Miles Teller As Lt. Bradley “rooster” Bradshaw Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Dir. Joseph Kosinski

watched conclave with friends yesterday and now the pope is dead. anyway completely unrelatedly next weekend i’m gonna watch the hit disney+ show andor where they bomb a fascist government.

I love how s2 of Andor shows us how all the sacrifices the Imperial characters make for the Empire are ultimately worthless. Syril, Dedra, and Partagaz all have different variations on the same ending. and to them Krennic is the big bad guy who represents the Empire but then in Rogue One we learn that essentially he’s in the same situation: giving everything to the Empire and it amounting to nothing in the end.

so how 'bout that trailer, huh?

faded from all this time

oh this?? this is diabolical, I love it

For us, the theme of the season is really about 'true love being somewhere in between fantasy and reality'. —Jess Brownell, showrunner.

HAIM for their single Relationships / Nicole Kidman finalizing her divorce meme

Alicole was underwhelming, but B&C takes the cake as the worst adaptation of a single asoiaf/f&b event so far:

It was so rushed and whitewashed and did not focus on Helaena at all. Where is Helaena pleading for her son's life and offering up her own life instead? Where is Maelor whom Helaena was coerced to offer up as a sacrifice and does not bear to look at? Where is Heleana being forced to make a decision that haunts her entire life? She is obviously traumatized by what happened, but having her just say "they killed the boy" does not do her character and her grief justice. I really hope we get to see more of Helaena in episode 2 because it would be really upsetting if the show just brushes her off.

Not to mention Alicent's absence from the events of B&C. Alicent was really there, worried for her daughter's and grandchildren's lives, and was the first person to offer Helaena some comfort and consolation. The more I think about it the more mad I get because we got robbed of what could have been a truly harrowing and distressing scene that would do the events and the characters justice. Book!B&C was about two mothers and their shared agony, pain, and grief. It could have been powerful and shocking from an acting perspective alone if they had followed the events of the book.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON PARALLELS

S1E02 | "The Rogue Prince" S1E10 | "The Black Queen"