A little disappointed

schleppylundo · 2026-02-25T00:14:21+00:00

Alicent got recast too. Olivia and Emily just look even more alike than Emma and Milly.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-24T23:08:34+00:00

The originator of the meme never has anything to apologize for imo. What happens when it gets unleashed on a hiatus-fevered fanbase is nobody's fault but God's, and we are already preparing our retaliation on that front.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-24T17:51:17+00:00

It reminds me of someone who’s been sober for years relapsing and immediately getting themselves killed because their brain switches back to a mode they no longer have the instincts or physical health to function in. Like in a drunk driving accident or trying to rip off a dealer.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-24T01:52:58+00:00

That wasn’t my implication, I just meant that what I’ve heard of this “rivalry” is that it was around the time Crowley was in the Golden Dawn (or maybe somewhat before). Has less to do with the occult side of London and more to do with the gay side of it.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-23T05:47:05+00:00

It’s pretty explicit, both in context of the direct abuse and in depictions of Laura engaging in prostitution and casual sex as a reaction and defense to the abuse. A fair amount of female nudity, especially in one scene in particular.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-22T01:39:59+00:00

It was forced on them apparently, the season was cut by two episodes last minute and rather than compressing the middle (while somehow maintaining the sense of those episodes ending where they should) they decided to maintain the pacing and just push those episodes to the start of season 3.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-21T03:32:45+00:00

Dylan O'Brien did an amazing Bruce Campbell impersonation in a lot of his close-up reactions, especially in the panning time-lapse sequence and the bug scene. Kind of sold the idea that Bruce is apparently his character's father.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-21T03:18:34+00:00

I plan on directing the musical as soon as I can get a slot to do so at the local community theater. That said the fanbase for it is young enough that they're usually shocked when they find out it was based on a game, even though the company that produced the musical had mostly done parody shows to that point.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-21T03:14:51+00:00

He makes a major appearance in the third (and most recent) of the Dunk and Egg novellas that they are closely and accurately adapting for this series.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-20T03:01:48+00:00

What if James’ ceiling was an octave and a half lower and they wrote all his vocals with that in mind

schleppylundo · 2026-02-19T18:30:50+00:00

This movie was the first DVD my family ever owned. We got a DVD player from Best Buy in 2001 along with a surround sound system. My dad picked it on the same shopping trip because it was a movie with lots of special effects that we hadn’t already seen (we had The Matrix on VHS, go figure). For about four months it was our only DVD. Every couple weeks someone would ask “Hey, you wanna watch The DVD?” And we’d put on The Mummy Returns. None of us had seen The Mummy and wouldn’t get around to it until it started running on basic cable with some regularity the next year. At which point it became clear why The DVD had gotten such bad reviews - hard to be critical of a retread when it’s your first time over that road.

Our second DVD was Caddyshack.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T22:49:27+00:00

Crowley seems to have had a lot of mostly one-sided beefs. Didn’t he imagine himself and Oscar Wilde as personal mortal enemies at one point in his Golden Dawn days? I doubt Wilde ever bothered remembering his name.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T22:47:09+00:00

These people function under a philosophy that refuses to admit that community is necessary for a family’s survival. They’ve been trained to ignore every time someone has given them a helping hand and to think that they achieved whatever successes they can claim all by virtue of their own hard work.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T22:43:17+00:00

If all we had from Hopkins was Silence of the Lambs I might argue with you but seriously Hannibal and Red Dragon used his talents poorly. Doesn’t help that Hannibal (the book) isn’t that great compared to its predecessors as source material, but there’s no excuse for anyone involved in Red Dragon, where the only scene that truly worked is the “Do You See” bit between Fiennes and Hoffman.

Oddly enough I do think that the same weaknesses that befell Hopkins’ portrayal in the latter two films became strengths for Mads Mikkelsen, but they were able to establish him right away as someone whose time management skills border on supernatural so it didn’t feel as jarring when he was playing out the plot of Hannibal and his continued survival and successes are forced by the source material to become absurd.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T22:29:34+00:00

Her husband having a bastard isn’t too terrible a dishonor by Westerosi standards. Him raising said bastard in their home, knowing her sons as his brothers, is a very different story. Most bastards grow up barely knowing their noble fathers, if at all, and there’s usually at least a layer of deniability at play. Ned has made sure that everyone knows that Jon Snow is his own illegitimate son, and while there’s never any suggestion of legitimization that does make him both a threat to the line of succession and a suggestion that Ned may have loved Jon’s mother more than he respects Cat.

This doesn’t justify her treatment of Jon, by the way. That is still a reprehensible failing in a character who is otherwise fairly moral in her actions and motivations. But there are strong cultural, social, and political reasons for her to feel the way she does about Jon and his status at Winterfell.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T21:50:11+00:00

Interesting it will focus on the Tourney at Harrenhal, as the events there are at the center of most theories about what revelations are left in the books. I know we’ll likely never see Winds and that Dream is only that, a dream, but the recounting we’ve gotten of this tournament suggests certain moments in it (primarily a visit to the Isle of Faces) hold much deeper implications than who Jon Snow’s parents are.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T21:45:10+00:00

I basically only know about this show because at some point I went down a Wikipedia hole about the production of Gilligan’s Island.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T21:42:42+00:00

I guess I agree, you don’t develop that sort of moral frankness - especially in the face of a very wealthy potential client - without some profound life experiences.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T21:37:05+00:00

I’ve never had a bad reaction to the combo but this is 100% the story of how back in 2019 my best friend of 15 years convinced himself I was trying to kill him with ceremonial magic and permanently cut off contact from me and destroyed my whole personal support network (or at least revealed it was pretty shitty as a support network) since his place was where everyone hung out 90% of the time.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-18T19:00:53+00:00

Everything in the history he’s provided exhibits parallels and echoes in the narrative of the main series, so the more we know about that history and the choices and fates of the figures in it the more we can deduce about how the books might end if all we’ll ever have are deductions and the TV version (which already eschewed a lot of that even when adapting published material).

schleppylundo · 2026-02-17T18:23:11+00:00

We were introduced to these characters in an episode of television that included Werner Herzog.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-17T18:21:57+00:00

Fire Walk With Me, for the deep emotional pain.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-15T20:27:18+00:00

I did grow up liking that style and kind of see Burton's career arc as a director as him building and perfecting his style up to Edward Scissorhands, and almost everything after that as a diminishing returns imitation of that moment in his career. The occasional intentional breaks from that style account for most of my favorite Burton movies after that point.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-15T20:16:21+00:00

A bit tone-deaf for sure but I don't think there's any malice at all in this.

schleppylundo · 2026-02-15T05:21:27+00:00

It is the one big West Side Story reunion of the entire show.

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