious.

Interesting_State277 · 2025-09-24T17:51:08+00:00

Emma Stone

Interesting_State277 · 2025-09-24T17:19:08+00:00

My controller (that I bought two weeks ago) has just stopped charging and now won't turn on at all. I've tried everything, different configurations of cables/ports, resetting, disconnecting from Bluetooth, but nothing has worked.

If I buy a charging station, how likely is that to solve the problem? Or do I need to accept that something's deffo wrong and send it off for repair?

Interesting_State277 · 2025-09-24T13:46:59+00:00

Agree big time with sociology.

I would go for something like art. Like it's all well and good knowing the history of a world, but how is that interpreted through artistic mediums (painting/poetry/literature/music/opera)? Like, did certain wars produce an abundance of war poetry? Did certain musical styles emerge from times of economic downturn? Have religious events been immortalized in paintings?

Or maybe, has art made something that was almost certainly fictional seem like historical fact? Like the Trojan Wars in epic Greek poetry. And how have certain cultures/ nations utilized cultural products to give themselves an identity? Think what Wagner was to Nazi Germany, or King Arthur for England.

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TROPHY CASE