It always blows my mind when I remember that Stannis is younger than Robert. Stannis has the biggest stick up his ass of anyone Westeros, I can't help but imagine him as a gray-bearded curmudgeon.
The over-over-cutesyness of some of these kind of freak me out given the things that happen in the books.
I saw what they did last time I went to the bookstore, and yeah, fuck that. I hope we still have our big compilation book somewhere, my brother and I loved that thing growing up.
It's kind of uncomfortable for me when they give autistic people superpowers just for them being autistic, because there's another side of it too. For every positive depiction there is also the "It's A Good Life" character whose combination of power and simple innocence turns them into a monster, a superman who is truly alien and cannot be reasoned with on a human level. It just seems like a way of setting them apart as a person who is nonhuman whether it's for good or ill.
However I also like Gary on Alphas, because the idea of him being set apart is something the other characters have to deal with as well, and ultimately it is Gary who has the least problem with who he is as an Alpha and a person with a disability. He isn't just a person that has autism and has a superpower, he's just Gary. That's just how he rolls.
I like BBT, but that joke only got a laugh out of me after they so fully and entirely beat it into the ground that I was almost able to understand the humor of Family Guy.
Personally I love this show just for Monroe. He took a dumb episode and made it fun. I was hoping the idiot partner would finally be killed off (appropriately due to his own stupidity), but no juice. Maybe he'll be more interesting now that he's on the trail of the Grimm thing (I think?), but I don't have much hope there.
Throw some Harry Dresden in there and we've got something.
Oh man, neopets. Does that bring back memories.
Oh my gosh, I've always wanted to see a movie or a tv show with this premise done well, and the fact that Pixar is doing it...there are no words for how how excited I am!
To the one other person who thinks Jamie Dornan from Once Upon a Time is the big catch, I feel your pain.
What about all the fun conversations colorblind people have about their colorblind superpowers?
Banksy would probably approve.
Ever since I read a book a couple years back about a couple who filmed documentaries on wolves, I've come to assume that scenes filmed conveniently close within an animal's den are filmed in captivity, generally with stand-ins, unless otherwise specified. I wouldn't be surprised if it was common practice in most nature documentaries.
I think the one interesting thing they're slowly developing is Nick's conflict between his two jobs, the one in which he's sworn to protect the innocent, and the other where he's expected to kill monsters, who are for the most part just walking around doing their best to live fairly innocent and average lives themselves. It's still a monster of the week formula while not being so strongly one sided. I'm interested to see if they draw more focus to that. Making the characters more interesting would be a plus too (except Pilates Wolf because he's already pretty awesome).
Just give it to Steven Moffat and tell him to run with it.
I feel like I'm the only person who kinda likes this show. But then again, I always seemed to enjoy the "filler" episodes of Lost that everybody hated too. Honestly, I prefer all these character-centric filler episodes rather than actually furthering the plot, because the general premise of this show is so stupid that I really don't care all that much about where it's going. With the exception of Swan and the kid, seeing who the characters are is the main draw for me at the moment.
Let's stick them in an African slum and steal their technology.
I was just skimming through one part of it and was immediately caught on the description "undeniable cuteness of the hipster sexgod".
I guess I have to read the whole thing now.
I guess I have to read the whole thing now.
Before I got braces I couldn't even talk properly because my teeth kept getting in the way. I didn't realize I was doing anything weird until someone pointed out that I never put my lips together to make sounds like "mm", "buh", or "puh", I'd make the sounds by pressing my upper front teeth against my bottom lip because I couldn't close my mouth all the way.
Now I wonder if it's because I've been a vegetarian literally my whole life. Goddamn it.
Now I wonder if it's because I've been a vegetarian literally my whole life. Goddamn it.
