There is a legitimate complaint to be had about how the character of Cordelia Chase and her actress, Charisma Carpenter, were treated in the closing seasons of Angel, a.k.a. the greatest television show ever made. The short version is: Carpenter got pregnant, Season 4 was rewritten to make Cordelia possessed by a demon that would then give birth to itself, Carpenter was fired at the end of the season and then brought back for one episode in Season 5 just to kill her character off.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Monday, September 9, 2019
A Blog of Thrones (Chapter 64) Daenerys VIII: You've Just Had Some Kind of Mushroom
Previously on A Blog of Thrones, things happened offscreen.
George is on Creepy Old Man form this time, mentioning Dany's sweaty breasts by the end of the second paragraph.
Turns out, Drogo's got a present from deal old Grandpa Nurgle. Flies are buzzing all around him and he's basically catatonic. After a page of this, he falls off his horse. It takes a special talent to stretch that out into a full page, and George has it.
George is on Creepy Old Man form this time, mentioning Dany's sweaty breasts by the end of the second paragraph.
Turns out, Drogo's got a present from deal old Grandpa Nurgle. Flies are buzzing all around him and he's basically catatonic. After a page of this, he falls off his horse. It takes a special talent to stretch that out into a full page, and George has it.
Sunday, July 21, 2019
FIRST MAN review
If I wanted to watch Claire Foy nag her aviator husband, I'd watch The Crown.
(SPOILERS, obviously)
(SPOILERS, obviously)
Film review: CHAPPAQUIDDICK
"I could have had her out of that car in 25 minutes--if I got the call--but no one called."
While JFK's vision of landing a man on the moon was being fulfilled, his surviving family members were thrilled to have something to distract the public from their latest scandal.
At least, that's the justification Chappaquiddick presents for spending the first thirty minutes badly wishing it could be a film about Apollo 11 instead. It gets really distracting when you realize that Jason Clarke (Ted Kennedy) played Ed White* in First Man the following year (and, if you criticized his appearance in First Man, you find yourself wondering if he put on weight to play Kennedy and then had trouble shaking it off).
*So, yes, the first two things I saw Clarke in, he was playing historical Americans named Edward who were involved in fatal late-60s vehicle accidents. Talk about typecasting.
While JFK's vision of landing a man on the moon was being fulfilled, his surviving family members were thrilled to have something to distract the public from their latest scandal.
At least, that's the justification Chappaquiddick presents for spending the first thirty minutes badly wishing it could be a film about Apollo 11 instead. It gets really distracting when you realize that Jason Clarke (Ted Kennedy) played Ed White* in First Man the following year (and, if you criticized his appearance in First Man, you find yourself wondering if he put on weight to play Kennedy and then had trouble shaking it off).
*So, yes, the first two things I saw Clarke in, he was playing historical Americans named Edward who were involved in fatal late-60s vehicle accidents. Talk about typecasting.
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