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And after the 3rd one the little girl died
And after they finished making the first one, like just after the premiere was it? The older daughter died in a motercycle accident :unsure:
Cursed tbh :unsure:
Yep. Just like The Exorcist. Remember when a few of the several hundred cast & crew died within a few years of the film being released?
Spooky
(not spooky. People die)
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Evangeline Lily in the Hobbit is just about the sexiest thing ever committed to camera
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Pain and Gain
Just to clarify...forget the director. It's one of the smartest and funniest scripts of the year
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Meh. If you look hard enough you can do that with anything. On 11 12 13 at 14:15 I was on the number 16 bus for the 17th time this month staring at an 18 year old. Where's my meme?
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Pain and Gain
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I've lost a stone in 3 days, way harsh!
Just go to the beach, there are loads of stones on the beach...
How's your stand up career going?
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Yes but there in the same team. It seems a bit farcical to me!
What
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Oh dear Demitri
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Benteke 6 without a goal. What's happened to him?
I'm a Lambo fan but they were 3 glaringly obvious subs (the 3 players who would be in the first XI but for injuries)
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In terms of finishing, I think he's the best in the world. To put it another way. There's no-one I'd rather have go through one-on-one for my team.
Just look at his goal at Upton Park the other week
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Very good. Tom Baker was a nice touch.
But I'm still confused about where John Hurt fits into the canon. Is he the '0th' Doctor?
Would have been good if he'd regenerated into Hartnell at the end.
The 9th, they all get shifted a bit.
Wikipedia's got a nightmare on its hands, then.
And if Hurt's the 9th, how do they explain the sequence where McGann was seen to regenerate into Ecclestone?
McGann regenerated into Hurt. That's the whole point, no?
OK, false memory syndrome. Could have sworn that the Ecclestone era started with a regen from McGann, but apparently not. I must have missed it in TDOTD, though - I saw Hurt going all blurry, but didn't recognise McGann in there. EDIT - correction, of course, that should have been Hurt --> Ecclestone, but still didn't see it as such.
Mcgann -> Hurt happened in the online ep out last week
Why did they drop the whole Tower of London storyline?
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Very good. Tom Baker was a nice touch.
But I'm still confused about where John Hurt fits into the canon. Is he the '0th' Doctor?
Would have been good if he'd regenerated into Hartnell at the end.
The 9th, they all get shifted a bit.
Wikipedia's got a nightmare on its hands, then.
And if Hurt's the 9th, how do they explain the sequence where McGann was seen to regenerate into Ecclestone?
McGann regenerated into Hurt. That's the whole point, no?
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As he has drunk an elixir from the sisters of khan, does that mean he now had unlimited regenerations ?
Now there's a phrase I never thought I'd read.
Strange, I think that's what I did last friday night
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Nothing really, I get a bit funny when I hear here cones the sun cus it was played at his funeral but I don't know why, I couldn't stand the prick
His?
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You could build a medieval fortress with that wall of text
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Great win for Arsenal. Ramsey again! The turnaround in their season since they lost to us is amazing.
They've still lost twice at home since losing to us.
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Keeeeeeeeenan
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So what's the deal with Loki being alive. any theories?
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Anyone watched The Shield?
Up to season 4. A bit like The Wire
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Even in a 90 second long teaser, I absolutely adore the atmosphere to that. Nice use of the haunting 'wailing' piece from the 2001 score too.
Broken link is broken
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Maybe been posted, but this is about as close as Lindelof will ever get to admitting they **** up Lost:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/damon-lindelof-breaking-bad-finale-639484
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if I was interested in writing a morning-after response to the Breaking Bad finale. I immediately said yes. I did this for two reasons. One of them I was aware of, the other I was not.
The one I was aware of is pretty rudimentary: I am a huge fan of Breaking Bad and have been a zealot of its Church of Awesomeness for years. It's spectacular TV -- spectacular storytelling -- and I am lucky to have borne witness to it. The opportunity to sing the show's praises one last time was not one I could possibly pass up.
And here's what I was not aware of but am now.
All story is reflective, designed to illuminate its own characters and the themes surrounding them. When a show is as brilliant as Breaking Bad, it's not just about the people we're watching, it's about those watching them. About us. In other words, the better the show, the deeper it forces you to look at yourself. On Sunday night, I took a good long look at myself, and this is what I found staring back …
I agreed to write this piece because I am deeply and unhealthily obsessed with finding ways to revisit the Lost finale and the maddening hurricane of shit that has followed it.
And this morning? I am Walter White. Arrogant. Conceited. Selfish. Entitled. Looking for ways to blame everything and everyone but myself, even though it is perfectly clear the situation I find myself in is of my own making. And here's the worst part: I'm still naive enough to believe I can attain some level of redemption.
Earlier drafts of this piece were a love letter to Breaking Bad. The show was a masterpiece. I listed the reasons why. We all know what they are. The finale? Fantastic. Not a false beat. The scene between Walt and Skyler was as profound as it was satisfying -- and watching Walt run his hand through his sleeping daughter's hair, fully aware that he couldn't do the same to the woman he (once? still?) loved as she stood silently behind him quite literally broke my heart.
Jesse lived. Walt died. All happened as it should have. And that would have been the piece you would have read had I finished it. But …
In the comments section of the piece I did not write, the following sentiment would have been echoed dozens of times over: "What the f--- do you know because you f---ed up Lost?!?" How do I know this? Well, for starters, my Twitter feed was pretty much a unanimous run of, "Did you see that, Lindelof? That's how you end a show."
Three years later, it appears that it is not just enough to love Breaking Bad's finale. You also have to hate ours. Yeah, I know. Waaaaaah for me. I should go cry into my barrels full of money. But I swear to you, I'm not looking for empathy. I'm just looking for a way to stop. And I can't.
Alcoholics are smart enough to not walk into a bar. My bar is Twitter. It's Comic-Con. It's anytime someone asks me to write an article even casually relating to Lost.
And what do I do? I jump at the opportunity to acknowledge how many people were dissatisfied with how it ended. I try to be self-deprecating and witty when I do this, but that's an elaborate (or obvious?) defense mechanism to let people know I'm fully aware of the elephant in the room and I'm perfectly fine with it sitting down on my face and shitting all over me.
And this is how pathetic I've become -- I'm using an opportunity to put Breaking Bad into the pantheon of best shows ever (where it undeniably belongs) to narcissistically whine about the perceived shortcomings of my own work.
God, I hate myself. But isn't that what's expected of me? Don't I have to do that? Is it possible for me to ever comment on anything I love without cheekily winking at the audience and saying, "But what do I know -- after all, I ruined Lost?"
It does bear mentioning that not everyone feels this way. There are fans who actually love the way Lost ended. And I can feel the abuse they've taken for having what has become a wildly unpopular opinion, which only makes me love them more. Unfortunately, these kind souls are vastly overwhelmed by, well, less kind souls. So now what?
I'm sick of myself for continuing to beat this particular drum, so I can't imagine how sick of it you are. If it's unpleasant and exhausting for me to keep defending the Lost finale, aren't you getting tired of hating it? And so … I, like Walter White, want out. To be free. And to grant you the same.
I'd like to make a pact, you and me. And here's your part: You acknowledge that I know how you feel about the ending of Lost. I got it. I heard you. I will think about your dissatisfaction always and forever. It will stay with me until I lie there on my back dying, camera pulling slowly upward whether it be a solitary dog or an entire SWAT team that comes to my side as I breathe my last breath.
And here's my part: I will finally stop talking about it. I'm not doing this because I feel entitled or above it -- I'm doing it because I accept that I will not change hearts nor minds. I will not convince you they weren't dead the whole time, nor resent you for believing they were despite my infinite declarations otherwise.
Let this be our pact. And I'll just have to trust you on this -- I don't have Badger and Skinny Pete pointing lasers at your chests to keep you honest. And the truth is, there's no way everyone is going to read, let alone agree with this deal.
But I'm going to keep my part. I'm done. I'm out. Just one last thing before I go …
I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why:
I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.
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Not the best episode ever but it wrapped everything up.
Satisfying ending. Fitting.
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I think the only reason he'd kill Lydia is if she put a hit out on Skyler. The Ricin might be for himself as someone said, in case he gets captured or tortured.
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When do you unlock parachutes?
2014 VT Deadpool. This time with rules!
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