Kenny Evil

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  1. This has come up recently but Charisma Carpenter was given/forced to take time off for "personal issues", hence Cordelia's sudden vacation. Also Charisma didn't tell them that she was pregnant until it was fairly apparent, which ended up throwing a monkey wrench into the plans for season 4 which is why he character arc was so awful. Partly it was panic, partly they were mad at her and apparently she only found out that she wasn't coming back for season 5 when a reporter phoned her for her reaction.

  2. I actually quite liked season 2 of Angel. The end of the elevator ride to Hell was just devastating at the time and they really honed the message of the show with Epiphany

    Angel: Well ... I guess I kind of worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if ... nothing we do matters ... then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today. I fought for so long for redemption, for a reward, finally, just to beat the other guy. But I never got it.

    Kate: Now you do?

    Angel: Not all of it. All I want to do is help. I want to help because I don't think people should suffer as they do, because if there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.

    Pacific rim seems to be getting shat on internally by Warner Bros in much the same way that Inception was before it came out. I'm hoping for a similar conclusion.

  3. While rewatching Buffy, i've realised more and more what an influence Spider-man is on the series, with Buffy's penchant for quipping in a fight and the incredible level of humour present throughout what is ostensibly a drama. When it needed to be heavy, it really could be as well, but generally when the depressing drama overwhelms the sense of fun in the series the whole thing stopped working.

    One of the things that I loved about the last Spider-man movie was that Pete seemed to have fun with his powers and they at least got that moment where he was injured, mentally exhausted and yet was fully ready to throw himself at the Lizard because that's just who he was. I hope for the next one that they get the balance between Spidey's humour and "never say die" attitude in there.

    One of the reasons I really didn't want to see Man of Steel is that it seems like an entirely joyless film. I really can't be bothered with grim and gritty superhero films any more. I'll give the Star Trek films this, for all my many, many criticisms against them, one thing I can't say is that they weren't fun.

  4. Tywin's placement is surprising. A lot of people seem to agree with his assessment that killing a dozen people at dinner is more noble than killing thousands in the field of battle. Also, he set The Mountain and the Brave Companions on the Riverlands causing the deaths of hundreds who did nothing more than be born in their villages and work the lands. Also, i'm guessing that Roger Sterling was off the charts on the likeability axis and Arya should be smack bang in the middle of the good/bad axis. She's done what she's had to do to survive but that's involved many, many deaths.

  5. The Doctor is the sole big character in TV and film where a gender swap wouldn't be out of place. I would never suggest recasting Buffy as a man or James Bond as a woman but the Doctor is the sole character where this is possible and is a possibility that should be explored. People will find it jarring at first and then just get used to it so long as the actress is of the same calibre as the previous Doctors.

  6. Microsoft seems to have designed everything around what makes the publishers happy. Unfortunately they seem to believe they have a captive audience and they are going to learn that they really, really don't.

  7. I'm not saying that the Doctor can only be a white woman. That's what I mean by the casting call being truly open, anyone should be able to audition and the actor who connects the most, who truly stands out should be chosen. This wouldn't work unless the writers could get excited about the actor who they can see as the Doctor and, while I agree that not every actor could be The Doctor, gender and ethnicity shouldn't be barriers for determining who the Doctor should be played by.

  8. Sure but most male actors wouldn't make a good doctor either. For instance I like Alfie Allen, i think he's a terrific actor but he would be wrong as the Doctor. Twenty years ago Joanna Lumley would have made a great eighth Doctor but Dervla Kirwan wouldn't. I'm hoping for a complete unknown who everyone will think is absolutely wrong for the part until the end of their first episode, at which point everyone agrees they were right for the part after all.

  9. Pretty much my thoughts as well. I remember Moffat saying that he wanted to cast someone who was about 40-50 to be an older professor type but Smith ended up blowing them away. I'm hoping for a similar thing here with a truly open casting call. They were right with Eccleston and they were right with Tennant and they were right with Smith, so I'd imagine that whoever they pick next will be the perfect choice and will often end up being better than the material as is the tradition with all of the Doctors.