I know I'm the only one watching Doctor Who but DAMN! It's so good to be back! I'm sad that it's probably the last one but I've enjoyed the season premiere (after over a year!) and I needed a show that didn't take itself too seriously so
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Olivia de Havilland is still alive btw and won Oldie of the year in 2016. I'm surpised that I never heard about her despite being into awards/charts type of things and she has 2 Oscars
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Pretty unremarkable movies but yeah she did win twice. She's mostly remembered for Gone With The Wind though.
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It makes me think about how important something is now, but in few years everything will forget about it
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Not everything is meant to become legend, it's true.
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Either way KZT did her no justice, lol.
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Especially since De Havilland never talked in that breathy Maryline wannabe voice.
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I heard something about Joan and knew about Baby Jane movie, but nothing about her other projects. I did know who Davis is, thanks to Vogue song, though.
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hey there's no bad way to know about Bette Davis. She even got a song in the 80ies. A bad 80ies one but it was a hit
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I know people like Joan in real life. They trying to hurt other people because of their own problems and if they are rich enough they can pretty much do anything they want. Guess, money truly can't buy you happiness.
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No, it can't. And a lot of people who are collecting money like they're trying to break a record are really just little kids who were never loved and are using money to take some kind of revenge on the world (*cough* Trump *cough*). Ofc that never makes up for the love and being a ****head with lots of money is not going to get you any love either
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Kidman is having a good year, she'll have 4 movies in Cannes and considering her role in Aquamen (what does she thinking?) they might as well award her because DC movie will probably ruin her career.
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I don't think there's much to her career left to ruin and the fact she's so desperately campaigning for one poor Emmy shows she knows it too.
Those Cannes movies are mostly hype material though and I suspect Elle Fanning will get the most of the hype (since she's the lead in two of them
) but I'm looking forward to the Gaiman adaptation.
I don't know what to make of the one with Alicia Silverstone and Colin Farrell though... Is it a has-been cast revenge?
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I also thought that next GOT season is the last.
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Are you worried too now?
Somehow I almost wish it was GoT's last season and that OB was the one getting an extra season (
I'm still not dealing with the reality it's coming to an end)
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Yeah, that was unexpected but the guy is cute, what's wrong with that?
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Nothing wrong at all with crushes of any kind
especially when they're well deserved
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I actually do wonder if it's the actor or the character Probably both, because Thomas is a sweet angel (and their love is most pure and it's the only thing that can save the world
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I honestly think the character wouldn't have worked at all with a lesser actor. It's a part that needed a deft touch to be able to bring so much in so little screentime. And it was well needed for the romance to work.
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But... but... it's a pirate show!
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well it used to be! Now it's a free-for-all humanity lovefest and who the **** wants that?
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And IGN called reuniting with Thomas a consolation prize for Flint.
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A short lived one if they also go with the theory that he died
Also, if true love is a consolation prize, I think most people want to lose now.
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Their take on it is that it was a conscious decision on Flint's part not to go 'there' despite his attraction to Eleanor at that moment, as it would complicate things between them. And that is heteronormativity at its finest for you
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indeed. And even back then, that's not how I saw it at all. But really, after knowing about Flint and Thomas...
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Full disclosure: I personally read Flint as gay, not bi
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Me too. Although I know sexuality is a spectrum and even someone who's never shown the slightest interest in women can fall in love with one, it's not the case here, he's gay. Or better yet, Thomassexual
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I'm head-banging against my desk every time I read that their miserable sex scene is a confirmation of Flint's sexual attraction to women.
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I saw it as an attempt by two people to connect. And again, just like some degree of experimentation in college doesn't make anyone "gay", a guy who's into men having sex with a woman, or several women, doesn't make him straight or even bi.
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Anyway, the creators called them both gay a few times, so it's not even an argument, it's just irritating sometimes to read comments that if a person had previously have relationships with the opposite sex that are meaningful then they're not gay. Way to oversimplify things.
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They're trying to rationalize their fears. It's human but it is annoying.
Just about as annoying as all these people identifying as gay, who just assume that bisexual means you don't have the balls to be gay.
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And every time I read something about him, it's making my head spin what a glaring gap there is between what he taught people and what religion is about now.
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I'd rather believe there are no Gods because if there are, and they are at all interested in what's going on with us, they are probably weeping.
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their scenes were the most chaste in the whole show, and the show is actually criticized for that, considering that the main conflict revolves around the love between them, along with the lack of other mlm characters (with some people going as far as declaring the show an utter failure for "telling, not showing" while having "Know no shame" as a main theme).
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Considering how berserk everyone went just from the implication, I can understand the lack of on screen sex or even sexual intimacy. Although I do think we'll get there eventually, and we'll get there faster if tv shows stop being so scared of losing the dudebro audience.
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I mean, all the economic sanctions imposed against our government officials over the past few years don't seem to bother them that much (there was a law passed recently that exempt them from taxes ), it's only regular folks who suffer, and who cares about them, eh?
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For sure. Look at Cuba. The only people who suffered from the sanctions for decades were the ones already suffering from the oppression of their government. Double down and for what?
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I personally don't think I'll be a witness of this change for the better in our country, not in my lifetime (hell, I don't even know what to expect in the near future economically and politically, and that's actually one of the reasons I've been depressed), but I can't stand the thought that it will always be this way, so yeah, someday people will live and love freely and openly even here. Someday.
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One day at a time, friend. Changes don't happen suddenly. Looking too far into the uncertain future is the best way to crumble. Dark times always seem to be enduring until someone shines a light. It happened many times through history. Have faith.
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I persuaded a friend of mine to start watching it, so I'm rewatching some episodes as well and then we're discussing it, she started S2 yesterday and already guessed that Thomas might be gay because of that other officer's comment that Thomas probably wouldn't mind if James slept with Miranda, I'm shocked!
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is your friend Kalinda?
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‘I always thought this journey would end in battle. A fight to preserve the things we held dear. I understood that. I was ready for that. Now, as it turns out, something else lies at the end of this road. Judgment. Not of Nassau, but of me and the man that I’ve become.’
They knew it all along!
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There are very few shows that seem to have been planned for years ahead, at least in some aspects. A lot of writers pretend to have plans but it's obvious they are lying (*cough* King Robert *cough*). Black Sails and Orphan Black are the only two shows I can think of where the truth is self evident.
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There are of course other shows that have great long arcs and require your attention to lots of little details (off the top of my head, Person of Interest), but with Black Sails it's "entirely something else". And it affects you so profoundly on an emotional level, that rare shows are able to do.
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Good point. Plus PoI was never given the leeway they wanted and then they got the axe for network politics so they could never achieve what Black Sails did. They knew where they wanted to go with the character's journey and they knew how much time they had to do it.
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and I'm just at a loss for words.
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Pfff words will come