It's visually stunning as I've said before. The acting is top notch, particularly Hugh Dancy. I appreciate that they've genderflipped two male characters to female and cast Lawrence Fishburn for a role that's always been cast as white ( Read more... )

If it weren't for the fact that PoI built up 20 episodes of good will before this one, I feel like this one is the kind of ep to make me stop watching.

If you're 100% happy with this ep, do not read me, because I will ruin it for you. With that said, I appreciate the structure of the episode. But the content is something else entirely.

[spoilers]I was ( Read more... )

I think anybody who gives a shit about Trek XII (or Star Trek 2) knows already that Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast. Sorry if this is a thunderous spoiler that I should've cut. The subject of contention is who Cumberbatch is supposed to be playing. This, however, I will cut.

[I have problems with potential whitewashing]It's still a "rumor" at this point, because everything is a rumor ( Read more... )

Fannish Five today is five minor or one-off characters that you'd like to see again, but I'm gonna hijack that a little bit to say what I'd really like is to see the Leverage crew deal with their collateral damage except that's never going to happen since it's too srs bizness and I believe JRog himself said that he's not gonna touch that with a ten ( Read more... )

A big hearty "fuck you" to every single person whose reaction to a celebrity coming out of the closet is "oh really lololol is anybody surprised?" or some variation thereof. Yeah, this is pretty much inspired by Zach Quinto, but I had this same rage when Ricky Martin came out awhile back ( Read more... )

Perfectly Acceptable Horror-Thriller... if you turn off your critical brain. I liked it well enough... if I turn off my critical brain ( Read more... )

Technically I'm not done with 8.06 yet, but I really need to say something.

( the opposite of squee )

Please feel free to skip the following. I will not judge you. This IS, after all, a primarily fannish journal. As a general rule, I tend not to post or comment on RL issues, but I've hit the point where I feel like I need to say something just to get it off my chest ( Read more... )