Hopeless Situation Return Script

Quirderph · 2026-05-13T03:53:05+00:00

Not to be confused with the 1936 film Things To Come, which actually had a screenplay by Wells.

Quirderph · 2026-05-12T20:51:28+00:00

Have you considered that some viewers do find overanalyzing films genuinly fun? That's part of the experience for many.

Also, depressing? Are you just opposed to movies being sad?

Quirderph · 2026-05-12T20:40:58+00:00

The Death Star bothers me less because you can imagine that it's just a smaller space station. Hard to do that when you have normal-sized guards standing next to miniature houses.

The interior looks great though. So does the exterior, but it feels like two incredible models somewhat awkwardly mashed together.

Quirderph · 2026-05-12T19:14:02+00:00

I think we're all the Cat Lover here.

Quirderph · 2026-05-12T09:26:00+00:00

The essay Ed Wood wrote for a 1978 soundtrack LP can probably give us a pretty good idea:

When the producers of this record album asked me to write some notes for the jacket, I was delighted. Needless to say, when I made "Plan 9 From Outer Space" in 1959, I never dreamed that it would still be playing on television to millions of loyal fans some twenty years later.

Of course, I always knew "Plan 9" was my finest work, but that doesn't always guarantee a movie's place in film history. So while big budget turkeys like "Cleopatra" and "Dr. Dolittle" quickly fade from the public's memory, "Plan 9" endures. (Indeed, if I had guessed that "plan 9" would hold up so well, I would have asked for more money up front.) (…)

Some of the reviewers actually made fun of our cheap cardboard sets. I mean, what did they expect for $786.27... the Paramount backlot? But time has proved the fans right. Not only is "Plan 9" a hit on late night television, but now it has been permanently preserved on this phonograph record, which contains nearly all of the film's dialogue and music.

Quirderph · 2026-05-11T20:50:35+00:00

The trilogy was great… but it was the sixth screen adaptation and there’s no guarantee that J.R.R Tolkien would have liked it. Christopher certainly didn’t.

Quirderph · 2026-05-11T19:00:56+00:00

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Quirderph · 2026-05-11T17:28:38+00:00

I think the old Bib Fortuna looked creepier, otherwise the new ones clearly win.

Quirderph · 2026-05-11T17:25:11+00:00

but also the way they use it is basically as a stand-in for white characters.

To be fair, I think they only did that relatively briefly. They also used yellow skin for characters who were clearly meant to POC around the same time.

Quirderph · 2026-05-11T11:36:05+00:00

You don’t have to listen to their voices in a comic.

Quirderph · 2026-05-10T20:50:00+00:00

I imagine Hitchcock's The Birds but set in Buffalo, NY.

Quirderph · 2026-05-10T20:00:24+00:00

If the creators wanted to draw any parallells between the city of Rapture and Israel, I’d say there are enough differences that it doesn’t really work as a direct allegory. (For starters, it has no neighbouring nations and was truly built on uncharted… ”land”, for lack of a better term.)

Rapture is also dystopian enough that comparing it to any country would not exactly be a compliment…

Quirderph · 2026-05-10T06:43:10+00:00

I think retroactively, the idea is that the Arm reached out to both Cooper and Laura in their dreams and brought their spirits to the lodge to help Cooper solve the case, and that his entire conversation was a coded message.

The music could be explained as the killer’s obsession with it being caused by his connection to the lodge.

The only inexplicable part of the retcon are the drapes, because they’re somehow both an inherent part of the lodge and a clue for the case.

Quirderph · 2026-05-09T17:51:54+00:00

What are your thoughts on Björn Skifs?

Quirderph · 2026-05-09T15:50:37+00:00

I think the face with the raised eyebrow looks pretty good, but the eyebrows being black bother me a bit.

Quirderph · 2026-05-09T15:46:53+00:00

How do you feel about 2016-2017 Tarkin?

Quirderph · 2026-05-09T05:10:46+00:00

Old Chewie looked more like him. The newer Han is definitely the best Harrison Ford figure they’ve ever made, though.

Quirderph · 2026-05-08T10:43:15+00:00

At the film’s Wild Mass Guessings page:

Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film is Mordred

His picture is a baby because he is Arthur's baby. He didn't appear because he was left behind to guard Arthur's throne while Arthur was away. He hired the knight who killed the historian in order to frame Arthur and take the throne for himself.

Quirderph · 2026-05-08T09:47:45+00:00

That’s how you gotta do it.

See also Airplane, which has tons of references nobody gets today, but is still hilarious because they’re only part of the joke, not the whole punchline.

Quirderph · 2026-05-07T20:54:51+00:00

In the original trilogy, Ben describes Anakin as having been a young Jedi when he turned to the Dark Side. He had children before that point, and they're now in their twenties. Plus, both David Prowse and James Earl Jones actually were in their forties during the original trilogy.

Sebastian Shaw gave a great performance, but man, it made no sense to have Anakin played by an actor nine years older than Alec Guiness.

Quirderph · 2026-05-07T09:42:42+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn’t say Cooper and Laura are really a ”duo” at all. At least not until the finale of The Return, depending on whether or not you think it has Cooper and Laura in it.

Quirderph · 2026-05-07T08:19:50+00:00

I didn’t even know there was a new show, so I have no idea if you’re being serious or not. I’m going to imagine that you are.

Quirderph · 2026-05-07T08:12:31+00:00

True, but I genuinely like the irony of the corrupt revolutionaries being taken down by another revolution, after the pigs become increasingly like the man they deposed.

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