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It doesn't matter what Martha is like, it's still unseemly for a superhero to whine about his mommy.
Just to complicate things, I'd like to point out that not all titles can be inherited by girls.
In some societies, if the only child is a girl, the inheritance goes to her father's brother or closest male relatives, while the only daughter might get a dowry at best. This was largely true of medieval England, the standard setting for fairy-tale films, where having a ruling queen was considered inconceivable until the Tudor kings ran out of male heirs.
SB is a very good film, and MALEFICENT is a very bad film. No contest there!
That makes a lot more sense in real-world terms, less so for a fairy tale. Good fairy tales are about some universal emotion, such as age being jealous of youth's good looks.
Because if you look at the story in real-world terms rather that terms of universal feeling, it makes little sense for a widowed queen to be obsessed with her looks. People who are obsessed with their own beauty tend to think it's their only source of power, a ruling queen has armies and treasuries and makes the law.
Definitely better we don't know, because when the townspeople realize that having their prince restored means they're going to have to start paying taxes again.
Slightly handsome, and convinced he's the best-looking man in the kingdom.
I think the Wonder Woman previews look abysmal, too.
Shatner had a decent film-and-TV career before Trek, and had at least 2 other TV shows, he got paid more for the original series than the other actors and got a lot more non-Trek work than any of his castmates.
It's entirely possible for someone with a career like that to have paid off a nice house and made some good investments, when he was younger and flusher. So yes, the income disparities we see in the film are believable, especially since Jason probably gets paid more for appearances than the supporting characters. Even though they need the money more.
The fashion didn't age well, but the script did!
But then, the original story had already been around for almost 200 years and is still selling well.
Definitely prefer "Clueless"!
Which is about people I like and want to spend time with, while I dislike everyone in "Mean Girls".
I look at it this way: If I could end up loving a Wolverine who's over six feet tall, there's a chance I could buy a skinny Wonder Woman.
IF the actress is good enough, as Jackman is so good it doesn't matter that he's a foot taller than the character. And that's a big "if" with Gadot, because her English doesn't seem that great.
Crawford actually explained it in her immortal book,"My Way of Life", her envy-my-lifestyle book from the early sixties (bitch was ahead of her time). Mamacita was German, but when she was hired Crawford had just returned from a tour of a spanish-speaking country, and had developed the habit of addressing women as "Mamacita".
So yes, Crawford spent another fifteen years calling a German woman "Mamacita".
Firth is definitely the best Darcy I've ever seen.
Remember the look on his face when he came into the country ball and looked at it with this astonishing mixture of snobbery and shtness? No change in his gentlemanly expression, yet all his feelings were perfectly evident.
Baelish is at a crossroads. He can't possibly beat Dany's dragons, who both get to his supposedly impregnable fortress in the Vale and melt it. But he may decide to side with Cersei anyway, because she's so desperate for money and allies that he can probably force her to marry him and name him king and co-ruler. And from there he can trying to ally with Dany from a position of strength.
He does see the big picture when other characters don't, well, except for that war between the living and the dead thing. So to him Jon and the North are just another pawn on his personal chess board, one he wants to use to seize central power, and right now he has Jon where he wants him - with no money and no army. Jon may be Kinginthenorth in name, but Littlefinger all but owns him.
In the books she was what, 11 or 12? Probably meant to be 13-14 on the show.
I suspect he'll end the show as either Hand of the King, or King of the Westerlands if the central government falls and Westeros goes back to being seven kingdoms. I'd prefer option #1, he's so obviously the one person on the show who can administer a large country.
My bet is on Arya having a heroic death, she's become a remorseless killer and I don't think she can be redeemed.
How much activity is going on there? More or less posts than here?
IMHO picking up the pace when they ran out of book is a good thing! Because seriously, GRRM quite literally lost the plot with the last two, we saw the characters living their lives or wandering around lost, with no sense of a progression towards anything. The writers had to ruthlessly edit that material, notice how they reduced about 500 pages of Iron Island kingsmoot to about 10 minutes of TV? Even edited that stuff moved slowly, like the interminable squabbling in Mereen; the minute they ran out of book the pace picked up to season ! level excitement.
So now they're bringing characters together and having them experience dramatic changes, but there's still so much ground to cover that I'm worried that two short seasons won't be enough. Can they really get through Dany's invasion and the fall of the Lannisters and the romance I expect between Dany and Jon the war between the living and the dead... in less than 20 episodes?
Joffrey was better written than Ramsay. Joffrey was both all-powerful and pathetically weak, you never knew whether he'd destroy someone on a whim or be taken down with a bitchslap. That made him a VERY interesting character to watch, he wasn't just well-played, there was dramatic tension built into him. Ramsay is not complex, he's the embodiment of every cruel and gross thing the writers can dream up in their sick little minds. Rheon tried his best to make him more interesting than disgusting, but it was an uphill battle every week.
I don't think they're going to try and top him for horribleness, not as they work up to the final conflict between the living and the dead. Can't have the audience rooting for the dead.
It's only funny because none of the other characters did.