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23 hours ago, BetterButter said:
I especially like that line about "a literal Bond Girl", because I actually posted that on the TV Tropes page.
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3 hours ago, Enero said:
I still say Casino Royale was the best Bond movie out of Craig’s series of Bond movies.
I agree.
IMO:
Casino Royale: 4 Stars/4
Quantum Of Solace: 2
Skyfall: 3.5
Spectre: 3
No Time To Die: 3
Craig is very fortunate. Along with breaking the tradition of a Bond actor's last movie being his worst, even his lesser movies are still okay, rather than godawful.
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On 11/25/2021 at 4:07 PM, Bastet said:
I watched a couple of episodes in the wee hours while trying to get back to sleep, and, wow, was that storyline with Mare Winningham as the fake doctor with the hots for Mark a ridiculous plot.
It's was embarrassing. The absolute second-lowest point of the godawful 5th season (Doug's poorly written exit being the nadir).
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Happy 22nd Birthday, Tess & Kate!
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Great episode. I had the prison chaplain pegged the minute I saw him. I'm glad Henry's loosening up a bit.
I hope Geordie can stop his downward spiral before he or someone else gets hurt.
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3 hours ago, CountryGirl said:
Charles was not completely faithful to Diana for even one day of his marriage as an emotional affair is still an affair. He wore cufflinks from her on his honeymoon. They were still very much emotionally connected and resumed the physical part of their affair shortly after Harry was born. W
I always wince at Diana's infamous--but true--line of "There were three of us in this marriage."
3 hours ago, CountryGirl said:At least the documentary didn't carry out the trope of Camilla and Charles as poor, torn-apart lovers, kept from marrying by the Crown when, i
I never bought that either. I always figured it was a spin for them to build back respectability
1 hour ago, greekmom said:Exactly. I have no sympathy for either Camilla or Charles.
Me neither. He could have squared things away with her before going off with the military or stood up to his family and declared he was going to marry her no matter what, even if it meant abdicating.
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I've always wondered how William and Harry were told of their mother's death. I remember waking up that morning and hearing a reporter say that they had been and I winced at that.
I could have sworn I read that Charles came into William's room with Harry and told them both then, but now it seems to be the opposite--he told William first and then they went to tell Harry.
Walking behind that coffin had to be agony for those two.
But her brother's eulogy was excellent.
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On 9/27/2021 at 3:51 PM, Athena said:
GOOD. Now lock him up for the rest of his disgusting life.
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And he's FINALLY been charged with Kathleen's murder:
Unbelievable that it took 39 years.
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VH1's segment about this on "I Love The 80's. . .Strikes Back"* sums this up perfectly:
"It was a 38-part miniseries and each part was 9 hours long."
* As an aside, did anyone else absolutely LOVE those shows?
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Dean Stockwell has passed away:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dean-stockwell-quantum-leap-battlestar-072859559.html
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On 6/10/2021 at 10:23 AM, krankydoodle said:
Those early seasons were great, though, and the chemistry between the actors was a lot of fun.
Absolutely. It wasn't the same after cast members started leaving.
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I was idly fooling around on YouTube and I was able to find the entire serial killer story. All you have to do is search "The Loving Murders". The poster is "Bob On Soaps" and the clips are numbered from beginning to end.
I get that TPTB really wanted to shake up things and boost ratings, but I think moving everyone to NYC was a mistake (and this is coming from a born and raised New Yorker). It just never felt right after that.
And if you ask me, the problem wasn't the storylines, it was the Friday Night Death Slot time that the show had--up against Y&R in some markets, aired at lousy times in others, or not aired at all in still others.
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6 minutes ago, cardigirl said:
Well, Mrs. McGuire was giving off that vibe, certainly. Asking him where he was from, originally, etc. I know she sees him as trying to replace "her boy," but she definitely was not open-minded with him.
Yes. That classic "Where are you FROM from?" type of question that POC have to constantly put up with. I was actually pretty stunned at her outright assuming that his name wasn't his real one and glad that he put her in her place by informing her that he was as British as she was.
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On 7/1/2021 at 3:48 PM, Hiyo said:
Here is Alan's wedding to Lucy.
Alan's reaction to that ridiculous dress was PRICELESS. As well as Stuart Damon trying not to crack up every time the hat hit him in the head.
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1 hour ago, dubbel zout said:
Will was such a dick to him.
I haven't been watching long, so I don't know much about Will, but it would be ironic if after all his advocating on Leonard's behalf, that he'd still have a problem with the new guy because of his race, which is a bit of the vibe I was getting. Regardless, he has no right to take it out on him that he's upset that he wasn't consulted on hiring a new guy.
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2 hours ago, Cetacean said:
I don't believe there is anything illegal about it.
53 minutes ago, sugarbaker design said:What Will and Tamara did was not illegal
They were having sex in public (even if they made it back to his room eventually). The genders and relationship status of the people doing that is irrelevant. They could have still been arrested and gotten in trouble for it, even if their punishment wasn't as severe as poor Leonard's.
2 hours ago, Cetacean said:When Geordie was told to read the last page of the autopsy I thought for sure it showed she was pregnant.
I thought so too. I already suspected the boyfriend, I'm surprised that wasn't his motive.
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So the boyfriend did it. Huge shock. (eye roll)
Not that this wasn't a good episode, but his snotty attitude--not to mention statistics, literally 9 times out of 10 it's the boyfriend/husband/ex/someone who wanted to be the boyfriend/husband--made me suspect him immediately. I'm just surprised that it wasn't because she was pregnant (the number one reason a pregnant woman will end up dead/injured is domestic violence).
Will and Tamara sleeping together was a surprise, mostly because he's rebuffed all her flirting and advances. And them going at it in public was ironically just as illegal as what poor Leonard and his paramour we're doing.
I really, really want to like the new vicar, especially in light of the prejudice he's inevitably going to deal with--and already seems to be, but it's a little difficult. He seems to be working an incredibly self-righteous and judgemental attitude towards Will and I didn't like the way he reported on him to the bishop. That said, Will didn't help by being so standoffish to him when he was legitimately trying to befriend him.
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I felt such an impending sense of doom watching tonight's episode every time the date was posted onscreen.
There are so many agonizing "if only"'s about that dreadful night.
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17 hours ago, DisneyBoy said:
A detailed overview of the changes made to Phantom, as detailed by various phans on the BWW boards:
As others have noted, a number of lyric changes have been implemented. A few of them make sense, but most accomplish little in terms of furthering the plot or character development. In the prologue, the auctioneer now says something like:
"Lot 666, then: a chandelier until recently believed lost. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the phantom of the opera, a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have repaired it so that we may get a hint of how magnificent it might one day look. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination...gentlemen!"
Regarding humor, the actors in the "Hannibal" rehearsal, "Notes", and "Il Muto" scenes have obviously been directed to emphasize the intrinsic comedic aspects of those scenes. The humor feels less subtle and more deliberate. While I wasn't bothered by these changes, I also didn't feel that they improved the show in any real way.
The first significant direction/blocking change occurs when "Angel of Music" transitions to the title song. As in the London production, the Phantom now opens the mirror and draws Christine through it after his first, "I am your angel...", and then the dressing room door springs open and Raoul steps in. The dressing room set piece remains onstage longer, as Raoul exits down the stairs and walks across the front of the stage, where he encounters Giry with a string of ballerinas trailing behind her like ducklings following a hen. They exchange quick "WTF?" looks and then pass one another to exit at opposite sides of the stage. This nonsense is simply there to fill time because the first Phantom/Christine pair, which used to enter from stage left and descend through a trap door, have been eliminated. When the dressing room is finally rolled off stage left, the travelator quickly descends upstage and the only Phantom/Christine pair make their way from one side to the other and back again as the ramp alternately tips at one end and then the other.
The second major change occurs at the top of the second act, immediately after the managers sing "...such a pity that the phantom can't be here!" For no apparent reason, a lone Madame Giry approaches the managers and makes a strange movement with one arm in front of the drape, after which the curtain is pulled back to reveal the staircase. This new direction makes her look like Tinker Bell conjuring some pixie dust, which feels very out of character and seems to serve no purpose. Also inexplicably, ensemble member Paul Schaefer now enters the "Masquerade" scene with the group of principals, which seems odd. But the most irksome change to "Masquerade" is new lyrics from the very first "Masquerade!" through the first verse and chorus, until Giry sings "What a night!". Unlike the vocals in the rest of the show, the new lyrics here sound muddled and less poetic than the original lyrics. The choreography has also been changed, which sometimes leaves too few live performers on the staircase, making the mannequins appear more obvious.
I noted a few other small changes in the second act:
In the "Notes" scene, Christine no longer declares that she won't perform in "Don Juan Triumphant" before running offstage.
In the "Don Juan Triumphant" performance scene, the choreography has been significantly altered. It doesn't bother me here as it does in "Masquerade", perhaps because they gave Passarino (the fantastic Jeremy Stolle) more of a leading role.
At the end of "Don Juan Triumphant", after Christine unmasks him, the Phantom attempts to flee toward upstage right and Giry steps out in front of him. They stare at each other briefly before he turns and runs off upstage left. When the curtains are subsequently opened at the back of the stage to reveal Piangi's body, he's actually standing up with the Punjab lasso around his neck, which looks laughably absurd (his body used to be lying down).
In the final lair scene, the Phantom no longer says "Be my Guest, sir" before raising the portcullis to allow Raoul to enter. Also, he no longer uses a candle from the organ to release Raoul from the Punjab lasso; instead, he grabs the knot and makes a quick tugging gesture, then the rope drops and Raoul falls to the floor.
As for technical issues, I noted three: a section of white-blue lightning bolt illuminated in the upper left corner of the backing drape in the mausoleum scene and refused to turn off (this reoccurred on Saturday night as well); the mics for the Phantom and Christine produced a buzzing sound on the house left side of the theatre every time the two actors were at a certain proximity to each other; and in the final lair scene, the monkey's arms didn't move the cymbals when the music box began to play.
Obviously, nothing mentioned here is as grievous as the atrocities Cameron Mackintosh was allowed to commit in London. The Broadway production is still 95% the same show, so I will continue to save a slot in my itinerary for Phantom every time I visit New York....
the Doll Mask is now silver so that it works no matter who is performing the role.
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Yeah the "Come, we must go up! To the roof!" is gone, as is Christine's "I can't, I'm sorry" before the DJT rehearsal, she just gets up and runs out.
I also noticed that Andre no longer stumbles over "act 3 of tonight's opera!" He comes out unsure and says "we'd like to give you..." and Madame Giry walks out and bangs her walking stick and then he says "the ballet! from act 3 of tonight's opera!" without searching for it in the program.Edit: I just saw the above posts - thanks guys!
There's also a change in the Christine/Meg duet. Instead of "Your face, Christine, it's white", the line is now, "Christine, are you all right?", obviously to include Emilie.
Kudos to the casting department for not only casting its first black Christine, but a dark-skinned and natural-haired one too.
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At this point, I can't decide which one of them was the worse spouse. Charles was cheating with Camilla for so long she was essentially the second wife, while I actually lost count of the number of lovers Diana had.
That shot of them standing next to each other yet pointedly refusing to hold hands is painful (all I could think of was the polar opposite shot of Harry and Meghan holding hands at their wedding). In fact, in most of their pictures, the body language makes you wince.
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36 minutes ago, MaggieG said:
The ending fight when Michael gets back up and kills Tommy, Brackett and everyone around him was intense. For
I admit that I haven't watched this continuity, but I've read enough about it to know that I don't like it. After all the hell that poor Tommy went through in the first continuity, it sucks that he'd be killed in this one, especially since he at least survived originally. Same for Sheriff Brackett. It's bad enough that his daughter was murdered by this psycho, now him too?
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49 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:
The change of “Point of No Return” sounds interesting. I actually think it works better for Christine’s character: on some level, she must have expected the Phantom to crash the performance, so when she realizes it was him, she plays it cool and handle it herself, knowing full well what he’s capable of and trying prevent anyone else from getting hurt.
I think it makes her stronger. Some versions of Christine have been quivering wimps. Emilie's version, while frequently terrified, was also sincerely trying to hang in there.
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On 10/16/2021 at 5:15 PM, Bastet said:
Yes, that is the one massive problem with retconning the original and pretending all the sequels never happened, that Michael was captured in 1978 and remained locked away until he escaped 40 years later -- Laurie is, as Karen suffered through and tried to make her daughter understand, a nutjob, convinced for absolutely no reason that Michael is someday going to break out and come after her, when really she was just one of several random babysitters that night.
I think it's a huge mistake. The most chilling part about the ending was the way Michael vanished into the night (and also inadvertently provided the perfect way to segue into the first sequel). Laurie's fear would have made far more sense if he was still out there.
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General True Crime Shows
in Genre Talk
I've always found it darkly amusing, watching these crime shows, seeing how these people supposedly think of everything to give themselves an alibi, yet always fail to think of just one crucial thing that ends up nailing them. Like their Incriminating Indifference--no matter how perfectly they've set everything up, they never remember to act like a truly grieving loved one.