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There were some comments by people who hadn't worked it out even after Mr world offer Wednesday missiles with Odin's name on them.
Not everyone picks these things up, hell, far from everyone even watches telly with more than a third of their attention span these days.
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Wasn't this already an Amazon production?
Quite honestly though, I don't think this is a show that fits with binge-watching; it goes off on far too many tangents for that to really work.
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Oh, I know what you were getting at, and I agree; I just couldn't resist making that post. Sorry
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On 20/06/2017 at 11:45 PM, Spartan Girl said:
Happy to finally have this on Blu-Ray!
One of the little things I loved was how this was one of the rare Batman movies that didn't feature yet another flashback of the Wayne's getting killed. Granted, it was probably because they wouldn't do that for a kids movie, but still. It was enough to have him sadly looking at the family picture.
I hate to do this, but... have you never watched a disney film?
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As a book reader, I'm loving this expansion of the material.
As an unsullied, my Mrs is loving the journey and speculation far more than I.
As said above, different people just like different things.
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7 hours ago, rmontro said:
Anyone ever talk about box office around here? I'm kind of curious to see if this movie can limp to $400,000 domestic. Think it will get there? Should be close.
There was some talk before it was released that it might hit $1 billion worldwide, but that definitely looks out of the picture now.
It's not something I'm personally interested in, but there's a thread devoted to the box office, updated most weeks:
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8 hours ago, Kierstyn said:
There are definitely gods in this story who can turn into birds, but don't assume they all can. But based on who Wednesday is, he has two specific birds - crows - that are part of his power. So when Sweeney is gabbing at the crow, he was passing info back to Wednesday via that specific crow.
Huginn and Muninn are still ravens, not crows. They are Odin's spys on the world
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3 hours ago, Haleth said:
It was kind of a play on words. Wednesday's entourage of crows is also called a murder.
They're Ravens, not crowd; so the colective noun is an "Unkindness"
As Drogo says though, Mad Sweeney did refer to gods / demigods having "Murder" as they're collective noun (I would have though "Pantheon" but maybe that's for each batch of gods rather than mixing across religions.)
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7 hours ago, Arynm said:
I wonder though, archaeologists are finding and translating old texts all the time, are they literally bringing old Gods back from the dead? Is is enough for someone to just speak their name and know who they are, for the God to be reborn, so to speak? I just wonder, because I am sure that some of these old Gods haven't been worshiped continuously since their heyday.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams: We wanted our gods to be immortal, so our gods became immortal, and stayed that way whether remembered them or not.
In the Adams/Pratchett (both friends/colleagues of Gaiman) view; belief = power; lack of belief renders a god powerless, not dead.
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Just watched E06, and so proud of the wife, who has just made a connection I've never made (mildly in my defence, I've only read the book the once).
She just put "stabbed by a Christmas tree" together with his shining light, name, and Odin's interest and concern, and asked if Shadow is Baldr.
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1 hour ago, John Potts said:
Pretty sure "Aethel" just means "Royal", like calling somebody in the House of Lords "Lord X". It's why the newly created King of Northumberland changed his name after he was crowned. I presume "Alfred" would actually be "Aethelfred", it's just they've used his modernised name as people are more familiar with it.
(I'm surmising, I don't know anything definitive here).
You surmise correctly on almost all counts ("Lord Xxxx" is a title given on top of their name, whilst "Aethelxxx" is part of their given name, to demonstrate their royalty)
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Catching up onto he episode thread, and speculation about Shadow, takes me back. It's like reading the GOT unsullied 3-5 years ago!
Only now, everyone knows better, and (presumably) no-one wants to provide answers just because they're asking questions.
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8 hours ago, WatchrTina said:
There was one continuity gaff however. Why did Laura walk into Mr. Ibis & Anubis's place of business armless? Didn't we JUST see Audry sewing it back on for her? Wasn't it in place when they were in the car?
I'm pretty sure that was explained in-episode.
Basically, you can't just sew the skin together and expect it to hold. So they wire the bones together, glue the muscles and THEN sew the skin.
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7 hours ago, scrb said:
Why was Jim able to find out so much about Aurora, who's a stranger? Invasion of privacy which the company should have protected.
Invasion of privacy? I may be mis-remembering, but didn't he just look her up on Wikipedia, and read a few magazine interviews? Possibly also her public interview about why she boarded the ship.
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Fair point, well made - Though I still fail to see any relevance to what my post about decision making / belief.
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28 minutes ago, DarkRaichu said:
Let me know when you find a way to escape death
Let me know when you find anyone trying
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6 hours ago, DarkRaichu said:
Best dialog was between Anubis & Laura
A: In life you believed in nothing. You will go to nothing. You will be done. There will be darkness
L: And peace?
A: There will be darkness
L: You know what? No!
A: There is nowhere else for you to be. .. etc etc ... Death is NOT a debate.. etc etc..It reminded me there is 1 life to live. I better understand the consequences of choices I have made and will be making.
Uninformed consent is not valid consent
Uninformed opinion is not valid opinion
Uninformed decision is not a valid decision
Either way, Anubis contradicts himself. "You will go to nothing" means that it just ends, nothing more happens, there is... nothing. "There will eb darkness" means that there will be something, and it sounds a hell of a lot like an eternity of sensory deprivation AKA purgatory; which is NOT "nothing"
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7 minutes ago, Wryly said:
I'm not sure I understand why Zombie Laura sees Shadow as a radiant light. Is it because he loved her? Does everyone who comes back from the dead see their loved ones as small suns? Or is it their "unfinished business" that lights up?
Best guess - he's the one who flipped her the sunshine coin of protection thing
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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Hott Fuzz (2007)
World's End (2013)
Ostensibly I wanted to talk about Hot Fuzz, and a new discovery; but might as well bring all 3 films into one thread, as I love both the first 2, and quite like the 3rd.
Now I must have watched Shaun and Fuzz a few dozen times each; and last night, watching whilst half-asleep, I noticed yet another new thing, on which I'm probably way, way behind the times on. The character names...
I've noticed various things over time; from the obvious to the less obvious. Even with the PIStaker bit specifically telling me to pay attention to the names, I never really had.
The obvious being that all the residents are named after an occupation; and some obvious foreshadowing in some names (the good-guy is Angel; the strong-guy is Armstrong, Merchant made his fortune selling stuff - to the disgust of the manager of an established shop...).
A few years ago, I noticed that the Andies are basically the same person by surname as well as christian name, persona and appearance (Cartwright and Wainwright); but last night I noticed that many of the residence also have these foreshadowing or secondary meanings for the individual (some of these may be stretching):
Leslie Tiller - who tends the soil
Tony Fisher - who's always fishing for advice
Desk Sergeants Turner - who take turns
Simon Skinner - who's comments cut close to the bone, and reveal the sub-plots
Tom Weaver - weaves the NWA together
Dr. Hatcher - is present at the birth of most residents under 40 years old
James Reaper - is the farmer who both sows and reaps crops
Tim Messenger - the Journalist
Martin Blower - is full of hot air
Eve Draper - lifts the curtains from the planning department
Arthur Webley - the provider of arms and armaments
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I think 2 a season is working for them; they just need another 1-2 episodes to let things breathe and develop a little more naturally.
They did a great job splitting it this season; with a definitive "3 years later" bit where Gisela goes straight from "I'm pregnant" to have 2 kids scampering away; and they split the ancillary characters well into both halves.
It's possible they'll do 3 books in S3, but that really would be too cramped; and if they go down to 1 it'll be a huge slow-down for such a fast-moving series, and would really put people off.
A lot of the reader-complaints about S1 was in the casting of Uhtred, though I've never particularly understood why casting is always so contraversial, unless the character's physique is actually plot relevant enough of the time. I do think that reading after watching is the better way around; so much less frustrating.
I made a post on another forum about this show during the off-season, talking about the historical time frames of the books; I'll put it in here under spoilers, though it isn't particularly spoilery (unless you consider real history to be spoilers); it means I don't have to do any heavy editting. I have added secondary spoilers-within-spoilers to cover the story the series hasn't got to yet.
SpoilerQuoteI wonder if the author and production team will try and fix the problems with the mid-series slump? If they know this is how people felt about the books then I guess it's reasonable to think the TV show could suffer a similar fate. Maybe they can condense events eg get all the bad stuff out of the way or even consider skipping it? I guess trying to fix the problems is ideal.
I am absolutely convinced that that is the case; the difficulty though comes from the real history; there's not a lot you can write about the life of a warlord during times of peace.
Book 1 covers: 866-876; skipping a lot of his childhood between his capture by Ragnar, and the hall burning - dictated by the fall of York, and the Battle of Cynuit.
Book 2 covers: 876-878; dictated by trying to find something for him to do during peace (going viking); Alfred's withdrawal to Athelney, and the Battle of Ethandun.
Book 3 covers: 878-881; dictated by the rise of Guthred; something to do during peace (slavery); and the securing of Guthred's kingdom.
Book 4 covers: a looser time frame; roughly 885-888 or so; covering the securing of London, Aethelflaed marriage.
SpoilerBook 5 covers: 892-893; dictated by the Battle of Farnham, and the battle of Bemfleet.
Book 6 covers: 894-899; dictated by Alfred's death, and requiring some busy-work beforehand (replacing the Seige of Exeter - the vikings seemd to love Exeter, and I can see why)
Book 7 covers: 900-910; dictated by the aftermath of Alfred's death, and the Battle of Tettenhall.
Book 8 covers 911-911; and is mostly busy-work and invented drama IIRC as Aethelred dies and Aethelfaed takes the reigns of power. I guess he needed to sort out the politics before...
Book 9 covers 912-918; as Edward and Aethelflaed start pushing the Danes back, clearing East Anglia and Northern Mercia... until Aethelfaed dies and Uhtred is finally clear of oathes to the soft-southerners.
Book 10 covers 919-???; Aged in his 60s Uhtred's getting a little old to playing the warlord anymore; and Cornwell needed a jumping off point with the TV series being produced.
So the difficulty is introducing the real history at the right time, without huge leaps where there's no story to tell mid-season.
I suspect that, for the show, they'll take (even) more liberties with the real-life time-line, and call it 5 years pass between seasons; and then condense a decade's action into a year or two on-screen.Mods: if you feel the spoiler bit should be in the book thread, feel free to move it, it just feels to me like the "talking History" thread is more appropriate.
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Love it love it love it.
When's S3?
I'm even loving the changes in the adaptation keeping things fresh for me, and for the most part, tidying up the clunky bits.
Just wish they could extend it to 10 episodes and allow the characters a little room to breathe.
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Yeah, my understanding is that it would have been a case of (pretty severe) regional accents and variations; more than being seperate languages.
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8 hours ago, WatchrTina said:
Yeah, that threw me too. When I've had it I recall it as being golden-colored. I went out and got a bottle of it once for a Lord of the Rings trilogy-watching party (because I assumed it's what Gimli drinks). I liked it but the the only way I can describe it is wine flavored with Ricola cough drops (all those mountain herbs).
Yeah, mead is similar to what (British) cider has become - you can still get the real stuff, but most of the stuff you see sold is basically alcohol, water, and flavouring - I've yet to have one of those that is actually good (some can be passable though).
Proper meads can be sweet, or they can be really quite bitter, but you still taste the honey coming through; just... altered (in the same way that in proper cider you can taste the apple, but you really wouldn't call it apple flavoured).
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14 hours ago, bmoore4026 said:14 hours ago, bmoore4026 said:
The comment about mead was fantastic. Has anyone here had mead before? What does it really taste like?
Loads, it's one of my favourite tipples. I've never seen it colourless though.
Proper mead tastes like mild, alcoholic, slightly spiced honey; but there's a massive range, it's a bit like trying to describe what wine or cider tastes like to someone who's never had it.
Some meads though basically cheat, and just dissolve honey in a stronger alcohol drink, brandy, sherry, absinthe etc.
Typically alcohol EBV is broadly equivalent to wine. 10-15%, and you'd sip it like an appéretif, generally better chilled.
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Passengers (2016)
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Agreed with the last few, it would have been far better (to me) if we'd seen this movie from JLaw's perspective, with Pratt dying, and her going through all the same emotions and decisions, possibly played alongside flashbacks of Pratt doing much the same, having similar conversations with Sheen etc etc