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I thought McGregor was nigh-perfect in his adoption of Alec Guiness' speaking cadence and mannerisms, so if he'd had halfway decent writing to work with it would have been an awesome performance. And Ian McDiarmid is woefully underrated for how good a job he's done as Palpatine. But even he can't save a scene where his voice work is being played over a frenetic videogame screen.

Er, those promo images are so over-Photoshopped I still don't have any idea what the character is going to look like on film.

To be fair, back in Season 1 and the first few episodes of Season 2 there were a LOT of moments where Derek was stalking and manhandling a half-dressed (or less!) Jackson in the showers, lockers, and men's restroom, and he led him off into the woods in what looked for all the world like a nighttime park hookup. As it turns out all that was predatory but non-sexual behavior in combo with the series never missing an opportunity to get Colton Haynes out of his clothes, but at the time it could easily have been mistaken as an indication of how Derek's affections leaned.

They had me rolling on the floor with "Khaleesi is comin' to Westeros!"

Unfamiliarity with Evans and familiarity with RDJ may have kept them from taking a chance on either.

I can't believe I'm defending Ben Stiller, but given that he's a native New Yorker I think there just might be a slim chance that he was more personally affected by the tragedy than a young woman who was raised in Germany and Nashville and likely lived on the opposite side of the country at the time. I can't begin to guess how I might react if there were a massive terrorist attack in my home city that changed the view outside my windows.

Oops, triple post.

Oops, triple post.

Most of the discarding comment was about treatment of the Sterek fandom, which Davis and MTV were all for back when they were trying to gain viewers and entertainment press notice and promptly attempted to distance themselves from sometime in Season 3. Their reaction also resulted in non-shippers (like me) being deprived of comedic scenes between the two characters and a bunch of poorly-considered attempts at heteronormative relationships for them glossing over some pretty glaring consent issues. I think just about the entire show has collapsed into a hot mess of characters being bent out of shape to fit a plot checklist, sadly including the brotherly bond between Scott and Stiles that was the foundation the whole series was built on. Awesome single parent-child relationships are about the only redeeming feature.

I took one look at the trailer for the latter and decided I could live without 90 minutes of idiot teens screaming their heads off over Snapchat buffering glitches. It Follows does look and sound interesting, and I'm sad its blink-and-it's-gone theater run in my city was over before I had a chance to go see it on the big screen.

They could keep and even enhance Mia's involvement with the group if they devoted a certain amount of time to flashbacks featuring her and Dom before the events of the fourth movie - she and Brian didn't become joined at the hip until the end of Fast and Furious. Letty getting her memory back via montage in the latest film provides a good framework for more of the same, it would just have to be stuff on the up-and-up rather than criminal activities.

MADtv didn't seem to have any trouble doing hilarious bits about him, and not just thanks to the brilliance of Keegan Michael Key (though his impression was certainly light years beyond Armissen's): As for the Correspondent's Dinner itself, I lost it when Keegan said "Khaleesi is comin' to Westeros!"

"I *warned* you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you *knew*, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little *bunny*, isn't it?"

Yes, "learn the facts," but only from the marine biologists/former lifeguards they employ, not any of the ones who have experience studying orcas in the wild. Or former trainers who've quit in disgust over their treatment. Because clearly, anyone who doesn't currently make a living thanks to Sea World dollars can't be trusted to tell the public the truth.

The show very quickly identified its core audience of teenage girls and gay men, and pandered to them (us) until MTV decided to discard those demographics in favor of hypothetical 18 to 34 male viewers about a year and a half ago. Cue gratuitous Malia and Kira sexy dancing, Stiles and Derek not being allowed in the same room together, etc.

Sadly, they'd already cast the perfect Gambit in the otherwise horrible mess that was Wolverine: Origins. I guess studios are (unfairly) skittish about using Kitsch after Disney's marketing department torpedoed John Carter to the tune of a $200 million writedown.

I'm willing to be convinced by a completely new take on Doom. The thing I'm most dubious about going in (aside from the overall tone, which IMHO should be like The Incredibles, not Cronenberg's The Fly) is Miles Teller being able to portray Reed Richards with enough intelligence and gravitas to preserve the core of the character.

I thought he was OK, though McAvoy, Fassbender, and Hoult are the only First Class actors I feel any real enthusiasm about seeing again.

I suppose it's realistic that people with small children aren't going to be jumping cars out of planes and between skyscrapers regularly anymore, but it does suck for the actress. Particularly since Giselle bit the big one and Elena appears to be getting shuffled offstage with the latest movie.

"Hey, the masked vigilante in all-black armor who uses his military-grade hardware to fight muggers and burglars says we shouldn't trust the smiley flying guy who willingly surrendered to the US government, sided with us against his own kind, and spends his time rescuing people from accidents and natural disasters. Sounds legit to me!"

I really liked that, because it was basically Sam's own conscience talking to him and revealed that despite outward appearances since Season 3 or so, he actually is both conscious of and regretful for all the collateral damage his and Dean's lifestyle causes to bystanders. A bit of introspection on Sam's part actually makes him a much more sympathetic and likeable character. This is both very different from and superior to brooding about being a monster because of psychic visions/demon blood addiction/Lucifer's hand up his ass/misplaced soul/awful taste in girlfriends. It's a grown man facing the fact that he's made choices which cost other people dearly, rather than a boy whining about outside forces making him different and misunderstood. I would like to note that in her big showcase episode, Mother-of-All wasn't sexualized for her confrontation with the heroes. Whether it was the producers wanting a villain that more effectively pushed Sam & Dean's buttons, or just realizing that a smirky Victoria's Secret model wasn't able to handle the heavy lifting and they needed Samantha Smith to step in and pinch hit, that may have been my all-time favorite bit of recasting.

The Hell option might not be a deal breaker, as Cas has resurrected Dean from there before (and yanked all of Sam but his soul from its deepest depths, as well). Total destruction might be another matter, but I think Dean would have to have degenerated fully into a demon for that to work. Death flat out stated that even Lucifer couldn't actually destroy someone's immortal soul, just torment it, so I doubt anything Cas can do would be permanent and irreversible unless Dean crossed that threshold. I'm wondering now why Dean's subconscious brought up the possibility of going to Purgatory after death. We know the Mark of Cain is a result of Lucifer's power, not Mother-of-All's, and Dean's been to both places. (Clearly he doesn't think Heaven is in the cards.)

While I think this is true of Sam, I can actually see Cas regarding it as his sworn duty for the greater good. Also, it's not as if killing Dean would prevent him from visiting for manly chats and such, he of all of them should have a good understanding of death not being an end but just a transition.

Yeah, in one of the first French films ever if I remember correctly. I agree about Cuthbert St. Clair, and not just because Kavan Smith plays him. I suppose we could see the character again - in fact I can easily see him scheming his way up through the ranks of demons in Hell if that's possible for a damned soul who didn't get there via crossroads deal. Of course it'd have to be another actor for appearances in a meatsuit on earth. This is two episodes in a row that I've *really* enjoyed, something I haven't been able to say about Supernatural in a while. And there's another potentially good episode before the Nepotism Twins strike again! My initial worry from the preview about Rowena somehow being able to send Dean to Purgatory (Jeez, why did Cas and Crowley spend a whole season trying to unlock the secret of getting there if there's a revolving door just anyone can use?) was nicely dispelled by it being Dean's hallucinatory mindscape, and the twist with Rowena being a figment of Sam's imagination was a great unexpected touch. I still think Sam is intensely stupid for not trying to get help deciphering the book from a witch less likely to betray and kill him and his brother. Then again, the most recent friendly witch they've dealt with was Christian Campbelll from Adventures in Racefail and Bestiality, and I'd rather see the Winchesters dead than revisit that episode.

On the who goes where front, Ash said something about a hundred billion souls in Heaven, which is in the ballpark of scientists' estimates of the total number of Homo Sapiens Sapiens that have ever lived. Whereas the "now being served" sign in Crowley's renovated Hell implied that there are at least 6.6 billion souls there. My impression is that most everyone ends up going to Heaven eventually unless they're evil to the core or sell their souls to demons.