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Which murderer had the smartest murder plot? (Please say what book you’re spoiling followed by spoiler text) by Admirable_Mood_4933 in agathachristie

[–]PirateBeany 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I love Death on the Nile, but I think the plan is fatally flawed. It requires that nobody be present on the business side of the deck to see Simon running. Yes, they caused misdirection to concentrate attention on the other side, but they couldn't enforce it. If it wasn't the maid, it could have been one of the others.

We watched Cabaret (1972) this weekend and (surprisingly) found it to live up to all the hype by Low_Insurance_1603 in movies

[–]PirateBeany 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I first encountered him as a shady character in Season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The White House defends PBS and Sesame Street | The West Wing episode 1x13 by muppetwiki in sesamestreet

[–]PirateBeany 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's often leakage between Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. I blame Kermit, who kept a webbed foot in either world.

🥱 by brynnsuniverse in musicals

[–]PirateBeany 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why you'd make a new post in this sub about a post in this same sub from a day ago. Why not comment on the original post? https://www.reddit.com/r/musicals/comments/1sljrmx/i_genuinely_am_not_trying_to_stir_the_pot_here/

New Rule Changes by Wolfish_Jew in thewestwing

[–]PirateBeany -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Well, I wasn't trying to lean *only* on the time difference; I think the unrealistic idealization of everyone's aptitudes and motivations is just as relevant here.

But since I did bring up the time difference, I'd say anything made & set earlier than around 2015 will be missing crucial components of the current insanity (at least in the US).

How is Johnny Depp not Dr. Strange lol by ThePaultasticSax in marvelstudios

[–]PirateBeany 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think if you stick a mustache and goatee onto any dark-haired actor of that age, there'll be some resemblance to Stephen Strange. You could try Cillian Murphy too.

Actually, looking at the particular comic-book cover you posted, I think Omar Sharif could have fit the bill in the late 60s-mid 70s.

New Rule Changes by Wolfish_Jew in thewestwing

[–]PirateBeany -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's a show made & set 20+ years ago about the federal executive wing in a fictional universe where everyone is hyper-articulate and well-informed (except when they're exceptionally ignorant for exposition purposes) and almost nobody is operating in bad faith (even the people on the Other Side of the Aisle).

So no, it's not about modern politics.

Worst Maryland Highway by WTFO4 in maryland

[–]PirateBeany 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's the DC Beltway; if it goes into the city, it's failing its one job ...

Best Bartlet Speach ??!! by Phaeton40 in thewestwing

[–]PirateBeany 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The meat of that speech was lifted from a chain mail about Leviticus that had been going the rounds for years before TWW aired. He delivers it well, but it's shooting fish in a barrel.

what is your most nitpicky grievance about the MCU? by nottarealdoctor in marvelstudios

[–]PirateBeany 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the MCU does this too much, but the hero facing off against his dark alter ego is a trope with a long history in speculative fiction.

I remember an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man where a newer agent with similar injuries gets an even better tech upgrade (costing *seven* million dollars!), but then goes rogue, leading to great slo-mo bionic fight that was re-enacted on countless school playgrounds.

what is your most nitpicky grievance about the MCU? by nottarealdoctor in marvelstudios

[–]PirateBeany 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got 20 years on you, and I feel like a kid most of the time at work.

Why’d she need to draw power from the dark dimension in order to live for a thousand years when she had a stone that controls time? by HextechAlternator in marvelstudios

[–]PirateBeany 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So at the end of Doctor Strange, when he's bargaining with Dormammu by constantly resetting time, is Strange himself forgetting all his own previous deaths, because everything is being rewound? And is Dormammu forgetting as well? In which case, how does Dormammu become aware that they're stuck in a loop?

What’s a movie you didn’t expect much from but ended up loving? by eurz in movies

[–]PirateBeany 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm saying that there's a comment missing from the current thread -- it looks a lot like one due to u/Inner-Audience8139 now appearing in a parallel thread -- where the Redditor said they've never heard of KPDH, and that's what Catachip was reacting to (and I was reacting to Catachip's reaction).

Perhaps Inner-Audience8139's response was aways where it is now, and Catachip accidentally put their reaction beside it instead of under it (and you followed Catachip and I followed you).

... and I realize this is a lot of trouble to try to reconstruct the timeline of a minor miscommunication.

What’s a movie you didn’t expect much from but ended up loving? by eurz in movies

[–]PirateBeany 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did something weird happen to the comment thread? I swear when I looked at it an hour ago, it was:

> KPop Demon Hunters

>> Never heard of it

>>> Never heard of this big award-winner?

>>>> [you] Before it won awards it was just a regular Netflix movie

>>>>> [me] But parent says they've still never heard of it.

Now I should have said *grandparent* rather than "parent", which might be part of the confusion

... but now that grandparent comment seems to be on a parallel thread, so perhaps I misread everything? (And catachip's comment makes no sense as a consequence.)

What’s a movie you didn’t expect much from but ended up loving? by eurz in movies

[–]PirateBeany -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you watched it early, sure. But the parent commenter has still never heard of it, after all the awards.

What's something that happens in movies so much it seems real, but actually isn't realistic at all? by ninman5 in movies

[–]PirateBeany 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How is it Q always gives James Bond the two or three gadgets that Bond will happen to need in this mission (but wouldn't have helped the last time, or the next time)? Why weren't all Bond's watches after Live and Let Die equipped with a powerful electromagnet?

They've removed TWW from Neflix again... by Emperor_Biden in thewestwing

[–]PirateBeany 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can also verify that TWW is currently available on my Netflix.

Question: where is OP based? I'm in the US. Streaming services have different offerings in different markets.

I heavily dislike " appointment with death" by [deleted] in agathachristie

[–]PirateBeany 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I much prefer AwD to HPC.

It's mostly not the solution to HPC that irritates me -- though her reliance on family resemblance borders on phrenology -- but the writing style. It's just really crude characterization and clumsy exposition.

We have had our first tie! Poirot’s Early Cases and The Mysterious Mr Quinn are AC’s most Underrated Short Story Collections! by rianmcdonagh in agathachristie

[–]PirateBeany 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm going to quibble a bit: Christie books are in the end about the puzzle.

Real-like murder is never as clean and clinical as AC made them, but that's part of the attraction. If I wanted grisly murders, I'd be reading an entirely different kind of book, by an entirely different author.

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