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calliope1975
calliope1975

For no reason at all, I'm really sad right now, and as a brown girl in the US, my depression is hitting an all time high. Gonna take a xanax, hug the cats, and go to bed. I love you all. Be good to on

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jay741982

jay741982

Off current topic: they really better have not just killed the only gay interracial couple on the 100. I will flip my shit.

Lol good thing Bryan and Miller are still alive! I was gonna get mad if Harper was killed.

In other news, I'm Scarred from Seeing Agent Coulson lipsyncing "Rumpshaker" and "Toxic" while in drag on Lip Sync Battle Lol

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FurryFury

FurryFury

Prince. How is this possible?

I always get a little weirded out by people who talk about crying when a celebrity dies since we don't know the real person, but I'm tearing up at his death. I had to write a "My Five Favorite Things" piece for a magazine last year, and Purple Rain made the list. Prince blew my little Catholic school mind, but the album (and all his works) stayed with me because they have compassion and soul in a song you can shake your ass to. I was half-hoping this would be one of his weird self-reinventions.

This is terrible.

The only celebrity death that made me cry was Terry Pratchett. Still not over it.

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Danny Franks

Danny Franks

The only celebrity death that made me cry was Terry Pratchett. Still not over it.

 

That made me cry as well, actually. I grew up reading his books, and still can't handle the idea that there will never be another one. 

 

Victoria Wood's death a couple of days ago got me choked up too. She was so incredibly funny and talented, and my mum's favourite comedian, so I grew up watching her and laughing along, even when I was too young to understand the nuances of the humour.

 

A lot of these big rockstars who die, I don't really feel much one way or the other. They're too remote and almost fantastical for me to really see them as real people. I suppose both Prince and Bowie cultivated that image deliberately, though.

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KenyaJ

KenyaJ

Sorry for your loss, Kismet.

 

I didn't want to go to bed last night because I knew it would mean waking up in a world where there's no Prince anymore. I still can't believe it. I was walking into my office this morning and realized I was wearing purple today. I didn't even think about it when I picked out something to wear, but I guess my brain was making a subconscious tribute. RIP, Prince. You will be so missed.

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calliope1975

calliope1975

I didn't want to go to bed last night because I knew it would mean waking up in a world where there's no Prince anymore. I still can't believe it. I was walking into my office this morning and realized I was wearing purple today. I didn't even think about it when I picked out something to wear, but I guess my brain was making a subconscious tribute. RIP, Prince. You will be so missed.

 

I was okay when I heard the news, though shocked. It wasn't until I got home and started reading people's experiences with him and binging his videos and songs that I got really emotional. I love that all his fan encounters sound like fanfic but were real. He's the first artist I considered a genius - something I previously hadn't thought could be ascribed to one of my contemporaries. He changed the music industry and provided a soundtrack to my life. I'm just really glad I got to experience his beautiful, brilliant, weirdo self.

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SleepDeprived

SleepDeprived

I'm okay with a Baywatch reboot because The Rock is in it. He's pretty and I'm shallow. Not going to watch in the theaters, though, but will wait for the rental. :) Really not sure about the Jumanji reboot because I can't think of anyone who can take over Robin Williams' role (and I don't want anyone to try). Maybe they'll make it as more of a sequel and the board is found by some other kid not related to Parrish?

 

What I'm absolutely not here for is The Mummy remake with Tom Cruise. Because just no. Ugh.

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catrox14

catrox14

 

What I'm absolutely not here for is The Mummy remake with Tom Cruise. Because just no. Ugh.

 

Oh fuck that.  Ugh. Stupid. I love The Mummy with Brendan Fraser. It was really fun.

 

I wish Tom Cruise would go away

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Genki

Genki

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I can basically understand Baywatch.  The pitch to the executives is easy sun, sand and swimsuits, but why Jumanji?  Isn't there anything similar that hasn't already been done?

 

I've always thought that Jumanji is a perfect film for 3D technology and that it was a shame it was released before it was possible. I just imagine, for a kid, watching the animals stampede and come to life, would be quite immersive with 3D because you are basically experiencing the same thing as the characters.

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doesntworkonwood

doesntworkonwood

As a reminder to anyone in the UK, the BBC is celebrating Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death with (amongst other things) a live show from the RSC celebrating his works from 8.30 tonight. They've got a really fantastic cast, David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Helen Mirren and a whole bunch more. Richard II is also available on iplayer at the moment, and will be for the next six months. 

 

I know you guys were discussing Titus Andronicus a few pages back, so I thought I'd let you know. 

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loki567

loki567

Not 100% if this is the best place to ask this but what happened to the Arrow forum on Reddit? It's taken an extremely anti-Felicity turn since I've been the past there the past couple months. 

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foreverevolving

foreverevolving

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Not 100% if this is the best place to ask this but what happened to the Arrow forum on Reddit? It's taken an extremely anti-Felicity turn since I've been the past there the past couple months. 

To my knowledge they were always anti Felicity, whatever change for the even worser is probably fueled by a combination of the DC comics fan forum denouncing their connection to them, the death of Laurel, and some twitter fight that happened a month or so ago or was it two Arrow writers joking about that forum.. I can't remember what it was exactly that happened- I didn't pay attention.

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Sakura12

Sakura12

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Game of Thrones: I still think something will happen. I don't believe he's dead for good. 

 

On another note, is anyone watching Fear the Walking Dead? Has it gotten any better? I gave up on it halfway through the first season. 

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statsgirl

statsgirl

Chris Hemsworth lost his wallet and it was returned to him money intact by a young man trying for his Eagle Scout rank..  Hemsworth gave the kid the money that he had, saying that he expected the wallet to be returned with no money.

 

I went Awwww, and then I saw the clip and found out that all this happened on the Ellen show and De Generis gave the kid $10,000 for his college fund and now it's left a bad taste in my mouth.  Instead of a nice act, it feels like a publicity stunt (what about all the people who return wallets and don't get $10,000). I like benefits that fit the action, as well as punishments that fit the crime, and this seems to reinforce how unfair life and celebrity is these days.  (I hated Oprah's giveaways too because how unfair was it that her audience got so much free stuff and other people didn't.)

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Delphi

Delphi

Has anyone here watched ShadowHunters? I'm looking for shows to keep me busy this summer and there seems to be enough of the gay stuff to catch my interest but other than that is the show any good?

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tarotx

tarotx

Life's not fair. The boy was lucky enough to find Chris Hemsworth's wallet and catch the interest of Ellen. 

 

Chris Hemsworth lost his wallet and it was returned to him money intact by a young man trying for his Eagle Scout rank..  Hemsworth gave the kid the money that he had, saying that he expected the wallet to be returned with no money.

 

I went Awwww, and then I saw the clip and found out that all this happened on the Ellen show and De Generis gave the kid $10,000 for his college fund and now it's left a bad taste in my mouth.  Instead of a nice act, it feels like a publicity stunt (what about all the people who return wallets and don't get $10,000). I like benefits that fit the action, as well as punishments that fit the crime, and this seems to reinforce how unfair life and celebrity is these days.  (I hated Oprah's giveaways too because how unfair was it that her audience got so much free stuff and other people didn't.)

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FurryFury

FurryFury

Has anyone here watched ShadowHunters? I'm looking for shows to keep me busy this summer and there seems to be enough of the gay stuff to catch my interest but other than that is the show any good?

I thought about watching (although slash shipping isn't something I have any particular feelings about), but everything I head about this show is so, so bad. I guess I'll pass.

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Starfish35

Starfish35

I haven't heard much about the show. I know that Cassandra Clare, who wrote the books the show is based on, is somewhat infamous in fandom circles. And apparently some of the characters are believed by some to be drawn from her Harry Potter fan fiction. But that's about all I know about it.

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SonofaBiscuit

SonofaBiscuit

I watch pretty much everything, so I've seen Shadowhunters.  It is kind of cheesy, but there are plenty of pretty people, and I really enjoyed the Magnus/Alec (Malec) ship.  I mean, it's not award winning television, but if you want something light and fun, I'd recommend it.  If you have high TV standards (unlike me), then skip it. 

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calliope1975

calliope1975

On another note, is anyone watching Fear the Walking Dead? Has it gotten any better? I gave up on it halfway through the first season. 

 

I am but only so I can live snark with others on PTV. For me, it has not gotten better. I suspect I will eventually drop it.

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doesntworkonwood

doesntworkonwood

Has anyone here watched ShadowHunters? I'm looking for shows to keep me busy this summer and there seems to be enough of the gay stuff to catch my interest but other than that is the show any good?

I've read the books and I watched the first few episodes, just as a 'hate watch', though not really hate just in a laughing at it kind of way. But it got so bad that I had to give up. The acting, particularly the main actress, is incredibly horrible. She seems to drag everyone down with her, because other actors who have been decent in other stuff seem to have had their acting abilities disappear. The writing is also shit, like seriously. There's no world building at all, and none of it seems to make any sense.

 

That said, a lot of people over on tumblr seem to think that it's much much better than the books (which is a pretty low threshold). And there is Mathew Daddrio.

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Danny Franks

Danny Franks

Game of Thrones: I still think something will happen. I don't believe he's dead for good. 

 

I don't even watch the show any more (got tired of the misogynistic storylines and the long bouts of tedium interspersed with empty shocks) and I can say he's definitely, absolutely, categorically not going to be dead for good. Not in the books and not on the show. Not even GRRM is as swelled up by his own hype to kill of the single PPV character of a storyline that he has devoted over a thousand pages to, before it even reaches act three.

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catrox14

catrox14

Game of Thrones: I still think something will happen. I don't believe he's dead for good. 

 

On another note, is anyone watching Fear the Walking Dead? Has it gotten any better? I gave up on it halfway through the first season. 

 

I watch it to make fun of it. It's not even hate-watching. It's just entertainingly terrible. LOL

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Morrigan2575

Morrigan2575

I hope it's ok that I copied this from the Castle board. It's a note from the Mod about upcoming planned maintenance which (if you're like me) probably saw the note pinned but didn't bother to actually read

ETA: Yellowing this so it is more easily seen:

 

By the way, there's an announcement on top of the forums page, but just in case, the board is undergoing a major upgrade starting tomorrow, Tuesday, April 26th, at approximately 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, give or take an hour. This could be offline for the majority of the day, maybe into the evening, so have a good book handy!

Really glad the work is scheduled for Tuesday, not Wednesday

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Danny Franks

Danny Franks

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Pretty sure he means POV (point of view) character.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Writing on my tablet, so I assume it did one of its inconvenient auto-corrects. Or I just had a brain fart. Equally possible.

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Sasha

Sasha

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On another note, is anyone watching Fear the Walking Dead? Has it gotten any better? I gave up on it halfway through the first season.

They really screwed the pooch on that show. They could have spent every episode with the family watching the world burn on CNN and it would be way more interesting. Better still every episode a new family gets eaten. I hate watch just hoping they all die.

Speaking of Game of Thrones, did anyone read the interview with the girl who plays Sansa? She said Kit Harington preens in front of the mirror for hours? I don't think she was joking.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-beauty/news/sophie-turner-kit-harington-preens-in-front-of-mirror-for-hours-w203850

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Sakura12

Sakura12

I think other shows need to take note of Elementary's use of a major villain. Too many shows want to focus on their villain and make the regulars, but that takes away their allure. Malcolm has overstayed his welcome going on 2 seasons now. Damian Darhk while played by a great actor is kind of not that interesting anymore. We see too much of them and they can't really do anything evil until mid-season or leading up to the finale. The rest of the time they talk a lot of game without actually doing anything. I know it's because of the actress's availability, but that has made Moriarty a more interesting series long villain. We never know when she's going to show up and if the things that are happening are because of her. When she does get mentioned or show up I get really excited and can't wait to see what happens. 

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apinknightmare

apinknightmare

7 minutes ago, bijoux said:

My discomfort with change is flaring up. I'm sure the changes on the forums are improvements but everything seems strange and I feel unsettled.

Same. 

I can get used to the rest of it (and *really* like the mobile interface), but the ad placement right smack in the middle of the thread list is super off-putting. 

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