Eegah
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I get the same feeling from this movie as the Super Mario Brothers movie: the characters are all so different from the originals that it might as well just be an original story. The difference being that we all know full well the real reason this movie was made, and Fox just looks pathetic trying to pretend there was any other reason than their pissing match with Marvel wanting their toys back.
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That was actually the change I've supported the most in the whole show. Arya and Tywin's relationship in those scenes is fascinating and the actors had incredible chemistry. The one downside is that there's no real payoff to it as Tywin goes to his grave never realizing how close he was to Arya, but while it lasted it was a lot of fun.
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So it's official, the Roger Corman version that no one was ever supposed to even see is still the best FF movie.
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One thing I'm a bit surprised you didn't comment on, and I'm wondering if it just didn't register like Howland Reed's appearance in Ned's dream: Randyll Tarly making an on-page appearance as part of Renly's army. Yeah, the asshole's pretty much what you'd expect from the way Sam talks about him.
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With the new Honest Trailer for the Fantastic Four movies bringing up The Incredibles, I realized the perfect encapsulation of everything I found wrong with this Superman comes in the scene where Syndrome saves some people from being killed by a gasoline tank, and then thoughtlessly tosses it behind him where there may well be some other people. Yeah, I really can't see this guy giving the World of Cardboard speech. He'd just rip it up and go on from there.
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Also, it really wasn't good for Supes that just one year later we saw freaking GODZILLA showing far more consideration for civilians. And I'm 90% sure all the focus on evacuating people in the climax of Age of Ultron was a direct response to Mr. "I'll throw Zod right into a gas station, what could go wrong?".
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It did give us Tyrion head-stabbing a horse, at least. I imagine they decided not to even try to adapt that pretty early on.
Before Stephen Dillane was cast, my preferred choice for Stannis was Christopher Eccleston. Though given his famed distaste for being stuck in one role for long, I wasn’t too disappointed it didn’t happen.
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And now the poor guy's stuck as a way too good looking Charles Manson on Aquarius. What the hell is his agent doing?
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Dare I hope for the Fourth World? Maybe that could be how the Supergirl 'verse gets involved.
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Certain people (let's go ahead and call them dipshits) insisted that there was nothing wrong with Sansa's storyline in Season 5, because rape is a regular thing in the books too. Which rather ignores the fact that the execution of those scenes absolutely matters, and what we saw with Sansa was absolutely the wrong way to do it (and it really didn't help that it largely came off like one of those horrible misogynist fanfics where a female character the writer doesn't like is raped just for the hell of it).
I suspect that they had intended to include Lady Hornwood's story at first, since they went to the trouble of throwing in a reference to them in Season 1 (Bran derails Luwin's lesson on the Houses' mottos by bringing up the Martells' "Unbowed, unbent, unbroken" and then the Hornwoods' "Righteous in wrath").
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I'm hoping his end will be something like in the awesome fanfic The North Remembers, where he first apologizes to everyone as there's no way the White Walkers would be attacking if he wasn't there, and then his very final words after his heroic sacrifice: "Oh, it figures."
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Sometime in Season 4 it hit me that Edd has actually made hardly any wisecracks on the show. After his introductory line "I was born in a place like this, later I fell on hard times," his "wit" was mostly translated to being an asshole to Sam for the rest of season 2 and a bit of 3, and ever since he's just been a random Watch member with lines. At least he got to drop the Scythe.
One thing that really struck me on rereading Dany's story from Clash: the description of Xaro is pretty much the show's Spice King. So they basically split the role in two so he could kill off a character we were familiar with during his takeover.
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They've also said it was based more on their own experiences at summer camp than any specific movies.
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Eric Flint's 1632 series. An entire modern day (2000) town is transported back to Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years' War. The biggest appeal is that it's a true ensemble piece, as Flint hates the "Great Man" theory of history and wanted to show how a bunch of little decisions could build up. He eventually took this idea so far that now anyone is free to submit their own entries to him and have them become official canon for the series.
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One of my favorite aspects is that for the first half hour or so you could pretty much buy it as a genuine summer camp movie, and then the filmmakers play their ace in the hole with the trip into town, revealing it's actually a ZAZ style spoof film.
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I'm actually kind of hoping Electro City is expanded into a full stage musical. These guys probably have the cred to pull it off at this point.
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So, that's two roles in which Chris Pine manages to be far more Shatneresque than when he's actually playing Captain Kirk. What is the deal?
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Amazing double joke with the Dawson Casting, with Lindsey actually being an adult while still a good deal younger than Elizabeth Banks actually is (and goddamn, was I surprised when I looked up her age to confirm it).
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This should be pretty helpful to anyone climbing the Wall.
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My initial reaction upon hearing about the book was that the cancer was a kind of emotional entrapment, like John Green was thinking "Even if anyone doesn't like the book, they won't say so because they'll look like an asshole."
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D&D actually stated to the book fans halfway through Season 2 "Don't worry, we didn't cut the Reeds, there was just too much else we needed to put in this season." One other consequence was that Osha, after already absorbing some of Old Nan's lines after the actress' death, also had to take over Jojen's role of talking to Bran about his dreams until Jojen himself showed up to take over.
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After slogging my way through all of Go Set A Watchman, I'm now even more pissed off than I was before. Because the book's moral is literally "Just because someone's a racist, that doesn't mean they're a bad person." Something tells me this thing is going to be quoted by Twitter trolls for years to come.
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One other bit like that I found pretty amusing is when he looked down from some tower that was 200 feet high, and sheepishly told the person he was with that maybe making the Wall 700 feet high was a bit too much.
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The show was going to talk about his backstory just like in the books, but unfortunately it proved to be impossible to get McCann and Turner on set together for as long as it would take (apparently the whole tournament sequence was an absolute nightmare to coordinate between all the actors' schedules, and everything we see is stitched together from whatever small groups they could get together). There's one more major note on Sandor's differences to come that a lot of us are probably waiting to make, so I'll hold off on that for now even though technically you have the information just from the show.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.
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For me, the worst part about the Fantastic Four not being part of it is that we won't get to see Reed pay for his horrible actions in the Civil War, as in the comics that all fell on Tony's shoulders (not that he didn't deserve every bit of it himself) while Reed just got to skate on building a prison for people who were supposed to be his friends. Somehow I don't think the movies would let that slide, so it seems Tony is once again going to bear the brunt of that.