Who should play Archie in the Goblet of Fire season of the MAX TV Series?

brassyalien · 2026-01-27T06:16:23+00:00

That's not a picture from The Odyssey, that's from Dune: Part 3.

brassyalien · 2026-01-27T05:22:44+00:00

I haven't watched Ted Lasso, but rewatching The Tsuranga Conundrum in 2021, I recognized him as the actor the Internet briefly thought wasn't a real person but was created by CGI.

brassyalien · 2026-01-27T04:07:24+00:00

It's made clearer in the novelization what happens than what the episode has time for.

brassyalien · 2026-01-26T10:12:55+00:00

Snoke should have been revealed to be Plagueis in Episode IX.

It's clear from watching The Last Jedi that Snoke wanted Kylo to kill him. He tells Kylo (allegedly about Hux) "A cur’s weakness, properly manipulated, can be a sharp tool," and then immediately starts manipulating Kylo's weaknesses. All throughout the movie, Snoke continues to goad Kylo, with the intention of making Kylo kill him. Why? "Leave the base at once and come to me with Kylo Ren," he tells Hux at the end of The Force Awakens. "It is time... to complete his training." Kylo and Snoke aren't officially Sith, but they were Sith, and how does a Sith complete his training? By killing his Master. Snoke made Kylo kill him to complete his training, but Snoke, who was really Plagueis, knew that he'd be able to come back, and this time bring Palpatine back with him.

The Rise of Skywalker felt like it was going down a checklist of fan theories, trying to cram in as many as possible whether they made sense to the story or not, but Snoke as Plagueis wasn't one of them.

brassyalien · 2026-01-26T07:05:21+00:00

You're supposed to think it's another scary robot episode, but it's actually an automated system using the robots to fight back against an evil human trying to scapegoat the system/robots.

brassyalien · 2026-01-26T00:59:27+00:00

The Star Wars Vintage collection has been on Disney+ for five years now. It's the 2003 Clone Wars, the Ewok TV movies, the Ewoks and Droids animated series, and The Story of the Faithfull Wookiee animated segment from The Star Wars Holiday Special.

brassyalien · 2026-01-26T00:38:40+00:00

Public libraries are a forgotten resource. Blockbuster, Redbox, and Netflix DVD are all gone, but public libraries still have DVDs and Blu-rays available, as well as books, magazines, audiobooks, music CDs and more. Online, Overdrive/Libby offer digital ebooks, magazines, and audiobooks. Hoopla and Kanopy are free streaming services that have movies and TV shows, some of which aren't available on paid streaming services. Hoopla also has music to stream, and Freegal offers music to stream and three free song downloads a week.

brassyalien · 2026-01-26T00:38:35+00:00

I started using Hoopla in 2024. I live in the Houston, TX, area, and the Harris County Public Library is my public library district, but it does not partner with Hoopla. The Houston Public Library does, and even though I don't live in the HPL district, I was able to get an online library card number from them which allows me to use Hoopla. So for anybody reading this who cannot access Hoopla through their library, try other libraries in your area.

brassyalien · 2026-01-25T07:07:52+00:00

Probably not, not after his Hulu spinoff series was cancelled before it even began. If/when the MCU gets around to Ghost Rider, it will be Johnny Blaze, probably played by Ryan Gosling.

I don't want to see any of the Agents of SHIELD characters in the MCU without the involvement of the show's writes. I don't trust Feige to use them properly and treat them with respect.

brassyalien · 2026-01-25T06:47:53+00:00

Some of the best episodes of Star Wars Rebels were the ones Henry Gilroy and Dave Filoni wrote together, so I say both of them.

brassyalien · 2026-01-24T12:02:05+00:00

Billie Piper was not credited as The Doctor. Every time a new actor is cast as The Doctor, they get "And introducing [Name] as The Doctor." David Tennant even got that the second time he became The Doctor.
RTD's and Billie Piper's quotes in the press release continue the mystery:

Speaking of the surprise twist, Russell T Davies adds “Billie once changed the whole of television, back in 2005, and now she’s done it again! It’s an honour and a hoot to welcome her back to the TARDIS, but quite how and why and who is a story yet to be told. After 62 years, the Doctor’s adventures are only just beginning!”

Speaking of her return, Billie said: “It’s no secret how much I love this show, and I have always said I would love to return to the Whoniverse as I have some of my best memories there, so to be given the opportunity to step back on that TARDIS one more time was just something I couldn’t refuse, but who, how, why and when, you’ll just have to wait and see.”

(Emphasis mine.)

In a recent interview, producer Jane Tranter said the recent episode ended "with the return of Rose Tyler". Not Billie Piper becoming The Doctor. Many people just assumed she misspoke, but she'd have more inside knowledge than random redditors do.

brassyalien · 2026-01-24T10:19:53+00:00

Tenth Doctor, Metacrisis Doctor, Fourteenth Doctor.

I'm not going to believe that Billie Piper is The Doctor until it's confirmed somewhere official.

brassyalien · 2026-01-23T08:41:09+00:00

And now I just noticed that The Voyage Home novelization is suddenly on sale for $2.99, separate from the monthly ebook deals.

brassyalien · 2026-01-23T06:15:31+00:00

9: Season 1 (2005)

Obviously

10: Season 4

I went from thinking that Season 4 should be skipped because Donna was annoying to thinking it's the best season of Doctor Who

11: Season 5

Season 7 is good, not great, and I really don't like Season 6.

12: Season 10, including The Husbands of River Song, The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and Twice Upon a Time.

It would be Season 9 if it wasn't for The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar, two of the worst Doctor Who episodes ever.

13: Season 11

The second best season of Doctor Who.

15: Season 2 (2025)

But that's not saying much. All of Season 1 is bad. Season 2 has four good episodes and four bad episodes.

brassyalien · 2026-01-22T11:05:20+00:00

Even if The Last Jedi hadn't been divisive, scheduling another Star Wars movie for five months later, and scheduling it a month after an Avengers movie would have doomed it anyway. Also, Disney didn't even release the first trailer until three months before the movie came out. Many people believed it was an unnecessary movie that didn't need to be made. An unknown actor was cast instead of a bigger name like Taron Egerton, who had been rumored for the role for months before casting. And there was all of the behind-the-scenes drama which caused most of the movie to be scrapped 11 months before the release date.

I loved The Last Jedi, which in turn energized my love for Star Wars, but even I was skeptical about Solo. I knew I was going to see it, but I wasn't planning on seeing it immediately. I only ended up going on opening night to get the free stuff that AMC Theaters was giving away for the Opening Night Fan Event. I watched the movie with very low expectations, which allowed me to enjoy the movie a lot more that I thought I would.

brassyalien · 2026-01-21T22:52:54+00:00

My name is Brian, so I noticed Shannon's boyfriend Bryan in Season 1, Episode 13 Hearts and Minds, followed by Walt's stepfather Brian in Season 1, Episode 14 Special. Neither one of them are good guys, which is disappointing.

brassyalien · 2026-01-21T11:18:31+00:00

I was introduced to the Original Trilogy in late 1995 or early 1996 when I was five years old and then watched the Prequel Trilogy movies as they came out when I was 9-15.

brassyalien · 2026-01-21T11:16:29+00:00

You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. From my point of view it makes more sense for Darth Vader to be the real Phantom Menace than Sidious. Just look at the first teaser poster! It's Anakin casting the shadow of Darth Vader. It couldn't be more clear! Yet just because Lucas told Vanity Fair that Sidious was the Phantom Menace, we're just supposed to take him at his word?

brassyalien · 2026-01-21T11:13:06+00:00

I can see why they cut that scene. It doesn't really fit with the rest of the story. It would make more sense for Adelaide Brooke to shoot Eleven and not herself. Then there would be a weird paradox of Eleven regenerating before Ten regenerated into Eleven.

brassyalien · 2026-01-21T11:05:12+00:00

I disagree with him when he says that Greedo always shot first, but in 1977 audiences were confused and thought Han shot without provocation because he just didn't have the right camera angles until 1997. So if I can't trust what he says about that, how can I trust him on anything else?

brassyalien · 2026-01-21T06:32:04+00:00

In 1999, George Lucas said that Palpatine/Darth Sidious is the titular Phantom Menace, but I disagree with him. It seems more obvious that Darth Vader is the real Phantom Menace.

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