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They announced a new tour for the fall. Interestingly, their New York show is in Brooklyn, so I guess they're hipsters now. I look forward to Crow's handlebar mustache.

Having lived in both Manhattan and Bay Ridge, I don't think the supposed cultural divide between Manhattan and Brooklyn really exists any more. Honestly, I don't think a lot of movies about NYC could be remade with a present day setting, except maybe Working Girl. Some of the trappings in that are a bit dated, but the themes about being shut out of opportunities for both being a woman and being from a lower-class background are still sadly relevant.

I think she was supposed to be a P5 (of 12), so not quite in the middle of the scale. Although I assume her encounter with Jason Ironheart would have likely served the same story purpose of Lyta's eventual Vorlon upgrade.

I am generally a fan of the My Favorite Murder podcast, and its hosts, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark have released a book called Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered, which is part memoir and part self-help tome. They're both very funny and I think I would enjoy hanging out with them, but by their own admission, they're not the world's most knowledgable people. So I don't know what I was expecting from the book, but I was certainly not expecting to be so moved by it. I actually teared up a little reading about Karen losing her mother to early-onset Alzheimers and Georgia talking about being able to recover from a meth addiction because one of her teachers introduced her to Ray Bradbury's books.

I think it's established that the lower-level telepaths need a line of sight, and it's also against Psi Corps rules to go around indiscriminately scanning people without permission.

That's the reason within the universe. Doing it at all (including how the shot was framed, IIRC) was from this. At least, that was my takeaway.

There's a deleted scene where Yon-Rogg visits the Supreme Intelligence. The person he sees? Himself, of course.

Secret Empire was a (charitably) divisive comic event from a few years ago where it's revealed that Cap has been brainwashed (this is a vast oversimplification, but the full thing would take a REALLY long time) into thinking he's secretly been a HYDRA double-agent his entire life. This touches off a plot where HYDRA places America under a fascist dictatorship and lots of bad things happen, including the fake Steve ordering Las Vegas to be razed. While in a vacuum, the story was well-written, a lot of people HATED it. The MCU has been able to take titles and elements from previous comics stories and spin them into interesting stories, I don't think they'd touch this one with a ten-foot pole. That said, Steve's whisper of or "Hail HYDRA" in Endgame is a reference.

A glorious video of a drone flying around.

But why does Disney in particular get this level of ire? How many different Shakespeare adaptations have there been? Or Dickens? I guess where I'm coming from is that I'd rather see the story told well, even if it is adapted from an earlier work.

Yeah, that's kind of where I can't find myself getting too upset by these. These are stories that are hundreds of years old, and have been adapted numerous times by studios that aren't Disney.

It's really a shame that DC Universe has already decided to basically cut bait. It's actually very intriguing.

I have an Orlando trip booked for December. I am hoping Rise of the Resistance will be open by then. And yeah, I think they could get me with the merchandise.

The producers have said that they used greenscreen to remove the puppeteers, but the characters (and a lot of the sets) look completely practical.

It's just now opening, but it's also gotten fairly poor reviews. I'm interested to see what happens.

That's just...gorgeous.

I know I'm supposed to think the "Just a Girl" scene is really cheesy, but I can't help but love it. Carol just looks so happy having the gloves off and getting to kick ass. As an aside, there's an all-ages Captain Marvel comic coming soon where Carol discovers that NYC's bodega cats have been replaced by flerkens. Sounds like it would be fun for any young members of the Carol Corps you know.

I would take this with a ginormous grain of salt, but this is a supposed list of Phase 4 plans. I'm spoiler tagging because the thumbnail has alleged titles.

I hope the Shadow Proclamation comes along with the Judoon. Always liked those weirdoes.

The scene was shot. The dialog was new.

I believe the easily/legally available version (DVD and streaming) is the 1998 version, which contained other edits as well, including losing Londo describing Sinclair as B5's "final commander." It also originally had a (bad) score by Stewart Copeland which was redone by Christopher Franke to match the rest of the series. It's not available legally anywhere AFAIK.

There are certain realities that go into filmmaking. I think it's highly unlikely that they could have somehow gotten every single actor to be available to come to Georgia on the same day to film a non-speaking cameo.

You're absolutely right about that, but--while he was undeniably incredibly clever about being able to modify plots that he'd either dropped or set up with one set of circumstances and able to keep the story moving in the same direction--he had a habit of saying that the show had ALWAYS intended to do that.

The destruction of the Enterprise-D already makes it impossible that this is that future.