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Though it is fun to watch the outrage (OUTRAGE I tell you!) from those same fans when the moderator announces that there's only a few minutes left for questions. It never once occurs to them that if they kept their mouths shut they'd have more time for questions.

You guys have no idea how hard it is for me to not blurt out every detail from the books right now. I won't because I don't want to spoil anyone (plus my luck is such that the producers would change all the big stuff and I'd have spoiled everyone for nothing), but I can't wait for the series to unfold and the events to happen so I finally can talk about it. I will say that I enjoyed the pilot very much, though I won't pretend it was high quality. Few pilots are. This did exactly what a pilot is supposed to: set up the series. It's the subsequent episodes that make or break a show for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the characters and story unfold on screen. I will say, and this is not a spoiler, that my favorite thing about this trilogy is that these vampires have nothing in common with the cheap Byronic ripoffs that live in Twilight, True Blood, and Vampire Diaries. As we saw in this very episode, these are the vampires that existed in stories before Byron was born and continued to exist outside of Europe after his popularity changed their image. These are what vampires really are: horrific monsters. They resemble zombies because that's what vampires have been for the majority of history. Besides, The Walking Dead is insanely popular and I gave up on it after the first shitty season. This show at least has a story and characters I'm interested in. Plus: Weevil!

I was thinking about it some more and, in addition to wanting Aramis to father all of Anne's children, I also want Athos to get more and more exasperated each time it happens. Say the show gives her...four children with "the king". The only ones who ever know the truth are Anne, Aramis and Athos, so it never gets played as a potential threat of treason and death. Instead, the natural comedy is played to its maximum and Athos increasingly loses his mind in frustration each time Anne announces a pregnancy but can't express himself without revealing the truth and putting all their lives at risk. Keeping Porthos and D'Art in the dark would only make it funnier. I absolutely loved Athos' reaction to seeing Anne and Aramis in bed together and I want more.

Reading this discussion makes me think, of all things, of the Inside the Actors Studio that Gene Hackman did back when it was still good. James Lipton started off as he always does by asking questions about Hackman's parents and childhood. Hackman was doing great recounting his memories until he got to the part where his father left them. He was 71 at the time, a successful and well regarded actor, with so many things to teach the film students and viewers. Yet, as soon as he started describing being 10 or so and watching his father drive away, the taillights growing smaller, never to return, he choked up. More than sixty years had passed and he was still so hurt by this man's actions that he struggled to maintain his composure. Now, Hackman's father full out abandoned him but Bruce's four other children feel that same hurt even though they still saw him from time to time. I admittedly don't know much about Burt or Casey but they both seem to still reel from the pain Bruce's absence caused. Burt seems to be like Brandon, hurt and angry but unwilling to say anything for fear that it could wreck what little relationship exists. Casey and Brody, on the other hand, are more confrontational and unwilling to just let his negligence slide even if it results in him becoming distant all over again. I agree with others that the hurt and anger that all of Bruce's older children feel about his absence (generally and in favor of his stepkids) is the only truly real parts of the show and it's genuinely interesting. I do like that none of the older four seem to take their anger and hurt out on Kendall and Kylie, they all understand that BRUCE is the one who fucked up as a father and their sisters could easily have grown up without him too.

I think I'm losing my mind but it looks like Who isn't going to be at CCI this year. They aren't anywhere to be found on the Sunday schedule, where it's been the last few years, and I can't find it on an earlier day either. Has anyone heard anything? Is this Moffat's big revenge for last year?

Don't forget the part where Klaus was then baffled that Caro didn't immediately fall to her feet in gratitude, both times it happened. I think a big part of why Klaus and Klaus/Caroline have any fans is because so many still view her as the annoying Cordelia-lite antagonist to Elena from season 1. Elena didn't like her then, so the audience wasn't supposed to like her. That's why we saw Damon's rape and abuse get brushed off and why there's little objection to Klaus' obsession with her. On some level the viewers think she deserves all of this mistreatment. Notice how her relationship with Tyler, which does have its fans, wasn't nearly as popular. Tyler spends 99% of his time seeing Caro as a person, respecting her and treating her well, and is correctly portrayed as in the wrong when he fucks up. He also doesn't prioritize Elena over everyone else so it's, frankly, a miracle that he hasn't died a gruesome death already. And, along those lines, Tyler is viewed in the same light as Caro: he "deserves" the shit that's been heaped upon him because he wasn't a good guy (aka a Salvatore) in season 1. So, his enslavement to Klaus, being exiled under threat of death, and Klaus slaughtering his mother are seen as his just desserts rather than horrific events that prove how big of a monster Klaus truly is. I agree that the show has really dropped the ball on Klaus but only because they ignore his monstrous acts in favor of pony drawings. I'm so glad he's off the show and I don't have to suffer through his ManPain every week. I was getting an ulcer having to witness the Three Woobies (Klaus, Damon, Stefan) so this is better for my health. Two I can handle.

No idea though I make friends every year so I can always pass my question on without issue. We'll see how it goes.

Aurora was pregnant before Snow and the show made it seem that she and Phillip were turned into monkeys shortly before the Curse was recast. Unless they clarify and say that they became monkeys right after Snow learned she was pregnant, Aurora should be ready to pop because the Curse was cast about a week before Snowflake was born.

That's one I already know I won't attend because I've already made plans with my friends to have non-Con related shenanigans that night. I've been thinking about it more and I think I'll try for autograph sessions first (their booths are close in the exhibit hall so it'd be way easier to pull off) and then see how the panels work out if I can't pull that off. Last year I did get to do the Veronica Mars and Nikita autograph sessions and that was mere hours after the nasty ankle sprain I decided I needed (since the Con isn't challenging enough when you're 100% healthy), so it's possible all of this will work out. You're right about youtube showing the panels, but there's something about being there in person.

But they both sound most fun for me! I want to witness any potentially juicy attitudes and answers at Arrow AND I want to squee over Tatiana's stratospheric awesomeness. The only, and I mean ONLY, real negative surrounding the Arrow panel is that I'll have to sit through the Originals panel before it. Anyone whose read my posts about Vampire Diaries knows that I HATE Klaus with every fiber of my being and will absolutely not want to suffer through a panel that spend 45 minutes going on and on about how awesome a character they think he is. I wanted to stab myself in the eye at last year's Vampire Diaries panel as I waited for Arrow and the sentiment will no doubt return if I do it again this year. Such dilemmas.

I get choked up whenever I get to the Marseillaise scene in Casablanca. I used to be able to watch the movie without getting emotional, but then I made the mistake of reading about how it was made. In particular, the part about how the men and women used in that scene were all refugees from Europe, including France, and didn't know if they'd ever return home. That one woman they show the close up crying while she sings her national anthem? Refugee and it kills me. Hopefully the all got to return when the war was over.

Oh God! The South Park Movie is one of the great pieces of cinematic comedy there ever was! I love this scene too and what makes it for me is Cartman's deadpan stare at Mr. Garrison while Mr. Garrison just GAPES at him. Sooo funny. Uncle Fucka and Blame Canada get the bulk of the deserved praise as comedy songs but What Would Brian Boitano Do? makes me laugh even harder. It's so random but I love the increasingly crazy things that Brian Boitano has apparently done and the fact that this is what kicks their asses in gear to save Terrance and Phillip.

Guys I want you to know that I'm having a dilemma regarding this year's Con. I really want to go to the Arrow panel and take notes for all of you about the way the actors and audience all behaved, but Orphan Black's panel is an hour later in another room. For those unfamiliar with the Con's workings, the really big panels like Arrow and Orphan Black require the bulk of the audience to get there several panels ahead of time to guarantee seats. Arrow's in Ballroom 20 and Orphan Black in 6A. If the times were reversed, I'd have a decent shot, as plenty of people leave Ballroom 20 early for other panels (especially when the questions start or when they realize that all Warner Bros shows-including those on the CW-don't give out any freebies), while the smaller 6A will be packed and unlikely to empty enough for me to grab a late seat. And I LOVE Orphan Black and want to fangirl HARD for the Divine Miss Tatiana Maslany just as much as I do for Emily and Caity (if she's there). My only other idea is to try and do the Arrow autograph panel like I did the Con before the show aired (where Amell and Cassidy both looked so freaked out by the experience that they seemed afraid to talk to anyone leaving the producers to pick up the slack) but, for all my luck, it would be one of those autograph sessions that takes place directly after the panel and screwing me all over again. This seriously sucks.

I just binged the series online and I'm really glad that Aramis took the Duke's place with Anne. In fact, I think it would be hilarious if all of her children with the king (she had at least two if memory serves) were secretly fathered by Aramis. I don't know why it would amuse me so much, but just thinking about it makes me laugh. And I really hope Capaldi gets to twirl a cape at least once during his tenure as Twelve.

In addition to all that has been said here and in other areas of this forum, I will say that the most concerning part of this protest (I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't come close to actually happening) is that it will be compared to the Jesus Freaks outside the convention center. Now, I always joke that it doesn't feel like Comic Con until I've been told I'm going to hell for reading Batman, but those protesters are there every year, the Westboro Church nutjobs were there at my first con (haven't read anything about them in subsequent years so they either stopped coming or people stopped giving them press), and protests with more legitimate grievances (like rape culture as depicted in comic books, television, and movies-which is absolutely pervasive and deserves its own day in Hall H to discuss the nuances and ways to change) will be lumped into the same nutjob category. It's unfair and gross, to be sure, but that's what would happen. Just look at last year's panel on women in film/television. It was in Hall H (ie, the con's biggest platform), the panelists were actually asked interesting questions, gave interesting answers, and were still subject to ridicule by audience idiots because one of them (Michelle Rodriguez I think) gave an answer that hit a little too close to home (she basically, though politely, called out the fact that the biggest antagonists for women in the industry are men-which is absolutely true-and the men in the audience got pissy). The exact kind of panel that should be more common at these types of events ended up dismissed and ridiculed. That's exactly what I expect to happen if this protest happens and it's such a shame. I'd much rather coming up with good questions to ask at this and other panels (and praising Regina and Rumpel while dismissing Hook won't do it). I think it would provide a better success rate for the short term and then these concerned viewers could devote their non-Con time to using social media to continue bringing this issue to light and try to open the eyes of the writers (maybe even try to host panels at the smaller cons) for the long term.

I assume they mean in a platonic way but Elena does like powerful male vampires and Alaric is surely still that. Maybe that will be the twist of this season: Elena's love triangle will be between Alaric and Damon.

That makes sense. Aria's been on her own show for years now so it makes sense that Spencer knows she can't be relied on.

And the point of the scene was to talk smack about the new Mayor's wife and, with Southerners especially, exaggeration is it's own life form so she was probably stretching the truth to establish herself as the classier one.

I just finished the audiobook of the Veronica Mars book The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, as read by Kristen Bell. I already read the book and enjoyed it very much but Kristen took that enjoyment to a whole different level. She has a good narration voice, she made a distinction between it and her Veronica voice, she imitated Mac so well it was scary, and she brought real gravitas when the mystery was at its serious points. Very well done and I hope there are more books so she can read them to me.

I think you'll have lots of fun sevans623. Last year was the first time I ever made into Hall H and that was due to getting my disability pass for my ankle. If you can get in you'll get to watch some great panels, but don't worry if you can't (they all end up on youtube anyway). What I always tell people is, unless you have a bunch of panels you want to sit through, try and walk the main floor the first day to get the lay of the land. And take sunscreen because odds are you'll be in line outside at some point. Two weeks to go!

Maybe but Conan would still have been punished for Leno's primetime failure. Leno's show was such a disaster that the local affiliates were losing money and revolted, promising to replace his show with reruns. Putting him in for the first half of the Tonight Show's traditional start time would mean that NBC had two shows competing with Letterman (Kimmel was made by this debacle), doubling their chances of people just not watching. There are so many ways it still could have gone wrong with this format, though I think that Seinfeld's Tonight Show theory is somewhat disproven with Leno's primetime failure. If it were Leno that everyone was clamoring to see, then his talk show wouldn't have failed so badly. I think Conan's big mistake was not bringing in Lorne Michaels as a producer like Fallon did and that's why NBC was able to muscle him out so easily. If he had him in his corner, Leno wouldn't have returned to the Tonight Show but, for whatever reason, he seemed to want to do the show on his own merits and that left him vulnerable to the studio executives. Fallon didn't make that mistake so he's safe.

And Pat Benatar! In fact, let's have a ceremony or two where only women get inducted. That'd be cool.

Oliver was probably including the six years that had passed since the ship wreck. They started dating in high school, continued in college, and Oliver elevated her onto a pedestal after the wreck out of guilt and needing something to hold on to. Thus, they are now in their late twenties and it's been about 12 years since they first went out, so almost half his life. "I've loved you half my life" just flows better than "I've loved you almost half my life".

Which I like a lot. If they were narrow minded in their approach, we wouldn't have Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Louis Armstrong, BB King, or, as recently as last year, Albert King, to name a few. All of these performers deserved to be inducted, as they either had tremendous influence on rock and roll or incorporated aspects of it at various parts of their careers, but none of them were actual rock performers. That's one thing I really like about the various people who have been inducted. There's a recognition that, no matter what form of music they specifically play, their roots come from the same place as Chuck Berry and Elvis (and Public Enemy specifically pointed that out last year in response to the position that rap artists don't belong). Because, in all honesty, if they narrowed their focus, none of this year's inductees would have qualified as they have little in common with the founders of rock themselves (other than using guitars as a lot of those guys didn't always have drums) and this ceremony would have ended as soon as it started. But music is fluid, always changing, and that's reflected in the inductees.

Unless she kept working on her doctorate while teaching at the hypothetical K-12 school. My American History teacher earned his doctorate while teaching, my Western Civ teacher came to us with her doctorate, and my mom was working toward her doctorate before she realized she wanted to be a lifer at our school (where she already met the requirements with her Masters) and dumped it. Say Dinah was teaching at the K-12 school so that Laurel and Sara would get to go for a super reduced rate/free but working on her doctorate at the same time. Depending on when she started, she could easily finish before Sara's graduation and just remain at the school until they no longer needed the tuition break. The shipwreck would also be perfect incentive for her to pursue a university position and allow her to focus on something other than losing her daughter.