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Stargate (1994)

atomiccollectionanchorme

Stargate (1994) directed by Roland Emmerich; screenplay by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich

catchymemes

ex0skeletal-undead

Not sure how this works when shark skin is so incredibly smooth

risingchaos

A lot of watching ENT is going “y’know what Enterprise? Fuck yeah” because they just did shit. Oh yeah that species is like straight up bugs. That one procreates through putting their hands in a bunch of marbles and then Trip the human man got pregnant. Denobulans live healthy poly lives with so many fucking kids. We got a Vulcan hooked on drugs. Archer has a dog. The British Navy still exists. We got Jeffery Combs to get full body painted and sit for prosthetics again and he kills it.

#star trek enterprise

blairhousemd

obsessed with these photos of various trek casts where they look like they’re the stars of an early 90s sitcom

chaoticdaxes

No special effect could be more special than this

#Star Trek #star trek enterprise

tamsiblings

simon tam being the most/least trusting person in a given room. who seems ‘stiff’ and detached yet is fundamentally caring. who at times seems like the ‘straight man’ (non-sexuality edition) to some of the crew’s chaos until he does something that makes you realize he’s literally also insane. who cannot stop looking to the past and lamenting what could have been yet forces himself, awkwardly but earnestly, to adapt to what he’s in now. i love this guy he can fit so many seeming contradictions that add to a deep sense of internality and complexity only heightened by sean maher’s portrayal!

wateronagreasefire

tags from @homosexual--mothman

maythe4th

STARDUST (2007) — dir. Matthew Vaughn

@fantasyblr week: day 1 – adaptation @pscentral event 43: childhood favourites

mikesseleven

And so, the woman dies. The woman dies so the man can be sad about it. The woman dies so the man can suffer. She dies to give him a destiny. Dies so he can fall to the dark side. Dies so he can lament her death. As he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence. The woman dies for him. - The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda

ghostwriterofthemachine

there's a lot of things about the Stargate universe that I love but a very underrated one for me is that it's like "okay so a long long time ago there were four very advanced species who were important and in an important alliance that gets talked about a lot. one of them is VERY plot relevant, one of them is moderately plot relevant, and one of them is occasionally plot relevant. Huh? What was that? The fourth one? Oh we're never going to tell you anything about them. Yeah literally nothing at all. Over 25 years in existence and 17 seasons across three separate shows and we're not even going to tell the audience what they look like. You get a name and nothing else. Fuck you."

stargatevp

could not agree more @burkezurk

slippery-domjot-balls

Did any of you notice the Nausicaans playing darts in the background?

S4 E16 Bar Association

respocked

Quark: Doesn't that hurt?

Brunt: I'm sure it does. Most Nausicaan games do. Speaking of pain - did you talk to your brother?

computer-voiced-by-majel-barrett

Fun fact, those aren't just any background actors; They're James Lomas and Shawn McConnell, real professional darts players who also worked as "dart advisors" on DS9! McConnell even went on to become a professional stuntman in things like Daredevil (2003) and True Detective.

Moral of the story: It's always a worth it to hire highly skilled pros just to have them perform their job as incorrectly as possible, For The Bit™

ds9promenade

ID: Brunt is calculating something on his little hand computer as Quark approaches and they talk. In the background, two Nausicans are taking turns throwing darts literally into each other's chests. The one looks down at his chest and pulls a dart out to throw back at the other

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

yeah the 2020s have been difficult but at least we have the consolation that a single season of modern tv now takes 5 years to make and lasts about 16 seconds

allegedly-human

AND 👆 costs twenty billion dollars per episode

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

and costs twenty billion dollars per episode

aureentuluva70

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of the only few bad things about Tolkien's legendarium is that it makes 90% of all other fantasy worlds look either completely or somewhat mediocre in comparison.

Like, what do you mean you don't have a fictional language for your fantasy world? WEAKLINGS

aureentuluva70

This man right here gets it.

farewell-to-lorien

Yep, Tolkien's linguistic puns and translation jokes are legendary. Although it's not accurate to say the in-universe origin of the books is that an elf told the stories to Tolkien. Rather, Tolkien is translating them from a volume he found, written in Westron, called the Red Book of Westmarch. This contains Bilbo's book (The Hobbit), Frodo and Sam's additions to it, (LoTR), as well as Bilbo's translations of Elvish histories he encountered during his time in Rivendell (The Silmarillion). These were all in one volume and Tolkien himself made the editorial decision to publish them all separately. Even more fascinating, the Red Book is not even the original writings, which of course would have been lost by now to time and disintegration. It's actually a copy of the original, or probably a copy of a copy, multiple times removed. And it wasn't copied from the original, either, but from a copy that made it to Gondor where it was annotated and corrected. There's probably even more to its history that I'm forgetting, but yeah, even this kind of metatextual provenance was something Tolkien thought a lot about that very few writers even consider anymore. Which, of course, they're not obligated to; but the fact that Tolkien was even interested in that kind of thing just shows how above and beyond he went

tuulikki

Professors will do literally anything other than grade your exams (valid)

tobiasdrake

Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.

This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.

Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.

Maybe this is too many hobbits.

We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.

But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.

So away you go.

And things go bad in the worst possible way.

Over and over.

You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.

It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.

You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.

Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"

....

There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.

This was a four hobbits problem.

inevitable-destruction

Hero: It kind of feels like they've got one mind. We'd be like, you know, when we hear that noise, let's both make sure we look at the same time. So it feels like their actions are in sync, and their conversations flow off each other, and they finish each other's— Dónal: Sandwiches. Hero: Exactly.

#young sherlock