the Force is with white men, and hardly anyone else [update]
Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.
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what would it take for a superhero movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Here’s an idea: tell a story about a female superhero who has to fight not only bad guys but cultural assumptions. Cast Jennifer Lawrence.
“the New Zealand Prime Minister publicly denies being a lizard person”
Exactly what you’d expect a lizard person to say.
this is why I love geeks: because they show us Middle-Earth from space
These give me chills!
what is your earliest memory?
My earliest memories don’t come until I went to school at age five…
Doctor Who thing: audition scripts for would-be 12th Doctors
Note Moffat’s trademarked “girls are weird and strange and mysterious” attitude. Nine hundred years of time and space travel, and the Doctor doesn’t know what perfume is?
Doctor Who thing: Steven Moffat threatens fans, wants to keep a lid on 50th-anniv promos
Comic-Con audience got two trailers, but no one else can see them (yet). What could possibly be the benefit to withholding trailers like this?
Doctor Who thing: adorable geek couple’s adorable Tenth Doctor-themed engagement photos
I challenge you not to fall in love with these crazy kids
Doctor Who thing: you won’t believe how much worse the US TV movie could have been
See Paul McGann’s audition video, which uses an agonizingly awful earlier version of the script…
QOTW: What country best represents the future?
Is there someplace on Earth that makes you feel like it’s leading the way — for better or for worse — into the future?
