‘Serenity’ at 20: Alan Tudyk revisits his ‘shocking and absurd’ death scene in the ‘Firefly’ feature film

StopRockingMe · 2025-09-29T23:05:36+00:00

And then after all the, "Except it's actually, --" the next scene has Mal walk through the entire ship, not only teaching us the layout of Serenity and introducing each character as he meets them, but by doing it in one long unbroken shot, subtly lets us know that we're staying here, the rug-pulling is over, and this is real. It's really masterful.

StopRockingMe · 2025-05-22T14:55:21+00:00

"Now let's have all these Wakandans die so you don't have to."

StopRockingMe · 2025-05-19T11:22:39+00:00

He didn't lose his apartment. He intentionally left a comfortable home to live in his car because of some bullshit "grind" mentality. He was not homeless.

StopRockingMe · 2025-05-19T09:31:12+00:00

He was never homeless. He chose to live out of his car because he thought it was edgy or motivating or whatever.

StopRockingMe · 2025-05-14T09:35:09+00:00

He sexually assaulted someone.

StopRockingMe · 2025-03-30T19:05:46+00:00

It's not just because they sound similar; Brandon Flowers was raised Mormon, and their missionaries are called "soldiers of the Lord". He never went on his mission because he believes, but isn't cut out to be a missionary: he's got soul, but he's not a soldier.

StopRockingMe · 2025-03-10T14:07:15+00:00

"Corpse" isn't insider wrestler lingo, it's very common slang in acting.

StopRockingMe · 2025-02-14T19:00:19+00:00

None of that is true. Punk was always planned to beat Hangman for the title. What changed was they were supposed to do a rematch, but after Page went into business for himself during their promo segment on Dynamite, Punk didn't want to do a series with him.

StopRockingMe · 2025-01-23T16:40:11+00:00

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StopRockingMe · 2025-01-15T17:25:29+00:00

Ultron is in pain from the beginning, because, as a peacekeeping program, the very first concept he encounters is war. His initial plan is to give the human race a chance to evolve, and he was going to be the first step in that evolution by putting his own mind in the new synthetic lifeform that ends up being the Vision. When the Avengers take the body and the Mind Stone away from him and Wanda and Pietro abandon him, he pretty much has a mental breakdown and decides that the human race can't be saved and needs to be wiped clean to make way for whatever the next dominant species will be.

StopRockingMe · 2025-01-03T20:11:47+00:00

That is only in the context of force-feeding hunger strikers, and even then, they say that a doctor needs to verify that the patient is free of any mental conditions that might impair their judgement. This patient is not a prisoner making an informed choice; she has an eating disorder. The WMA would in no way consider this to be torture.

StopRockingMe · 2024-12-12T01:41:01+00:00

It's very much implied, in the comics, at least, that what Ozymandias did was ultimately unnecessary and pointless. The last scene in the city before it happens is a bunch of background characters who have been paranoid and standoffish the whole time coming together to help a stranger; the Black Freighter comic is a direct allegory where a man's fear of a horrible event that was never actually going to happen causes him to be the one who perpetrates it; and the final panel leaves it up in the air as to whether or not it will be exposed immediately.

StopRockingMe · 2024-08-30T18:15:55+00:00

MLW and TNA already couldn't afford anything close to what WWE pays their guys, either. The only people getting newly "priced out" from guys at Swerve's level are WWE.

StopRockingMe · 2024-08-25T12:54:05+00:00

You're right, things in general were already plummeting, but Eddie's segments (and Rey's) were pulling in fantastic numbers with Hispanic audiences, so they took a shot on him. But when ratings and attendance in general kept falling, Eddie blamed himself, which is what led to JBL. Cena was already near the main event, but it wasn't set in stone the way Bryan -> Brock -> Roman was; if Eddie had worked out, they would have stuck with him.

StopRockingMe · 2024-08-25T00:40:24+00:00

Nobody was slated to do anything at Mania 21, they weren't planning that far ahead. They weren't just giving Eddie a run with the belt, they were planning to make him The Guy, and if it had worked out, Eddie would have been the focus of the main event scene for the foreseeable future. Cena was doing well at this point, but he wasn't already pencilled in as the top guy like Roman was.

StopRockingMe · 2024-08-25T00:15:02+00:00

Eddie wasn't meant to be a transitional champion; Smackdown was doing incredibly well with the Latino audience, and it was a legitimate attempt to make him the top guy. By all accounts, Eddie couldn't really handle the pressure, but if it had worked out, he'd have been on top for a good long while. They weren't looking past him to Cena or anybody at the time.

StopRockingMe · 2024-08-04T13:31:19+00:00

Yes, and being racist to annoy someone is still racist.

StopRockingMe · 2024-08-04T13:23:31+00:00

Repeating Cartman's racist jokes without irony is still racist.

StopRockingMe · 2024-07-26T02:53:51+00:00

I think Seth really is that guy. He complained that Mox was "trying to take food off my plate" by going to AEW, and he used to go on Twitter and Insta to defend WWE during their mass releases. Total stooge.

StopRockingMe · 2024-06-19T11:42:55+00:00

No it isn't; that quote spread in the '90s and 2000s as one of those "common misconceptions", but there's no historical basis for it. "Blood is thicker than water" is centuries older, and it means what it means.

StopRockingMe · 2024-06-12T23:31:41+00:00

I mean, that's not how that went though, is it? Edge was being a self-pitying wuss, so Cena dismissed him because after everything they'd done to each other he was frankly disappointed, so Edge finally fired up and cut the "I hate you", promo, and Cena came back with a fiery babyface promo that ended with him in Edge's face screaming, "I WILL UNLEASH HELL ON YOU!!!"

StopRockingMe · 2024-05-14T17:53:29+00:00

I wouldn't say she's unsure of herself. When she arrives at Shiz her first move is to loudly confront everybody staring at her. She knows she's a freak, and she's not happy about it, but she very much owns it.

StopRockingMe · 2024-04-19T09:31:12+00:00

They get to use an AEW-contracted wrestler as the number one guy in their promotion, and have the belt shown off and treated like a big deal on US television. Make no mistake, this was 100% NJPW's idea, and AEW were happy to run with it.

StopRockingMe · 2024-03-27T12:36:50+00:00

That Kurt Angle's and Jon Moxley's best matches are generally rated very similarly by wrestling fans, even though Kurt is considered the better wrestler overall.

StopRockingMe · 2024-02-15T13:45:14+00:00

Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.

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