talulah riley

Just a friendly reminder that Mary, the "ugly" sister from Pride & Prejudice:

Is the hot blonde projection from Inception.

1931-2015

 

"Of all the souls I have encountered on my travels, his was the most... human."

no but that's basically what he did

Special Effects in the 60s

Top 10 "Recycled" Nerdom Actors

The seas of western Hemisphere nerdom are teaming with terrific and intelligent movies waiting to be made, while mainstream Hollywood is not teaming with terrific and intelligent people; which is why nerds recycle so many actors from other recognizable roles. Here are my top 10 favorites in order:

#10- Carl Urban

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a Rider of Rohan!
Well actually... he's both

#9- Hugo Weaving

Elrond and Red Skull and Megatron and Agent Smith... and also the character from V for Vendetta which I have yet to see...

#8- Robert Downey Jr.
I'm not a fan of the Iron Man character, but Downey was born to play it. He was also a great Sherlock Holmes and apparently he also played Charlie Chaplain in the 90s, which I'm dying to see.

#7- Leonard Nimoy

Mostly for Star Trek OS, but also for a ton of voice acting in everything from Atlantis to Transformers to Futurama.

 #6- Harrison Ford

He's Han Solo and Indiana Jones. You can't beat that.

#5- Dominic Monaghan 

He was Merry in LotR and Charlie in LOST. He also showed up in a Wolverine movie briefly before being killed to death.

#4- Carey Mulligan

Literary nerds recognize her as Kitty in Pride & Prejudice, Ada in Bleak House, and Daisy in The Great Gatsby. Whovians may also recognize her from "Blink."

#3- Gillian Anderson

Of course from the X-Files, but also from the BBC adaptions of Charles Dickens' Bleak House and Great Expectations.

 #2- Sir Patrick Stewart

I'm not a Next Gen. girl but I love me some Picard. He is also Professor X and a huge Shakespeare buff. If comedy is more your speed, you may also recognize his voice as Deputy Director Bullock in American Dad.

#1 - Benedict Cumberbatch

I really don't understand how you can be a nerd and dislike him. Besides being an accomplished Shakespearean stage actor, rumored to be Dr. Strange in 2016, and partial to historical roles (everything from Humphery Bogart to Vincent Van Gogh) he has also breathed new life as a major character into every single one of my fandoms (i.e.- The Hobbit, Star Trek, and Sherlock Holmes) which otherwise had been neglected and left to rot for the past 10+ years. 
The only thing he needs to do now is a cameo in some kind of X-Files reboot though I could totally see the  producer pulling some stunt like dropping the cold war and JFK conspiracies and turning him into a 30 year old version of the smoking man in a love triangle with Scully.

But who the heck am I kidding? I'd watch the crap outta that too!

 

 

Honorable mentions to Mark Hamill for being Luke Skywalker and The Joker and also the entire Inception cast because most of them also showed up in the equally-awesome Dark Knight Trilogy and rocked in that as well.

Another Confusing Aspect of LOST

So LOST is a show about the survivors of a passenger jet traveling from Sydney, Australia to LAX that gets stranded on an island. On that island are:

- about a billion American people

- two Korean people

- one Hispanic and two Hispanic/American people

- a French woman

- an Iraqi guy

- a Nigerian guy

- a Scottish guy

- a Russian guy

- like three or four English people

- a guy named Paulo who I'm not exactly sure what he is

- a crap-ton of confusing Latin-speaking people of various races who build Aztec temples covered in Egyptian hieroglyphics and worship an immortal (?) white guy.

- and only one steady Australian character. 

Think about it. Take all the time you need.

A Murder Mystery with Moffat

Oooo. Alliteration. And hey, spoilers ahead.

First of all, I would not consider myself a full-fledged Sherlockian (okay, who’s the wise guy who decided to call the Sherlock fandom “Sherlockians” instead of “Holmies?”) Tumblr keeps me away from a lot of fandoms and the Sherlock and Cumberbatch fandoms specifically are complicated. And by complicated I mean...

 ...stinking weird. But luckily all you need to know about Sherlock you can learn in just a few minutes and it’s that Moffat is ruthless with his characters and likes to take long awkward gaps in between Sherlock episodes (probably to focus on his other show “The Time Travelling Alien That’s Been on TV for 50 Years and Still Has Crap Graphics) which leaves Sherlockians at their wits end.

The fandom celebrated earlier this summer when it was announced that season 4 and a Christmas special is in the works, but recently another interview has surfaced that put a damper on things:

 Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss appear to have one heck of a plan up their sleeves for series four of the BBC drama, admitting even their cast were shocked when they heard the news.
“We have a plan to top it,” Moffat told press backstage at last night's Emmys after the success of series three saw the show scoop three awards “Actually, I do think our plan is devastating.
“We practically reduced our cast to tears by telling them the plan. Honestly, Mark [Gatiss] and myself are so excited with what we’ve got coming up, probably more excited than we’ve ever been about Sherlock… honestly, I think we can [top the last season].”

Meanwhile, any fans fearing an imminent conclusion to the popular detective series can breathe a deep sigh of relief as the showrunners have no plans to give the show a rest anytime soon.
“What’s happening with Sherlock is unusual,” says Moffat. “We will keep coming back to it.”

Okay, Moffat's and Gatniss' grasp of human feelz is bad. How bad? So bad that emotional response  from the rooftop scene resulted in the actors’ actually crying while filming “The Reichenbach Fall ” and they left it in like that full of real human sad. That’s what it’s like to work with these two.

So let me get this straight: the guys who heartrendingly killed off the main character, miraculously revived him, only to have his best friend’s wife shoot him through the chest and didn't even bat an eye, were "devastated" over what’s coming this season? Oh my gosh. Someone hold my hand. We’re all going to die.

So what are my predictions over the coming season? I have considered everyone dying. Characters like Mrs. Hudson and Molly and Mary and even Mycroft. But what could possibly top last season? Whatever it is, it ain’t gonna be pretty. They already killed the main character. Bringing him back again is a bit redundant and you can’t have a show without the title character. So there goes that. The whole show is written from the perspective of Watson, so killing him off wouldn't work for the show and indeed would be a discredit to the original books.

Or would it?

Check out this excerpt from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs”

In an instant he had whisked out a revolver from his breast and had fired two shots. I felt a sudden hot sear as if a red-hot iron had been pressed to my thigh. There was a crash as Holmes’s pistol came down on the man’s head. I had a vision of him sprawling upon the floor with blood running down his face while Holmes rummaged him for weapons. Then my friend’s wiry arms were round me, and he was leading me to a chair.

“You’re not hurt, Watson? For God‘s sake, say that you are not hurt!”

It was worth a wound — it was worth many wounds — to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation. 

That’s right kiddies: next to being a traveler, real life crime solver, and literary genius, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also a huge emotional troll. Since all the Sherlock shows are loosely based off of the actual books, my deduction is that we can expect some variation of the mystery “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” in the upcoming season in which Watson gets hurt. Presumably very badly.

I haven't quite had time to think about how I feel about this, but as someone who has been a fan of Sherlock Holmes stories since I was 12, I can safely say that I am no stranger to devastation. Wherever there is a fandom, there is someone who feeds off of your tears. On the bright side, maybe we'll finally see an end to all the creepy "Johnlock" fandoms?