#TV Shows

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[daily-spooky]

[kentucky-cried-fricken-123]

Dr House would have loved him

Yeah that tracks

[chipsy]

[incognitopolls]

This poll is asking about (1) explicitly canonical– not implied or headcanoned, no matter how much of the fandom holds that headcanon– and (2) protagonists, not side/background characters or antagonists.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

One of the things I love analyzing about the two different versions of The Last of Us are the character choices the actors made. Not necessarily the major ones, but the smaller, more subtle choices. Because even though the small moments may not seem that impactful on the surface, they tell you a lot about how the actors are approaching their characters.

As one example of this, take the scene where Joel says, “I believe him,” before bludgeoning his prisoner in the head. The line is the same in both versions, but Pedro Pascal and Troy Baker’s deliveries are enough to differentiate their versions of Joel.

Pedro’s delivery is very blunt and unemotional. You get the sense that his Joel is only focused on his mission and that everyone in his way is an afterthought. It’s very much a “nothing personal, kid, it’s just business” type of delivery. Meanwhile, Troy’s delivery is slower and more deliberate. You get the sense that his Joel is playing with his food and that even though he’s still trying to save Ellie, his sadistic side is coming out.

It’s just one line but from the subtle differences in the actors’ deliveries, you can clearly tell how Pedro and Troy approached Joel’s dark side. Pedro interpreted Joel as this man who is generally good, but has been driven to do awful things to protect his loved ones. Troy interpreted Joel as a man who may or may not be a good person and that even though we sympathize with him since he’s the protagonist and he’s trying to save Ellie, he’s clearly been twisted by the world he’s living in. Different approaches, but both valid.

[bertilakslady]

Peeps, same applies to DVDs. Quite a few movies/shows I’d bought and paid for from streamers mysteriously vanished from my library, no doubt because said streamers lost their rights to the IP…

So I’ve gone back to physical media in a big way. It’s annoying because of the space it all takes but at least I won’t lose access (I back up the rarest/most previous ones to the Cloud).

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

[NEW OUTTAKES]

EWAN MITCHELL — photographed by fabien kruszelnicki for hero magazine.

[buttertheflame]

All the way! They dropped the ball on that. Instead of using the romance to enlighten us to the characters that are Jon and Dany, they dumbed them down and devoured them. Perhaps thats what George meant in part by "not my ending". Idk. But I feel inclined to add a few points from the angle of the romance, too.

Going back to the show, the end-of S7 implications (they were willing to sleep together, to see what happened, accepted that if she could bear children, he might father bastards) were not addressed. Let alone the political implications on the question of marriage. Even worse, once Jon and Dany found out his parentage, they did not love each other as the show had suggested they would from their last S7 scene. Turns out they were just dating for funsies. And were quick to think only about what they could lose if it got out and grow cold toward each other. Huh.

Going back to the books, a lot of us have shipped them because everything in the world is often against them. Knowing they are humanitarian, slave-freeing, life-saving rulers who wish to love again, gave readers the expectation that out of the 3000 minor characters and 20 POV characters, they are bound to be understood by, relieved by and will love just one person: Jon or Dany. Young Griff/fAegon aside, heart in conflict included, at their hearts there is no reason they would ever immediately think of a family member as a threat. As others said, it truly goes against their characters, that's the sad thing for us.

I say this as a shipper, knowing the difference b/w the quality of fandom vs. source material:

We're in this pickle because D&D thought they wrote a story, when they didn't. As is popular in Hollywood these days, they did not deliver a proper romance for these two characters, to serve the plot. What they did was ship Jon/Dany in S7 and the plot bent around it; they continued to ship them in S8 and the plot broke around them. They shipped other characters together, too, like Cersei and Euron, to equally dumb and numbing effect. They did final romances and affairs in ways that made no sense to viewers who had the quality of the early seasons to compare to. (ie asoiaf books!)

This is why I think George will always be putting himself into a corner. He is constantly throwing his weight behind shows helmed by showrunners who barely communicate with him or each other, and oversee scripts that do not have book editors. He will constantly be disappointed in these shows that lack the quality and vigor of his published material: as evidenced by his understandable, unprofessional HoTD S2 rant.

He's the captain of this ship, so I say my thanks when I open up one of his books, but I never forget to put the blame at his feet.

Emilia Clarke’s last shot as Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

Original title: Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Suisei no Majo | 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女.

[v88sy]

You know what, the way they started ~that scene~ is absolutely wretched considering how it ended.

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

I have this disease where I just keep becoming attached to actors who have the absolute worst filmographies in the world, ranging from "literally in nothing else ever", to "in some of the most unwatchable pieces of media ever created by mankind" to "only in entirely 2 second cameos or minute long supporting roles in movies or shows where they practically die in the first frame they're in or show up in a blink and you miss it scene not even entirely relevant to plot before they are never to be seen again"

[happydaisuke]

CRAZY

Didn't it have like 3 seasons 😭😭

i learned that the early 2000s Nickelodeon children's show, "LazyTown", was not only filmed in Iceland but also one of the most expensive children's show ever made (each episode cost nearly $1 million to make) (x)

[untamed-allure]

[captainsavre]

3/365 days of maya bishop